JULY 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

• Angell, Roger - A pitcher's story: innings with David Cone
• Bayley, John - Widower's house: a study in bereavement
• Bentley, G.E. - The stranger from paradise (William Blake)
• Benza, A.J. - Fame: ain't it a bitch
• Finstad, Suzanne - Natasha (Natalie Wood)
• Francis, Richard - Ann the Word: the story of Ann Lee, female messiah, mother of the Shakers
• Frank, Katherine - Indira: the life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
• Fraser, Laura - An Italian affair
• Gallenkamp, Charles - Dragon hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic expeditions
• Gildiner, Catherine - Too close to the Falls
• Hammett, Dashiell - The letters of Dashiell Hammett
• Hollister, C. Warren - Henry I
• Keogh, Pamela Clarke - Jackie style
• Lord Montagu of Beaulieu - Wheels within wheels
• Macey, David - Franz Fanon
• Mainwaring, Marion - Mysteries of Paris: the quest for Morton Fullerton
• McDermott, James - Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan privateer
• McMurtry, Larry - Paradise
• Novak, Maximillian - Daniel Defoe: master of fictions
• Philpott, Tom - Glory denied: the saga of Jim Thompson, America's longest-held prisoner of war
• Ross, Ian Campbell - Laurence Sterne
• Saint-Exupery, Consuelo de - Tale of the rose: the passion that inspired The Little Prince
• Schoenberger, Nancy - Dangerous muse: the life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
• Stock-Morton, Phyllis - The life of Marie D'Agoult, alias Daniel Stern
• Travers, Susan - Tomorrow to be brave: a memoir of the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion
• Vallone, Lynne - Becoming Victoria

FICTION

• Abrahams, Peter - Last of the Dixie heroes
• Bromell, Henry - Little America
• Brown, Dale - Warrior class
• DeMarco, Kathleen - Cranberry queen
• Dorfman, Ariel - Blake's therapy
• Estleman, Loren D. - Master executioner
• Gale, Patrick - Rough music
• Gardam, Jane - The flight of maidens
• Green, Jane - Mr. Maybe
• Houston, James D. - Snow Mountain passage
• Kelly, Thomas - The rackets
• Kohler, Sheila - Children of Pithiviers
• Koster, R.M. - Glass mountain
• LeClaire, Anne - Entering Normal
• Leithauser, Brad - A few corrections
• Li, Chiao - Wintry night
• Lipman, Elinor - Dearly departed
• Lodge, David - Thinks
• Maddox, Bruno - My little blue dress
• Martin, Lee - Quakertown
• McCauley, Stephen - True enough
• McGregor, Elizabeth - The ice child
• Nissen, Thisbe - The good people of New York
• Parsons, Tony - Man and boy
• Patchett, Ann - Bel canto
• Robinson, Patrick - The shark mutiny
• Steel, Danielle - Leap of faith
• Styron, Alexandra - All the finest girls
• Taylor, Alice - Across the river

SHORT STORY

• Earley, Tony - Somehow form a family
• Iribarne, Matthew - Astronauts and other stories
• Simpson, Helen - Getting a life

MYSTERY

• Blake, Michelle - Earth has no sorrow
• Burke, James Lee - Bitterroot
• Charles, Kate - Cruel habitations*
• Child, Lee - Echo burning
• Coben, Harlan - Tell no one
• Connolly, John - The killing kind
• Dams, Jeanne - Green grow the victims
• Evanovich, Janet - Seven up
• Fredrickson, Michael - Witness for the dead
• Gill, Bartholomew - Death of an Irish sinner
• Gunn, Elizabeth - Six-pound walleye
• Haig, Brian - Secret sanction
• Hambly, Barbara - Die upon a kiss
• Hamilton, Steve - The hunting wind
• Hill, Reginald - Dialogues of the dead*
• Johansen, Iris - Final target
• Leon, Donna - A sea of troubles
• Lordon, Randye - East of niece
• Ludlum, Robert - The Cassandra compact
• Lynds, Gayle - Mesmerized
• Marcuse, Irene - Guilty mind
• Marshall, Evan - Stabbing Stephanie
• Mosley, Walter - Fearless Jones
• Pall, Ellen - Corpse de ballet
• Pickard, Nancy - Ring of truth
• Roberts, Les - The Dutch
• Robinson, Lynda - Slayer of gods

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

• Allen, Susan H. - Finding the walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (1999) 920 A67F
• Armstrong, Karen - Buddha (Penguin Lives) 294A
• Clark, Christopher - Kaiser Wilhelm II 92 W6782C
• Gribbin, John - Richard Feynman (1997) 92 F4355G
• Jowitt, Deborah - Meredith Monk (1997) 793.3M
• Kaufman, Robert - Henry M. Jackson: a life in politics 92 J127K
• McCourt, John - The years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920 92 J89M
• McKenna, Marian - Myra Hess: a portrait (1976) 92 H5856M
• Mercer-Taylor, Peter - Life of Mendelssohn 780.92M
• Powell, Anthony - To keep the ball rolling: the memoirs of Anthony Powell 92 P8819P
• Reichl, Ruth - Comfort me with apples: more adventures at the table 92 R3518R
• Russell, Alec - Big men, little people: the leaders who defined Africa 920 R959B
• Scharnhorst, Gary - Bret Harte: opening the American literary West 92 H3273S
• Walpole, Horace - Memoirs of the reign of King George III, 4 vols. 942.07W
• Webb, Ruth - Virginia Woolf 92 W9127W
• Wilson, Elizabeth - Bohemians: glamorous outcasts 709.437W
• Zucker, Carole - In the company of actors: reflections on the craft of acting (1999) 920 I35I

BELLES LETTRES

• Augenbraum, Harold - U.S. Latino literature: a critical guide for students and teachers 820.9U
• Bigsby, Christopher - Contemporary American playwrights (1999) 822.09B
• Calasso, Roberto - Literature and the gods 820.9C
• Dowling, Linda - Language and decadence in the Victorian fin de siecle (1989) 820.9D
• Fish, Stanley - Surprised by sin: the reader in Paradise lost (1971) 821.09M
• Frayn, Michael - The Copenhagen papers: an intrigue 822.09F
• Ginsberg, Allen - Spontaneous mind: selected interviews, 1958- 1996 821.09G
• Izenberg, Gerald - Modernism and masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky through World War I 833I
• Jeannet, Angela - Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling 858.09C
• Materer, Timothy - James Merrill's apocalypse 821.09M
• McClatchy, J.D. - Bright pages: Yale writers 1701-2001 820.8B
• Phillips, Gene - Creatures of darkness: Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, and film noir 823C
• Woolley, Lisa - American voices of the Chicago renaissance 820.9W
• Young, Philip - American fiction, American myth: essays 820.9Y

THEATRE

• Aronson, Arnold - American avant-garde theatre 792.0973A
• Lamb, Andrew - 150 Years of popular musical theatre 782L
• Leach, Robert - A history of Russian theatre (1999) 792.0947H
• Melzer, Annabelle - Dada and surrealist performance (1994) 792.09M
• Rogoff, Gordon - Vanishing acts: theater since the sixties 792.0973R
• Willett, John - The theatre of Erwin Piscator (1979) 792.0943W

POETRY

• Crawford, Robert - New Penguin book of Scottish verse 821.08N
• Muldoon, Paul - Poems, 1968-1998 821M
• Seidel, Frederick - Life on earth 821S
• Wright, Jay - Transfigurations: collected poems 821W

THE BIBLE

• Bobrick, Benson - Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired 220.5B
• McGrath, Alister - In the beginning: the story of the King James Bible and how it changed a nation, a language, and a culture 220.5M

RELIGION

• Buber, Martin - Moses (1946) 221.92M
• Duffy, Eamon - The stripping of the altars: traditional religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 (1992) 274.2D
• Epstein, Mark - Going on being: Buddhism and the way of change 294E
• Freedman, David - The rivers of paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad as religious founders 920 R58R
• Lewis, C.S. - Christian reflections (1967) 230L

CIVILIZATION

• Cantor, Norman - In the wake of the plague: the Black Death and the world it made 940.1C
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - Civilizations: culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature 901F
• Gruen, Erich - Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy (1996) 937G

ANTIQUITIES

• Aicher, Peter - Guide to the aqueducts of ancient Rome (1995) 628.1A
• Hurwit, Jeffrey - The Athenian Acropolis 930H

HISTORY

• Chasteen, John - Born in blood and fire: a concise history of Latin America 980C
• Guillermoprieto, Alma - Looking for history: dispatches from Latin America 980G
• Hickey, Michael - The Korean War 951.9H
• Hosking, Geoffrey - Russia and the Russians 947H
• Ingrao, Charles - The Habsburg monarchy, 1618-1815 943.6I
• Kerr, Alex - Dogs and demons: tales from the dark side of Japan 952K
• Reich, Jerome - Colonial America 973.2R
• Schoppa, R. Keith - The Columbia guide to modern Chinese history 951S
• Vohra, Ranbir - The making of India 954V
• Winter, Jay - The Great War and the twentieth century 940.3G
• Zuccotti, Susan - Under his very windows: the Vatican and the Holocaust 940.5315Z

SECRET SERVICE (WORLD WAR II)

• Breuer, William - Top secret tales of World War II 940.5485B
• Mackenzie, William - The secret history of SOE 940.5486M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Corry, John A. - A rough ride to Albany: Teddy runs for governor 973.8C
• Hennessy, Peter - The prime minister: the office and its holders since 1945 920 H46P
• Kincade, Vance - Heirs apparent: solving the vice presidential dilemma 353.03K
• Klare, Michael - Resource wars: the new landscape of global conflict 355.03K
• Paz, Octavio - Itinerary: an intellectual journey (1999) 917.2P
• Seliktar, Ofira - Failing the crystal ball test: the Carter administration and the fundamentalist revolution in Iran 327.73S

BUSINESS

• Hendrickson, Robert - The grand emporiums: the illustrated history of America's great department stores (1979) 381H
• Longaberger, Dave - Longaberger: an American success 338.7L
• Plunkett-Powell, Karen - Remembering Woolworth's 381P

FINANCE & ECONOMICS

• Beatty, Jack - Colossus: how the corporation changed America 338.7C
• de Haan, Jakob - The history of the Bundesbank 332.1H
• Geisst, Charles - The last partnerships: inside the great Wall Street money dynasties 332.6G
• Sowell, Thomas - Basic economics: a citizen's guide to the economy 330S

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Glendon, Mary Ann - A world made new: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 323.1G
• Hankins, James - Renaissance civic humanism 320R
• Henderson, Harry - Gun control 364H
• Johnson, Denis - Seek: reports from the edges of America & beyond 973.924J
• Kaledin, Eugenia - Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959: shifting worlds 917.3K
• Perry, Elizabeth - Chinese society: change, conflict, and resistance 306C
• Schwartz, Joel - Fighting poverty with virtue: moral reform and America's urban poor, 1825-2000 362.5S
• Walton, John - The British seaside 306.4W

FEMINIST STUDIES

• Cott, Nancy - No small courage: a history of women in the United States 305.4N
• Lewis, Jane - Women and social action in Victorian and Edwardian England (1991) 361.2L
• Offen, Karen - European feminisms, 1700-1950 305.4O
• Sklar, Kathryn - Women's rights emerges within the anti- slavery movement, 1830-1870 305.4S

SCIENCE

• Barlow, Connie - The ghosts of evolution 575.7B
• Barlow, George - The cichlid fishes 597B
• Barrow, John - The book of nothing: vacuums, voids, and the latest ideas about the origins of the universe 510B
• Fagan, Brian - The Little Ice Age: how climate made history, 1300-1850 551.6F
• Krauss, Lawrence - Atom: an odyssey from the big bang to life on earth and beyond 523.1K
• Larson, Edward - Evolution's workshop: God and science on the Galapagos Islands 574L
• Mlodinow, Leonard - Euclid's window: the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace 513M
• Sagan, Carl - Carl Sagan's cosmic connection 523.4S

MYTH

• Eliade, Mircea - Rites and symbols of initiation (1994) 291.4E
• Greenberg, Gary - 101 myths of the bible 221.6G
• Schultz, William - Cassirer and Langer on myth 193C

GARDENS & FLOWERS

• Devonshire, Duchess of - The garden at Chatsworth 712D
• Evelyn, John - Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens 712D
• Ferguson, J. Barry - Living with flowers 716F
• Marinelli, Janet - The Brooklyn Botanic Garden gardener's desk reference (1998) 716B
• Russell, Sharman - Anatomy of a rose 582R

FASHION

• Brubach, Holly - A dedicated follower of fashion (1999) 391B
• Ribeiro, Aileen - The gallery of fashion 391.0942R

COOKERY

• Colicchio, Tom - Think like a chef 641.5C
• Garten, Ina - The Barefoot Contessa cookbook (1999) 641.5G
• Kuh, Patric - The last days of haute cuisine 647.9K
• Ruhlman, Michael - The soul of a chef 641.5R

SPORTS

• Bell, Trudy - The best bike rides in the Mid-Atlantic states (1997) 796.6B
• Goss, Pete - Close to the wind (yachting) (1999) 910.4G
• Sperber, Murray - Beer and circus: how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education 796S

TRAVEL

• Explorers and settlers: historic places commemorating the early exploration and settlement of the United States (1968) 917.3E
• Ferguson, James - A traveller's history of the Caribbean (1999) 972.9F
• Harris, Richard - Hidden Colorado 917.88H
• McCairen, Patricia - Canyon solitude: a woman's solo river journey through Grand Canyon (1998) 917.9M
• Rogerson, Barnaby - A traveller's history of North Africa (1998) 961R

ARCTIC TRAVEL

• Bryant, John - Dangerous crossings: the first modern polar expeditions, 1925 919.8B
• Cross, Wilbur - Disaster at the Pole: tragedy of the airship Italia & 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole 919.8C
• Waterman, Jonathan - Arctic crossing: a journey through the Northwest Passage and Inuit culture 919.8W

CITIES

• De Vries, Jan - European urbanization, 1500-1800 (1984) 307.76D
• LeGates, Richard - The City reader (1996) 307.76C
• Muller, Thomas - Immigrants and the American city (1993) 325.73M

NEW YORK CITY

• Diner, Hasia - Remembering the Lower East Side 974.71R
• Rock, Howard - The New York City artisan, 1789-1825: a documentary history (1989) 331.7N
• Ryan, Patricia - Living with the Brooklyn Bridge 624R
• Schlichting, Kurt - Grand Central Terminal 725S
• Seyfried, Vincent - 300 years of Long Island City, 1630-1930 (1984) 974.71S

MISCELLANEOUS

• Baker, Nicholson - Double fold: libraries and the assault on paper 025.8B
• Gottlieb, Robert - Environmentalism unbound: exploring new pathways for change 363.7G
• Luccarelli, Mark - Lewis Mumford and the ecological region: the politics of planning (1995) 711L

LARGE TYPE

• Ambrose, Stephen - Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 385A
• Banville, John - Eclipse F/B
• Irving, Washington - The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories F/I

BOOKS ON CD

• Borges, Jorge Luis - This craft of verse Audio-CD B7322 T5
• Coben, Harlan - The final detail Audio-CD C656F5
• Feynman, Richard - The pleasure of finding things out Audio- CD F4355 P5
• Williams, Tennessee - The glass menagerie Audio-CD W7274 G5

BOOKS ON TAPE

• Dickens, Charles - Bleak house (28 tapes) #1089
• Dickens, Charles - Our mutual friend (24 tapes) #1101
• Francis, Dick - Longshot (7 tapes) #1099
• Gay, Peter - Mozart (4 tapes) #1070
• Hammett, Dashiell - The glass key (8 tapes) #1084
• James, P.D. - Unnatural causes (7 tapes) #1078
• Leon, Donna - Death at La Fenice (6 tapes) #1085

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