New York Society Library

JULY 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ames, Jonathan - What's not to love?: the adventures of a mildly perverted young writer
  • Amis, Martin - The experience
  • Bernstein, Jeremy - The dawning of the Raj: the life and trials of Warren Hastings
  • Charyn, Jerome - The black swan: a memoir
  • Cooper, Stephen - Full of life (John Fante)
  • Gibb, Christopher - The life of Schubert
  • Gleeson, Janet - Millionaire
  • Gordon, Emily - Mockingbird years: a life in and out of therapy
  • Hardwick, Elizabeth - Herman Melville (Penguin Lives)
  • Heller, Joseph - A portrait of an artist, as an old man
  • Henriques, Diana - The white sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the original corporate raiders
  • Holmes, Steven - Ron Brown: an uncommon life
  • Jordan, Hamilton - No such thing as a bad day
  • Keller, Allan - Marian Anderson: a singer's journey
  • Kendall, Elizabeth - American daughter: discovering my mother
  • MacLaine, Shirley - The camino: a journey of the spirit
  • Mendez, Antonio - Master of disguise: my secret life in the CIA
  • Murray, Douglas - Bosie: biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
  • Radzinsky, Edvard - The Rasputin file
  • Schweber, S.S. - In the shadow of the bomb: Oppenehimer, Bethe, and the moral responsibility of the scientist
  • Stewart, Tracey - The Payne Stewart story
  • Todd, Janet - Mary Wollstonecraft: a revolutionary life

FICTION

  • Aldiss, Brian - White Mars
  • Anchee, Min - Becoming Madame Mao
  • Atkinson, Kate - Emotionally weird
  • Bahrr, Howard - The year of Jubilo: a novel of the Civil War
  • Beller, Thomas - The sleep-over artist
  • Brady, James - The marines of autumn: a novel of the Korean War
  • Connell, Evan S. - Deus lo volt!: chronicle of the Crusades
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Stonehenge, 2000 BC
  • Dalton, David - Been here and gone
  • Deane, John F. - In the name of the wolf
  • Delinsky, Barbara - Vineyard
  • Devoto, Pat - My last days as Roy Rogers
  • Frucht, Abby - Polly's ghost
  • Gaffney, Patricia - Circle of three
  • Gilbert, Elizabeth - Stern men
  • Goudge, Eileen - The second silence
  • Harlow, Enid - A better man
  • Heller, Jane - Name dropping
  • Hilderbrand, Elin - The beach club
  • Huston, James - Flash point
  • Jakes, John - On secret service
  • Karbo, Karen - Motherhood make a man out of me
  • Kirn, Walter - Thumbsucker
  • Kneale, Matthew - English passengers
  • Kramer, Gavin - Shopping
  • Leebron, Fred - Six figures
  • Macy, Caitlin - Fundamentals of play
  • Maxted, Anna - Getting over it
  • Medlicott, Joan - The ladies of Covington send their love
  • Olson, Shannon - Welcome to my planet, where English is sometimes spoken
  • Picoult, Jodi - Plain truth
  • Powers, Richard - Plowing the dark
  • Powers, Thomas - The confirmation
  • Quarrington, Paul - The spirit cabinet
  • Senoo, Kappa - A boy called H
  • Shand, Rosa - The gravity of sunlight
  • Shreve, Perter - The obituary writer
  • Strauss, Darin - Chang and Eng
  • Tarloff, Erik - The man who wrote the book
  • Trigiani, Adriana - Big Stone Gap
  • White, Edmund - The married man

SHORT STORIES

  • Banks, Russell - Angel on the roof
  • Desai, Anita - Diamond dust
  • Fromm, Pete - Night swimming
  • Lida, David - Travel advisory: stories of Mexico
  • Saunders, George - Pastoralia
  • Sedaris, David - Me talk pretty one day

MYSTERY

  • Adam, Paul - Unholy trinity
  • Braver, Gary - Elixir
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Pawing through the past
  • Cannell, Dorothy - Bridesmaids revisited*
  • Carlon, Patricia - Unquiet night
  • Coben, Harlan - Darkest fear
  • Coggins, Mark - The immortal game
  • Constantine, K.C. - Grievance
  • Cook, Thomas H. - Places in the dark
  • Craig, Philip - Vineyard blues
  • Diamond, Diane - The trophy wife
  • Evanovich, Janet - Hot six
  • Freemantle, Brian - Dead men living
  • Gill, Bartholomew - The death of an Irish lover
  • Hayter, Sparkle - The Chelsea girl murders
  • Hess, Joan - The conventional corpse
  • Jackson, Jon A. - La donna Detroit
  • James, Bill - Kill me*
  • Johansen, Iris - The search
  • Kienzle, William X - Till death
  • Lee, Wendi - He who dies
  • Lindsay, Paul - The Fuhrer's reserve
  • Patterson, James - Cradle and all
  • Pearson, Ridley - Middle of nowhere
  • Qui Xialong - Death of a red heroine
  • Rankin, Ian - Death is not the end*
  • Raphael, Lev - Little miss evil
  • Tope, Rebecca - A dirty death*
  • Van Gieson, Judith - The stolen blue
  • Wesley, Valerie Wilson - The devil riding
  • Williamson, Penn - Mortal sins
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Freely, John - Inside the Seraglio: private lives of the Sultans in Istanbul 920 F86I
  • Labalme, Patricia - Bernardo Giustiniani: a Venetian of the Quattrocento (1969) 92 G538L
  • Lecky, W.E.H. - A Victorian historian: private letters of W.E.H. Lecky, 1859-1878 (1947) 92 L4617L
  • Schmidt, Susan - Truth at any cost: Ken Starr and the unmaking of Bill Clinton 92 S798S

ARTS

  • Berger, Karol - A theory of art 701B
  • Brettell, Richard - Modern art, 1851-1929 709.4B
  • Drury, John - Painting the word: Christian pictures and their meanings 704.948D
  • Porton, Richard - Film and the anarchist imagination 791.4P
  • Shapiro, James - Oberammergau: the troubling story of the world's most famous passion play 792.1S

POETRY

  • Berry, Wendell - A timbered choir: the Sabbath poems, 1979- 1997 821B
  • Galassi, Jonathan - North Street 821G
  • Koch, Kenneth - New addresses 821K
  • Rubin, Steven - Telling and remembering: a century of American Jewish poetry (1997) 821T
  • Wilbur, Richard - Mayflies: new poems and translations 821W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Acocella, Joan - Willa Cather and the politics of criticism 823C
  • Armstrong, Nancy - Fiction in the age of photography: the legacy of British realism 823A
  • Buckley, William F. - Let us talk of many things 825B
  • Caws, Mary Ann - Bloomsbury and France 820.9C
  • Lopez, Claude-Anne - My life with Benjamin Franklin 828.08L
  • Preston, Claire - Edith Wharton's social register 823W
  • Quint, David - Montaigne and the quality of mercy 844.09M
  • Shattuck, Roger - Proust's way: a field guide to In search of lost time 843P
  • Terry, R.C. - Oxford reader's companion to Trollope 823T

BOOKS & READING

  • Bloom, Harold - How to read and why 028B
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo - A history of reading in the West 028H
  • Rabinowitz, Harold - A passion for books 028P

COOKERY

  • Germaine, Elizabeth - Texas the beautiful cookbook (1989) 641.5T Oversize
  • Rubin, Emmanuel - Gourmet Paris 647.9R
  • Swedberg, Marnie - Marnie's kitchen shortcuts (1996) 641.5S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Alderman, Linda - Why did Daddy die? (1989) 155.9A
  • Christ, Grace Hyslop - Healing children's grief: surviving a parent's death from cancer 155.9C
  • Rose, Eric - Second opinion: the Columbia Presbyterian guide to surgery 617R
  • Yutsis, Pavel - Why can't I remember? Reversing normal memory loss 616.8Y

CRIME

  • Hirsch, James - Hurricane 343.1C
  • Thompson, Thomas - Serpentine 343T

ETHICS

  • Ferguson, John - Morals and values in ancient Greece (1989) 170F
  • Fish, Stanley - The trouble with principle 320.1F

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

  • Savage, Terry - The Savage truth on money 332S
  • Sicilia, David - The Greenspan effect 332.1S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Belkin, Lisa - Show me a hero: a tale of murder, suicide, race, and redemption 305.8B
  • Conover, Ted - Newjack: guarding Sing Sing 364.7C
  • Daly, Mary - Quintessence, realizing the future: a radical elemental feminist manifesto 305.4D
  • Gilman, Sander - Making the body beautiful: a cultural history of aesthetic surgery 617G
  • Grey, Michael - Assuming the risk: the mavericks, lawyers, and whistle-blowers who beat big tobacco 347O
  • Hine, Darlene Clark - "We specialize in the wholly impossible": a reader in Black women's history (1995) 305.4W
  • Kozol, Jonathan - Ordinary resurrections: children in the years of hope 305.23K
  • Lifton, Robert - Destroying the world to save it: Aum Shinrikyo, apocalyptic violence, and the new global terrorism 364.1L
  • Margolick, David - Strange fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an early cry for civil rights 323.4M
  • Powers, Ann - Weird like us: my bohemian America 306P
  • Sorel, Georges - Reflections on violence 331.89S

CITIES

  • Richie, Donald - Tokyo: a view of the city 915.2R

CARTOGRAPHY

  • Dilke, O.A.W. - Greek and Roman maps (1985) 526.9D

CIVILIZATION

  • Bernier, Olivier - The world in 1800 909.81B
  • Whitfield, Stephen - In search of American Jewish culture 305.86W

HISTORY

  • Barzun, Jacques - From dawn to decadence: 500 years of Western cultural life, 1500 to the present 940.2B
  • Bowman, Alan - Egypt after the pharaohs, 332 BC-AD 642 932B
  • Honda, Katsuichi - The Nanjing massacre 951H
  • Loyd, Anthony - My war gone by, I miss it so (Yugoslav War) 949.7L
  • Nicassio, Susan - Tosca's Rome 945.6N
  • Nugent, Walter - Into the West: the story of its people 978N
  • Reeves, Thomas - Twentieth-century America 973.9R
  • Winchester, Simon - The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans 949.6W

WORLD WAR II

  • Barker, A.J. - Yamashita (1973) 940.5359B
  • Bierman, John - Fire in the night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion 940.542B
  • Bradley, James - Flags of our fathers (Iwo Jima) 940.54B
  • Clark, Ronald - The role of the bomber (1977) 358.4C
  • Dower, John - Embracing defeat: Japan in wake of WWII 952D
  • Manuel, Frank - Scenes from the end: the last days of World War II in Europe 940.53M
  • Parker, R.A.C. - The Second World War (1997) 940.53P

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Linden, Eugene - The parrot's lament: and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity 591.5L
  • Lockley, R.M. - The private life of the rabbit (1975) 599L
  • Nabokov, Vladimir - Nabokov's butterflies 595.78N
  • Page, George - Inside the animal mind 591.5P

SCIENCE

  • Berlinski, David - The advent of the algorithm 510B
  • Fowler, Brenda - Iceman: uncovering the life and times of a prehistoric man found in an Alpine glacier 913.37F
  • Jones, Steve - Darwin's ghost: origin of the species updated 576J
  • Klawans, Harold - Defending the cavewoman: and other tales of evolutionary neurology 616.8K

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Forbes, Steve - A new birth of freedom 973.929F
  • Hazony, Yoram - The Jewish state: the struggle for Israel's soul 956.94H
  • Pitt, William - Orations on the French war, to the peace of Amiens 942.07P
  • West, Nigel - The crown jewels: the British secrets at the heart of the KGB archives 327.12W
  • Williamson, Philip - Stanley Baldwin: conservative leadership and national values 942.083W

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Hurtado, Albert - Indian survival on the Californian frontier (1988) 970.5H
  • Turner, Christy - Man corn: cannibalism and violence in the prehistoric American Southwest 978T Oversize

MUSIC

  • Feder, Stuart - Psychoanalytic explorations in music. Second series (1993) 780.1P
  • Henderson, Amy - Red, hot & blue: a Smithsonian salute to the American musical (1996) 782.6H
  • Rosen, Charles - Critical entertainments: music old and new 780R
  • Stendhal - Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio (1972) 780.92S

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Adam, Hans-Christian - Karl Blossfeldt: 1865-1932 770A
  • Brugioni, Dino - Photo fakery: the history and techniques of photographic deception 778B
  • Burns, Stanley - Sleeping beauty: memorial photography in America (1990) 770S

TRAVEL

  • Boeschenstein, Warren - Historic American towns along the Atlantic coast 974B
  • Daniell, Christopher - A traveller's history of England 942D
  • Fishlock, Trevor - Cobra Road: an Indian journey 915.4F
  • Haw, Stephen - A traveller's history of China (1997) 951H
  • Patterson, Kevin - The water in between: a journey at sea 910.4P
  • Theroux, Paul - Fresh air fiend: travel writings 910T
  • Zeppa, Jamie - Beyond the sky and earth: a journey into Bhutan 915.4Z

NEW YORK CITY

  • Belle, John - Grand Central: gateway to a million lives 725B
  • Blumenthal, Ralph - The Stork Club: America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of cafe society. 647.9B
  • Deak, Gloria - Picturing New York: the city from its beginnings to the year 2000 974.71D Oversize
  • Mehlman, Jeffrey - Emigre New York: French intellectuals in wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944 940.53M
  • Waldman, John - Heartbeats in the muck: the history, sea life, and environment of New York Harbor 577W

WRECKS

  • Cudahy, Brian - The Malbone Street wreck (Subway accident 1918) 363.1C
  • Philbrick, Nat - In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex 910.9P

SPORTS

  • Ortner, Sherry - Life and death on Mt. Everest 796.52O
  • Wise, Mike - Just ballin': the chaotic rise of the New York Knicks 796.3W

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Byatt, A.S. - The Matisse stories (2 tapes) #925
  • Chesterton, G.K. - The wisdom of Father Brown (6 tapes) #927
  • Stoker, Bram - Dracula (11 tapes) #926
  • Wodehouse, P.G. - Carry on, Jeeves (5 tapes) #843


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