New York Society Library

MARCH 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ball, John - Fame at last: who was who according to the New York Times obituaries
  • Bliss, Edward, Jr. - Beyond the stone arches: an American missionary doctor in China, 1892-1932
  • Burk, Kathleen - Troublemaker: the life and history of A.J.P. Taylor
  • Chalfant, Edward - Improvement of the world: a biography of Henry Adams: his last life, 1891-1918
  • Christopher, Warren - Chances of a lifetime
  • Coates, Irene - Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf?: a case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf
  • Coote, Stephen - Samuel Pepys
  • Davies, Robertson - For your eye alone (letters)
  • Henderson, Nicholas - Old friends and modern instances
  • Hughes, Langston - Remember me to Harlem: the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
  • Kennedy, Joseph P. - Hostage to fortune (letters)
  • Lurie, Alison - Familiar spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
  • MacLeish, William - Uphill with Archie: a son's journey
  • Madsen, Axel - John Jacob Astor
  • Mezlekia, Nega - Notes from the hyena's belly
  • Nielsen, Jerri - Ice bound: a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole
  • Seymour, Miranda - Mary Shelley
  • Shipman, Pat - The man who found the missing link: Eugene Dubois and his lifelong quest to prove Darwin right
  • Warner, Sylvia Townsend - The element of lavishness: letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938-1978
  • Weintraub, Stanley - The importance of being Edward: King in waiting, 1841-1901
  • Wilson, Christopher - Dancing with the devil: the Windsors and Jimmy Donahue
  • Worthen, John - The gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802

FICTION

  • Adrian, Chris - Gob's grief
  • Ali, Tariq - Stone woman
  • Ballard, J.G. - Super-Cannes
  • Barker, Pat - Border crossing
  • Bennett, Alan - The clothes they stood up in
  • Bissell, Sallie - In the forest of harm
  • Brenner, Leslie - Greetings from the Garden State
  • Carroll, Jonathan - The wooden sea
  • Colegate, Isabel - Winter journey
  • Cookson, Catherine - Kate Hannigan's girl
  • DeLillo, Don - The body artist
  • Delinsky, Barbara - Commitments
  • Drabble, Margaret - The peppered moth
  • Dunmore, Helen - A spell of winter
  • Echenoz, Jean - I'm gone
  • Fielding, Helen - Cause celeb
  • Flynn, Raymond - Accidental pope
  • Ghosh, Amitav - The glass palace
  • Golding, Paul - The abomination
  • Grant, Linda - When I lived in modern times
  • Grimes, Martha - Cold flat junction
  • Grisham , John - The painted house
  • Hearon, Shelby - Ella in bloom
  • Hynes, James - The lecturer's tale
  • Koontz, Dean - From the corner of his eye
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Beautiful dreamer
  • Lupica, Mike - Bump and run
  • McMillan, Terry - A day late and a dollar short
  • Mosley, Nicholas - The Hesperides tree
  • O'Faolain, Nuala - My dream of you
  • O'Farrell, Maggie - After you'd gone
  • Payne, Peggy - Sister India
  • Rice, Christopher - A diversity of souls
  • Rice, Luanne - Dream country
  • Tan, Amy - The bonesetter's daughter
  • Wilhelm, Kate - The deepest water

MYSTERY

  • Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Maurentania*
  • Andrews, Robert - A murder of honor
  • Barr, Nevada - Blood lure
  • Bowen, Rhys - Evan can wait*
  • Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Gangster
  • Carlon, Patricia - Hush, it's a game
  • Cockey, Tim - Hearse of a different color
  • Curzon, Claire - Colour of blood*
  • Darden, Christopher - L.A. justice
  • Deutermann, P.T. - Hunting season
  • Doss, James D. - Grandmother spider
  • Fluke, Joanne - Strawberrry shortcake murder
  • Frey, Stephen - Trust fund
  • Goddard, Ken - Outer perimeter
  • Hamilton, Julia - Other people's rules*
  • Heffernan, William - Beulah Hill
  • Higgins, Jack - The edge of danger
  • Holmes, Guy - P.E.A.C.E.
  • Jance, J.A. - Birds of prey
  • Jardine, Quintin - Thursday legends*
  • Lamar, Jake - If 6 were 9
  • Langton, Jane - Murder at Monticello
  • Lehane, Dennis - Mystic river
  • Mann, Jessica - A private inquiry*
  • Manuel, David - A matter of diamonds
  • Mathews, Francine - Cutout
  • Moynihan, Danny - Boogie-woogie
  • Nasaw, Jonathan - The girls he adored
  • Pelecanos, George - Right as rain
  • Perry, Anne - Whitechapel conspiracy*
  • Russell, Jay - Greed & stuff
  • Spring, Michelle - The midnight hour*
  • Standiford, Les - Deal with the dead
  • Walter, Jess - Over tumbled graves
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Berger, John - I send you this cadmium red: a correspondence between John Berger and John Christie 920 B497I
  • Chilton, Bruce - Rabbi Jesus: an intimate biography 232.9C
  • Keno, Leigh - Hidden treasures: searching for masterpieces of American furniture 920 K369K
  • Miller, Peter - Peiresc's Europe: learning and virtue in the seventeenth century 92 P3783M
  • Nichols, Roger - Mendelssohn remembered (1997) 780.92M
  • Rekdal, Paisley - The night my mother met Bruce Lee 92 R381R
  • Skidelsky, Robert - John Maynard Keynes, v. 3: fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 92 K446S
  • Terkel, Studs - The spectator: talk about movies andplays with the people who make them 920 T39S
  • Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth - Queen Salote of Tonga 919.6W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Campbell, James - This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris 820.9C
  • Gershman, Herbert - Anthology of critical prefaces to the nineteenth-century French novel (1962) 843G
  • Schlueter, June - An encyclopedia of British women writers (1998) 820.9E
  • Wimsatt, W.K. - Hateful contraries: studies in literature and criticism (1965) 801W
  • Wisse, Ruth - The modern Jewish canon: a journey through language and culture 809.3W

REFERENCE

  • Legasse, Paul - The Columbia encyclopedia, 6th ed. Ref. 030C
  • PDR medical dictionary, 2nd ed. Ref. 610.3P
  • Sadie, Stanley - The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed. LSR 780.3N
  • The Times atlas of the world, 10th ed. LSR 912T

ARTS

  • Aynsley, Jeremy - Graphic design in Germany, 1890-1945 741.7A
  • Birnbaum, Charles - Pioneers of American landscape design 720.92P
  • Brookner, Anita - Romanticism and its discontents 759.4B
  • Garafola, Lynn - The Ballets Russes and its world 792.8B
  • Goldstein, Malcolm - Landscapes with figures: a history of art dealing in the United States 706.9G
  • Steer, John - Venetian painting (1995) 759.5S

ARCHITECTURE

  • Ford, Larry - Cities and buildings: skyscrapers, skid rows, and suburbs (1994) 720.973F
  • King, Ross - Brunelleschi's dome: how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture 726.6K
  • Michell, George - Architecture and art of the Deccan sultanates 709.54M

CITIES

  • Barker, Felix - London: 2000 years of a city and its people (1974) 942.1B Oversize
  • Large, David Clay - Berlin 943.1L
  • Wiser, William - The twilight years: Paris in the 1930's 944.36W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dorman, Joseph - Arguing the world: the New York intellectuals in their own words 974.7A
  • Friedman, Andrea - Purient interests: gender, democracy, and obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945 363.4F
  • Kayden, Jerold - Privately owned public space: the New York City experience 307.76K
  • Patterson, Jerry E. - The first four hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the gilded age 974.71P

FILM

  • Barnouw, Erik - Documentary: a history of the non-fiction film (1993) 791.4B
  • Baxter, John - Hollywood in the thirties (1968) 791.4B
  • Hirschman, Elizabeth - Heroes, monsters & messiahs: movies & television shows as mythology of American culture 791.4H
  • Robinson, David - Hollywood in the twenties (1968) 791.4R

DRAMA

  • Langen, Timothy - Eight twentieth-century Russian plays 891.72E
  • Powell, Dawn - Four plays 822P
  • Reza, Yasmina - The unexpected man (1998) 842R
  • Sandrow, Nahma - God, man, and devil: Yiddish plays in translation 839.09G

SHAKESPEARE

  • Auden, W.H. - Lectures on Shakespeare 822.33C
  • Brode, Douglas - Shakespeare in the movies: from the silent era to Shakespeare in love 822.33L
  • Peterson, Douglas - Time, tide, and tempest: a study of Shakespeare's romances (1973) 822.33C

POETRY

  • Ashbery, John - Your name here 821A
  • Celan, Paul - Glottal stop: 101 poems 831C
  • Halpern, Daniel - Something shining 821H
  • Kinsella, John - Visitants 821K

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Cameron, Julia M. - Victorian photographs of famous men and fair women (1973) 770C Oversize
  • Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders art world 778G
  • Steichen, Edward - Steichen's legacy: photographs, 1895-1973 770S Closed Stack
  • Weissberger, L. Arnold - Famous faces: a photograph album of personal reminiscences (1973) 770W

BOOKS

  • British Library - The British Library souvenir guide (1998) 027B
  • Epstein, Jason - Book business: publishing past, present, and future 070.5E
  • Rothenberg, Jerome - A book of the book: some works and projections about the book and writing 002B

MUSIC

  • Magee, Bryan - Wagner and philosophy 780.92W
  • Martin, Russell - Beethoven's hair 780.92B
  • Mitchell, Mark - Virtuosi: a defense and a (sometimes erotic) celebration of great pianists 786.2M
  • Struble, John - The history of American classical music (1995) 780.973S
  • Ward, Geoffrey C. - Jazz; a history of America's music 780.973W

JOURNALISM

  • Hay, John - Lincoln's journalist: John Hay's anonymous writings for the press, 1860-1864 (1998) 873.7H
  • Thompson, Hunter - Fear and loathing in America: the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, 1968-1976 070.1T

LAW

  • Amsterdam, Anthony - Minding the law 342.73A
  • Irons, Peter - A people's history of the Supreme Court 347.99I
  • Kessler, David - A question of intent: a great American battle with a deadly industry (tobacco) 363.17K
  • Morrison, Alan - Fundamentals of American law (1996) 340F

HISTORY

  • Fears, J. Rufus (ed.) - Selected writings of Lord Acton, v.2-3 (1988) 907A
  • Langguth, A.J. - Our Vietnam: the war, 1954-1975 959L
  • Peres, Shimon - The imaginary voyage: with Theodor Herzl in Israel 956.94P
  • Porter, Roy - The creation of the modern world: the untold story of the British Enlightenment 940.2P
  • Schama, Simon - A history of Britain: at the edge of the world?, 3000 BC - AD 1603 942.05S
  • Segev, Tom - One Palestine, complete: Jews and Arabs under the British mandate 956.94S
  • Sturmer, Michael - The German Empire, 1870-1918 943.08S
  • Ward, Harry - The war for independence and the transformation of American society 973.3W

CIVILIZATION

  • Becker, Jasper - The Chinese 951B
  • Bethell, Leslie - A cultural history of Latin America (1998) 980C
  • Bradley, Bill - The journey from here 973B
  • Hitchens, Peter - The abolition of Britain: from Winston Churchill to Princess Diana 942.082H
  • Munn, Mark - The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates 938M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Castaneda, Jorge - Perpetuating power: how Mexican presidents were chosen 320.9C
  • Cohen, Stephen - Failed crusade: America and the tragedy of post-Communist Russia 327.73C
  • Dunn, John - The cunning of unreason: making sense of politics 320D
  • Hamzah, Khidhir - Saddam's bombmaker: the terrifying inside story of the Iraqi nuclear and biological weapons agenda 355.4H
  • Jennings, Francis - The creation of America: through revolution to empire 973.3J

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

  • Garber, Peter - Famous first bubbles: the fundamentals of early manias 332.6G
  • Mandel, Michael - The coming internet depression 338.5M
  • Soros, George - Open society: reforming global capitalism 332.6S
  • Wheeler, Tom - Leadership lessons from the Civil War: winning strategies for today's managers 303.3W

ETHICS

  • Coles, Robert - Lives of moral leadership 170C
  • D'Souza, Dinesh - The virtue of prosperity: finding values in an age of techno-affluence 174D
  • Glover, Jonathan - Humanity: a moral history of the twentieth century 909.82G

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Ackerman, Peter - A force more powerful: a century of nonviolent conflict 303.6A
  • Fentress, James - Rebels & mafiosi: death in a Sicilian landscape 364.1F
  • Fleischmann, Fritz - Margaret Fuller's cultural critique 828F
  • Glenn, Charles - The ambiguous embrace: government and faith-based schools and social agencies 361G
  • Halter, Marilyn - Shopping for identity: the marketing of ethnicity 305.8H
  • Homer-Dixon, Thomas - The ingenuity gap 303.4H
  • Huppert, George - After the black death: a social history of early modern Europe (1998) 309H
  • Lifton, Robert - Who owns death?: capital punishment, the American conscience, and the end of executions 343.2L
  • Plant, Sadie - Writing on drugs 362.293P
  • Reich, Robert - The future of success 306.3R

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Deloria, Vine - Tribes, treaties, and constitutional tribulations 970.5D
  • Milton, Giles - Big Chief Elizabeth: the adventures and fate of the first English colonists in America 970M
  • Trigger, Bruce - The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas v. 1: North America 970C

RACE

  • Holt, Thomas - The problem of race in the twenty-first century 325.26H
  • Malcomson, Scott - One drop of blood: the American misadventure of race 305.8M
  • Phillips, Caryl - The Atlantic sound (slave trade) 380.14P

RELIGION

  • Boyer, Marie-France - The cult of the Virgin 232.9B
  • Breyer, Chloe - The close: a young woman's first year at seminary 240B
  • Sack, Daniel - Whitebread Protestants: food and religion in American culture 284S
  • Singh, Pashaura - The guru Granth Sahib: canon, meaning and authority 294.5S

SCIENCE

  • Avise, John - The genetic gods: evolution and belief in human affairs (1998) 575.1A
  • Bergreen, Laurence - Voyage to Mars 629.4B
  • Best American science writing 2000 500B
  • Bodanis, David - E=mc˛: a biography of the world's most famous equation 530.1B
  • Davies, Kevin - Cracking the genome 575.1D

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Diamond, Judy - Kea, bird of paradox 598.2D
  • Klyza, Christopher - The story of Vermont 974.3K
  • Rice, A.L. - Voyages of discovery: three centuries of natural history exploration 508R Oversize
  • Schappert, Phil - A world for butterflies 595.78S Oversize

HEALTH & HOME

  • Brazelton, T. Berry - The irreducible needs of children 649B
  • Quindlen, Anna - A short guide to a happy life 170Q
  • Wallerstein, Judith - The unexpected legacy of divorce 306.8W

COOKERY

  • Cooper, Ann - Bitter harvest: a chef's perspective on hidden dangers in foods we eat and what you can do about it 641.3C
  • Kempner, Nan - R.S.V.P.: menus for entertaining from people who really know how 642K
  • Meyer, Nicolle - Paris in a basket: markets, the food and the people 641.5M

TRAVEL

  • Dary, David - The Santa Fe Trail 978D
  • Kaplan, Robert - Eastward to Tartary: travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus 949.6K
  • Keay, John - The great arc: the dramatic tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named 526.9K
  • Neill, Peter - American sea writing 820.8A
  • Saramago, Jose - Journey to Portugal 914.69S


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