New York Society Library

JANUARY 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Adler, Laure - Marguerite Duras
  • Arendt, Hannah - Within four walls: the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968
  • Asprey, Robert - The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Bessie, Dan - Rare birds: an American family
  • Blair, Gwenda - The Trumps: three generations that built an empire
  • Cooper, William - Jefferson Davis, American
  • Crawford, Alan - Unwise passions: a true story of a remarkable woman, and the first great scandal of eighteenth century American (Anne Cary Randolph Morris)
  • Devorkin, David - Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American astronomers
  • Dickerson, Debra - An American story
  • Donald, David H. - Lincoln at home
  • Fellman, Michael - The making of Robert E. Lee
  • Gaddis, Eugene - Magician of the modern: Chuck Austin and the transformation of the arts in America
  • Grayling, A.C. - The quarrel of the age: the life and times of William Hazlitt
  • Harvey, Robert - Cochrane: the life and exploits of a fighting captain
  • Hickam, Homer H. - The Coalwood way
  • Ivry, Benjamin - Maurice Ravel
  • Jephson, P.D. - Shadows of a princess: Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Lauck, Jennifer - Blackbird: a childhood lost and found
  • Martin, Peter - A life of James Boswell
  • McCormack, Jerusha - The man who was Dorian Gray
  • Modjeska, Drusilla - Stravinsky's lunch
  • Moorhead, Caroline - Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia
  • Moravia, Alberto - Life of Moravia
  • Nuland, Sherwin B. - Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sage, Lorna - Bad blood
  • Southworth, John - Shakespeare, the player
  • Starkey, David - Elizabeth: the struggle for the throne
  • Sugarman, Tracy - My war: a love story in letters & drawings
  • Suri, Manil - The death of Vishnu
  • Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and loathing in America: the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, 1968-1976
  • Treglown, Jeremy - Romancing: life and work of Henry Green
  • Viroli, Maurizio - Niccolo's smile (Machiavelli)
  • Wilde, Oscar - The complete letters of Oscar Wilde
  • Williams, Tennessee - Selected letters, 1920-1945
  • Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth - Queen Salote of Tonga
  • Worster, Donald - A river running west (John Wesley Powell)

FICTION

  • Bogosian, Eric - Mall
  • Boyd, Bill - For love and glory: a novel of World War 2
  • Carey, Lisa - In the country of the young
  • Ciresi, Rita - Sometimes I dream in Italian
  • Fleming, Thomas J. - Dreams of glory
  • Fuentes, Carlos - The years with Laura Diaz
  • Gao Xingjian - Soul mountain
  • Handke, Peter - On a dark silent night I left my house
  • Harvey, Caroline (Joanna Trollope) - Legacy of love
  • Howard, Linda - Sarah's child
  • Jones, Tristan - Dutch treat
  • Lansdale, Joe - The big blow
  • Maillard, Keith - Gloria
  • McMurtry, Larry - Boone's Lick
  • Mosley, Nicholas - Serpent
  • Nadas, Peter - Love
  • Patterson, Richard North - Protect and defend
  • Powell, Padgett - Mrs. Hollingsworth's men
  • Prieto, Jose Manuel - Nocturnal butterflies of the Russian Empire
  • Rice, Ben - Pobby and Dingan
  • Robards, Karen - Paradise country
  • Spark, Muriel - Aiding and abetting
  • Walsh, Jill Paton - A desert in Bohemia
  • Winckler, Martin - The case of Dr. Sachs
  • Woodruff, Nancy - Someone else's child

MYSTERY

  • Adler, Elizabeth - In a heartbeat
  • Albert, Susan Wittig - Mistletoe man
  • Bartholomew, Nancy - Film strip
  • Carson, Paul - The final cut
  • Child, Lee - The visitor
  • Cooper, Natasha - Prey to all*
  • Cross, Amanda - Honest doubt
  • D'Amato, Barbara - Authorized personnel only
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - Speaking in tongues
  • Eccles, Marjorie - The superindendent's daughter*
  • Ellis, Kate - The funeral boat*
  • Flynn, Vince - The third option
  • Follett, Ken - Code to zero
  • Freeling, Nicolas - Some day tomorrow
  • Gorman, Ed - Will you still love me tomorrow?
  • Kaminsky, Stuart - The big silence
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Dr. Death
  • Le Carre, John - The constant gardener*
  • Mina, Denise - Exile*
  • Wilson, Barbara - The case of the orphaned bassoonists
* indicates a British mystery

NEW TO US

Classic mysteries you might have missed first time around
  • Chambers, Peter - Lady, this is murder F/C
  • Chambers, Peter - The blonde wore black F/C
  • Crawford, Robert - The shroud society F/C
  • Fraser, Anthea - Home through the dark F/F
  • Hunter, Alan - Gently where the roads go F/H
  • Moffatt, Gwen - Deviant death F/M
  • Ormerod, Roger - Full fury F/O

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bender, Bert - Sea-brothers: the tradition of American sea fiction from Moby-Dick to the present (1990) 823B
  • Donoghue, Denis - Words alone: the poet T.S. Eliot 821.09E
  • Grealy, Lucy - As seen on TV: provocations 828.08G
  • Hawkins-Dady, Mark - Reader's guide to literature in English (1996) 820.3R Oversize
  • Humble, Malcolm - Introduction to German literature, 1871-1990 (1994) 830.9H
  • Huxley, Aldous - The hidden Huxley (broadcasts) (1995) 824H
  • Leech, Clifford - The dramatist's experience, with other essays in literary theory (1970) 822.09L
  • Mabille, Pierre - Mirror of the marvelous: the classic surrealist work on myth (1998) 840.9M
  • Rosenthal, Peggy - The poets' Jesus: representations at the end of a millennium 809.1R
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis - More stories from my father's court (essays) 839.09S

BIOGRAPHY

  • Aldis, Janet - The queen of letter writers: Marquise de Sevigne, Dame de Bourbilly, 1626-1696 (1907) 92 S5114A
  • Berners, Lord - The Chateau de Resenlieu 92 B5257B
  • Marcus, Leah - Elizabeth I: collected works 92 E436E
  • Sanders, Ed - The poetry and life of Allen Ginsberg 92 G4935S
  • Santayana, George - The letters of George Santayana (1955) 92 S2337S
  • Swift, Jonathan - The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: v. 1, Letters 1690-1714 92 S977 S
  • Volkogonov, Dmitri - Autopsy for an empire: the seven leaders who built the Soviet regime (1998) 920 V921A

POETRY

  • Crane, Hart - Complete poems of Hart Crane 821C
  • Kinnell, Galway - A new selected poems 821K
  • Tsvetaeva, Marina - The ratcatcher: a lyrical satire 891.71T
  • Venclova, Tomas - Winter dialogue: poems 891V

POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

  • Berg, Stephen - The body electric: America's best poetry from the American Poetry Review 821.08B
  • Flores, Angel - An anthology of French poetry from Nerval to Valery in English translation (1958) 841.08A
  • McClatchy, J.D. - On wings of song: poems about birds 821.08O

MUSIC

  • Cohodas, Nadine - Spinning blues into gold: the Chess brothers and the legendary Chess Records 920 C525C
  • Kahn, Ashley - Kind of blue 780.973K

DRAMA

  • Jarry, Alfred - The Ubu plays (1969) 842J
  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer - Money 822L
  • Stoppard, Tom - Tom Stoppard: plays 822S

ARTS

  • Bishop, Peter - An archetypal Constable: national identity and the geography of nostalgia (1995) 759.2C
  • Carpenter, Rhys - Greek sculpture: a critical review (1960) 733C
  • Cole, Bruce - Titian and Venetian painting, 1450-1590 759.5T
  • Finaldi, Gabriele - The image of Christ 755F
  • Karageorghis, Vassos - Ancient art from Cyprus: the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 709.39M
  • Marin, Louis - Sublime Poussin 759.4P
  • McGann, Jerome - Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the game that must be lost 759.2R
  • Sweetman, David - Explosive acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Felix Feneon and the art & anarchy of the fin de siecle 759.4T

ARCHITECTURE

  • Howard, Deborah - Venice & the East: the impact of the Islamic world on Venetian architecture, 1100-1500 720.945H
  • Ueda, Atsushi - Inner harmony of the Japanese house 720.952U
  • Zevi, Bruno - Architecture as space: how to look at architecture (1993) 720Z

FASHION

  • Mulvey, Kate - Decades of beauty 646.7M Oversize
  • Ocampo, Brooke de - Bright young things 746.92O

TRAVEL

  • Brookes, Tim - A hell of a place to lose a cow: an American hitchhiking odyssey 917.3B
  • Ghose, Indira - Women travellers in colonial India: the power of the female gaze 915.4G
  • Kenner, Hugh - The elsewhere community 909.8K
  • Maggio, Theresa - Mattanza: love and death in the Sea of Sicily 699.1M
  • Warwick, Ronald - QE2 387W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Gilbert, Cass - Inventing the skyline 720.92G
  • Silver, Nathan - Lost New York 720.973S Closed Stack
  • Swett, Benjamin - Great trees of New York City 582S

HISTORY

  • Bolingbroke, Henry St. John - Historical writings (1972) 942B
  • Epstein, Alan - As the Romans do: the delights, dramas, and daily diversions of life in the eternal city 914.56E
  • Gallop, Rodney - A book of the Basques 946G
  • Gorodetsky, Gabriel - Grand delusion: Stalin and the German invasion of Russia 940.5347G
  • Greenstein, Fred - The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Clinton 353.03G
  • Lewis, Earl - To make our world anew: a history of African Americans 973T
  • Schwartz, Stephen - From west to east: California and the making of the American mind 979.4S
  • Shaw, Ronald - Canals for a nation: the canal era in the United States, 1790-1860 (1990) 386S
  • Shermer, Michael - Denying history: who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it? 940.5315S
  • Smith, Kristen - The lines are drawn: political cartoons of the Civil War 973.7L
  • Tracy, James - Europe's reformations, 1450-1650 270.6T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Clift, Eleanor - Madam President: shattering the last glass ceiling 305.4C
  • Doerr, Paul - British foreign policy, 1919-1939 327.42D
  • Lewis, Charles - The buying of the president 2000 329L
  • Wilson, Keith - British foreign secretaries and foreign policy: from the Crimean War to First World War (1978) 327.42B

LAW

  • Levy, Leonard - Original intent and the framers' Constitution (1988) 342.73L
  • Levy, Leonard - Origins of the Bill of Rights 342.73L

ECONOMICS

  • Angell, Ian - The new barbarian manifesto: how to survive the information age 303.4A
  • Freeland, Chrystia - Sale of the century: Russia's wild ride from communism to capitalism 330.1F
  • Harrison, Lawrence - Underdevelopment is a state of mind: the Latin American case 330.98H
  • MacArthur, John - The selling of "free trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the subversion of American democracy 382M
  • Ries, Philippe - Asian storm: the economic crisis 338.5R
  • Stowell, David - Streets, railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 331.89S
  • Twitchell, James - 20 ads that shook the world 659.1T

COMPUTERS

  • Henderson, Bill - Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: pulling the plug on the electronic revolution (1996) 820.8M
  • Sikes, Alfred - Fast forward: America's leading experts reveal how the internet is changing your life 301.2F

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Archer-Shaw, Petrine - Negrophilia: avant-garde Paris and black culture in the 1920s 305.8A
  • Bay, Mia - The white image in the black mind: African-American ideas about white people, 1830-1925 325.26B
  • Bronfenbrenner, Urie - The state of Americans: this generation and the next (1996) 309.1S
  • Emsley, Clive - Crime and society in England, 1750-1900 (1996) 364E
  • Entman, Robert - The black image in the white mind: media and race in America 305.8E
  • Fone, Byrne - Homophobia: a history 306.7F
  • Franklin, John - Runaway slaves: rebels on the plantation 326F
  • Herman, A.L. - Community, violence, and peace: Aldo Leopold, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gautama the Buddha in the twenty-first century 309H
  • Larmour, David - Rethinking sexuality: Foucault and classical antiquity 301.4R
  • Marcus, George - Anthropology as cultural critique 301.2M
  • Rosenberg, Roberta - Jews in America 305.8J

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Druett, Joan - She captains: heroines and hellions of the sea 920 D794S
  • Fernea, Elizabeth - In search of Islamic feminism 305.4F
  • Fishman, Sylvia - A breath of life: feminism in the American Jewish community (1995) 305.4F

LANGUAGE

  • Jakobson, Roman - The framework of language (1980) 401J
  • Speake, Jennifer - Oxford dictionary of foreign words and phrases (1997) 423O

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Amico, Eleanor - Reader's guide to women's studies 016.396R
  • Parish, Peter - Reader's guide to American history 016.973R

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Edelman, Gerald - A universe of consciousness: how matter becomes imagination 153.7E
  • Eliot, Lise - What's going on in there?: how the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life 612.8E
  • Gopnik, Alison - How babies think: science of childhood 153G

RELIGION

  • Armstrong, Karen - Islam: a short history 297A
  • Duffy, Eamon - Saints & sinners: history of popes (1997) 262.13D
  • Griffith-Jones, Robin - The four witnesses: the rebel, the rabbi, the chronicler, and the mystic 226G
  • Ruether, Rosemary - Christianity and the making of the modern family 261.8R
  • Weil, Simone - Intimations of Christianity among the ancient Greeks (1987) 182W

SCIENCE

  • Aczel, Amir - The mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infinity 510A
  • Close, Frank - Lucifer's legacy: meaning of asymmetry 530.1C
  • Ehrlich, Paul - Human natures: genes, cultures, and the human prospect 573E
  • Fuller, Steve - Thomas Kuhn: a philosophical history for our times 501F
  • Karlen, Arno - Biography of a germ 589.95K
  • Wills, Christopher - The spark of life: Darwin and the primeval soup 576W

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Tyson, Peter - The eighth continent: life, death, and discovery in the lost world of Madagascar 574T
  • Weinberg, Samantha - A fish caught in time: the search for the coelacanth 597W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Cohen, Stanley - Escape attempts: the theory and practice of resistance to everyday life (1992) 155.2C
  • Farrell, Chris - Right on the money: taking control of your personal finances 332F
  • Greaves, Mel - Cancer: the evolutionary legacy 616.9G
  • Lyons, Charlotte - Mothers and daughters at home 745.5L

COOKERY

  • Sheraton, Mimi - The bialy eaters 641.5S
  • Spang, Rebecca - Invention of the restaurant 647.9S
  • Thorne, John - Pot on the fire 641.5T

HUMOR

  • Henry, Judith - Overheard at the museum 708H
  • Knott, Bill - Laugh at the end of the world: collected comic
  • poems, 1969-1999 821.08K

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Palmer, Donald - Structuralism and poststructuralism for beginners (1997) 149P
  • Waugh, Alexander - Time: its origin, its enigma, its history 115W

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