New York Society Library

AUGUST 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Gallagher, Tess - Soul barnacles
  • Gray, Francine du Plessix - Simone Weil (Penguin Lives)
  • Leab, Daniel J. - I was a communist for the FBI (Matt Cvetic)
  • Lewis, R.W.B. - Dante (Penguin Lives)
  • McBride, Joseph - Searching for John Ford: a life
  • Rollyson, Carl - Beautiful exile: the life of Martha Gellhorn
  • Seward, Ingrid - The Queen and I
  • Simic, Charles - A fly in the soup

FICTION

  • Adler, Elizabeth - The last time I saw Paris
  • Buckley, William F. - Elvis in the morning
  • Goudge, Eileen - Stranger in paradise
  • Gough, Julian - Juno and Juliet
  • Greenlaw, Lavinia - Mary George of Allnorthover
  • Harris, E. Lynn - Any way the wind blows
  • Hawks, Kate - Watch by midnight
  • Irving, John - The fourth hand
  • Kazan, Frances - Halide's gift
  • Kennedy, Kate - End over end
  • Knox, Malcolm - Summerland
  • Krin, Walter - Up in the air
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - The moving target
  • Mann, William - The biograph girl
  • Martin, George - Windhaven
  • McBride, Regina - The nature of water and air
  • McGowan, Heather - Schooling
  • McPhee, Jenny - The center of things
  • Medlicott, Joan - The gardens of Covington
  • Mitchard, Jacquelyn - A theory of relativity
  • Nagy, Gloria - The beauty
  • O'Farrell, John - The best a man can get
  • Patterson, James - Suzanne's diary for Nicholas
  • Randall, Alice - The wind done gone
  • Raye, Lawrence - Shadow of the dolls
  • Rice, Luanne - Summer light
  • Ricks, Thomas - A soldier's duty
  • Rougeau, Remy - All we know of heaven
  • Roughon, Howard - The up and comer
  • Schickler, David - Kissing in Manhattan
  • Spence, Gerry - Half-moon and empty stars
  • Weiner, Jennifer - Good in bed
  • Wickham, Madeleine - Cocktails for three

SHORT STORY

  • Furman, Laura - Drinking with the cook
  • Krouse, Erika - Come up and see me sometime
  • McNulty, John - This place on Third Avenue: the New York stories
  • Menendez, Ana - In Cuba I was a German shepherd
  • Perry, Anne (ed) - Death by horoscope
  • Sharp, Adrienne - White swan, black swan

MYSTERY

  • Alwyn, Cynthia - Scent of murder
  • Andrews, Russell - Icarus
  • Blunt, Giles - Forty words for sorrow
  • Bogner, Norman - The deadliest art
  • Box, C.J. - Open season
  • Carlon, Patricia - Death by demonstration
  • Farrow, John - Ice lake
  • Geary, Nancy - Misfortune
  • George, Elizabeth - A traitor to memory*
  • Greeley, Andrew - The bishop and the beggar girl of St. Germain
  • Hall, Parnell - Cozy
  • Henry, Sue - Dead north
  • Huebner, Fredrick - Shades of justice
  • Mahoney, Dan - The two Chinatowns
  • Martini, Steve - The jury
  • McGarrity, Michael - Under the color of law
  • McNab, Andy - Firewall
  • Meek, Margaret - If you go down to the woods*
  • Muller, Marcia - Point deception
  • O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Writ of execution
  • Pearson, Ridley - Parallel lies
  • Reah, Danuta - Listen to the shadows
  • Reichs, Kathy - Fatal voyages
  • Roberts, Nora - Brazen virtue
  • Rosenfeld, Arthur - Diamond eye
  • Siegel, James - Epitaph
  • Simpson, Marcia - Sound tracks
  • Turnbull, Peter - Perils and dangers*
  • Wilhelm, Kate - Desperate measures
* indicates a British mystery

NEW TO US
(MYSTERY CLASSICS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED)

  • Babson, Marian - Tightrope for three F/B
  • Bennett, Margot - The widow of Bath F/B
  • Millar, Margaret - The soft talkers F/M

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bernstein, Richard - Ultimate journey: retracing the path of an ancient Buddhist monk who crossed Asia in search of enlightenment 294B
  • Bourdain, Anthony - Typhoid Mary: an urban historical 92 T99B
  • Brown, Larry - Billy Ray's farm: essays 92 B87894B
  • Cross, Anthony - Peter the Great through British eyes 947.05C
  • Doty, Mark - Still life with oysters and lemon 92 D7255D
  • Gordon, Richard - Horyo: memoirs of an American POW (1999) 92 G6647G
  • Hecht, Julie - Was this man a genius?: talks with Andy Kaufman 972.2H
  • Hickman, Katie - Daughters of Britannia: the lives and times of diplomatic wives (1999) 327.42H
  • Moore, Margaret - The Salem world of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1998) 92 H3993M
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan - The Paderewski memoirs (1939) 780.92P
  • Reston, James - Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade 940.1R
  • Stedman, Jane - W.S. Gilbert: a classic Victorian and his theatre (1996) 92 G466S

ON BIOGRAPHY

  • Backscheider, Paula - Reflections on biography 808B
  • Baker, Russell - Inventing the truth: the art and craft of memoir (1998) 808I

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bloch, Ernst - Literary essays (1998) 834B
  • Fish, Stanley - How Milton works 821.09M
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Unacknowledged legislation: writers in the public sphere 820.9H
  • Legman, G. - Rationale of the dirty joke: an analysis of sexual humor (1968) 827.08L
  • Leon-Portilla, Miguel - In the language of kings: an anthology of Mesoamerican literature 897I
  • McGregor, Robert K. - Conundrums for the long week-end: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey 823S
  • Rakoff, David - Fraud: essays 081R
  • Rich, Adrienne - Arts of possible: essays & conversations 809.1R
  • Rignall, John - Oxford reader's companion to George Eliot 823E
  • Shippey, T.A. - J.R.R. Tolkien: author of the century 828.09T
  • Signori, Lisa - The feminization of surrealism: the road to surreal silence in selected works of Marguerite Duras 843D
  • Vidal, Gore - The last empire: essays, 1992-2000 824V
  • Wasserstein, Wendy - Shiksa goddess: or, how I spent my forties: essays 824W
  • Willard, Kenneth - Contemporary American fiction 823M

POETRY

  • Fenton, James - The strength of poetry 821.09F
  • Gluck, Louise - The seven ages 821G
  • Griffin, Jasper - Latin poets and Roman life (1986) 871.09G
  • Hawkins, Peter - The poet's Dante 851.09D
  • Lehman, David - The daily mirror: a journal in poetry 821L
  • McCartney, Paul - Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics, 1965- 1999 821M
  • Updike, John - Americana: and other poems 821.08U

WRITING

  • Darnton, John - Writers on writing: collected essays from The New York Times 808W
  • Maass, Donald - Writing the breakout novel 808.3M
  • Wolitzer, Hilma - The company of writers: fiction workshops and thoughts on the writing life 808.3W
  • Zerubavel, Eviatar - The clockwork muse: a practical guide to writing theses, dissertations, and books (1999) 808Z

BOOKS & LIBRARIES

  • Amory, Hugh - The colonial book in the Atlantic world (1999) 381C
  • Blake, William - William Blake: the complete illuminated books 769B
  • Casson, Lionel - Libraries in the ancient world 027C
  • Conway, James - America's library: the story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000 027C
  • Crinelli, Lorenzo - Treasures from Italy's great libraries (1997) 757.1T Oversize
  • Wilson, Robert - Seeing Shelley plain (Phoenix Bookstore) 655.5W

ART

  • De Tolnay, Charles - History and technique of old master drawings (1943) 741.3D
  • Greenough, Sarah - Modern art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York galleries 709.73M
  • Harbison, Robert - Reflections on Baroque 709H
  • Kepes, Gyorgy - Language of vision (1944) 701L
  • Marc, Franz - Franz Marc, horses 759.3M
  • Perl, Jed - Eyewitness: reports from an art world in crisis 709.04P
  • Stavitsky, Gail - Will Barnet: a timeless world 759.1B
  • Vreeland, Cynthia - But is it art?: an introduction to art theory 701F

ARCHITECTURE

  • Blau, Eve - Shaping the great city: modern architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937 (1999) 720.94S
  • Henderson, Bill - Tower: faith, vertigo, and amateur construction 690H
  • Leatherbarrow, David - Uncommon ground: architecture, technology, and topography 720L
  • LeBlanc, Sydney - The architecure traveler: a guide to 250 key 20th century American buildings 720.973L
  • Rybczynski, Witold - The look of architecture 721R
  • Visser, Margaret - The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church 726V

MUSIC

  • Carhart, Thaddeus - The piano shop on the Left Bank: discovering a forgotten passion in a Paris atelier 786.2C
  • Ellison, Ralph - Living with music 781.5 E
  • Green, Benny - The reluctant art: five studies in the growth of jazz (1991) 780.973G
  • Hutcheon, Linda - Bodily charm: living opera 782.1H
  • Partch, Harry - Genesis of a music: an account of a creative work, its roots and its fulfillments 2nd ed. (1979) 784P
  • Sutcliffe, Tom - The Faber book of opera 782.1F

FILM

  • DiBattista, Maria - Fast-talking dames 791.4D
  • Gledhill, Christine - Reinventing film studies 791.4R
  • Higham, Charles - Hollywood in the forties (1968) 791.4H
  • Leff, Leonard - Hitchcock and Selznick 791.4L

JOURNALISM

  • Boylan, James - The World and the 20's: the golden years of New York's legendary newspaper (1973) 973.91B
  • Buckley, Priscilla - String of pearls: on the news beat in New York and Paris 92 B92495B
  • Jensen, Carl - Stories that changed America: muckrakers of the 20th century 070J
  • Murray, David - It ain't necessarily so: how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality 070.4M

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Davidson, Miriam - Lives on the line: dispatches from the U.S. - Mexico border 309.1D
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara - Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America 305.5E
  • Fillin-Yeh, Susan - Dandies: fashion and finesse in art and culture 305.3D
  • Geertz, Clifford - Kinship in Bali (1975) 301.4G
  • Hallinan, Joseph - Going up the river: travels in a prison nation 365H
  • Kingwell, Mark - The world we want: virtue, vice, and the good citizen 323.6K
  • Mernissi, Fatima - Scheherazade goes west: different cultures, different harems 396M
  • Moskowitz, Eva - In therapy we trust: America's obsession with self-fulfillment 309.1M
  • Queenan, Joe - Blasamic dreams: a short but self-important history of the baby boomer generation 305.24Q
  • Rodriguez, Clara - Changing race: Latinos, the census, and the history of ethnicity in the United States 305.8R

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Downer, Lesley - Women of the pleasure quarters: the secret history of the geisha 305.4D
  • Eller, Cynthia - The myth of matriarchial prehistory 306.8E
  • Laird, Holly - Women co-authors 820.9L
  • London, Bette - Writing double: women's literary partnerships (1999) 820.9L
  • Pollitt, Katha - Subject to debate: sense and dissents on women, politics, and culture 305.4P

RELIGION

  • Bireley, Robert - The refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700 (1999) 282B
  • Fox, Matthew - Original blessing: a primer in creation spirituality 248F
  • Kraybill, Donald - On the backroad to heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethern 289K
  • Kung, Hans - The Catholic Church 282K
  • Ruether, Rosemary Radford - Sexism and God-talk: toward a feminist theology (1993) 230R

SCIENCE

  • Ackerman, Jennifer - Chance in the house of fate: a natural history of heredity 575.1A
  • Birkhead, Tim - Promiscuity: an evolutionary history of sperm competition 591.5B
  • Cole, K.C. - The hole in the universe 530.1C
  • Gott, J. Richard - Time travel in Einstein's universe 530.1G
  • Grove, A.T. - The nature of Mediterranean Europe: an ecological history 574.5G Oversize
  • McGowan, Christopher - The dragon seekers 560M
  • Segerstrale, Ullica - Defenders of the truth: the battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond 301.2S
  • Shermer, Michael - The borderlands of science 500S

ECONOMICS

  • Clavin, Patricia - The great depression in Europe, 1929-1939 338.5C
  • Fox, John - If Americans really understood the income tax: uncovering our most expensive ignorance 336.2F
  • Garson, Barbara - Money makes the world go around 332G

INVESTING

  • Fontanill, George - The stock market course 332.6F
  • Kansas, Dave - TheStreet.com: a guide to smart investing in the internet era 332.6K
  • Kwatinetz, Michael - The big tech score: a top Wall Street analyst reveals ten secrets to investing success 332.6K
  • Smith, B. Mark - Toward rational exuberance: the evolution of the modern stock market 332.6S

LAW

  • Epps, Garrett - To an unknown God: religious freedom on trial 299.7E
  • Fletcher, George - Our secret constitution: how Lincoln redefined American democracy 342.73F
  • Maveety, Nancy - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (1996) 347.99M
  • Rawls, John - The law of peoples; with, The idea of public reason revisited (1999) 327R
  • White, Morton - Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution (1989) 342.73W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Bok, Derek - The trouble with government 306B
  • Cohen, Lenard - Serpent in the bosom: the rise and fall of Slobodan Milosevic 949.7C
  • Hitchens, Christopher - The trial of Henry Kissinger 973.924H
  • Howard, Michael - The invention of peace: reflections on war and international order 327H
  • Kissinger, Henry - Does America need a foreign policy? 327.73K
  • Wan, Ming - Human rights in Chinese foreign relations: defining and defending national interests 951W
  • Wrong, Michela - In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu's Congo 967W

BUSH GORE ELECTION

  • Greenfield, Jeff - "Oh, waiter! One order of crow!": inside the strangest presidential election finish in American history 324G
  • New York Times - 36 days: the complete chronicle of the 2000 presidential election crisis 324T
  • Tapper, Jake - Down and dirty: the plot to steal the presidency 973.930T
  • Washington Post - Deadlock: the inside story of America's closest election 324D

HISTORY

  • Black, Allida - Casting her own shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the shaping of postwar liberalism (1996) 973.917B
  • Calloway, Colin - The American Revolution in Indian country: crisis and diversity in Native American communities (1999) 973.3C
  • Drake, James - King Philip's War: the civil war in New England, 1675-1676 (1999) 973.2D
  • Gallagher, Gary - The myth of the lost cause and Civil War history 973.71M
  • Kelley, Donald - Faces of history: historical inquiry from Herodotus to Heder (1998) 901K
  • Kimball, Roger - The long march: how cultural revolution of the 1960s changed America 973.9K
  • Lieven, Dominic - Empire: Russian Empire and its rivals 947L
  • Menand, Louis - The Metaphysical Club 973M
  • Schulman, Bruce - The seventies: the great shift in American culture, society, and politics 973.924S
  • Tocqueville, Alexis de - Writings on empire and slavery 965T
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the past: power and the production of history (1995) 901T
  • Tutu, Desmond - No future without forgiveness 968T

CIVILIZATION

  • Bottero, Jean - Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece 915.69B
  • Boym, Svetlana - The future of nostalgia (1950+) 909.82B
  • Cunliffe, Barry - Facing the ocean: the Atlantic and its peoples, 8000 BC - AD 1500 936C
  • Gildea, Robert - The past in French history (1996) 944G
  • Israel, Jonathan - Radical enlightenment 940.2I
  • Pagden, Anthony - Peoples and empires 940P

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

  • Fitch, Noel Riley - Literary cafes of Paris (1989) 914.4F
  • Lobo Montalvo, Maria Luisa - Havana 972.91L Oversize
  • Rips, Michael - Pasquele's nose (Italy) 914.56R
  • Ruby, Robert - Unknown shore: the lost history of England's Arctic colony 919.8R

NEW YORK CITY

  • Century, Douglass - Street kingdom: five years inside the Franklin Avenue Posse 364.1C
  • Kim, Claire Jean - Bitter fruit: the politics of Black-Korean conflict in New York City 974.71K
  • Skaggs, Merrill Maguire - Willa Cather's New York 823C
  • Ultan, Lloyd - The birth of the Bronx, 1609-1900 974.71U

HUMOR

  • Drudge, Matt - Drudge manifesto 973.929D
  • Southern, Terry - Now dig this: the unspeakable writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 827S

DISASTER

  • Kurzman, Dan - Disaster!: the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 979.46K
  • Bruce, Victoria - No apparent danger: the true story of volcanic disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz 363.3B
  • Niven, Jennifer - The ice master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk 919.8N

DINOSAURS

  • Cadbury, Deborah - Terrible lizard: the first dinosaur hunters and the birth of a new science 568C
  • Chiappe, Luis - Walking on eggs 568C

FAUNA

  • Burger, Joanna - The parrot who owns me 636.6B
  • Halpern, Sue - Four wings and a prayer: caught in the mystery of the monarch butterfly 595.78H
  • Mann, Janet - Cetacean societies: field studies of dolphins and whales 599C Oversize
  • Snyder, Noel - The California condor 598.2S
  • Spielman, Andrew - Mosquito 595.7S
  • Wolfe, Art - The living wild 591.9W Oversize

COMPUTERS

  • Ater, Mark - Internet user's handbook 2001 Ref. 001.6A
  • Fielden, Ned - Internet research: theory and practice Ref. 025.5F
  • Foreman, Gordon - PC buyer's handbook 2001 Ref. 001.6F
  • Siegfried, Tom - The bit and the pendulum: from quantum computing to M theory - the new politics of information 004S

BOOKS ON TAPE AND CD

  • Chopin, Kate - Bayou stories (3 discs) Audio-CD C5498 B2
  • Coelho, Paulo - The alchemist (3 tapes) #1137
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (6 tapes) #1135
  • Lord, Walter - The good years (9 tapes) #1125
  • Martin, Steve - Shopgirl (3 tapes) #1132
  • Remnick, David - Life stories: profiles from the New Yorker (6 tapes) #1102
  • Wharton, Edith - The moving finger and other stories (2 discs) Audio-CD W5534 M6


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