New York Society Library

OCTOBER 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bix, Herbert - Hirohito and the making of modern Japan
  • Clinton, Catherine - Fanny Kemble's civil wars
  • Conroy, Richard Timothy - Our man in Vienna
  • Crimmins, C.E. - Where is the mango princess?
  • Gebler, Carlo - Father and I
  • Goldsmith, Martin - The inextinguishable symphony: a true story of music and love in Nazi Germany
  • Grumbach, Doris - The pleasure of their company
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth - The magnificent activist
  • Isherwood, Christopher - The lost years: a memoir, 1945-1951
  • Jack, Belinda - George Sand: a woman's life writ large
  • Jordan, June - Soldier: a poet's childhood
  • Karr, Mary - Cherry: a memoir
  • King, Michael - Let heroes speak: Antarctic explorers, 1772-1922
  • Kozhina, Elena - Through the burning Steppe: a wartime memoir
  • Kukil, Karen - The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
  • Loy, Rosetta - First words: a childhood in fascist Italy
  • Maraniss, David - The prince of Tennessee: the rise of Al Gore
  • Meyers, Jeffrey - Orwell: wintry conscience of a nation
  • Moss, Barbara - Change me into Zeus's daughter
  • Newman, Richard - Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz
  • Pritchard, William - Updike: America's man of letters
  • Reagan, Ronald - I love you, Ronnie: the letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
  • Salinger, Margaret - Dream catcher
  • Schwartz, Barry - Abraham Lincoln and the forge of national memory
  • Spaethling, Robert - Mozart's letters, Mozart's life
  • Starkey, David - Elizabeth [I]
  • Summers, Anthony - The arrogance of power (Richard Nixon)
  • Thaddeus, Janice - Frances Burney: a literary life
  • Thomas, Evan - Robert Kennedy
  • Wertime, Richard - Citadel on the mountain
  • Wheelis, Allen - The listener: a psychoanalyst examines his life
  • White, Michael - Leonardo: the first scientist

FICTION

  • Alvarez, Julia - In the name of Salome
  • Atwood, Margaret - Blind assassin
  • Bausch, Robert - A hole in the earth
  • Bender, Aimee - An invisible sign of my own
  • Bloomberg, Beverly - The last Hollywood romance
  • Boyle, T.C. - A friend of the earth
  • Brown, Sandra - Switch
  • Buchwald, Art - Stella in heaven
  • Bushnell, Candace - Four blondes
  • Byrd, Max - Grant
  • DeKrester, Michelle - The rose grower
  • Fielding, Joy - The first time
  • Frazer, George MacDonald - Flashman and the tiger
  • Goldstein, Rebecca - Properties of light
  • Gordon, Noah - The last Jew
  • Gould, Judith - Time to say goodbye
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo - When we were orphans
  • Joyce, Brenda - House of dreams
  • Landis, J.D. - Longing
  • Leavitt, David - Martin Bauman, or, a sure thing
  • Lightman, Alan - The diagnosis
  • Long, David - The daughters of Simon Lamoreaux
  • Malarkey, Tucker - An obvious enchantment
  • Maupin, Armistead - The night listener
  • McCullough, Colleen - Morgan's run
  • McGrath, Patrick - Martha Peake
  • Morris, Mary - Acts of God
  • Pearson, T.R. - Blue ridge
  • Reiken, Frederick - Lost legends of New Jersey
  • Robbins, Daniel - The end of war
  • Salzman, Mark - Lying awake
  • Schneider, Peter - Eduard's homecoming
  • Self, Will - How the dead live
  • Sheldon, Sidney - The sky is falling
  • Shreve, Susan Richards - Plum and jaggers
  • Sparks, Nicholas - The rescue
  • Toynton, Evelyn - Modern art
  • Wadham, Lucy - Lost
  • Wang, Lulu - The lily theatre
  • Yoshimoto, Banana - Asleep

MYSTERY

  • Abel, Kenneth - Cold steel rain
  • Andrews, Sarah - An eye for gold
  • Barth, Richard - Jumper
  • Booth, Stephen - Black dog*
  • Clark, Mary Jane - Let me whisper in your ear
  • Compton, David - Impaired judgement
  • Coonts, Stephen - Hong Kong
  • Dams, Jeanne - Red, white, and blue murders
  • Eddy, Paul - Flint
  • Eidson, Bill - One bad thing
  • Francis, Dick - Shattered*
  • Friedman, Kinky - The mile high club
  • Gardner, John - Day of absolution*
  • Garland, Ardella - Details at ten
  • Gilstrap, John - Even Steven
  • Grace, Tom - Quantum
  • Green, Tim - The letter of the law
  • Hall, Parnell - Last puzzle and testament
  • Kaminsky, Stuart M. - The fall of a cosmonaut
  • Landsdale, Joe - The bottoms
  • Law, J. Patrick - The assistant
  • Leonard, Elmore - Pagan babies
  • Lippman, Laura - The sugar house
  • McCrumb, Sharyn - The PMS outlaws
  • McDermid, Val - Booked for murder*
  • McInerney, Ralph - Book of kills
  • Munnings, Clare - Overnight float
  • Salter, Anna - White lies
  • Smith, Taylor - The innocents club
  • Tapply, William - Scar tissue
  • Vachss, Andrew - Dead and gone * indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Alexander, Jane - Command performance: an actress in the the theater of politics 92 A 3761A
  • Cherkovski, Neeli - Ferlinghetti (1979) 92 F359C
  • Lieberman, Joseph - In praise of public life 92 L7166L
  • Marchione, Margherita - Yours is a precious witness: memoirs of Jews and Catholics in wartime Italy (1997) 940.5315M
  • Paterniti, Michael - Driving Mr. Albert: a trip across America with Einstein's brain 92 H3242P
  • Saul, Nigel - Richard II (1997) 92 R5112S

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bradbury, Malcolm - Modernism: 1890-1930 (1991) 820.9M
  • Cohen, Margaret - The sentimental education of the novel 843C
  • Cornish, Alison - Reading Dante's stars 851C
  • Fleishman, Avrom - The English historical novel (1972) 823F
  • Ginsberg, Allen - Deliberate prose: selected essays 824G
  • Leyburn, Ellen D. - Strange alloy: the relation of comedy to tragedy in the fiction of Henry James (1968) 823J
  • Long, Judy - Literary New Orleans 820.8L
  • Menides, Laura J. - Essays on Elizabeth Bishop, from the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI 821.09B
  • Strand, Mark - The weather of words: poetic invention 808.1S
  • Tinter, Adeline R. - Edith Wharton in context: essays on intertextuality 823W

LANGUAGE & WRITING

  • Auster, Paul - Why write? (1996) 808A
  • Lerner, Betsy - The forest for the trees: an editor's advice to writers 808L
  • Tuleja, Tad - The cat's pajamas: a fabulous fictionary of familiar phrases (1988) 422T
  • West, Paul - The secret lives of words 422W

POETRY

  • Adair, Virginia - Living on fire 821A
  • American poetry: the twentieth century 2 vols. 821.08A CS
  • Ciuraru, Carmela - First loves: poets introduce the essential poems that captivated and inspired them 809.1F
  • Paley, Grace - Begin again: collected poems 821P

POETRY - NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Dante Alighieri - Purgatorio. Translated by W.S. Merwin 851D
  • Homer - Odyssey. Translated by Stanley Lombardo 883.1H

FILM

  • Balazs, Bela - Theory of the film: character and growth of a new art (1970) 791.4B
  • Rich, B. Ruby - Chick flicks: theories and memories of the feminist film movement (1998) 791.4R

ARTS

  • Cass, Joan - The dance: a handbook for the appreciation of the choreographic experience 792.8C
  • Cole, Bruce - The informed eye: understanding masterpieces of western art 701C
  • Crunden, Robert M. - Body & soul: the making of American modernism 709.73C
  • Goldberg, RoseLee - Laurie Anderson 792G
  • Haskell, Francis - Rediscoveries in art: some aspects of taste, fashion, and collecting in England and France (1976) 704H
  • Petropoulos, Jonathan - The Faustian bargain: the art world in Nazi Germany 709.43P
  • Smith, Suzanne - Dancing in the street: Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dodson, Howard - The Black New Yorkers: the Schomburg illustrated chronology 974.71D
  • Duneier, Mitchell - Sidewalk 307.76D
  • Fowler, Dorothy Ganfield - A city church: the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, 1716-1976 (1981) 285.1F
  • Frusciano, Thomas J. - New York University and the city: an illustrated history (1997) 378F
  • Lardner, James - NYPD: a city and its politics 352.2L

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Adamson, John - The Princely courts of Europe: ritual, politics and culture under the ancien regime, 1500-1750 940.22P
  • Allen, Paul - Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621 946A
  • Broder, David - Democracy derailed: initiative campaigns and the power of money 328B
  • Johnson, Chalmers - Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire 327.73J
  • Karabell, Zachary - Architects on intervention: the United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962 327.73K
  • Payne, Stanley - Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 946.082P
  • Said, Edward - End of the peace process: Oslo and after 956.9S

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Birnbaum, Jeffrey - The money men 329B
  • Gregor, James - The faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the twentieth century 323.2G
  • Kramer, Hilton - The betrayal of liberalism 320.9B

HISTORY

  • Appleby, Joyce - Inheriting the revolution: the first generation of Americans 973A
  • David, Rosalie - Handbook to life in Ancient Egypt 932D
  • Devine, T.M. - The Scottish nation: a history, 1700-2000 941D
  • Esposito, John - The Oxford history of Islam 297O
  • Eszterhas, Joe - American rhapsody 973.929E
  • Ignatieff, Michael - Virtual war: Kosovo and beyond 949.6I
  • Myres, John - Herodotus: father of history 888.1M
  • Newsome, David - The Victorian world picture (1997) 942.08N
  • Pohl, John - Exploring Mesoamerica 972P
  • Pugh, Martin - Britain since 1789 942.07P
  • Roberts, David - A newer world: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the claiming of the American West 978R
  • Schell, Orville - Virtual Tibet: searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood 951.5S
  • Shawcross, William - Deliver us from evil: peacekeepers, warlords, and a world of endless conflict 909.82S
  • Singh, Patwant - The Sikhs 909.4S
  • Taufer, Alison - Holinshed's Chronicles 942.05T
  • Weintraub, Stanley - MacArthur's war: Korea and the undoing of an American hero 951.9W
  • Zephir, Thierry - Khmer, the lost empire of Cambodia 959Z

ECONOMICS

  • Geisst, Charles - Monopolies in America: empire builders and their enemies, from Jay Gould to Bill Gates 338.8G
  • Schumpeter, Joseph - Ten great economists: from Marx to Keynes (1951) 330.9S

LAW

  • Barnett, Louise - Ungentlemanly acts: the army's notorious incest trial 344B
  • Cantor, Norman - Imagining the law: common law and the foundations of the American legal system (1997) 347C
  • Powe, Lucas A. - The Warren Court & American politics 347.99P
  • Rosen, Jeffrey - The unwanted gaze: the destruction of privacy in America 342.73R
  • Wise, Steven - Rattling the cage: toward legal rights for animals 344W

SCIENCE

  • Askins, Robert - Restoring North America's birds: lessons from landscape ecology 598.2A
  • Drury, Stephen - Stepping stones: the making of our home world 551D
  • Holland, John - Emergence; from chaos to order 510H
  • Jaffe, Mark - The gilded dinosaur: the fossil war between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the rise of American science 560J
  • Tyson, Neil DeGrasse - One universe 523.1T Oversize

RELIGION

  • Gadamer, Hans Georg - Hermeneutics, religion, and ethics 121G
  • Gibb, H.A.R. - Shorter encyclopaedia of Islam (1995) 297S
  • Levine, Alan - Early modern skeptics and the origins of toleration 320.1E
  • Screech, M.A. - Laughter at the foot of the cross (1997) 239.1S

ANOTHER WORLD

  • Achenbach, Joel - Captured by aliens 523.1A
  • Hughes, Howard - Sensory exotica 152H

CATASTROPHES

  • Jenkins, McKay - The white death: tragedy and heroism in an avalanche zone 363.3J
  • Lowe, David - The Great Chicago fire (1979) 977.31G
  • O'Nan, Stewart - The circus of fire 974.6O

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Clausen, Christopher - Faded mosaic: the emergence of post- cultural America 306C
  • Coontz, Stephanie - The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap 306.8C
  • Cowen, Tyler - What price fame? 306.4C
  • Fearon, Peter - Hamptons Babylon: life among the super rich on America's Riviera 974.72F
  • Haack, Susan - Manifesto of a passionate moderate 121H
  • Johnson, Walter - Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market 326J
  • Juergensmeyer, Mark - Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence 364.1J
  • Munzer, Friedrich - Roman aristocratic parties & families 323.3M
  • Myers, David - The American paradox: spiritual hunger in an age of plenty 306M
  • Pollack, William - Real boy's voices 305.23P
  • Zia, Helen - Asian American dreams 305.87Z

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Gubar, Susan - Critical condition: feminism at the turn of the century 801G
  • Kerber, Linda - Women's America: refocusing the past 305.4W

COMPUTERS

  • Brown, Julian - Minds, machines, and the multiverse 001.6B
  • Garfinkel, Simson - Architects of the information society: 35 years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT 001.6G

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Coles, Robert - The Erik Erikson reader 150E
  • Garber, Marjorie - Sex and real estate: why we love houses 307G
  • Kimmel, Michael - The gendered society 305.5K
  • Person, Ethel Spector - The sexual century 305.5P
  • Schiebe, Karl - The drama of everyday life 150S
  • Shriver, Maria - Ten things I wish I'd known - before I went out into the real world 158S

SPORTS

  • Longman, Jere - The girls of summer: the US women's soccer team and how it changed the world 796.3L
  • Smith, Red - Red smith on baseball 796.3S

GARDENS

  • Hansen, Eric - Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust, and lunacy 635H
  • Mader, Gunter - The English formal garden (1997) 712M
  • Olin, Laurie - Across the open field: essays drawn from English landscapes 712O
  • Wallinger, Rosamund - Gertrude Jekyll's lost garden: the restoration of an Edwardian masterpiece 712W

FOOD & DRINK

  • Allport, Susan - The primal feast: food, sex, foraging, and love 641.3A
  • Bittman, Mark - The minimalist cooks at home 641.5B
  • Hazan, Giuliano - Every night Italian 641.5H
  • Idone, Christopher - Glorious food (1982) 642I Oversize
  • Robinson, Jancis - The Oxford companion to wine Ref. 641.2O

TRAVEL

  • Bardwell, Sandra - Walking in Ireland 914.5B
  • Edmond, Rod - Representing the South Pacific: colonial discourse from Cook to Gauguin (1997) 325.3E
  • Lambert, Derek - Spanish lessons: beginning a new life in Spain 914.6L
  • Lindenmayer, Clem - Walking in Switzerland (1996) 914.94L
  • McMurtry, Larry - Roads: driving America's great highways 917.3M
  • Morris, Mary - Virago book of women travellers (1996) 910.4V
  • Roddis, Miles - Walking in Spain 914.6W
  • Tames, Richard - A traveller's history of Japan (1997) 952T
  • Terzani, Tiziano - A fortune-teller told me: earthbound travels in the Far East 915T


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