New York Society Library

NOVEMBER 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Agosin, Marjorie - The alphabet in my hands: a writing life
  • Atlas, James - Bellow
  • Batchelor, John - John Ruskin
  • Belford, Barbara - Oscar Wilde: a certain genius
  • Berger, Louis - Freud: darkness in the midst of vision
  • Brands, H.W. - The first American (Benjamin Franklin)
  • Cash, William - The third woman: the secret passion that inspired The end of the affair (Graham Greene)
  • Casti, John - Godel: a life of logic
  • Cooper, Artemis - Writing at the kitchen table (Elizabeth David)
  • Feigen, Brenda - Not one of the boys: living life as a feminist
  • Gabrial, Jan - Inside the volcano: my life with Malcolm Lowry
  • Gage, Nicholas - Greek fire: the story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis
  • Grafton, Anthony - Leon Battista Alberti: master builder of the Italian renaissance
  • Holzer, Harold - Lincoln as I knew him: gossip, tributes & revelations from his best friends and worst enemies
  • Klein, Carole - Doris Lessing
  • Lahr, John - Show and tell: New Yorker profiles
  • Lapsley, Hilary - Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
  • Lewis, David L. - W.E.B. DuBois: the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963
  • McCormack, W.J. - Fool of the family: a life of J.M. Synge
  • McCourt, Malachy - Singing my him song
  • Nasdijj - The blood runs like a river through my dreams
  • Overbye, Dennis - Einstein in love
  • Rich, Frank - Ghost light: a memoir
  • Schneebaum, Tobias - Secret places: my life in New York and New Guinea
  • Sinatra, Tina - My father's daughter
  • Sinclair, Andrew - Dylan the bard: a life of Dylan Thomas
  • Smith, Liz - Natural blonde
  • Walker, Alice - The way forward is with a broken heart
  • West, Richard - Chaucer, 1340-1400: the life and times of the first English poet
  • Wood, Ean - The Josephine Baker story

FICTION

  • Adams, Alice - After the war
  • Anthony, Piers - Dastard
  • Banville, John - Eclipse
  • Begley, Louis - Schmidt delivered
  • Bell, Madison Smartt - Master of the crossroads
  • Brennan, Maeve - The visitor
  • Chabon, Michael - The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  • Chaudhuri, Amit - The new world
  • Due, Tananarive - The black rose
  • Eve, Nomi - The family orchard
  • Grass, Gunter - Too far afield
  • Grundy, Stephan - Gilgamesh
  • Hamilton, Jane - Disobedience
  • Herbert, Brian - Dune: House Harkonen
  • Julavits, Heidi - The mineral palace
  • Kagan, Elaine - No good-byes
  • Kingsolver, Barbara - Prodigal summer
  • Krabbe, Tim - The cave
  • Ludlum, Robert - The Prometheus deception
  • Marshall, Paule - The fisher king
  • Martin, Steve - Shopgirl: a novella
  • Martinez, Al - The last city room
  • Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian wood
  • Murdoch, Iris - Something special: a story
  • Perrotta, Tom - Joe College
  • Reed, John - A still small voice
  • Rice, Anne - Merrick
  • Schmitt, Richard - The aerialist
  • Scott, Johanna C. - The lucky gourd shop
  • Shepard, Karen - Empire of women
  • Simpson, Mona - Off Keck Road
  • Van Wormer, Laura - The last lover
  • Vidal, Gore - The golden age
  • Weldon, Fay - Rhode Island blues
  • Winterson, Jeanette - The PowerBook

SHORT STORIES

  • Busch, Frederick - Don't tell anyone
  • Harrison, Jim - The beast God forgot to invent
  • Jin, Ha - The bridegroom
  • Means, David - Assorted fire events
  • Parvin, Roy - In the snow forest: three novellas
  • Toole, F.X. - Rope burns: stories from the corner
  • Trevor, William - The Hill bachelors

MYSTERY

  • Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity beats the devil*
  • Berenson, Laurie - Unleashed
  • Black, Cara - Murder in Belleville
  • Block, Lawrence - Hit list
  • Clark, Mary Higgins (with Carol Higgins Clark) - Deck the halls
  • Coleridge, Nicholas - Streetsmart
  • Cornwell, Patricia - The last precinct
  • Day, Diane - Beacon Street mourning
  • Engel, Howard - There was an old woman
  • Flaherty, Terence - Raise the devil
  • Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina - Havanna heat
  • Glass, Leslie - Tracking time
  • Havill, Steven - Dead weight
  • Henderson, Lauren - Strawberry tattoo
  • Hightower, Lynn - The debt collector
  • Jeffries, Roderic - An enigmatic disappearance
  • Kahn, Michael - Bearing witness
  • Leahey, Michael - Broken machines
  • Lovesey, Peter - The vault*
  • Mayor, Archer - The marble mask
  • McBain, Ed - Running from Legs and other stories
  • Parker, Robert B. - Perish twice
  • Pears, Iain - The immaculate deception
  • Perry, Anne - Slaves of obsession*
  • Robinson, Peter - Cold is the grave*
  • Sandford, John - The devil's code
  • Saylor, Steven - Last seen in Massilia
  • Stabenow, Dana - Nothing gold can stay
  • Swindle, Howard - Doin' dirty
  • Todd, Charles - Legacy of the dead*
  • Vine, Barbara - The grasshopper*
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Fitzgerald, Penelope - The Knox brothers: Edmund 1881-1971, Dillwyn 1884-1943, Wilfred 1886-1950, Ronald 1888-1957 New ed. 920 K74F
  • Josephy, Robert - Taking part: a twentieth century life (1993) 92 J8395J
  • Kaufman, Henry - On money and markets: a Wall Street memoir 92 K2137K
  • Samuel, Wolfgang - German boy: a refugee's story 92 S1937S

BELLES LETTRES

  • Arnold, Edwin - Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy 823M
  • Bate, John - Song of the earth 821.09B
  • Evans, Robert - Graham Greene (1963) 823G
  • Holmes, Richard - Sidetracks: explorations of a romantic biographer 820.9H
  • Miller, Arthur - The theater essays of Arthur Miller (1996) 809.2T
  • Ozick, Cynthia - Quarrel & quandary: essays 824O
  • Perry, Seamus - Coleridge and the uses of division 821.09C
  • Pritchard, William - Updike: America's man of letters 823U
  • Putnam, Michael - The poetry of the Aeneid: four studies in imaginative unity and design (1966) 873.1P
  • Rodden, John - Lionel Trilling and the critics 828.09T
  • Thomas, Ronald - Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science 823T

POETRY

  • Merwin, W.S. - Writings to an unfinished accompaniment (1974) 821M
  • Nelson, Cary - Anthology of modern American poetry 821.08A
  • Prynne, J.H. - Poems 821P
  • Simic, Charles - A wedding in hell (1994) 821S

ARTS

  • Avery, Charles - Giambologna: an exhibition of sculpture by the master and his followers 735G
  • Brown, Christopher - Van Dyck, 1599-1641 759.9B
  • Dube, Wolf Dieter - Expressionism (1972) 759.3D
  • Schapiro, Meyer - Meyer Schapiro: his painting, drawing, and sculpture 709.04S
  • Wheelock, Arthur - Jan Vermeer 759.9V Oversize

ARCHITECTURE

  • Fleming, John - The Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture 5th ed. 720F
  • Legler, Dixie - Prairie style: houses and gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School 728L

ANTIQUITIES

  • Boardman, John - Persia and the West: an archaeological investigation of the genesis of Achaemenid art 709.35B
  • Dillehay, Tom - The settlement of the Americas: a new prehistory 970D
  • Dixon, E. James - Bones, boats & bison: archeology and the first colonization of western North America 970.1D
  • Thomas, David - Skull wars: Kennewick man, archaeology, and the battle for Native American identity 970.1T

MUSEUMS

  • Lloyd, Christopher - The paintings in the royal collection: a thematic exploration 750.8L
  • Morphy, Howard - Art from the land: dialogues with the Kluge- Ruhe Collection of Australian aboriginal art 709.011A
  • Potterton, Homan - The National Gallery, London (1977) 708.2P

HISTORY

  • Berman, Morris - The twilight of American culture 973.92B
  • Buck-Morss, Susan - Dreamworld and catastrophe: the passing of mass utopia in East and West 909.82B
  • Eksteins, Modris - Walking since daybreak: a story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the heart of our century 947E
  • Gribben, Arthur - The great famine and the Irish diaspora in America 941.5G
  • Harris, Nathaniel - Heritage of Scotland 941H Oversize
  • Hughes-Hallett, Penelope - The immortal dinner: poets and painters in London in 1817 942H
  • Johnson, Paul - The Renaissance: a short history 940.21J
  • Pellegrino, Charles - Ghosts of the Titanic 910.4P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Ash, Timothy Garton - We the people: the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague 940.55A
  • Bracken, Paul - Fire in the East: the rise of Asian military power and the second nuclear age 355B
  • Cornog, Evan - Hats in the ring: an illustrated history of American presidential campaigns 324C
  • Gergen, David - Eyewitness to power: the essence of leadership: Nixon to Clinton 353.03G

LAW

  • Bass, Gary - Stay the hand of vengeance: the politics of war crimes tribunals 341.3B
  • Sunkin, Maurice - The nature of the crown: a legal and political analysis 320.1S

REFERENCE

  • Abrams, M.H. - A glossary of literary terms Ref. 803A
  • American Heritage dictionary of the English language 4th ed. Ref. & LSR 423A
  • Gibaldi, Joseph - MLA handbook for writers 5th ed. LSR 808G
  • Gibaldi, Joseph - MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing 2nd ed. LSR 808G
  • Smith, Verity - Encyclopedia of Latin American literature (1997) Ref. 860.3E

BOOKS

  • Clawson, Dan - Required reading: sociology's most influential books 301R
  • Schiffrin, Andre - The business of books: how international conglomerates took over publishing and changed the way we read 655.5S
  • Slezak, Ellen - The book group book: a thoughtful guide to forming & enjoying a stimulating book discussion group 374B

RELIGION

  • Freedman, Samuel - Jew vs. Jew: the struggle for the soul of American Jewry 296F
  • Rosen, Jonathan - The Talmud and the internet 296.1R
  • Williams, Terry Tempest - Leap 289.3W

ECONOMICS

  • Jay, Peter - The wealth of man 330.9J
  • Lowenstein, Roger - When genius failed: the rise and fall of Long-term Capital Management 332.6L

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Ambrose, Stephen - Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 385A
  • DeLoache, Judy - A world of babies: imagined childcare guides for seven societies 649W
  • Lipset, Seymour - It didn't happen here: why socialism failed in the United States 335L
  • O'Hear, Anthony - After progress: finding the old way forward 303.4O
  • Porter, Stephen - The Great Plague 614.4P
  • Rappaport, Erika - Shopping for pleasure: women in the making of London's West End 658.8R
  • Robinson, Randall - The debt: what America owes to Blacks 325.26R
  • Rojek, Chris - Ways of escape: modern transformations in leisure and travel 306.4R
  • Suleiman, Michael - Arabs in America: building a new future 305.8A
  • Vico, Giambattista - New science: principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations 195V

HEALTH & HOME

  • Freidenberg, Judith - Growing old in El Barrio 305.26F
  • Boston Women's Health Collective - Our bodies, ourselves for the new century 301.4B
  • Vertosick, Frank - Why we hurt: the natural history of pain 616V

PRODUCTS

  • Chapin, Miles - 88 keys: the making of a Steinway piano (1997) 786.3C
  • Lindsay, David - House of invention: the secret life of everyday products 609L
  • Rybczynski, Witold - One good turn: a natural history of the screwdriver and the screw 621.9R
  • Vlasic, Bill - Taken for a ride: how Daimler-Benz drove off with Chrysler 338.7V

SCIENCE

  • Alvarez, Walter - T. rex and the crater of doom 575.7A
  • De Villiers, Marq - Water: the fate of our most precious resource 333.9D
  • Harrison, Edward - Cosmology: science of the universe 523.1
  • Kunzig, Robert - The restless sea: exploring the world beneath the waves 551.4K

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Copjec, Joan - Read my desire: Lacan against the historicists (1994) 150C
  • Grey, Loren - Alfred Adler, the forgotten prophet 150G

CITIES

  • Baldassare, Mark - Cities and urban living (1983) 307.76C
  • Beauregard, Robert - Voices of decline: the postwar fate of US cities (1993) 307.76B

TREES

  • Benvie, Sam - Encyclopedia of North American trees 582B
  • Nakashima, George - The soul of a tree (1988) 749.2N
  • Pertchik, Bernard - Flowering trees of the Caribbean (1951) 582F

TRAVEL

  • Grant, John - Great American rail journeys 917.3G
  • Leapman, Michael - Portrait of Britain 914.2P Oversize
  • National Geographic expeditions atlas 910.4N Oversize
  • Simmons, James - Star-spangled Eden: 19th century America through the eyes of Dickens, Wilde, Frances Trollope, Frank Harris, and other British travelers 917.3S
  • Walsh, June - Bed and blessings, Italy: a guide to convents and monasteries available for overnight lodging 647.9W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Diner, Hasia - Lower East Side memories 974.71D
  • Howat, John K. - Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861 709.7471A
  • Isay, David - Flophouse: life on the Bowery 974.71I
  • Knox, Katharine - The story of the Frick Art Reference Library: the early years (1979) 026K
  • Miller, Dorothy - Art for the public: the collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1985) 709.04P
  • Stone, Michael - Gangbusters: how a street-tough, elite homicide unit took down New York's most dangerous gang 364.1S

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Binney, Marcus - The Ritz Hotel, London 647.9B Oversize
  • Harvey, Miles - The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime 026H
  • Kasson, Joy - Buffalo Bill's Wild West 791.8K

AUDIO BOOKS

  • Bacon, Francis - The essays (4 tapes) #984
  • Bryson, Bill - In a sunburned country (7 tapes) #1004
  • Christie, Agatha - The secret adversary (6 tapes) #981
  • Cooper, James Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans (13 tapes) #972
  • Junger, Sebastian - The perfect storm (6 tapes) #1006

NEW! BOOKS ON CD

  • Bennett, Alan - Diaries, 1980-1990 (2 discs) Audio CD B4702 D5
  • Heaney, Seamus - Beowulf (2 discs) Audio CD B469
  • Keats, John - Poems (1 disc) Audio CD K255 J6

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Biesty, Stephen - Stephen Biesty's incredible everything Juv. 670B
  • Carle, Eric - Does a kangaroo have a mother, too? Juv-E C
  • Robbins, Ken - Autumn leaves Juv. 581R
  • Shulevitz, Uri - What is a wise bird like you doing in a silly tale like this? Juv-E W
  • St. George, Judith - So you want to be president Juv. 973S


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