New York Society Library

SEPTEMBER 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bachrach, Judy - Tina and Harry come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans, and the uses of power
  • Bundles, A'Lelia Perry - On her own ground: the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker
  • Coote, Samuel - Samuel Pepys: a life
  • Crosland, Margaret - Madame de Pompadour: sex, culture and the power game
  • Hogan, Linda - The woman who watches over the world: a native memoir
  • Kristeva, Julia - Hannah Arendt
  • Rostenberg, Leona - Bookends: two women, one enduring friendship
  • Rowley, Hazel - Richard Wright: the life and times
  • Sachs, Dana - The house on dream street: a memoir of an American woman in Vietnam

FICTION

  • Adler, Warren - Mourning Glory
  • Averill, Thomas Fox - Secrets of the Tsil Cafe
  • Bainbridge, Beryl - According to Queeney
  • Benedict, Elizabeth - Almost
  • Bird, Sarah - Yokota Officers Club
  • Brink, H.M. van den - On the water
  • Brooks, Geraldine - Year of wonders: a novel of the plague
  • Christensen, Kate - Jeremy Thrane
  • Cleage, Pearl - I wish I had a red dress
  • Cokal, Susann - Mirabilis
  • Coonts, Stephen - America: a Jake Grafton novel
  • Coulter, Catherine - Hemlock bay
  • Cussler, Clive - Valhalla rising
  • Delinsky, Barbara - The woman next door
  • Gaiman, Neil - American gods
  • Gould, Judith - A moment in time
  • Grenier, Roger - Piano music for four hands
  • Hannah, Barry - Yonder stands your orphan
  • Haulsey, Kuwana - The red moon
  • Hornby, Nick - How to be good
  • Howard, Linda - Open season
  • Joseph, Mark - The wild card
  • Kelley, Douglas - The captain's wife
  • Keyes, Marian - Last Chance Saloon
  • Knox, Elizabeth - Black oxen
  • Kramer, Peter - Spectacular happiness
  • Lennon, J. Robert - On the night plain
  • Liu, Heng - Green River daydreams
  • McConnochie, Mardi - Coldwater
  • McCracken, Elizabeth - Niagara Falls all over again
  • Marias, Javier - Dark back of time
  • Meallet, Sandro - Edgewater angels
  • Michaels, Lisa - Grand ambition
  • Montero, Mayra - Red of his shadow
  • Mulisch, Harry - The procedure
  • Perabo, Susan - The broken places
  • Redfern, Elizabeth - Music of the spheres
  • Roberts, Michele - The looking glass
  • Rosenfeld, Arthur - A cure for gravity
  • Shaara, Jeff - Rise to rebellion
  • Shea, Suzanne Strempek - Around again
  • Skvorecky, Josef - Two murders in my double life
  • Spiotta, Dana - Lightning field
  • Tennant, Emma - Sylvia and Ted
  • Terrell, Whitney - The huntsman
  • Umrigar, Thrity - Bombay time
  • Weinstock, Nicholas - As long as she needs me
  • Wells, Leslie - The curing season
  • Welsh, Irvine - Glue
  • Wenzel, Kurt - Lit life
  • Wolcott, James - The Catsitters
  • Woodrell, Daniel - Death of sweet mister
  • Yoshimura, Akira - One man's justice

SHORT STORIES

  • Chaon, Dan - Among the missing
  • Highsmith, Patricia - Selected stories of Patricia Highsmith
  • Keegan, Claire - Antartica
  • Lee, Don - Yellow
  • Louis, Laura Glen - Talking in the dark

MYSTERIES

  • Allbeury, Ted - Cold tactics
  • Brett, Simon - Death on the downs*
  • Crais, Robert - Hostage
  • D'Amato, Barbara - Hard road
  • Freedman, J.F. - Bird's-eye view
  • French, Nicci - Red room
  • George, Anne - Murder boogies with Elvis
  • Hamilton, Denise - The jasmine trade
  • Heywood, Joseph - Ice hunter
  • Jance, Judith A. - Paradise lost
  • Kava, Alex - Split second
  • Kellerman, Faye - The Forgotten
  • Lardo, Vincent - McNally's chance
  • Maitland, Barry - The chalon heads*
  • Paige, Robin - Death at Epsom downs*
  • Rand, Naomi - The one that got away
  • Saul, John - Manhattan hunt club
  • Stroud, Carsten - Black water transit
  • Talley, Marsha, editor (with Faye Kellerman, Anne Perry, Nevada Barr, et al.) - Naked came the phoenix
  • Tannenbaum, Robert K. - Enemy within
  • Zubro, Mark - Sex and murder.com
*indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bierman, John - Dark safari: the life behind the legend of Henry Morton Stanley (1990) 92 S7885 B
  • Bowden, Mark - Killing Pablo: the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw (Pablo Escobar) 363.45B
  • Cheever, Susan - As good as I could be: a memoir about raising wonderful children in difficult times 306.8C
  • Clapp, Nicholas - Sheba: through the desert in search of the legendary queen 939.4C
  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine - Ungentle Shakespeare: scenes from his life 822.33 92D
  • Ellis, David - Literary lives: biography and the search for understanding (2000) 820.9E
  • Fitz-Simon, Christopher - The boys: a double biography (Micheál MacLiammoir & Hilton Edwards) (1996) 920 F557 B
  • Kondracke, Morton - Saving Milly: love, politics, and Parkinson's Disease 362.1K
  • Nielsen, Jerri - Ice bound: a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole 92 N6695 N
  • Redstone, Sumner - A passion to win (Viacom) 338.7R
  • Williams, Stanley - Surviving Galeras (volcanologist biography) 92 W727 W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Blamires, Harry - The new Bloomsday book: a guide through Ulysses (1996) 823J
  • Bromwich, David - Skeptical music: essays on modern poetry 821.09B
  • Howe, Irving (editor) - Edith Wharton: a collection of critical essays (1963) 823W
  • Kaplan, Charles & Anderson, William Davis (editors) - Criticism: major statements (2000) 801C
  • McCall, Dan - Citizens of somewhere else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James (1999) 823M
  • Mary, Queen of Scots - Letters and poems (1947) 820.81M
  • Milosz, Czeslaw - A treatise on poetry 891.85M
  • Pessoa, Fernando - The selected prose of Fernando Pessoa 869P
  • Roberson, Susan L. - Emerson in his sermons: a man-made self (1995) 824.09E
  • Stewart, Garrett - Dear reader: the conscripted audience in nineteenth-century British fiction (1996) 823S
  • Thoreau, Henry David - Collected essays and poems 820.81T
  • Undset, Sigrid - The unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny and other works 839.7U

POETRY

  • Gilbert, Sandra (editor) - Inventions of farewell: a book of elegies 821.08I
  • Hill, Geoffrey - The triumph of love (1998) 821H
  • Howe, Susan - Pierce-arrow (1999) 821H
  • Laughlin, James - The man in the wall (1993) 821L
  • Miles, Josephine - Collected poems, 1930-1983 (1983) 821M

BERNARD SHAW

  • Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells (correspondence) (1995) 920 S534 B
  • Bernard Shaw's book reviews 028.1S

SHAKESPEARE

  • Brower, Reuben Arthur - Hero and saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman heroic tradition (1971) 822.33C
  • Danson, Lawrence - Shakespeare's dramatic genres (2000) 822.33C
  • Greenblatt, Stephen - Hamlet in purgatory 822.33C
  • Gurr, Andrew - Staging in Shakespeare's theatres (2000) 822.33H
  • Whitney, John O. - Power plays: Shakespeare's lessons in leadership and management (2000) 822.33K

THEATRE

  • Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre (1994) 792.0942C
  • Chekhov, Michael - Lessons for the professional actor (1985) 792C
  • Davis, Lee - Scandals and follies: the rise and fall of the great Broadway revue (2000) 782.6D
  • Steinberg, Michael P. - Austria as theater and ideology: the meaning of the Salzburg festival (1990) 780.79S

MUSIC

  • Balliett, Whitney - Collected works: a journal of jazz, 1954-2000 (2000) 780.973B
  • Ewing, Tom (editor) - The Bill Monroe reader (2000) 781.5B
  • Forte, Allen - Listening to classic American popular songs 784.6F
  • Jarman, Douglas - Alban Berg: Wozzeck (1989) 782.1J
  • Lindenberger, Herbert Samuel - Opera: the extravagant art (1986) 782L
  • Oldham, Andrew Loog - Stoned: a memoir of London in the 1960s (The Rolling Stones) 92 O448 O
  • Sudhalter, Richard M. - Lost chords: white musicians and their contribution to jazz, 1915-1945 (1999) 780.973

ARTS

  • Craske, Matthew - Art in Europe, 1700-1830: a history of the visual arts in an era of unprecedented urban economic growth (1997) 709.4C
  • Golding, John - Paths to the absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still (2000) 759G
  • Herbert, James - Paris 1937: worlds on exhibition (1998) 709.44H
  • Shedel, James - Art and society: the new art movement in Vienna, 1897-1914 (1981) 709.436S
  • White, Edmund (editor) - Loss within loss: artists in the age of AIDS 709.2L

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Evans, Walker - Walker Evans (2000) 770E
  • Haworth-Booth, Mark - The museum & the photograph: collecting photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1853-1900 (1998) 770H
  • Parks, Gordon - Arias in silence (1994) 821P
  • Szarkowski, John - Atget (2000) 770A

HISTORY

  • Allen, Charles - Soldier sahibs: the daring adventurers who tamed India's northwest frontier 954A
  • Christiansen, Rupert - The Victorian visitors: culture shock in nineteenth century Britain 942.08C
  • Holmes, Linda Goetz - Unjust enrichment: how Japan's companies built postwar fortunes using American POWs 940.5472H
  • LeRoy Ladurie, Emmanuel - Saint Simon and the court of Louis XIV 944.03L
  • The Oxford companion to United States history 973O
  • Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. - Twentieth century Spain: politics and society in Spain, 1898-1998 (1999) 946.08R
  • Ross, Kristin - Fast cars, clean bodies: decolonization and the reordering of French culture (1995) 944.082R
  • Sacco, Joe - Safe area Gorazde: the war in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (2000) 949.7S
  • Scheindlin, Raymond P. - A short history of the Jewish people: from legendary times to modern statehood (1998) 909.4S
  • Voltaire - The age of Louis XIV (1961) 944.03V
  • Wilkins, Roger W. - Jefferson's pillow: the founding fathers and the dilemma of Black patriotism 973W

CIVIL WAR

  • Cowley, Robert (editor) - With my face to the enemy: perspectives on the Civil War (essays) 973.7W
  • Sneden, Robert - Eye of the storm: a Civil War odyssey (2000) 973.78S
  • Weigley, Russell - A great Civil War: a military and political history (2000) 973.7W
  • Winik, Jay - April 1865: the month that saved America 973.73W

INTELLIGENCE

  • Bamford, James - Body of secrets: anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency: from the Cold War through the dawn of a new century 327.12B

CIVILIZATION

  • The Bitch-goddess success: variations on an American theme (1968) (Tocqueville, Thoreau, Whitman, Auden, et al.) 973B
  • DePalma, Anthony - Here: a biography of the new American continent 970D
  • Painter, Sidney - Mediaeval society (1951) 940.1P
  • Rather, Dan - The American dream: stories from the heart of our nation 973.924R

CITIES

  • Greenfield, Meg - Washington 975.3G
  • Hawkes, Jason - Over London: a century of change (2000) 942.1H

NEW YORK CITY

  • Beckert, Sven - The monied metropolis: New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 330.973B
  • Cannato, Vincent - The ungovernable city: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York 974.71C Lobby
  • Fowle, Marcia T. - The New York City Audubon Society guide to finding birds in the metropolitan area 598.2F
  • Gore, Bob - We've come this far: the Abyssinian Baptist Church: a photographic journal 286G
  • Park, Kyeyoung - The Korean American dream: immigrants and small business in New York City (1997) 338.6P

TRAVEL

  • Bird, Christiane - Neither East nor West: one woman's journey through the Islamic Republic of Iran 915.5B
  • Gifra-Adroher, Pere - Between history and romance: travel writing on Spain in the early 19th century United States (2000) 820.09G
  • Harbert, Nancy - New Mexico (Compass American Guides) (2000) 917.89H
  • Hawes, Annie - Extra virgin: a young woman discovers the Italian Riviera, where every month is enchanted 914.5H
  • Leuchtenburg, William E. (editor) - American places: encounters with history: a celebration of Sheldon Meyer (2000) 917.3A

ARCHAEOLOGY

  • Bahn, Paul G. - The archaeology detectives 930.1B
  • Stern, Ephraim - Archaeology of the land of the Bible, volume II: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian periods, 732-332 BCE 220.9S

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Foreman, Grant - Indian removal: the emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (1972) 970.5H
  • Rollings, Willard H. - The Osage: an ethnohistorical study of hegemony on the prairie-plains (1995) 970.3R

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Beisel, Nicola Kay - Imperiled innocents: Anthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America (1997) 306B
  • Best, Joel - Damned lies and statistics: untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists 301B
  • Brody, Hugh - The other side of Eden: hunters, farmers, and the shaping of the world 301.2B
  • Inglis, Fred - Clifford Geertz: culture, custom and ethics (2000) 305.8I
  • Katz, M.B. - The price of citizenship: redefining America's welfare state 361.6K
  • Mann, Michael - The sources of social power (1986) 303.3M
  • O'Connor, Stephen - Orphan trains: the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed 362.7O
  • Robb, Daniel - Crossing the water: eighteen months on an island working with troubled boys-a teacher's memoir 364.3R
  • Todorov, Tzvetan - On human diversity: nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought (1994) 305.8T
  • Valeri, Valerio - The forest of taboos: morality, hunting, and identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas (2000) 306V

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Anderson, Joan - A year by the sea: thoughts of an unfinished woman (1999) 158A
  • Doan, Laura L. - Fashioning Sapphism: the origins of a modern English lesbian culture 306.7D

RELIGION

  • Itsuki, Hiroyuki - Tariki: embracing despair, discovering peace (Buddhism) 294I
  • Plaskow, Judith - Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective (1991) 296.3P
  • Weis, René - The yellow cross: the story of the last Cathars, 1290-1329 944.02W

ETHICS

  • Goldstone, Richard J. - For humanity: reflections of a war crimes investigator (apartheid) (2000) 341.6G
  • Rawls, John - Lectures on the history of moral philosophy (2000) 170R
  • Singer, Peter - Writings on an ethical life (2000) 170S

LAW

  • Cushman, Clare (editor) - Supreme Court decisions and women's rights: milestones to equality 396S
  • Howard, Philip K. - The lost art of drawing the line: how fairness went too far 347H
  • Limbaugh, David - Absolute power: the legacy of corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department 345L

MURDER

  • Dunne, Dominick - Justice: crimes, trials, and punishments 343.1D
  • Parry, Richard - Trial by ice: the true story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris expedition 919.8P
  • Salamon, Julie - Facing the wind: a true story of tragedy and reconciliation 364.1S

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS

  • Mayer, Martin - The Fed: the inside story of how the world's most powerful financial institution drives the market 332.1M
  • Shiva, Vandana - Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply (2000) 338.4S

SCIENCE

  • Flannery, Sarah - In code: a mathematical journey 510F
  • Hurd, Barbara - Stirring the mud: on swamps, bogs, and human imagination 574.5H
  • Pollan, Michael - The botany of desire: a plant's eye view of the world 306.4P
  • Roueché, Berton - The man who grew two breasts: and other true tales of medical detection (1995) 610R

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Cobb, Nancy - In lieu of flowers: a conversation for the living (2000) (death and bereavement) 155.9C
  • Hemphill, C. Dallett - Bowing to necessities: a history of manners in America, 1620-1860 (1999) 395H
  • Herdt, Gilbert H. - Something to tell you: the road families travel when a child is gay (2000) 306.8H
  • Tanzi, Rudolph E. - Decoding darkness: the search for the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease (2000) 618.97T

COOKERY

  • Loomis, Susan - On rue Tatin: living and cooking in a French town 641.5L
  • Mayle, Peter - French lessons: adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew 641M
  • Rosenthal, Sylvia - How cooking works: the indispensable kitchen handbook (1981) 641.5R

SPORTS & GAMES

  • Karpov, Anatoly - The open game in action (1988) 794K
  • Shulman, James Lawrence - The game of life: college sports and educational values 796S

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Haynes, Roslynn D. - Seeking the center: the Australian desert in literature, art and film (1998) 551.4H
  • Otto, Beatrice - Fools are everywhere: the court jester around the world 792.2O

BOOKS ON TAPE AND CD

  • The Bhagavad-Gita (2 tapes) #1124
  • Christie, Agatha - The secret adversary (7 tapes) #1141
  • Dexter, Pete - The paperboy (2 tapes) #1122
  • Dumas, Alexandre - The three musketeers (19 tapes) #1142
  • Kennedy, John F. - JFK: the Kennedy tapes (speeches, 1960-1963) (1 disc) Audio-CD K3547 J4
  • O'Brian, Patrick - The Mauritius command (9 tapes) #1138
  • Waugh, Evelyn - The end of the battle (6 tapes) #1140


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