New York Society Library

SEPTEMBER 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Anderson, Christopher - The day John died
  • Barrett, Wayne - Rudy!: an investigative biography
  • Bartlett, Apple Parish - Sister: the life of legendary American interior decorator, Mrs. Henry Parish II
  • Green, Hannah - The little saint (Foy)
  • Jacoby, Susan - Half-Jew: a daughter's search for her family's buried past
  • Kirtzman, Andrew - Rudy Giuliani: emperor of the city
  • Kumin, Maxine - Inside the halo and beyond
  • Marder, Herbert - Measure of life: Virginia Woolf's last years
  • Moin, Baqer - Khomeini: life of the Ayatollah
  • Mosse, George L. - Confronting history
  • Perkins, Maxwell - Max and Marjorie: the correspondence between Maxwell E. Perkins and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Powell, Jim - Triumph of liberty: a 2,000 year history, told through the lives of freedom's greatest champions
  • Tadie, Jean-Yves - Marcel Proust
  • Whitney, Chatherine - Nine and counting: the women of the Senate

FICTION

  • Barnes, Julian - Love, etc.
  • Binchy, Maeve - Scarlet fever
  • Bolger, Dermot - Temptation
  • Bradley, James - The deep field
  • Cameron, Stella - Glass house
  • Carter, Dori - Beautiful wasps having sex
  • Dunnett, Dorothy - Gemini
  • Elegant, Robert - Bianca
  • Enright, Anne - What are you like?
  • Gotti, Victoria - Superstar
  • Harris, Joanne - Blackberry wine
  • Hylton, Sara - Separate Lives
  • Kadare, Ismail - Elegy for Kosovo
  • Keyes, Marian - Rachel's holiday
  • Law, Janice - The night bus
  • Lessing, Doris - Ben, in the world
  • Leviant, Curt - Partita in Venice
  • Monahan, William - Light house
  • Nair, Anita - The better man
  • Ray, Jeanne - Julie and Romeo
  • Roberts, Nora - Sacred sins
  • Schneider, Katie - All we know of love
  • Schwarz, Christinia - Drowning Ruth
  • Scott, Melissa - The jazz
  • Sole, Robert - Birds of passage
  • St. John, Madeleine - A pure clear light
  • Zucker, Benjamin - Blue

MYSTERY

  • Andrews, Sarah - An eye for gold
  • Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the stillroom maid*
  • Block, Lawrence - The collected mystery stories
  • Brett, Simon - The body on the beach*
  • Burke, James Lee - Purple Cane Road
  • Child, Lee - Running blind
  • Clancy, Tom - The bear and the dragon
  • Curzon, Clare - Guilty knowledge*
  • Deere, Dicey - The Irish manor house murder
  • Dorsey, Tim - Hammerhead ranch motel
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Cat in a Kiwi con
  • Estleman, Loren D. - Smile on the face of the tiger
  • Garwood, Julie - Heartbreaker
  • Grange, Jean-Christophe - Blood-red rivers
  • Grippando, James - Under cover of darkness
  • Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's trollop
  • Harstad, Donald - Big thaw
  • Henry, Sue - Beneath the ashes
  • Hoag, Tami - Dust to dust
  • Howard, Linda - Mr. Perfect
  • Iles, Greg - 24 hours
  • Kava, Alex - A perfect evil
  • Kellerman, Faye - The stalker
  • Kelly, Susan - Lone traveller*
  • Maitland, Barry - The malcontenta*
  • Margolin, Philip - Wild justice
  • McBain, Ed - Driving lessons
  • O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Move to strike
  • Petit, Chris - Back from the dead*
  • Preston, Douglas - The ice limit
  • Pronzini, Bill - Crazybone
  • Quinton, Ann - Put out the light*
  • Reichs, Kathy - Deadly decisions
  • Roberts, Les - The Indian sign
  • Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor - Buried evidence
  • Scott, Holden - The carrier
  • Seymour, Gerald - A line in the sand*
  • Smith, Sarah - A citizen of the country
  • Tanenbaum, Robert - True justice
  • Taylor, Andrew - The office of the dead*
  • Waites, Martyn - Candleland*
  • Wilson, John - The limits of Justice
  • Wishnia, K.J.A. - Glass factory
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Aciman, Andre - False papers 916.2A
  • Connerly, Ward - Creating equal: my fight against race preferences 305.8C
  • Herr, Robert - An American family in the Mexican Revolution 920 H567H
  • Major, Judith - To live in the New World: A.J. Downing and American landscape gardening (1997) 92 D751M
  • Podhoretz, Norman - My love affair with America 973P
  • Schuchard, Ronald - Eliot's dark angel: intersections of life and art 92 E4266S
  • Ung, Loung - First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers 959U
  • Warnicke, Retha - The marrying of Anne of Cleves 392W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Allen, Roger - The Arabic novel: an historical and critical introduction (1995) 892.7A
  • Blofeld, John - The book of change: a new translation of the ancient Chinese I Ching (1965) 299.51I
  • Hart, James D. - The Oxford companion to American literature 6th ed. (1995) Ref. 820.3H
  • Hasty, Olga Peters - Pushkin's Tatiana 891.71P
  • Lynch, Thomas - Bodies in motion and at rest: essays 128L
  • Nerval, Gerard de - Selected writings 848N
  • Roe, Harry - Tales of the elders of Ireland 820.8A
  • Walton, Geoffrey - Edith Wharton: a critical interpretation (1982) 823W
  • Winner, Anthony - Culture and irony: studies in Joseph Conrad's major novels (1988) 823C
  • Wright, Sarah - Edith Wharton A to Z 803W Oversize

POETRY

  • Ai - Vice: new and selected poems 821A
  • Galvin, James - Lethal frequencies (1995) 821G
  • Grennan, Eamon - Facing the music: Irish poetry in the twentieth century 821.09G
  • Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea (1951) 831H
  • Morley, Hilda - The turning 821M
  • Swenson, Karen - The landlady in Bangkok (1994) 821S
  • Watkins, Vernon - Selected poems (1948) 821W
  • Wilbur, Richard - New and collected poems (1989) 821W

ARTS

  • Bell, Julian - What is painting?: representation and modern art 750B
  • Feigen, Richard - Tales from the art crypt 706.9F
  • Finn, David - How to look at everything 770F
  • Lanker, Brian - They drew fire: combat artists of World War II 704.942L

MUSIC

  • Blum, David - Quintet: five journeys toward musical fulfillment 780.92B
  • Hasse, John Edward - Jazz: the first century 781.5J
  • Kelly, Thomas - First nights: five musical premieres 780.73K

DRAMA

  • Bowers, Fredson - Elizabethan revenge tragedy, 1587-1642 (1940) 822.09B
  • Craig, Hardin - English religious drama of the Middle Ages (1955) 822.09C
  • DeLillo, Don - Valparaiso: a play in two acts 822D
  • Farnham, Willard - The medieval heritage of Elizabethan tragedy (1970) 822.09F
  • Garber, Marjorie - Coming of age in Shakespeare (1997) 822.33C
  • Hunt, Hugh - The Abbey, Ireland's national theatre, 1904-1978 (1979) 792.09415H
  • Jacobsen, Josephine - The testament of Samuel Beckett (1964) 828.09J
  • McPherson, Conor - The Weir and other plays 822.08M

FILM

  • Fell, John - A history of films (1979) 791.4F
  • Goldman, William - Adventures in the screen trade: a personal view of Hollywood and screenwriting (1984) 808.22G
  • Goldman, William - The big picture: who killed Hollywood? and other essays 791.4G
  • Steene, Birgitta - Ingmar Bergman (1968) 791.4B

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Heinrich, Bernd - Mind of the raven: investigations and adventures with wolf-birds 598.2H
  • McNeil, J.R. - Something new under the sun: an environmental history of the twentieth-century world 301.2M
  • Wallace, Joseph - A gathering of wonders: behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History 507W

SCIENCE

  • Boehm, Christopher - Hierarchy in the forest: the evolution of egalitarian behavior 575B
  • Guillemin, Jeanne - Anthrax: the investigation of a deadly outbreak 614G
  • Maynard Smith, John - Shaping life: genes, embryos and evolution 574M
  • Park, Robert - Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud 509P
  • Samuel, David - Memory: how we use it, lose it, and can improve it 612.8S

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Bateson, Mary Catherine - Full circles overlapping lives: culture and generation in transition 155.2B
  • Butterworth, Brian - The mathematical brain 510B
  • Derrida, Jacques - Resistances of psychoanalysis (1998) 150D
  • Glenmullen, Joseph - Prozac backlash: overcoming the dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, and other antidepressants with safe, effective alternatives 616.8G
  • Johnson, Spencer - Who moved my cheese? an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life 155.2J

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Baxandall, Rosalyn - America's working women: a documentary history, 1600 to the present (1995) 331.4A
  • Brown, John S. - The social life of information 303.4B
  • Feenberg, Andrew - Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theory (1995) 301.2F
  • Hemphill, Paul - The ballad of Little River: a tale of race and restless youth in the rural South 976.1H
  • Klinkner, Philip - The unsteady march: the rise and decline of racial equality in America 323.4K
  • Putnam, Robert - Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community 306P
  • Rosen, Ruth - The world split open: how the modern women's movement changed America 305.4R
  • Sonbol, Amira El Azhary - Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history (1996) 305.4W
  • Sowell, Thomas - The quest for cosmic justice 301.15S

ARCHITECTURE

  • Hines, Thomas - Irving Gill and the architecture of reform: a study in modernist architectural culture 720.973G
  • Loeffler, Jane - The architecture of diplomacy: building America's embassies 725L
  • Meister, Maureen - H.H. Richardson: the architect, his peers, and their era 720.92R

HISTORY

  • Bukey, Evan - Hitler's Austria 943.6B
  • Chibnall, Marjorie - Debate on the Norman Conquest 942.02C
  • Games, Alison - Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world 974G
  • Grendler, Paul - Encyclopedia of the Renaissance 6v. LSR 940.21E
  • Karnow, Stanley - Vietnam (1997) 959K
  • Murray, Williamson - A war to be won: fighting the Second World War 940.53M
  • Perry, James - A bohemian brigade: the Civil War correspondents, mostly rough, sometimes ready 973.7P
  • Preston, Diana - The Boxer Rebellion 951P
  • Ranger, Terence - Voices from the rocks: nature, culture & history in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe 968R
  • Ricklefs, M.C. - A history of modern Indonesia since c1300 (1993) 991R
  • Rohrbough, Malcolm - Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nation 979.4R
  • Schwantes, Carlos - Long day's journey: the steamboat and stagecoach era in the northern West 979S

LAW

  • Rehnquist, William - All the laws but one: civil liberties in wartime 342.73R
  • Robinson, Paul - Would you convict?: seventeen cases that challenged the law 343R
  • Rosenfeld, Michel - Habermas on law and democracy 340H

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Cronin, Thomas - The paradoxes of the American presidency 353.03C
  • Day, Dwayne - Eye in the sky: the story of the Corona spy satellites 327.12E
  • Janeway, Michael - Republic of denial: press, politics, and public life 070.13J
  • Joes, Anthony James - Saving democracies 327.73S
  • Wise, David - Cassidy's run: the secret spy war over nerve gas 327.12W
  • Zegart, Amy - Flawed by design: the evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC 327.12Z

CIVILIZATION

  • Benbassa, Esther - The Jews of France: a history from antiquity to the present 944B
  • Bowerstock, G.W. - Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world 930L
  • Grant, Michael - The collapse and recovery of the Roman Empire 937.06G
  • Hardt, Michael - Empire 325H
  • Lapidus, Ira - A history of Islamic societies (1988) 909.4L
  • Larner, John - Marco Polo and the discovery of the world 910.4L
  • Magnet, Myron - The millennial city: a new urban paradigm for 21st-century America 307.76M
  • Wells, Peter - The barbarians speak: how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe 936W

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Axtell, James - After Columbus: essays in the ethnohistory of colonial North America (1988) 970.5A
  • Nies, Judith - Native American history (1996) 970.1N
  • Olson, James - Red Cloud and the Sioux problem (1975) 970.2R
  • Smith, Sherry - The view from officers' row: army perceptions of western Indians (1990) 970.1S
  • Warhus, Mark - Another America: Native American maps and the history of our land (1997) 970.1W

MISCELLANEOUS

  • David, Penny - A garden lost in time 712D
  • Lehr, Dick - Black mass: the Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's deal 364.1L
  • Paxman, Jeremy - The English: a portrait of a people 942P
  • Salwak, Dale - A passion for books 028P

TRAVEL

  • Baughman, T.H. - Pilgrims on the ice: Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition 919.9B
  • Casas, Penelope - Discovering Spain 914.6C
  • Craft, Robert - Places: a travel companion for music and art lovers 910.4C
  • Draper, Jo - Thomas Hardy's England (1984) 914.23D
  • Lofgren, Orvar - On holiday: a history of vacationing 910L
  • Man, John - Gobi: tracking the desert 915.17M
  • Matvejevic, Predrag - Mediterranean: a cultural landscape 914M
  • McCauley, Lucy - Spain 914.6S
  • Solnit, Rebecca - A book of migrations: some passages in Ireland (1997) 914.15S
  • Thomson, Alice - The singing line (Australia) 919.4T

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dale, Alzina Stone - Mystery reader's walking guide (1997) 917.471D
  • Roff, Sandra - From the Free Academy to CUNY 378C
  • White, Norval - AIA guide to New York City 4th ed. 917.471A

UNABRIDGED AUDIO BOOKS

  • Amis, Martin - London fields (14 tapes) #962
  • Auchincloss, Louis - Woodrow Wilson (3 tapes) #951
  • Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey (6 tapes) #947
  • Greene, Graham - The comedians (8 tapes) #971
  • Shakespeare, William - Coriolanus (2 tapes) #968
  • Shakespeare, William - Measure for measure (2 tapes) #969
  • Shakespeare, William - Merchant of Venice (2 tapes) #964
  • Smith, Betty - A tree grows in Brooklyn (11 tapes) #950
  • Waugh, Evelyn - Men at arms (8 tapes) #945

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Aliki - William Shakespeare and the Globe Juv 822.33H
  • Ardizzone, Edward - Little Tim and the brave sea captain
  • Christelow, Eileen - What do illustrators do? Juv. 741.64C
  • Freedman, Russell - Babe Didrikson Zaharias 92Z F
  • Harrison, Colin - Birds of the world Juv 598.2H
  • Mullin, Chris - The young basketball player Juv. 796.3M
  • Numeroff, Laura - If you give a moose a muffin Juv-E N
  • Numeroff, Laura - Sometimes I wonder if poodles like noodles Juv-E N
  • Stuve-Boden, Stephanie - Elizabeti's doll Juv E S
  • Updike, John - A child's calendar: poems Juv 821U


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