New York Society Library

AUGUST 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Achebe, Chinua - Home and exile
  • Allen, Martin - Hidden agenda: how the Duke of Windsor betrayed the Allies
  • Amis, Kingsley - The letters of Kingsley Amis
  • Brehm, Jack - That others may live: the true story of PJ, a member of America's most daring rescue force
  • Chong, Denise - The girl in the picture: the story of Kim Phuc, the photograph, and the Vietnam War
  • Donofrio, Beverly - Looking for Mary, or, the Blessed Mother and me
  • Drewe, Robert - The shark net: memories and murder
  • Ellison, Ralph - Trading twelves: the selected letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
  • Frazier, Adrian - George Moore, 1852-1933
  • Goodell, Jeff - Sunnyvale: rise and fall of a Silicon Valley family
  • Hallock, John - The American Byron: homosexuality and the fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • Hattersley, Roy - Blood and fire: William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army
  • Holden, Anthony - William Shakespeare: the man behind the genius
  • Jeffers, H. Paul - An honest President (Grover Cleveland)
  • Jones, Mervyn - The amazing Victorian (George Meredith)
  • Leddick, David - Intimate companions: a triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and their circle
  • Lever, Evelyne - Marie Antoinette
  • Levine, Suzanne - Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman
  • Lippman, Thomas - Madeleine Albright and the new American diplomacy
  • Louvish, Simon - Monkey business: the lives and legends of the Marx Brothers
  • MacGillivray, Joseph - Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the archaeology of the Minoan myth
  • Miles, Barry - The Beat generation: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
  • Mills, C. Wright - Letters and autobiographical writings
  • Morris, Roy - The better angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
  • Pearson, Hugh - Under the knife: how a wealthy Negro surgeon wielded power in the Jim Crow South
  • Pinkard, Terry - Hegel
  • Rollyson, Carl - Susan Sontag
  • Rummel, Jack - Frida Kahlo: a spiritual biography
  • Schieder, Theodor - Frederick the Great
  • Service, Robert - Lenin
  • Slater, Lauren - Lying: a metaphorical memoir
  • Spurling, Hilary - La Grande Therese: the greatest scandal of the century
  • Thompson, Alice - The singing line: the story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs
  • Tiersky, Ronald - Francois Mitterrand
  • Wiener, John - Gimme some truth: John Lennon and the FBI

FICTION

  • Agnon, S.Y. - Only yesterday
  • Arenas, Reinaldo - The color of summer, or, the new garden of earthly delights
  • Auchincloss, Louis - Her infinite variety
  • Berg, Elizabeth - Open house
  • Blake, Sarah - Grange House
  • Buckley, William - Spytime
  • Bush, Catherine - The rules of engagement
  • Collins, Jackie - Lethal seductions
  • Coulter, Catherine - Riptide
  • Cunningham, Laura - A place in the country
  • Dickey, Eric - Liar's game
  • Fuller, Jack - The best of Jackson Payne
  • Grazer, Gigi - Rescue me
  • Harris, E. Lynn - Not a day goes by
  • Hoffman, Alice - The river king
  • Howatch, Susan - The high flyer
  • Isegawa, Moses - Abyssinian chronicles
  • Jaffe, Rona - The road taken
  • Japrisot, Sebastien - Women in evidence
  • Johnson, Denis - The name of the world
  • Jong-Fast, Molly - Normal girl
  • Kempadoo, Oonya - Buxton spice
  • Konrad, Gyorgy - Stonedial
  • Kopf, Gerhard - Piranesi's dream
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Midnight in Ruby Bayou
  • Maron, Monika - Animal triste
  • Motion, Andrew - Wainewright the poisoner
  • Nicholson, Geoff - Female ruins
  • Pilcher, Rosamunde - Winter solstice
  • Puzo, Mario - Omerta
  • Reardon, Lisa - Blameless
  • Robinson, Patrick - U.S.S. Sea Wolf
  • Rosenfield, Israel - Freud's megalomania
  • Siddons, Anne Rivers - Nora, Nora
  • Stead, C.K. - Talking about O'Dwyer
  • Steel, Danielle - The house on Hope Street
  • Vinci, Simona - What we don't know about children
  • Vollman, William - The royal family
  • Walther, Anne - A time for treason
  • Waters, Sarah - Affinity
  • Watson, Larry - Laura

SHORT STORIES

  • Bloom, Amy - A blind man can see how much I love you
  • Brownrigg, Sylvia - Ten women who shook the world
  • McMurtry, Larry - Still wild: short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present

MYSTERY

  • Altman, John - A gathering of spies
  • Atkins, Ace - Leavin' trunk blues
  • Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin and the fairies of Fryfan*
  • Benson, Raymond - Double shot: the new Bond adventure*
  • Bishop, Paul - Chalk whispers
  • Bunn, T. Travis - The great divide
  • Butler, Gwendoline - A grave coffin*
  • Caudwell, Sarah - The Sibyl in her grave*
  • Chittenden, Margaret - Dying to see you
  • Crider, Bill - A ghost of a chance
  • Edwards, Grace - Do or die
  • Evans, Penelope - First fruits*
  • Greeley, Andrew - The bishop and the missing L train
  • Greenleaf, Stephen - Ellipsis
  • Griffin, W.E.B. - Fighting agents
  • Hambly, Barbara - Sold down the river
  • Hartov, Steven - Devil's shepherd
  • Hunter, Stephen - Hot springs
  • Jance, J.A. - The devil's claw
  • Keating, H.R.F. - The hard detective*
  • Ludlum, Robert - Hades factor
  • Mankell, Henning - The fifth woman
  • McGarrity, Michael - The Judas judge
  • McInerny, Ralph - Heirs and parents
  • McNab, Andy - Crisis four
  • Mitchell, Kirk - Spirit sickness
  • Muller, Marcia - Listen to the silence
  • Neely, Barbara - Blanche passes go
  • Niederman, Derrick - A killing on Wall Street
  • Roberts, Gillian - Helen hath no fury
  • Ryan, Chris - The hit list*
  • Shames, Laurence - The naked detective
  • Sullivan, Mark - The ghost dance
  • Truman, Margaret - Murder at Foggy Bottom
  • Turnbull, Peter - Fear of drowning*
  • White, Randy Wayne - Ten thousand islands
  • Wright, Sally - Pride and predator*
  • Zubro, Mark - One dead drag queen
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bayard, Pierre - Who killed Roger Ackroyd?: the mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery 823C
  • Fisher, Philip - Still the new world: American literature in a culture of creative destruction 820.9F
  • Hollander, John - Melodious guile: fictive pattern in poetic language (1988) 821.09H
  • Logan, William - Reputations of the tongue: on poets and poetry 821.09 L
  • Peck, H. Daniel - Thoreau's morning work: memory and perception in A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, The journal, and Walden (1990) 828.09T
  • Pick, Daniel - Svengali's web: the alien enchanter in modern culture 134P
  • Schwaber, Paul - The cast of characters: a reading of Ulysses 823J
  • Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - Face to face: a reader in the world 824S
  • Trilling, Lionel - The moral obligation to be intelligent 824T
  • Unwin, Timothy - The Cambridge companion to the French novel: from 1800 to the present (1997) 843C
  • Wall, Eamonn - From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills: notes on the new Irish 820.9W

ARTS

  • Barkan, Leonard - Unearthing the past: archaeology and asethetics in the making of Renaissance culture 733B
  • Crow, Thomas - The inteligence of art 701C
  • Elderfield, John - Frankenthaler (1989) 709.04E CS Oversize
  • Hearn, Maxwell - Along the riverbank: Chinese painting from the C.C. Wang family collection 759.95H
  • Monet, Claude - Monet in the 20th century (1998) 759.4M
  • Munhall, Edgar - The Frick Collection 708.1M

DRAMA

  • Euripides - Euripides' Alcestis, translated by Ted Hughes 882.3E
  • Frayn, Michael - Copenhagen (1998) 822F
  • Hare, David - The Judas kiss 822H
  • Kaufman, Moises - Gross indecency: the three trials of Oscar Wilde (1998) 822K
  • Spender, Stephen - Trial of a judge: a tragedy in five acts (1938) 822S
  • Stoppard, Tom - The real thing: a comedy in two acts (1984) 822S

SHAKESPEARE

  • Collins, Michael - Shakespeare's sweet thunder: essays on the early comedies (1997) 822.33C
  • Foster, Maxwell - The play behind the play: Hamlet and quatro one (1991) 822.33C
  • Grene, David - The actor in history: a study in Shakespearean stage poetry (1988) 822.33H
  • Kermode, Frank - Shakespeare's language 822.33C
  • Shafritz, Jay - Shakespeare on management: wise business counsel from the Bard 822.33K
  • Shakespeare, William - King Edward III (New Cambridge Shakespeare, 1998) 822.33 P2 K
  • Watkins, W.B.C. - Shakespeare & Spenser (1966) 820.9W

POETRY

  • Broumas, Olga - Rage: poems, 1975-1999 821B
  • Cannon, Hal - Cowboy poetry: a gathering (1985) 821.08C
  • Carson, Anne - Men in the off hours 821C
  • Kirchwey, Karl - A wandering island (1990) 821K
  • Pinsky, Robert - Jersey rain 821P
  • Sissman, L.E. - Night music 821S

ARCHITECTURE

  • Dal Co, Francesco - Frank O. Gehry (1998) 720.973G
  • Four great makers of modern architecture: Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Wright (1963) 724F
  • Richardson, Margaret - John Soane, architect 720.92S Oversize

HISTORY

  • Auerbach, Jeffrey - The Great Exhibition of 1851 907A
  • Boyd, Kelly - Encyclopedia of historians and historical writings 2v. 903E Oversize
  • Brown, Richard M. - No duty to retreat: violence and values in American history and society (1991) 303.6B
  • Johnson, Eric - Nazi terror: the Gestapo, Jews and ordinary Germans 943.085J
  • Josephy, Alvin - 500 nations: an illustrated history of North American Indians (1994) 970.1J Oversize

NATURAL SCIENCE

  • Nixon, Rob - Dreambirds: the strange history of the ostrich in fashion, food, and fortune 636.6N
  • Perkins, Simon - Familiar birds of sea and shore (1994) 598.2P
  • Schneider, Paul - The enduring shore: a history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket 917.44S
  • Waldbauer, Gilbert - Millions of monarchs, bunches of beetles: how bugs find strength in numbers 595.7W

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Apt, Jay - Orbit: NASA astronauts photograph the earth (1996) 778 A Oversize
  • Arici, Graziano - Gran teatro La Fenice 782.1G Oversize
  • Mark, Mary Ellen - Mary Ellen Mark: American odyssey, 1963-1999 770M

GARDENS

  • Farrer, Reginald - The English rock-garden 2v. (1948) 635F
  • Israel, Barbara - Antique garden ornament 717I
  • Scarman, John - Gardening with old roses (1996) 635S

ENVIRONMENTALISM

  • Huber, Peter - Hard green: saving the environment from the environmentalists 363.7H
  • Jensen, Derrick - A language older than words 301.2J
  • Shabecoff, Philip - Earth rising: American environmentalism in the 21st century 363.7S

SCIENCE

  • Courtillot, Vincent - Evolutionary catastrophes 576C
  • Le Fanu, James - The rise and fall of modern medicine 610.9L
  • Machamer, Peter - The Cambridge companion to Galileo 509C

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Gamwell, Lynn - Dreams 1900-2000: science, art, and the unconscious mind 135D Oversize
  • Gordon, Emily Fox - Mockingbird years: a life in and out of therapy 616.8G
  • Luhrmann, T.M. - Of two minds: the growing disorder in American psychiatry 616.8L
  • Nicholi, Armand - The Harvard guide to pyschiatry 616.8H
  • Whiten, A. - Machiavellian intelligence II (1997) 599M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Cicero - On the commonwealth and On the laws, edited by James E.G. Zetel 320.1C
  • Dorril, Stephen - MI6: inside the covert world of Her Majesty's secret intelligence service 327.12D
  • FitzGerald, Frances - Way out there in the blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the end of the Cold War 973.927F
  • Grose, Peter - Operation rollback: America's secret war behind the Iron Curtain 327.12G
  • Haynes, John - Venona: decoding Soviet espionage in America 327.12H
  • Laybourn, Keith - Britain on the breadline: a social and political history of Britain, 1918-1939 (1998) 942.082L
  • Rashid, Ahmed - Taliban: militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia 915.8R
  • Saunders, Frances - The cultural cold war: the CIA and the world of arts and letters 327.12S
  • Shlaim, Avi - The iron wall: Israel and the Arab world 956.9S

MILITARY

  • Bourke, Joanna - An intimate history of killing 355B
  • Coffey, Michael - Days of infamy: military blunders of the 20th century 355C
  • Hanson, Victor - The soul of battle: from ancient times to the present day 355H
  • Rendall, Ivan - Rolling thunder: jet combat from World War II to the Gulf War 358.4R

PHILOSOPHY

  • De Botton, Alain - The consolations of philosophy 100D
  • Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - Truth: a history and a guide for the perplexed 121F
  • Feuer, Lewis - Spinoza and the rise of liberalism (1958) 199F
  • Putnam, Ruth - The Cambridge companion to William James (1997) 191C

PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

  • Phillips, Adam - Darwin's worms: life stories & death stories 128P

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Allen, Peter - The wages of sin: sex and disease 616.9A
  • Brooks, David - Bobos in paradise: the new upper class and how they got there 305.5B
  • Cronk, Lee - That complex whole: culture and the evolution of human behavior 302C
  • Harrison, Lawrence - Culture matters: how values shape human progress 306C
  • Lejeune, Anthony - The gentlemen's clubs of London (1984) 367L
  • Lewis, Bernard - A Middle East mosaic 303.4L
  • Magris, Claudio - Microcosms 306M
  • Perez, Louis - On becoming Cuban 972.91P

RELIGION

  • Hilton, Isabel - The search for the Panchen Lama 294H
  • Slavitt, David - The Book of the Twelve Prophets 224B
  • Vermes, Geza - The changing face of Jesus 232V
  • Wills, Garry - Papal sin: structures of deceit 262.13W

HUMOR

  • Bryson, Bill - In a sunburned country (Australia) 919.4B
  • Sedaris, David - Me talk pretty one day 827S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Bayne-Powell, Rosamond - Housekeeping in the eighteenth century (1956) 640B
  • Herlihy, David - Medieval households (1985) 306.8H
  • Kindlon, Daniel - Raising Cain: protecting the emotional life of boys 305.23K
  • Pierce, Charles - Hard to forget; an Alzheimer's story 618.97P

NEW YORK CITY

  • Gillespie, Angus - Twin Towers 725G
  • Gregory, Steven - Santeria in new York City 291G
  • Mele, Christopher - Selling the Lower East Side 307.76M
  • Rastorfer, Darl - Six bridges: the legacy of Othmar H. Ammann 624R

TRAVEL

  • Fisher, Andrew - A traveller's history of Scotland (1997) 941F
  • McRae, Bill - Pacific Northwest (Lonely Planet Guide) 917.95M
  • Northam, Bruce - In search of adventure: a wild travel anthology 910N
  • Solnit, Rebecca - Wanderlust: a history of walking 796.51S
  • Wood, Michael - In search of England 942W


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