New York Society Library

MARCH 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Amory, Mark - Lord Berners: the last eccentric
  • Beck, Gad - An underground life: memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
  • Brown, Helen Gurley - I'm wild again
  • Coote, Stephen - Royal survivor: the life of Charles II
  • Evanzz, Karl - The messenger: the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad
  • Fuller, Albert - Alice Tully: an intimate portrait
  • Gillingham, John - Richard I
  • Hazzard, Shirley - Greene on Capri
  • Hosley, William - Colt: the making of an American legend
  • Loach, Jennifer - Edward VI
  • Lycett, Andrew - Rudyard Kipling
  • Major, John - John Major
  • Moseley, Ray - Mussolini's shadow: Count Galeazzo Ciano
  • Naipaul, V.S. - Between father and son
  • Robb, Peter - M: the man who became Caravaggio
  • Sandys, Celia - Churchill: wanted dead or alive
  • Sherman, Janann - No place for a woman: the life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith
  • Smith, E.A. - George IV
  • Smith, Harmon - My friend, my friend: the story of Thoreau's relationship with Emerson
  • Spoto, Donald - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
  • Taraborrelli, J. Randy - Jackie, Ethel, Joan: women of Camelot
  • Weir, Alison - Eleanor of Aquitane
  • White, Morton - Philosopher's story
  • Wiltz, Chris - The last madam: a life in the New Orleans underworld
  • Zehme, Bill - Lost in the funhouse (Andy Kaufman)

MYSTERIES

  • Adams, Harold - Lead so I can follow
  • Bernhardt, William - Silent justice
  • Bland, Eleanor Taylor - Scream in silence
  • Borthwick, J.S. - Coup de grace
  • Bowen, Rhys - Evan and Elle*
  • Buchan, James - A good place to die
  • DeMille, Nelson - Lion's game
  • Ellis, Kate - Armada boy*
  • Ford, G.M. - The deader the better
  • Fyfield, Frances - Staring at the light*
  • Gilman, Dorothy - Mrs. Polifax unveiled
  • Gorman, Ed - Wake up, little Susie
  • Granger, Ann - Beneath these stones*
  • Grisham, John - The brethren
  • Hall, James - Rough draft
  • Hannah, Janet - Wish to kill
  • Harper, Karen - The tidal poole*
  • Harris, Fred - Coyote revenge
  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Blood sinister*
  • Henry, April - Square in the face
  • Higgins, Jack - Day of reckoning
  • Jance, J.A. - Kiss of the bees
  • Kellogg, Marne Davis - Birthday party
  • Kelly, Lelia - False witness
  • King, Laurie R. - Night work
  • Mickelbury, Penny - Step between
  • Pelecanos, George - Shame the devil
  • Rawlinson, Peter - Indictment for murder
  • Seranella, Barbara - Unwanted company
  • Simpson, Dorothy - Dead and gone*
  • Wesson, Marianne - Suggestion of death
  • Westlake, Donald - The hook
  • Womack, Steven - Dirty money
* indicates a British mystery

FICTION

  • Ackroyd, Peter - The Plato papers
  • Albanese, Laurie - Lynelle by the sea
  • Amidon, Stephen - The new city
  • Brown, Sandra - Bittersweet rain
  • Budnitz, Judy - If I told you once
  • Butler, Robert Olen - Mr. Spaceman
  • Cookson, Catherine - A house divided
  • Coulter, Catherine - The courtship
  • Coupland, Douglas - Miss Wyoming
  • Cusk, Rachel - Saving Agnes
  • D'Erasmo, Stacey - Tea
  • Doctorow, E.L. - City of god
  • Drakulic, Slavenka - S: a novel about the Balkans
  • Dunmore, Helen - With your crooked heart
  • Everett, Percival - Glyph
  • Findley, Timothy - Pilgrim
  • Goldsmith, Olivia - Young wives
  • Gulland, Sandra - Tales of passion, tales of woe
  • Hamill, Denis - Fork in the road
  • Livesey, Margot - The missing world
  • Richman, Alyson - The mask carver's son
  • Roberts, Nora - Jewels of the sun
  • Updike, John - Gertrude and Claudius

SHORT STORIES

  • Dark, Alice E. - In the gloaming
  • Harris, Mark - The self-made brain surgeon
  • Kohler, Sheila - One girl: a novel in stories
  • McCann, Colum - Everything in this country must
  • Remnick, David - Wonderful town: New York stories
  • Wanso, Pak - My very last possession, and other stories

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Annan, Noel - The dons: mentors, eccentrics and geniuses 378A
  • Apte, Helen - Heart of a wife: diary of a Southern Jewish woman 92 A6554A
  • Cairns, David - Berlioz 2 vols. 780.92B
  • Greene, Bob - Blum-san!: scholar, soldier, gentleman, spy: the many lives of Paul Blum (1998) 92 B6585G
  • Grunwald, Henry - Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight 92 G8914G
  • Kennedy, Roger - Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: a study in character 973.4K
  • Perkins, Edwin - Wall Street to main street: Charles Merrill and middle-class investors 92 M5711P
  • Petrie, Charles - King Charles III of Spain: an enlightened despot (1971) 92 C4752P
  • Ryback, Timothy - The last survivor: in search of Martin Zaidenstadt 940.5318R
  • Schneller, Robert - A quest for glory: a biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (1996) 92 D1315S
  • Van der Kiste, John - Crowns in a changing world: the British and European monarchies, 1901-36 (1996) 942V
  • Warren, Kenneth - Triumphant capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the industrial transformation of America (1996) 92 F897W
  • Whitman, Walt - The sacrificial years: a chronicle of Walt Whitman's experiences in the Civil War 92 W615W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Campbell, Patrick - Siegfried Sassoon: a study of the war poetry 821.09S
  • Hertz, David - Angels of reality: Emersonian unfolding in Wright, Stevens, and Ives (1993) 709.73J
  • James, Henry - Henry James on culture 824J
  • King, Dean - Harbors and high seas: an atlas and geographical guide to the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian (1996) 823O
  • King, Lynda - Best-sellers by design: Vicki Baum and the House of Ullstein (1988) 070.5K
  • Levine, Joseph - Between the ancients and the moderns: Baroque culture in Restoration England 820.9L
  • MacDonagh, Oliver - Jane Austen (1991) 823A
  • Page, Malcolm - File on Pinter (1993) 822.09P
  • Postlethwaite, Diana - Making it whole: a Victorian circle and the shape of their world (1984) 820.9P
  • Rice, Grantland - The transformation of authorship in America (1997) 801R
  • Sage, Lorna - The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English 820.3C
  • Sellar, W.Y. - The Roman poets of the Augustan age: Horace and the elegiac poets (1965) 871.09S
  • Seltzer, Mark - Bodies and machines (1992) 820.9S
  • Skilton, David - The English novel: Defoe to the Victorians (1977) 823S

POETRY

  • Gumilev, Nikolai - The pillar of fire 891.71G
  • Heaney, Seamus (translator) - Beowulf 829B
  • Hillman, Brenda - Loose sugar (1997) 821H
  • Milosz, O.V. de L. - The noble traveller (1985) 841M
  • Walsoe-Engel, Ingrid - German poetry from the beginnings to 1750 (1992) 831.08G
  • Ping, Wang - New generation: poems from China today 895.1N
  • Van den Heuvel, Cor - The haiku anthology 821.08H

HISTORY

  • Benjamin, Walter - The arcades project 944.36B
  • Blaeu, Joan - Blaeu's The Grand Atlas of the 17th century world (1997) 911B
  • Craig, Mary - Tears of blood: a cry for Tibet 951.5C
  • Donaldson, Gary - Truman defeats Dewey 324D
  • Frazier, Ian - On the rez (Indians) 970.2F
  • Gillingham, John - The Wars of the Roses: peace and conflict in fifteenth-century England (1981) 942.04G
  • Gonzales, Manuel - Mexicanos: a history of Mexicans in the United States 305.85G
  • Hanning, Robert - The vision of history in early Britain: from Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth (1996) 907H
  • Iverson, Peter - The Navajo nation (1983) 970.5I
  • James, Simon - The Atlantic Celts: ancient people or modern invention? 936J
  • Judd, Denis - Empire: the British imperial experience from 1765 to the present (1996) 942J
  • Karsh, Efraim - Empires of the sand: the struggle for mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 956K
  • Keegan, John - The book of war 355B
  • Kidder, J. Edward - Early Buddhist Japan (1972) 915.2K
  • Meyer, Karl - Tournament of shadows: the great game and the race for empire in Central Asia 958M
  • Rabinovich, Itamar - Waging peace: Israel and the Arabs at the end of the century 956.9R
  • Rich, Norman - The age of nationalism and reform, 1850-1890 (1970) 940.28R
  • Schmidt, Peter - Maya (1998) 972M Oversize
  • Thubron, Colin - In Siberia 915.7T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Courtois, Stephane - The black book of communism 335B
  • Cox, Ronald - U.S. politics and the global economy 337C
  • Feske, Victor - From Belloc to Churchill: private scholars, public culture, the crisis of British liberalism, 1900-1939 (1996) 907F
  • Jenkins, Roy - Essays and speeches (1967) 942.082J
  • Pastor, Robert - A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world 327C
  • Stinnett, Robert - Day of deceit: the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor 940.542S
  • Wills, Garry - A necessary evil: a history of American distrust of government 973W

LAW

  • Black, Roy - Black's law: a criminal lawyer reveals his defense strategies in four cliffhanger cases 345B
  • Harrington, Joseph - Justice denied: the Ng case 364.1H
  • Levy, Leonard - Palladium of justice: origins of trial by jury 345L

PHILOSOPHY

  • Freeman, Kathleen - The pre-Socratic philosophers: a companion to Diels' Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1949) 182F
  • Hacking, Ian - The taming of chance (1990) 123H
  • Heidegger, Martin - Basic writings (1977) 193H
  • Wheelwright, Philip - Heraclitus 182W

RELIGION

  • Alter, Robert - The David story: a translation with commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel 222B
  • Dungan, David - A history of the synoptic problem 226D
  • Pobee, John - New eyes for reading: biblical and theological reflections by women from the third world (1987) 261N

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Aron, Cindy - Working at play 973A
  • Barer-Stein, Thelma - You eat what you are 394.1B Oversize
  • Beacham, Richard - Spectacle entertainments of early imperial Rome 306B
  • Brownmmiller, Susan - In our time: memoir of revolution 305.4B
  • De Villiers, Marq - Water wars: is the world's water running out? 333.9D
  • Faderman, Lillian - To believe in women: what lesbians have done for America 306.7F
  • Frantz, Douglas - Celebration, U.S.A.: living in Disney's brave new town 307.76F
  • Goody, Jack - The European family 306.8G
  • Graetz, Michael - True security: rethinking American social insurance 368G
  • Tate, Cassandra - Cigarette wars 362T
  • Vitaliev, Vitali - Borders up!: Eastern Europe through the bottom of a glass 394.1V
  • Weaver, Courtney - Unzipped: what happens when friends talk about sex 306.7W

CIVILIZATION

  • Grunwald, Lisa - Letters of the century 973.9L
  • Lewis, Bernard - Multiple identities of the Middle East 305.8L
  • Matless, David - Landscape and Englishness (1998) 942M
  • Postman, Neil - Building a bridge to the 18th century 909.82P
  • Ricks, Christopher - The Faber book of America (1992) 820.8F
  • Wilson, Robert - American greats 973A Oversize

ARTS

  • Altieri, Charles - Postmodernisms now (1998) 709.04A
  • Benesch, Otto - The art of the Renaissance in northern Europe (1965) 709.4B
  • Drummond, John - Speaking of Diaghilev (1998) 792.8D
  • Gehry, Frank O. - Gehry talks: architecture + process 720.92G
  • Gerdts, William - California impressionism (1998) 759.1G
  • Greene, Graham - In the pleasure-dome: the collected film criticism, 1935-40 (1980) 791.4G
  • Hertz, David - Angels of reality (1993) 709.73J
  • Houfe, Simon - The dictionary of 19th century British book illustrators and caricaturists (1996) 741.2H
  • Hoving, Thomas - Art for dummies 701H
  • Kendall, Richard - Van Gogh's Van Goghs: masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (1998) 759.9G
  • Norman, Philip - The [Rolling] Stones (1993) 784.6N
  • Scarry, Elaine - On beauty and being just 111S
  • Shellard, Dominic - British theatre since the war 792.0942S
  • Solomon, Maynard - Marxism and art: essays (1979) 335.4S
  • Tooley, John - In house: Covent Garden, 50 years of opera and ballet 792.0942T

SCIENCE

  • Aczel, Amir - God's equation: Einstein, relativity, and the expanding universe 523.1A
  • Hardy, G.H. - A mathematician's apology (1992) 510H
  • Johnson, Phillip - Darwin on trial (1993) 575J
  • Post, Jeffrey - The national gem collection (1997) 553.8N
  • Shachtman, Tom - Absolute zero and the conquest of cold 536.56S

COMMUNICATION

  • Borgmann, Albert - Holding on to reality: the nature of information at the turn of the millennium 302B
  • Levinson, Paul - Digital McLuhan: a guide to the information millennium 302L
  • Rushkoff, Douglas - Coercion: why to we listen to what "they" say 302R

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Acocella, Joan - Creating hysteria: women and multiple personality disorder 616.8A
  • Piddington, Ralph - The psychology of laughter (1933) 157P
  • Schwartz, Joseph - Cassandra's daughter: a history of psychoanalysis 150S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Hubbell, Sue - A book of bees: and how to keep them (1998) 638H
  • Ierley, Merritt - The comforts of home: the American house and the evolution of modern convenience 643I
  • Ilminen, Gary - Consumer guide to long-term care Ref. 362.1I
  • Spencer, Colin - The heretic's feast: a history of vegetarianism (1995) 613.2S

FINANCE

  • Miller, Lowell - The single best investment: achieve lasting wealth with low-risk, steady growth stocks 332.6M
  • Millman, Gregory - The day traders: the untold story of extreme investors and how they changed Wall Street forever 332.6M
  • Morris, Charles - Money, greed, and risk 332M

TRAVEL

  • Else, David - Walking in Britain (1997) 914.2E
  • Gillman, Helen - Walking in Italy (1998) 914.5W
  • Hempleman-Adams, David - Walking on thin ice: in pursuit of the North Pole 919.8H
  • Williams, Glyndwr - The prize of all the oceans: the triumph and tragedy of Anson's voyage round the world 910.4W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Butterfield, Isabel - Manhattan tales, 1920-45 974.71B
  • Laskin, David - Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals 820.9L

SPORTS

  • Burger, Udo - The way to perfect horsemanship (1998) 798B
  • Hughes, Robert - A jerk on one end: reflections of a mediocre fisherman 799.1H
  • Johnson, Dick - Ted Williams: a portrait (1991) 92 W7272T

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Lunge-Larsen, Lise - The troll with no heart in his body: and other tales of trolls from Norway Juv 398.2L
  • Neitzel, Shirley - We're making breakfast for mother Juv-E N
  • Parker, Nancy Winslow - Locks, crocs & skeeters: the story of the Panama Canal Juv 986P
  • Priest, Robert - The old pirate of Central Park Juv-E P
  • Selgin, Peter - S.S. Gigantic across the Atlantic Juv-E S

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