New York Society Library

JUNE 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Arana, Marie - American chica
  • Berger, Joseph - Displaced persons: growing up American after the Holocaust
  • Brady, Frank - The publisher: Paul Block, a life of friendship, power, and politics
  • Brown, Virginia - Giovanni Boccaccio: famous women
  • Burton, Humphrey - Yehudi Menuhin
  • Cho, Margaret - I'm the one that I want
  • Croall, Jonathan - Gielgud: a theatrical life
  • De Borchgrave, Alexandra Villard - Villard: the life & times of an American titan
  • Di Prima, Diane - Recollections of my life as a woman: the New York years
  • Gitter, Elizabeth - The imprisoned guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl
  • Hajdu, David - Positively 4th Street: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
  • Kuehn, Manfred - Kant
  • Lawrence, Greg - Dance with the demons (Jerome Robbins)
  • McCullough, David - John Adams
  • Miller, Lucasta - The Bronte myth
  • Norris, Kathleen - The virgin of Bennington
  • Olivier, Fernande - Loving Picasso
  • Oufkir, Malika - Stolen lives: twenty years in a desert jail
  • Robeson, Paul - The undiscovered Paul Robeson
  • Sayre, Nora - On the wing: a young American abroad
  • Server, Lee - Robert Mitchum
  • Walker, Kent - Son of a grifter (Sante and Kenny Kimes)
  • Weir, Alison - Henry VIII: the king and his court
  • Wilson, Robert - Seeing Shelley plain: memories of New York's legendary Phoenix Book Shop.

FICTION

  • Bayard, Louis - Endangered species
  • Berne, Suzanne - A perfect arrangement
  • Brown, Sandra - Seduction by design
  • Bull, Bartle - The devil's oasis
  • Canin, Ethan - Carry me across the water
  • Crumey, Andrew - Mr. Mee
  • Harris, Joanne - Five quarters of the orange
  • Haynes, Melinda - Chalktown
  • Humphreys, Helen - Afterimage
  • Kaplan, Hester - Kinship theory
  • McCrumb, Sharyn - The Songcatcher
  • Ong, Han - Fixer Chao
  • Parker, Robert - Gunman's rhapsody
  • Picoult, Jodi - Salem Falls
  • Pratchett, Terry - Thief of time
  • Roth, Philip - The dying animal
  • Russo, Richard - Empire Falls
  • Smith, Deborah - On Bear Mountain
  • Smith, Wilbur - Warlock: a novel of ancient Egypt
  • Tyler, Anne - Back when we were grownups
  • Wetherell, W.D. - Morning

SHORT STORY

  • Canty, Kevin - Honeymoon and other stories
  • Divakaruni, Chitra - The unknown errors of our lives
  • Yates, Richard - The collected stories of Richard Yates

MYSTERY

  • Breslin, Jimmy - I don't want to go to jail
  • Browne, Marshall - The wooden leg of Inspector Anders
  • Buffa, D.W. - The judgment
  • Case, John - The syndrome
  • Corcoran, Tom - Bone Island mambo
  • Cray, David - Bad lawyer
  • Crombie, Deborah - A finer end*
  • Curzon, Clare - Cold hands*
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - The blue nowhere
  • Ellis, Kate - An unhallowed grave*
  • Ellroy, James - The cold six thousand
  • Forbes, Leslie - Fish, blood, and bone*
  • Ford, G.M. - Fury
  • Fowler, Earlene - Arkansas traveler
  • Fyfield, Frances - Undercurrents*
  • Grafton, Sue - P is for peril
  • Grippando, James - A king's ransom
  • Jeffries, Roderick - The ambiguity of murder*
  • Lardo, Vincent - The Hampton connection
  • Ledwidge, Michael - Bad connection
  • Maloney, Shane - The big ask
  • Mitchell, Kirk - Ancient ones
  • Peters, Elizabeth - Lord of the silent
  • Pineiro, R.J. - Conspiracy.com
  • Rankin, Ian - The falls*
  • Riordan, Rick - The devil went down to Austin
  • Robb, Candace - A trust betrayed*
  • Sandford, John - Chosen prey
  • Seranella, Barbara - Unfinished business
  • Smith, Julie - Louisiana hotshot
  • Stabenow, Dana - The singing of the dead
  • White, Randy Wayne - Shark River
  • Wilson, Robert - The company of strangers
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bachardy, Don - Stars in my eyes 920 B1189S
  • Caldwell, Daniel - The esoteric world of Madame Blavatsky: insights into the world of a modern sphinx 92 B6454O
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The selected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1997) 92 E536E
  • Farrell, Eileen - Can't help singing: the life of Eileen Farrell (1999) 780.92F
  • Feynman, Richard - No ordinary genius: the illustrated Richard Feynman (1995) 92 F4355F
  • Levi, Primo - The voice of memory: interviews, 1961-1987 92 L664L
  • MacCulloch, Diarmaid - The boy king: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation 942.05M
  • Neuberger, Roy - From Central Park to Sinai: how I found my Jewish soul 92 N4786N
  • Orlean, Susan - The bullfighter checks her makeup: my encounter with extraordinary people 920 O714B
  • Ward, Geoffrey - Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999) 920 W2584N

BELLES LETTRES

  • Blanchot, Maurice - The Station Hill reader: fiction & literary essays (1999) 843B
  • Byatt, A.S. - On histories and stories: selected essays 809.3B
  • Cady, Edwin - On Hawthorne (1990) 823H
  • Fogle, Richard - The permanent pleasure: essays on classics of romanticism (1974) 821.09F
  • Knox, Bernard - The heroic temper: studies in Sophoclean tragedy (1983) 882.2S
  • Shestov, Lev - Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche (1969) 891.7S

BOOKS & READING

  • Jackson, H.J. - Marginalia: readers writing in books 028J
  • O'Brien, Geoffrey - The browser's ecstasy 028O
  • Parsons, Nicholas - The book of literary lists (1985) 070.5P
  • Smith, Margaret - The title-page: its early development, 1460- 1510 655.2S

POETRY

  • Hacker, Marilyn - Squares and courtyards 821H
  • Harjo, Joy - A map to the next world 821H
  • Heaney, Seamus - Electric light 821H
  • Hollander, John - Sonnets 821.08S
  • Merrill, James - Collected poems 821M

ARCHITECTURE

  • Boucher, Bruce - Andrea Palladio: the architect in his time (1998) 720.945B
  • Dunlop, Beth - Twentieth-century houses (1999) 728T
  • Jenkins, David - On Foster - Foster on 720.942O
  • McCaffety, Kerri - The majesty of the French Quarter 720.973M
  • White, Samuel - Houses of McKim, Mead & White (1998) 728W

CITIES

  • Manley, Lawrence - London in the age of Shakespeare (1986) 942.1L
  • Martin, John - Venice reconsidered: the history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797 945.3V
  • Norquist, John - The wealth of cities: revitalizing the centers of American life (1998) 307.76C
  • Salzman, Nancy - Building and builders: an architectural history of Boston University (1985) 720.973S
  • Soren, David - Carthage: a mosaic of ancient Tunisia (1987) 939.7C Oversize
  • White, Edmund - The flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris 944.36W

MUSEUMS

  • Bremer-David, Charissa - Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, decorative arts (1997) 745J
  • Dennett, Andrea - Weird and wonderful: the dime museum in America (1997) 069D
  • Kaplan, Rachel - Little-known museums in and around Paris (1996) 914.436K
  • Neill, Peter - Maritime America: art and artifacts from America's great nautical collections (1988) 708.1M
  • Towne-Markus, Elana - Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, antiquities (1997) 913.38J

CIVILIZATION

  • Carrasco, David - The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures 3 vols. 913.72O
  • Watson, Peter - The modern mind: an intellectual history of the 20th century 909.82W
  • Wilmerding, John - Compass and clock: defining moments in American culture: 1800, 1850, 1900 (1999) 973.5W

HISTORY

  • Allinson, Gary - The Columbia guide to modern Japanese history (1999) 952A
  • American Revolution: writings from the War of Independence 973.38A Closed Stack
  • Berkeley, Bill - The graves are not yet full: race, tribe and power in the heart of Africa 960B
  • Blanning, T.C.W. - The short Oxford history of Europe: the eighteenth century 940.2S
  • Blanning, T.C.W. - The short Oxford history of Europe: the nineteenth century 940.28S
  • Bright, John - A history of Israel 4th ed. 956.94B
  • Buchanan, John - Jackson's way: Andrew Jackson and the people of the western waters 976B
  • Danson, Edwin - Drawing the line: how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America 975.2D
  • Klingaman, William - Abraham Lincoln and the road to emancipation, 1861-1865 973.7K
  • Olson, James - Historical dictionary of the 1950s 973.92O
  • Perlstein, Rick - Before the storm: Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus 973.92P
  • Pritzker, Barry - A Native American encyclopedia: history, culture, and peoples 970.1P
  • Raphael, Ray - A people's history of the American Revolution: how common people shaped the fight for independence 973.3R
  • Wills, John E. - 1688: a global history 909W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth - Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 945.09B
  • Das, Gurcharan - India unbound 330.945D
  • Hochschild, Adam - Finding the trapdoor: essays, portraits, travels (1997) 909.82H
  • Kapuscinski, Ryszard - The shadow of the sun (Africa) 960K
  • Klaren, Peter - Peru: society and nationhood in the Andes 985K
  • Milbank, Dana - Smashmouth: two years in the gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush 324M
  • Schoultz, Lars - Beneath the United States: a history of U.S. policy toward Latin America (1998) 327.73S

WORLD WAR II

  • Bernstein, Jeremy - Hitler's uranium club: the secret recordings at Farm Hall (1996) 355.4B
  • Black, Edwin - IBM and the Holocaust: the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation 940.53B
  • Cogan, Frances - Captured: the Japanese internment of American civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 940.5472C
  • James, Harold - The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews 940.5343J
  • Peschanski, Denis - Collaboration and resistance: images of life in Vichy France, 1940-44 940.5344C

PHILOSOPHY

  • Ayer, A.J. - The central questions of philosophy (1976) 190A
  • Heraclitus, of Ephesus - Fragments: the collected wisdom of Heraclitus 182H
  • Morgan, George - What Nietzsche means (1965) 193M
  • Weil, Simone - The Simone Weil reader (1981) 194W
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Lectures & conversations on aesthetics, psychology, and religious belief (1966) 193W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Boydston, Jeanne - Home and work: housework, wages, and the ideology of labor in the early republic (1994) 331.4B
  • Davis, Mike - Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world 363.9D
  • Dezell, Maureen - Irish America: coming into clover 325.2D
  • Etzioni, Amitai - Next: the road to the good society 306E
  • Fehrenbacher, Don - The slaveholding republic: an account of the United States government's relations to slavery 326F
  • Fraser, Nicholas - The voice of modern hatred: tracing the rise of neo-fascism in Europe 320.9F
  • Hayner, Priscilla - Unspeakable truths: confronting state terror and atrocity 323.4H
  • Hurley, Andrew - Diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks: chasing the American dream in the postwar consumer culture 306.3H
  • Leo, John - Incorrect thoughts: notes on our wayward culture 973.924L
  • Nash, Gerald - Social Security, the first half-century (1988) 368S
  • New York Times - How race is lived in America 325.26H
  • Schlosser, Eric - Fast food nation: the dark side of the all- American meal 394.1S

SCIENCE

  • Bernstein, Jeremy - The merely personal: observations on science and scientists 500B
  • Blaise, Clark - Time lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time 529B
  • Frankel, Charles - The end of the dinosaurs: Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions 576F
  • Goldberg, Elkhonon - The executive brain: frontal lobes and the civilized mind 612.8G
  • Lewontin, Richard - The triple helix: gene, organism, and environment 570L
  • Sapolsky, Robert - A primate's memoir 599S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Casey, Nell - Unholy ghost: writers on depression 616.8U
  • Hayes, Bill - Sleep demons: an insomniac's memoir 616.8H
  • Horn, Stacy - Waiting for my cats to die 305.2H
  • Karbo, Karen - Generation Ex: tales from the second wives club 306.8K

GENDER STUDIES

  • Crittenden, Ann - The price of motherhood 306.8C
  • DeMott, Benjamin - Killer woman blues: why Americans can't think straight about gender and power 305.4D
  • Hirschfeld, Magnus - The homosexuality of men and women 306.7H Closed Stack
  • McClure, Laura - Spoken like a woman: speech and gender in Athenian drama (1999) 882.09M
  • Showalter, Elaine - Inventing herself: claiming a feminist intellectual heritage 305.4S

MEDIA

  • Henderson, Brian - Film quarterly: forty years (1999) 791.4F
  • Lowenstein, Stephen - My first movie: twenty celebrated directors talk about their first film 791.4M
  • Sanger, Elliott - Rebel in radio: the story of WQXR (1973) 384S
  • Sante, Luc - O.K. you mugs: writers on movie actors (1999) 791.4O
  • Schonfeld, Reese - Me and Ted against the world: the unauthorized story of the founding of CNN 070.1S
  • Sobchack, Vivian - The persistence of history: cinema, television, and the modern event (1996) 302P
  • Wise, Richard - Multimedia: a critical introduction 001.6W

COMPUTERS

  • Davis, Martin - The universal computer: the road from Leibniz to Turning 001.6D
  • Harel, David - Computers Ltd.: what they really can't do 001.6H
  • Himanen, Pekka - The hacker ethic, and the spirit of the information age 174H

GARDENS

  • Bennett, Paul - Garden lover's guide to the Northeast (1999) 712B
  • Bird, Richard - The scented garden 716B
  • Dash, Robert - Notes from Madoo: making a garden in the Hamptons 635D
  • Fischer, Kerwin - Green places in small spaces (1997) 635F
  • Gerritsen, Henk - Dream plants for the natural garden 635G
  • Hayward, Gordon - Garden paths: inspiring designs and practical projects (1997) 712H

ECOLOGY

  • Flannery, Tim - The eternal frontier: and ecological history of North America and its peoples 574F
  • Friederici, Peter - The suburban wild (1999) 500F
  • Goulding, Michael - Floods of fortune: ecology and economy along the Amazon (1996) 574.5G
  • Meyers, Amy - Empire's nature: Mark Catesby's new world vision (1998) 574E

TRAVEL

  • Bentley, James - The most beautiful villages of England (1999) 914.2B Oversize
  • Bentley, James - The most beautiful villages of Tuscany (1995) 914.55B Oversize
  • Clarke, Thurston - Searching for Crusoe 910.4C
  • Feiler, Bruce - Walking the Bible 915.69F
  • Jones, Ann - Looking for Lovedu: days and nights in Africa 916J

NEW YORK CITY

  • Baxter, Raymond - Railroad ferries of the Hudson (1999) 386B
  • Colby, Todd - Heights of the marvelous: a New York anthology 809.9H
  • Doig, Jameson - Empire on the Hudson: entrepreneurial vision and political power at the Port of New York Authority 388D
  • Hanson, Elizabeth - The Rockefeller University achievements 378R Oversize
  • Moore, Peter - The destruction of Penn Station 725M
  • Sullivan, Neil - The diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the politics of New York 976.3S

REFERENCE

  • Gates, Henry Louis - Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience LSR 909A
  • Hendrickson, Robert - The Facts on File dictionary of American regionalisms Ref. 427H
  • Millennium, year by year Ref. 902M


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