New York Society Library

APRIL 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Adorno, Theodor (and Walter Benjamin) - The complete correspondence, 1928-1940
  • Anderson, Hesper - South Mountain Road: a daughter's journey of discovery
  • Asayesh, Gelareh - Saffron sky: a life between Iran and America
  • Balas, Egon - Will to freedom: a perilous journey through fascism and communism
  • Brenner, Marie - Great dames: what I learned from older women
  • Buford, Kate - Burt Lancaster
  • Burroughs, William S. - Last words
  • Carlisle, Olga Andreyev - Far from Russia
  • Chen, Da - Colors of the mountain
  • Clarke, Austin - Pig tails 'n breadfruit: a culinary memoir
  • Cohan, Tony - On Mexican time: a new life in San Miguel
  • Connon, Bryan - Beverley Nichols
  • Dahl, Linda - Morning glory (Mary Lou Williams)
  • Duby, Georges - History continues
  • Eggers, Dave - A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  • Fox, James - Five sisters: the Langhornes of Virginia
  • Frister, Roman - The cap: the price of a life
  • Gause, Damon - The war journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause
  • Gervais, Paul - A garden in Lucca: finding paradise in Tuscany
  • Hare, David - Acting up
  • Hill, Constance - Brotherhood in rhythm: the jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas brothers
  • Jones, Kathleen - A passionate sisterhood: women of the Wordsworth circle
  • Josephy, Alvin - A walk towards Oregon
  • Kiernan, Frances - Seeing Mary plain (Mary McCarthy)
  • King, Dean - Patrick O'Brian
  • King, Tom - The operator (David Geffen)
  • Mahoney, Richard - Sons & brothers: days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
  • Morris, Jan - Lincoln: a foreigner's quest
  • Olson, Barbara - Hell to pay (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
  • Radzinsky, Edvard - Rasputin
  • Ray, Janisse - Ecology of a cracker childhood
  • Simpson, Brooks - Ulysses S. Grant
  • Toohey, John - Captain Bligh's portable nightmare
  • Turgue, Bill - Inventing Al Gore
  • Wyszogrod, Morris - A brush with death: an artist in the death camps

FICTION

  • Antrim, Donald - The verificationist
  • Bingham, Kate - Mummy's legs
  • Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Where you belong
  • Coyle, Harold - God's children
  • Drown, Merle - Suburbs of heaven
  • Duncker, Patricia - The doctor
  • Glancy, Diane - Fuller man
  • Gutcheon, Beth - More than you know
  • Hamilton, Laurell - Obsidian butterfly
  • Hanley, James - The ocean
  • Heller, Zoe - Everything you know
  • Hull, Jonathan - Losing Julia
  • Kalpakian, Laura - The delinquent virgin
  • Mallon, Thomas - Two moons
  • Mandell, Sally - Out of the blue
  • Mantel, Hilary - Vacant possession
  • McCourt, James - Delancey's way
  • Merrell, Susan - A member of the family
  • Moran, Thomas - Water, carry me
  • Nolan, Christopher - The banyan tree
  • O'Hanlon, Ardal - Knick knack paddy whack
  • Quinonez, Ernesto - Bodega dreams
  • Reich, Christopher - The runner
  • Rice, Luanne - Follow the stars home
  • Robards, Karen - Ghost moon
  • Roberts, Nora - Carolina moon
  • Scott, Joanna - Make-believe
  • Sharpe, Matthew - Nothing is terrible
  • Siegel, Sheldon - Special circumstances
  • Sontag, Susan - In America
  • Toscana, David - Tula station
  • Wells, Ken - Meely LaBauve
  • Yoshimura, Akira - On parole

SHORT STORIES

  • Azadeh, Carol - The marriage at Antibes
  • Brennan, Maeve - The rose garden
  • Davies, Peter Ho - Equal love
  • Naiyer Masud - The essence of camphor
  • Vigano, Renata - Partisan wedding

MYSTERIES

  • Abdoh, Salar - The poet game
  • Abrahams, Peter - Crying wolf
  • Andreae, Christine - Smoke eaters
  • Barnard, Robert - A murder in Mayfair*
  • Barr, Nevada - Deep south
  • Bowen, Peter - The stick game
  • Brandon, Jay - Angel of death
  • Carter, Charlotte - Drumsticks
  • Cockney, Tim - The hearse you came in on
  • Davidson, Diane Mott - Tough cookie
  • Emerson, Kathy - Face down beneath the Eleanor cross*
  • Fraser, Anthea - The ten commandments*
  • Freedman, J.F. - Above the law
  • Goldberg, Leonard - Lethal measures
  • Greer, Robert - Limited time
  • Hamilton, Lyn - The Celtic riddle*
  • Henderson, Lauren - Freeze my margarita*
  • Jahn, Michael - Murder in Central Park
  • Kimball, Michael - Mouth to mouth
  • Krich, Rochelle - Dead air
  • Maloney, Shane - Nice try
  • Minichino, Camille - The beryllium murder
  • Morrell, David - Burnt sienna
  • Nance, John J. - Blackout
  • Parsons, Julie - Courtship gift*
  • Pickard, Nancy - The whole truth
  • Pottinger, Stanley - A slow burning
  • Rogers, Chris - Chill factor
  • Scottoline, Lisa - Moment of truth
  • Shaber, Sarah - Snipe hunt
  • Standiford, Les - Black mountain
  • Stansberry, Domenic - Manifesto for the dead
  • Trocheck, Kathy Hogan - Irish eyes
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Colapinto, John - As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl 301.4C Oversize
  • Ernaux, Annie - I remain in darkness 92 E7113E
  • Fox, Richard - Trials of intimacy: love and loss in the Beecher-Tilton scandal 92 B4146F
  • Heyerdahl, Thor - Green was the earth on the seventh day: memories and journeys of a lifetime 92 H6155J
  • Mier Noreiga y Guerra, Jose Servando - The memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1998) 92 M6323M
  • Plath, Sylvia - The journals of Sylvia Plath (1998) 92 P7168P
  • Spong, John Shelby - Here I stand: my struggle for a Christianity of integrity, love, and equality 92 S7636S
  • Thompson, Jerry - Last years of Walker Evans (1997) 92 E9293T
  • Yourcenar, Marguerite - Dreams and destinies 92 Y814Y

POETRY

  • Carew, Thomas - The poems of Thomas Carew (1949) 821C
  • Everson, William - The residual years (1948) 821E
  • Holderlin, Friedrich - Alcaic poems (1962) 831H
  • Howard, Richard - Trappings: new poems 821H
  • Jimenez, Juan Ramon - Fifty Spanish poems (1951) 861J
  • Read, Herbert - Collected poems, 1913-25 (1926) 821R

FASHION

  • Delpiere, Madeleine - Dress in France in the eighteenth century (1997) 391.0944D
  • Olian, JoAnne - 80 Godey's full-color fashion plates, 1838-1880 (1998) 391E
  • Olian, JoAnne - Full-color Victorian fashions, 1870-1893 391F

BELLE LETTRES

  • Eco, Umberto - Kant and the platypus: essays on language and cognition 302E
  • Jarry, Alfred - Selected works of Alfred Jarry (1965) 848J
  • Lestringant, Frank - Cannibals: the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne (1997) 840.9L
  • Liebling, A.J. - A reporter at large: dateline: Pyramid Lake, Nevada 979.3L
  • Lukacs, Georg - German realists in the nineteenth century (1993) 830.9L
  • Messent, Peter - New readings of the American novel: narrative theory and its application (1998) 823M
  • Miller, J. Hillis - Tropes, parables, performatives: essays on twentieth-century literature (1991) 820.9M
  • Pittis, Donald - Macao: mysterious decay and romance: an anthology (1997) 808.8M
  • Rajan, Balachandra - Under western eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay 820.9R
  • Roston, Murray - Victorian contexts: literature and the visual arts (1996) 820.9R
  • Schmidt, Michael - Lives of the poets 821.09S
  • Thoreau, Henry David - Wild fruits: Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript 581.6T
  • Vonnegut, Kurt - Like shaking hands with God: a conversation about writing 823V

TRAVEL

  • Chaney, Edward - The evolution of the grand tour: Anglo-Italian cultural relations since the Renaissance (1998) 942C
  • Duff, Chris - On Celtic tides: one man's journey around Ireland by sea kayak 914.15D
  • Griffin, Farah J. - A stranger in the village: two centuries of African-American travel writing (1998) 910S
  • Guttridge, Leonard - The ghosts of Cape Sabine: the harrowing true story of the Greely Expedition 919.8G
  • Pham, Andrew X. - Catfish and mandala: a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam 915.9P
  • Thomson, David - In Nevada: the land, the people, God, and chance 917.93T
  • Withey, Lynne - Grand tours and Cooks' tours: a history of leisure travel, 1750-1915 (1997) 910.9W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Diamond, John - Because cowards get cancer too 92 D5371D
  • Gray, John - Children are from heaven 649G
  • Hallowell, Edward - Driven to distraction: recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood (1995) 616.8H

HISTORY

  • Belchem, John - Dictionary of nineteenth-century world history (1994) 909.81D
  • Davies, Norman - The Isles 942D
  • Faragher, John Mack - Women and men on the overland trail (1979) 301.4F
  • Fox, Claire - The fence and the river: culture and politics at the U.S.-Mexico border 972F
  • Getty, J. Arch - The road to terror: Stalin and the self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 947.084G
  • Harkness, D.W. - Ireland in the twentieth century (1996) 323.1H
  • Hoskins, W.G. - Making of the English landscape (1985) 911H
  • Isserman, Maurice - America divided: the civil war of the 1960s 973.923I
  • Judis, John - The paradox of American democracy: elites, special interests, and the betrayal of the public trust 320.9J
  • Katz, Jacob - Tradition and crisis: Jewish society and the end of the Middle Ages (1993) 909.4K
  • Lasko, Peter - The kingdom of the Franks: north-west Europe before Charlemagne (1971) 914.3L
  • Lecky, William - A history of Ireland in the eighteenth century (1972) 941.5L
  • May, Dean - Three frontiers: family, land, and society in the American West, 1850-1900 (1997) 979.5M
  • Mitchell, Nancy - The danger of dreams: German and American imperialism in Latin America 980M
  • Roberts, Paul - The demonic comedy: some detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein (1998) 956R
  • Stent, Angela - Russia and Germany reborn 327.47S

WORLD WAR II

  • Blet, Pierre - Pius XII and the Second World War: according to the archives of the Vatican 940.532B
  • Gurney, Gene - The war in the air: World War II (1962) 940.544G
  • Norman, Elizabeth - We band of angels: the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 940.5475N
  • Shirer, William L. - This is Berlin: radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany 940.53S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Carville, James - Stickin': the case for loyalty 973.929C
  • Cooley, John - Unholy wars: Afghanistan, America and international terrorism 958C
  • Gunn, S.J. - Early Tudor government, 1485-1558 (1995) 942G
  • Jefferson, Thomas - Political writings 308J
  • Louis, William Roger - Adventures with Britannia: personalities, politics and culture in Britain (1996) 942A
  • Sa'adah, Anne - Germany's second chance: trust, justice, and democratization (1998) 320.9S
  • Young, John W. - Britain and European unity, 1945-1992 (1993) 327.4Y

RELIGION

  • Crusemann, Frank - The Torah: theology and social history of Old Testament law (1996) 222C
  • Friedman, Richard - The hidden book in the Bible (1998) 222F
  • Heer, Friedrich - God's firs love: Christians and Jews over two thousand years (1970) 909.4H
  • Pollock, Constance - Gospel: the life of Jesus as told by the world's greatest writers (1998) 808.8G
  • Taves, Ann - Fits, trances, & visions: experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James 291.4T
  • Wuthnow, Robert - After heaven: spirituality in America since the 1950s (1998) 201W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Sciacca, Michele - Philosophical trends in the contemporary world (1964) 190S
  • Solomon, Robert - What Nietzsche really said 193S
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Remarks on colour (1978) 155W

ARTS

  • Crook, J. Mordaunt - The rise of the nouveaux riches: style and status in Victorian and Edwardian architecture 728C
  • Crow, Thomas - The rise of the sixties: American and European art in the era of dissent (1996) 709.73C
  • Kosinski, Dorothy - Artist & the camera: Degas to Picasso 701K
  • Leibovitz, Annie - Women 770L Oversize
  • Miller, Jonathan - Nowhere in particular 770L
  • Morandi, Giorgio - Giorgio Morandi: paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings 759.5M
  • Schapiro, Meyer - Worldview in painting 701S
  • Schorer, Suki - Suki Schorer on Balanchine technique 792.8S
  • Sinfield, Alan - Out on stage: lesbian and gay theatre in the twentieth century 820.9S
  • Spring, Justin - Fairfield Porter: a life in art 709.2P
  • Truettner, William - Picturing old New England 709.73P
  • Whitaker, Craig - Architecture and the American dream (1996) 720.973W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Brooks, Michael - Subway city: riding the trains, reading New York (1997) 388B
  • Myers, Jerome - Artist in Manhattan (1940) 759.1M
  • Yagoda, Ben - About town: The New Yorker and the world it made 050N

COOKERY

  • Carrier, Robert - Great dishes of the world (1997) 641.5C
  • David, Elizabeth - South wind through the kitchen (1998) 641.5D
  • Liebling, A.J. - Between meals: an appetite for Paris (1986) 641.3L
  • Ross, Janet - Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, or, how to cook vegetables (1974) 641.5R

SCIENCE

  • Gee, Henry - In search of deep time: beyond the fossil record to a new history of life 560G
  • Gordon, Deborah - Ants at work 595.7G
  • Griffiths, Jay - Pip pip: a sideways look at time 529G
  • Jolly, Alison - Lucy's legacy: sex and intelligence in human evolution 573J
  • Levy, David - Comets: creators and destroyers (1998) 523.6L
  • Masters, Roger - Fortune is a river: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's magnificent dream to change the course of Florentine history (1998) 945.5M
  • Nuland, Sherwin - The mysteries within: a surgeon reflects on medical myths 610N
  • Rose, Paul - Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project (1998) 355.4R
  • Seife, Charles - Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea 513S

ECONOMICS

  • Chossudovsky, Michel - Globalisation of poverty (1998) 339.4C
  • Gustafson, Thane - Capitalism Russian-style 330.1G
  • Ormerod, Paul - Butterfly economics 338.9O

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Bainbridge, Beryl - Forever England 942B
  • Barthelme, Frederick - Double down (gambling) 616.8B
  • Frankel, Glenn - Rivonia's children: three families and the cost of conscience in white South Africa 305.8F
  • Gordon, Linda - The great Arizona orphan abduction 305.8G
  • Hine, Thomas - Rise and fall of the American teenager 305.23H
  • Manegold, Catherine - In glory's shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel, and a changing America 344M
  • Petersen, James - The century of sex 306.7P
  • Postrel, Virginia - The future and its enemies (1998) 303.4P
  • Savage, James - Funding science in America 338.973S
  • Welsome, Eileen - The plutonium files 616.9W

SPORTS

  • Dugard, Martin - Knockdown: the harrowing true account of a yacht race turned deadly 797.1D
  • Feinstein, John - The majors: in pursuit of golf's Holy Grail 796.3F
  • Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto - The pride of Havana: a history of Cuban baseball 796.3G

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Ashby, Ruth - Herstory: women who changed the world Juv. 920H
  • Aston, Mick - The atlas of archaeology Juv. 930.1A
  • Beckett, Wendy - The story of painting Juv. 759B
  • Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000 Juv. 796.4C

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Deane, Seamus - Reading in the dark (7 tapes) #923
  • Friel, Brian - The diviner and other stories (5 tapes) #919
  • Moore, Brian - Lies of silence (5 tapes) #920
  • Trevor, William - Felicia's journey (6 tapes) #922


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