New York Society Library

MAY 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bach, Steven - Dazzler (Moss Hart)
  • Curcio, Vincent - Chrysler: life & times of an automotive genius
  • Greenspan, Ezra - George Palmer Putnam
  • Jacobs, Diane - Her own woman: the life of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Miller, Arthur I. - Einstein, Picasso: space, time and the beauty that causes havoc
  • Nguyen, Kien - The unwanted
  • Radziwill, Lee - Happy times
  • Ryding, Erik - Bruno Walter: a world elsewhere
  • Scott, Virginia - Moliere: a theatrical life
  • Smith, Jean Edward - Grant
  • Strozier, Charles - Heinz Kohut: the making of a psychoanalyst
  • Su Xiaokang - A memoir of misfortune
  • Underwood, Thomas - Allen Tate: orphan of the south
  • Weintraub, Stanley - Edward the caresser: the playboy prince who became Edward VII
  • Williams, Charles - Adenauer: the father of the new Germany
  • Woolley, Benjamin - The bride of science: romance, reason, and Byron's daughter (Ada Lovelace)
  • Woolley, Benjamin - The queen's conjurer (John Dee)

FICTION

  • Alderson, T.A. - Subversion
  • Boylan, Clare - Beloved stranger
  • Brink, Andre - The rights of desire
  • Brookner, Anita - Bay of angels
  • Brownrigg, Olivia - Pages for you
  • Cameron, Stella - Finding Ian
  • Chavez, Denise - Loving Pedro Infante
  • Duffy, James - Dog bites man
  • Erdrich, Louise - The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse
  • Glickfeld, Carole - Swimming toward the ocean
  • Huth, Angela - Easy silence
  • Kadish, Rachel - From a sealed room
  • Karon, Jan - A common life
  • Kelman, Judith - Summer of storms
  • Keneally, Thomas - Bettany's book
  • McCaffrey, Anne - The skies of Pern
  • Mediav, Eide - The far field: a novel of Ceylon
  • Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik sweetheart
  • Piers, Anthony - Dooon mode
  • Plain, Belva - Looking back
  • Quick, Amanda - Slightly shady
  • Richler, Emma - Sister crazy
  • Robbins, Harold - Never leave me
  • Schoemperlen, Diane - Our lady of the lost and found
  • Steel, Danielle - The lone eagle
  • Theroux, Paul - Hotel Honolulu
  • Tyree, Omar - For the love of money
  • Walbert, Kate - The gardens of Kyoto

SHORT STORY

  • Roorbach, Bill - Big Bend
  • MacLeod, Alistair - Island: the complete stories
  • Griffith, Nicola - Bending the landscape
  • Ebershoff, David - The rose city

MYSTERY

  • Aird, Catherine - Little knell*
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - The street where you live
  • Davidson, Diane Mott - Sticks and scones
  • Devane, Terry - Uncommon justice
  • Dunn, Carola - To Davy Jones below*
  • Ellis, David - Line of vision
  • Gruenfeld, Lee - The street
  • Haddam, Jane - True believers
  • Hall, Patricia - Dead on arrival*
  • Harper, Karen - Twylight tower*
  • Hart, Carolyn - Resort to murder
  • Jacobson, Alan - The hunted
  • James, P.D. - Death in holy orders*
  • Kreuger, William - Purgatory ridge
  • Land, Jon - Keepers of the gate
  • Lescroart, John - The hearing
  • Linscott, Gillian - A perfect daughter*
  • Lovesey, Peter - The reaper*
  • Lovett, Sarah - Dante's inferno
  • Maron, Margaret - Uncommon clay
  • Mathes, Charles - The girl in the face of the clock
  • Maxim, John - Whistler's angel
  • McInerny, Ralph - Triple pursuit
  • Mills, Kyle - The burn factor
  • Nance, John - Headwind
  • Page, Katherine - The body in the moonlight
  • Parker, T. Jefferson - Silent Joe
  • Peale, Cynthia - Murder at Bertram's bower
  • Reuland, Rob - Hollowpoint
  • Rowland, Laura Joh - Black Lotus
  • Santangelo, Elena - Hang my head and cry
  • Singerman, Philip - Proof positive
  • Smith, Rosamond (Joyce Carol Oates) - The barrens
  • Stone, Jonathan - The heat of lies
  • Thurbo, Aimee & David - Red mesa
  • Wadley, Margot - Gripping the beast*
  • Westlake, Donald - Bad news
  • White, Stephen - The program
  • Woods, Stuart - Cold paradise
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Arendt, Hannah - Rahel Varnhagen (1997) 92 V319A
  • Brysac, Shareen Blair - Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra 92 H289B
  • Conrad, Christine - Jerome Robbins 92 R632C
  • Cowper, William - The centenery letters 92 C876C
  • Duc de Saint Simon - Memoirs: a shortened version 2 vols. 92 S1526S
  • Ishikawa, Takuboku - Romaji diary and, Sad toys 92 I7973I
  • Mabee, Carleton - Sojourner Truth (1995) 92 T8745M
  • Malouf, David - 12 Edmonstone Street 92 M2583M
  • Meyers, Jeffrey - Privileged moments: encounters with writers 910 M597P
  • Moote, A. Lloyd - Louis XIII, the Just (1991) 92 L8879M
  • Navarro, Ramon Gil - The gold rush diary of Ramon Gil Navarro 92 N279N
  • Normand, Jean - Nathaniel Hawthorne: an approach to an analysis of artistic creation (1970) 92 H3993N
  • Sanders, Margaret - Intimate letters of England's Kings (1959) 920 I616I
  • Sanders, Margaret - Intimate letters of England's Queens (1957) 920 I616I
  • Turner, James - The liberal education of Charles Eliot Norton 92 N8832T
  • Zachary, G. Pascal - Endless frontier: Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American century (1997) 92 B9786Z

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bernstein, Michael Andre - Five portraits: modernity and the imagination in twentieth-century German writing 830.9B
  • Champion, Laurie - American women writers, 1900-1945: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook 820.9A
  • Gillespie, David - The twentieth-century Russian novel (1996) 891.73G
  • Lukacs, Georg - The meaning of contemporary realism (1963) 809.3L
  • Milosz, Czeslaw - Milosz's ABCs 891.85M
  • Said, Edward - Reflections on exile and other essays 804S
  • Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen - The Cambridge history of German literature 830.9C

ART

  • Albus, Anita - The art of arts: rediscovering painting 750.1A
  • Barratt, Carrie R. - Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Sept. - Dec. 2000) 759.1B
  • Herzog, Melanie - Elizabeth Catlett: an American artist in Mexico 730.92C
  • Munson, Lynne - Exhibitionism: art in an era of intolerance 709.73M
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth - The art of the Pre-Raphaelites 759.2P
  • Reiss, Julie - From margin to center: the spaces of installation art 709.04R
  • Wheeler, Mortimer - Roman art and architecture (1964) 709.37W

ARCHITECTURE

  • Larson, Kent - Louis I. Kahn: unbuilt masterworks 720.92K
  • Wilkinson, Richard - The complete temples of ancient Egypt 299.31W

MUSIC

  • Boyd, Malcolm - J.S. Bach 780.3J
  • Branscombe, Peter - W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflote 782.1B
  • Crawford, Richard - America's musical life 780.973C
  • Kimbell, David - Italian opera (1994) 782.1K
  • Kirchner, Bill - The Oxford companion to jazz 781.5O
  • Warrack, John - Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1994) 782.2W

POETRY

  • Abraham, Mrs. Ashley P. - Poems of Lakeland (1934) 821.08A
  • Carson, Anne - The beauty of the husband: a fictional essay in 29 tangos 821C
  • Phillips, Rodney - The hand of the poet: poems and papers in manuscript: the New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (1997) 821.08B
  • Wright, Franz - The beforelife 821W

CAROONISTS & ILLUSTRATORS

  • Teller - When I'm dead, all this will be yours: Joe Teller: a portrait 92 T276T
  • Theroux, Alexander - The strange case of Edward Gorey 741.5G
  • Wolfe, Maynard - Rube Goldberg: inventions 741.5G

HISTORY

  • Benvenisti, Meron - Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 956.9B
  • Biel, Steven - Independent intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 973B
  • Gould, Eliga - The persistence of empire: British political culture in the age of the American Revolution 942.07G
  • Haywood, John - Encyclopaedia of the Viking age 948H
  • Jansen, Marius - The making of modern Japan 952J
  • Klein, Kerwin - Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 978K
  • McGowan, Margaret - The vision of Rome in late Renaissance France 944.02M
  • Quinn, Frederick - The French overseas empire 944Q
  • Spence, Jonathan - Treason by the book (Yung-Cheng, Emperor of China) 951S
  • Watson, Peter - A terrible beauty: a history of the people and ideas that shaped the modern mind 909.82W
  • Zamoyski, Adam - Holy madness: romantics, patriots, and revolutionaries, 1776-1871 940.27Z

ECONOMICS

  • Bates, Robert - Prosperity and violence: the political economy of development 330.9B
  • Finley, M.I. - The ancient economy 330.93F
  • Roddick, Anita - Business as unusual (Body Shop) 658R

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Burton, Richard Francis - Love, war and fancy: the customs and manners of the East, from writings on the Arabian nights (1964) 398B
  • Denton, Sally - The money and the power: the rise and reign of Las Vegas and its grip on America 979.3D
  • Dudman, Martha - Augusta, gone (runaway teenagers) 306.8D
  • Epstein, Samuel - The politics of cancer revisited (1998) 616.9E
  • Giddens, Anthony - Runaway world: how globalization is reshaping our lives 306G
  • Kumar, Amitava - Passport photos (East Indian Americans) 305.8K
  • Michael, Aloysius - American virtues and cultural values from the 1820s to 1990s 306M

CIVIL RIGHTS

  • McWhorter, Diane - Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama: the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution 976.1M
  • Meacham, Jon - Voices in our blood: America's best on the civil rights movement 323.4V
  • Patterson, James T. - Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy 344P

GENDER STUDIES

  • Downer, Lesley - Geisha: the secret history of a vanishing world 305.4D
  • Holland, Barbara - They went whistling: women wayfarers, warriors, runaways, and renegades 920 H65T
  • Newton, Esther - Margaret Mead made me gay: personal essays, public ideas 306.7N
  • Yalom, Marilyn - A history of the wife 306.8Y

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Boraine, Alex - A country unmasked: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission 968B
  • Krog, Antjie - Country of my skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa 968K
  • Miles, Sarah - How to hack a party line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley 329M
  • Murchland, Bernard - Voices of democracy: conversations with Benjamin Barber 321.8M
  • Osborn, William - The wild frontier: atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee 970.5O

ESPIONAGE

  • Butler, William - Secret messages: concealment, codes, and other types of ingenious communication 652B
  • Romerstein, Herbert - The Venona secrets: exposing Soviet espionage and America's traitors 940.54R

SCIENCE

  • Cooke, Robert - Dr. Folkman's war: angiogenesis and the struggle to defeat cancer 616.9C
  • Linenger, Jerry - Off the planet: surviving five perilous months aboard the space station Mir 629.4L
  • Schrodinger, Erwin - What is life?: the physical aspect of the living cell; with, Mind and matter; also with Autobiographical sketches (1992) 574S
  • Secord, James - Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation 575S
  • Swisher, Carl - Java man 569S
  • Van Driesche, Jason - Nature out of place: biological invasions in the global age 575.3V

SPORTS

  • Fainaru, Steve - The Duke of Havana: baseball, communism, and the search for the American dream 796.3F
  • Feinstein, John - The last amateurs: playing for glory and honor in Division 1 college basketball 796.3F
  • Hillenbrand, Laura - Seabiscuit: an American legend 798H

HEALTH & HOME

  • Cameron, Sharon - Beautiful work: a meditation on pain 291.4C
  • Dominquez, Joseph - Your money or your life: transforming your relationship with money and achieving financial independence 332D
  • Park, Clara - Exiting nirvana: a daughter's life with autism 616.8P

PHILOSOPHY

  • Annas, Julia - Hellenistic philosophy of mind (1992) 182A
  • Blackburn, Simon - Think: a compelling introduction to philosophy 100B
  • Gottlieb, Anthony - The dream of reason: a history of western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance 180G
  • Montag, Warren - The new Spinoza (1997) 199N
  • Wallis, R.T. - Neoplatonism (1995) 186W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Chamberlain, Lesley - The secret artist: a close reading of Sigmund Freud 150C
  • Gottesman, Irving - Schizophrenia genesis: the origins of madness (1991) 616.8G
  • Oppenheimer, Paul - Infinite desire: a guide to modern guilt 155.2O
  • Provine, Robert - Laughter: a scientific investigation 157P
  • Stepansky, Paul - In Freud's shadow: Adler in context (1983) 131.34S

RELIGION

  • Buber, Martin - Hasidism (1948) 296.6B
  • Chester, Laura - Holy personal: looking for small private places of worship 291C
  • De Lange, Nicholas - An introduction to Judaism 296D
  • Monahan, Molly - Seeds of grace: a nun reflects on the spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous 261.8M
  • Runciman, Steven - The medieval Manichee: a study of the Christian dualist heresy (1982) 270.1R
  • Ward, Keith - Religion and community 290W

TRAVEL

  • Bultman, Bethany - Gulf South (Compass American Guide) 917.6B
  • Elliot, Jason - An unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan 915.8E
  • Liefermann, Henry - South Carolina (Compass American Guide) 917.57L
  • Miller, Tom - Jack Ruby's kitchen sink: offbeat travels through America's Southwest 917.9M
  • Obregon, Mauricio - Beyond the edge of the sea: sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings and other explorers of the ancient world 910.9O
  • Turnage, Sheila - North Carolina (Compass American Guide) 917.56T
  • Williams, Glyndwr - The great South Sea: English voyages and encounters, 1570-1750 (1997) 990W

CITIES

  • Calthorpe, Peter - The regional city: planning for the end of sprawl 307.76C
  • Cox, Jane - London's East End: life and traditions 942.1C
  • Lowe, David - Lost Chicago 720.973L
  • Lowe, John - Old Kyoto: a short social history 952L
  • Maccubbin, Robert - Williamsburg, Virginia: a city before the state, 1699-1999 975.5W Oversize

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dunlap, David - Glory in Gotham: Manhattan's houses of worship 291D
  • Henkin, David - City reading: written words and public spaces in antebellum New York (1998) 974.71H
  • Miller, Benjamin - Fat of the land: garbage in New York: the last two hundred years 363.7M
  • Moreno, Barry - The Statue of Liberty encyclopedia 974.71M
  • Walker, George - The Afro-American in New York City, 1827-1860 (1993) 974.71W

BOOKS ON TAPE & CD

  • Galsworthy, John - The man of property AC 1056
  • Grisham, John - A painted house AC 1063
  • Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese falcon CD H225M2
  • Hibbert, Christopher - The great mutiny - India 1857 AC 1062
  • Shaw, Bernard - Pygmalion CD S534P9
  • Updike, John - Licks of love CD U665L5


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