New York Society Library

DECEMBER 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Armstrong, Lance - It's not about the bike
  • Bellos, David - Jacques Tati
  • Bolster, Richard - Marie D'Agoult: the rebel countess
  • Bradford, Sarah - America's queen: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  • Bullard, Reader - Inside Stalin's Russia: the diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934
  • Cramer, Richard - Joe DiMaggio
  • Duiker, William - Ho Chi Minh
  • Ellis, Joseph - Founding brothers: the revolutionary generation
  • Gelb, Arthur - O'Neill: life with Monte Cristo
  • Gopnik, Adam - Paris to the moon
  • Grinker, Roy - In the arms of Africa (Colin M. Turnbull)
  • John, Joseph - Letters from lost thyme: two decades of letters from John Joseph to Patricia Larsen
  • Kennan, George - An American family
  • Kershaw, Ian - Hitler, 1936-1945: nemesis
  • Lardner, Ring, Jr. - I'd hate myself in the morning
  • Markus, Julia - Across an untried sea: discovering lives hidden in the shadow of convention and time
  • Martin, Justin - Greenspan
  • McLellan, Diana - The girls: Sappho goes to Hollywood
  • Robb, Graham - Rimbaud
  • Russell, Peter - Prince Henry the Navigator
  • Schlesinger, Arthur - A life in the twentieth century
  • Sebastian, Mihail - Journal, 1935-1944: the fascist years
  • Steinberg, Paul - Speak you also: a survivor's reckoning
  • Unger, Nancy - Fighting Bob La Follette
  • Webster, Brenda - The last good Freudian
  • Williams, C.K. - Misgivings: my mother, my father, myself

FICTION

  • Azzopardi, Trezza - The hiding-place
  • Berry, Wendell - Jayber Crow
  • Brady, James - A Hampton christmas
  • Buchan, James - Persian bride
  • Deveraux, Jude - Temptation
  • DeWitt, Helen - The last samurai
  • Dillon, Millicent - Harry Gold
  • Emerson, Gloria - Loving Graham Greene
  • Evans, Richard Paul - The carousel
  • Gloss, Molly - Wild life
  • Hamilton, Laurell - A kiss of shadows
  • Hoffman, William - Blood and guile
  • Houllebecq, Michel - The elementary particles
  • Kay, Terry - Taking Lottie home
  • LeClair, Tom - Well founded fear
  • Lichtenstein, Alice - The genius of the world
  • Lindsey, Johanna - Home for the holidays
  • Medina, Pablo - The return of Felix Nogara
  • Michaels, Fern - What you wish for
  • Mitchell, David - Ghostwritten
  • Myles, Eileen - Cool for you
  • Nye, Robert - Mrs. Shakespeare
  • Olafsson, Olaf - The journey home
  • Salamanca, J.R. - That summer's trance
  • Steel, Danielle - The journey
  • Trevanian - Hot night in the city
  • Wall, William - Alice falling
  • Walser, Robert - The robber
  • Watkins, Paul - The forger
  • Welch, James - The heartsong of Charging Elk

SHORT STORIES

  • Archer, Jeffrey - To cut a long story short
  • Fitzgerald, Penelope - The means of escape
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - Snapshots: 20th century mother-daughter fiction
  • Updike, John - Licks of love: short stories and a sequel, Rabbit Remembered

MYSTERY

  • Babson, Marian - To catch a cat
  • Baldacci, David - Wish you well
  • Bannister, Jo - Changelings*
  • Benjamin, Carol Lea - The wrong dog
  • Carr, Caleb - Killing time
  • Christie, Agatha - Spider's web*
  • Dams, Jeanne - Killing Cassidy
  • Gash, Jonathan - Die dancing*
  • Hart, Carolyn - Sugar plum dead
  • Howard, Mary - Discovering the body
  • Hunter, Fred - Ransom at the opera
  • James, Bill - In good hands*
  • Magnam, Pierre - The murdered house
  • McDermid, Val - Killing the shadows*
  • Passman, Don - Mirage
  • Patterson, James - Roses are red
  • Phillips, Scott - The ice harvest
  • Stark, Richard - Flashfire
  • Stewart, Leah - Body of a girl
  • Swanson, Doug - House of corrections
  • Szulc, Tad - To kill the pope
  • Walters, Minette - The shape of snakes*
  • Wilson, Robert - Small death in Lisbon
  • Woods, Stuart - L.A. Dead
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Alter, Robert - Canon and creativity: modern writing and the authority of scripture 809A
  • Borges, Jorge Luis - This craft of verse 809.1B
  • Foster, Donald - Author unknown: the trail of anonymous 808F
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - Best American essays of the century 824B
  • Page, Norman - Oxford reader's companion to Hardy 823H
  • Paris, Bernard - A psychological approach to fiction: studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad (1974) 809.3P
  • Putnam, Michael - Virgil's Aeneid: interpretation and influence (1995) 873.1P
  • Slutsky, Boris - Things that happened 891.71S
  • Venclova, Tomas - Forms of hope: essays 891.7V
  • Wolfe, Tom - Hooking up 824W

ARTS

  • Auchincloss, Louis - A century of arts & letters: the history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members (1998) 700C
  • Beck, James - Italian Renaissance painting 759.5B
  • Dakers, Caroline - The Holland Park Circle: artists and Victorian society 709.42D
  • Halsman, Philippe - Philippe Halsman: a retrospective (1998) 770H Oversize
  • Kracauer, Siegfried - Theory of film: the redemption of physical reality (1997) 791.4K
  • LaSalle, Mick - Complicated women: sex and power in pre-code Hollywood 791.4L
  • MacGregor, Neil - Seeing salvation: images of Christ in art 755M

POETRY

  • Gunn, Thom - Boss Cupid 821G
  • Hollander, John - Christmas poems 821.08C
  • Paine, Jeffrey - The poetry of our world: an international anthology of contemporary poetry 808.81P
  • Walcott, Derek - Tiepolo's hound 821W
  • Wright, Charles - Negative blue: selected later poems 821W

BOOKS

  • Johns, Adrian - The nature of the book: print and knowledge in the making (1998) 686J
  • O'Brien, Geoffrey - Hardboiled America: lurid paperbacks and the masters of noir (1997) 823O

HISTORY

  • Bartov, Omer - Mirrors of destruction: war, genocide, and modern identity 940.5318B
  • Bloom, Stephen - Postville: a clash of cultures in heartland America 977.7B
  • Cocker, Mark - Rivers of blood, rivers of gold: Europe's conquest of indigenous peoples 909C
  • Curtin, Philip - The world and the West: the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of Empire 909.82C
  • Garton Ash, Timothy - History of the present: essays, sketches, and dispatches from Europe in the 1990s 940.55G
  • Gilbert, Martin - Never again (Holocaust) 940.5315G
  • Glenny, Misha - The Balkans 949.6G
  • Hine, Robert - The American West 978H
  • Johnson, Susan - Roaring camp: the social world of the California Gold Rush 979.4J
  • Judah, Tim - Kosovo: war and revenge 949.7J
  • Kristof, Nicholas - Thunder from the East: portrait of a rising Asia 950K
  • May, Ernest - Strange victory: Hitler's conquest of France 940.54M
  • Mazower, Mark - The Balkans 949.6M
  • McPherson, James - "To the best of my ability": the American presidents 973T
  • Pick, Hella - Guilty victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider 943.6P
  • Pocock, J.G.A. - Barbarism and religion 2 vols. 937.06P
  • Rooney, Andy - My war 940.548R
  • Rubinstein, Amnon - From Herzl to Rabin: the changing image of Zionism 956.94R
  • Schultz, Eric - King Philip's War: the history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict 973.2S
  • Sciolino, Elaine - Persian mirrors: the elusive face of Iran 955S

CITIES

  • Attoe, Wayne - American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities (1989) 720.973A
  • Kessler, Herbert - Rome 1300: on the path of the pilgrim 704.94K
  • Lee, Kuan Yew - From Third World to First: the Singapore story, 1965-2000 959L
  • Moorehouse, Geoffrey - Sydney: the story of a city 994M
  • Richardson, John - The annals of London 942.1R
  • Waller, Maureen - 1700: scenes from London life 942.1W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dolkart, Andrew - Touring lower Manhattan 917.471D
  • Friedland, Patricia - New York City: a basic guide to services and community resources 3rd ed. Ref. 917.471N
  • Mendelsohn, Joyce - Touring the Flatiron (1998) 917.471M
  • Tauranac, John - Manhattan block by block Ref. 917.471T
  • Ultan, Lloyd - Bronx accent: a literary and pictorial history of the borough 809.9B
  • White, Norval - AIA guide to New York City 4th ed. Ref. 917.471A

BASEBALL

  • Kahn, Roger - The head game: baseball as seen from the pitcher's mound 796.3K
  • Rossi, John - The national game 796.3R

CRIME

  • Eichenwald, Kurt - The informant (Archer Daniels) 364.1E
  • Forden, Sara - The house of Gucci: a sensational story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed 920 G921F
  • Roughead, William - Classic crimes 364R

JOURNALISM

  • Koppel, Ted - Off camera: private thoughts made public 070K
  • Kurtz, Howard - The fortune tellers: inside Wall Street's game of money, media, and manipulation 070.4K
  • Newkirk, Pamela - Within the veil: black journalists, white media 070N

LANGUAGE

  • Ayto, John - Twentieth century words 423A
  • Heidegger, Martin - On the way to language (1982) 401H
  • Nettle, Daniel - Vanishing voices: the extinction of the world's languages 407N
  • Symposium in Applied Mathematics - Structure of language and its mathematical aspects (1961) 401S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Bellesiles, Michael - Arming America 363.1B
  • Drayton, Richard - Nature's government: science, imperial Britain, and the 'improvement' of the world 325.3D
  • Garment, Leonard - In search of Deep Throat 973.924G
  • Jamieson, Kathleen - Everything you think you know about politics - and why you're wrong 324J
  • Klebnikov, Paul - Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the looting of Russia 338K
  • Litwak, Robert - Rogue states and U.S. foreign policy 327.73L
  • O'Reilly, Bill - The O'Reilly factor: the good, bad, and completely ridiculous in American life 973.923O
  • Sharpe, Kevin - Reading revolutions: the politics of reading in early modern England 941.06S

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Alexander, Shana - The astonishing elephant 599A
  • Attenborough, David - The life of birds (1998) 598.2A
  • Cattermole, Peter - Building planet Earth 550C
  • Fortey, Richard - Trilobite! 569F
  • Lewontin, Richard - It ain't necessarily so: the dream of the human genome and other illusions 575.1L
  • Prager, Ellen - The oceans 551.4P
  • Quammen, David - The boilerplate rhino: nature in the eye of the beholder 508Q
  • Watson, Lyall - Jacobson's organ and the remarkable nature of smell 612.8W

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Bernstein, Peter - The power of gold 398B
  • Booth, Martin - The dragon syndicates: the global phenomenon of the triads 364.1B
  • Buruma, Ian - The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West 303.4B
  • Carey, John - The Faber book of utopias 321.07F
  • Clark, Peter - British clubs and societies, 1580-1800 367C
  • Duany, Andres - Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream 307.76D
  • Dworkin, Ronald - Soverign virtue: the theory and practice of equality 301D
  • Galeano, Eduardo - Upside down: a primer for the looking-glass world 309.1G
  • Garrett, Laurie - Betrayal of trust: the collapse of global public health 362.1G
  • Gilder, George - Telecosm: how infinite bandwith with revolutionize our world 384G
  • Goodman, Ellen - I know just what you mean: the power of friendship in women's lives 305.4G
  • Hanson, Victor - The land was everything: letters from an American farmer 630.9H
  • Magnet, Myron - What makes charity work? 361W
  • Martin, Gregory - Mountain City (Nevada) 979.3M
  • Orenstein, Peggy - Flux: women on sex, work, kids, love and life in a half-changed world 305.4O
  • Reed, Adolph - Class notes: posing as politics and other thoughts on the American scene 325.26R
  • Simon, Richard - Trash culture: popular culture and the great tradition 306.4S
  • Smith, Neil - The new urban frontier: gentrification and the revanchist (1996) 307.76S
  • Zweig, Michael - The working class majority 305.5Z

HUMOR

  • Miller, Dennis - I rant, therefore I am 827M
  • Rosenblatt, Roger - Rules for aging 827R

RELIGION

  • Hopkins, Keith - A world full of gods 270.1H
  • Kaufman, David - Shul with a pool 296.6K
  • O'Shea, Stephen - The perfect heresy: the revolutionary life and death of the medieval Cathars 274.4O
  • Templeton, Douglas - The new Testament as true fiction 225.6T
  • Zaleski, Carol - The book of heaven 237B

HEALTH & HOME

  • Alterra, Aaron - The caregiver: a life with Alzheimer's 362.1A
  • Barash, Susan - Second wives: the pitfalls and rewards of marrying widowers and divorced men 301.4B
  • Browne, Sylvia - Life on the other side: a psychic's tour of the afterlife 133.9B
  • Lear, Jonathan - Happiness, death, & the remainder of life 150L
  • Sapolsky, Robert - Why zebras don't get ulcers (1998) 616S

DOGS

  • Budiansky, Stephen - The truth about dogs 636.7B
  • Weisbord, Merrily - Dogs with jobs 636.7W

MUSEUMS

  • Baetjer, Katharine - Only the best: masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon 709.46O
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery: complete illustrated catalogue 708.2D

TRAVEL

  • Akbanov, Valerian - In the land of white death: an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic 919.8A
  • Roy, James - The vanished kingdom: travels through the history of Prussia 943.1R
  • Wilkinson, John - Jerusalem pilgrimage, 1099-1185 (1988) 915.69J

LARGE PRINT

  • Evanovich, Janet - Hot six F E
  • Hoffman, Alice - The river king F H
  • Ondaatje, Michael - Anil's ghost F O

AUDIO BOOKS

  • Dickens, Charles - Barnaby Rudge (19 tapes) #1011
  • Grisham, John - The brethren (7 tapes) #1010
  • Huxley, Elspeth - The flame trees of Thika (8 tapes) #1015
  • Leon, Donna - Death and judgement (6 tapes) #999
  • O'Brien, Edna - Wild Decembers (4 tapes) #1007
  • Tosltoy, Leo - The Kreutzer sonata and, Family happiness (8 tapes) #1014
  • Twain, Mark - Life on the Mississippi (8 tapes) #1016


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