SELECTED NEW BOOKS
BIOGRAPHY
- Andersen, Christopher - Diana's boys: William and Harry and the mother they loved
- Ayers, Bill - Fugitive days: a memoir
- Blainey, Ann - Fanny and Adelaide: the lives of the remarkable Kemble sisters
- Bonatti, Walter - Mountains of my life
- Bosworth, Patricia - Marlon Brando
- Bragg, Rick - Ava's man
- Buell, Bebe - Rebel heart
- Clarke, Norma - Dr. Johnson's women
- Collins, Paul - Banvard's folly: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck
- Decter, Midge - An old wife's tale: my seven decades in love and war
- Edwards, Anne - Maria Callas: an intimate biography
- Fichtner, Paula - Emperor Maximillian II
- Fraser, Antonia - Marie Antoinette: the journey
- Glinsky, Albert - Theremin: ether music and espionage
- Hoffman, Jon T. - Chesty: the story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
- Kennett, Lee B. - Sherman: a soldier's life
- Kessler, Lauren - Happy bottom riding club: the life and times of Pancho Barnes
- Klein, Gerda Weissmann - The hours after: letters of love and longing in the war's aftermath
- McBride, Henry - An eye on the modern century: selected letters of Henry McBride
- Milford, Nancy - Savage beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Nevils, Rene Pol - Ignatius rising: the life of John Kennedy Toole
- Spalding, Frances - Gwen Raverat: friends, family and affections
- Tosches, Nick - Where dead voices gather (Emmett Miller)
- Walter, Eugene - Milking the moon: a Southerner's story of life on this planet
FICTION
- Brown, Sandra - Envy
- Campbell, Bebe Moore - What you owe me
- Colapinto, John - About the author: a novel
- Cook, Robin - Shock
- Dai, Sijie - Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
- De Bernieres, Louis - Red dog
- Dew, Robb Forman - The evidence against her
- Dressler, Mylene - Deadwood beetle
- Edelman, Gwen - War story
- Egan, Jennifer - Look at me: a novel
- Evans, Nicholas - The smoke jumper
- Franzen, Jonathan - The corrections
- Gold, Glen David - Carter beats the devil
- Green, Norman - Shooting Dr. Jack: a novel
- Griffith, Michael - Spikes: a novel
- Hamilton, Masha - Staircase of a thousand steps
- Jenkins, Dan - The money -whipped steer -job three -jack give -up artist
- Kauffman, Janet - Rot
- Keillor, Garrison - Lake Wobegon: summer 1956
- Kelby, N.M. - In the company of angels
- Khudayri, Batul - Sky so close
- King, Stephen - Black house
- Lindsay, David - Animosity
- Livesey, Margot - Eva moves the furniture
- Lowell, Elizabeth - Tell me no lies
- Mesce, Bill - Officer of the court
- Mount, Ferdinand - Fairness
- Nissenson, Hugh - Song of the earth: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Middle age: a romance
- Olds, Bruce - Bucking the tiger
- Pamuk, Orhan - My name is red
- Poyers, David - Fire on the waters: a novel of the Civil War at sea
- Rackham, Jeff - The rag and bone shop
- Roley, Brian Ascalon - American son: a novel
- Rossi, Hozy - Appointment with Il Duce
- Rushdie, Salman - Fury
- Samuels, Dorothy - Filthy rich
- Sheepshanks, Mary - Off balance
- Siegel, Sheldon - Incriminating evidence
- Straight, Susan - Highwire moon
- Swerling, Beverly - City of dreams: a novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and early Manhattan
- Tademy, Lallita - Cane River
- Unsworth, Barry - The partnership
- Wei, Hui - Shanghai baby
- Wells, Ken - Junior's leg
SHORT STORIES
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - After the plague
- Bradford, Arthur - Dogwalker
- Gavell, Mary Ladd - I cannot tell a lie, exactly and other stories
- Leavitt, David - Marble quilt
- Mason, Bobbie Ann - Zigzagging down a wild trail
- Miller, Rebecca - Personal velocity
- Mo, Yan - Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh
- Moorcock, Michael - London bone
- Silver, Marissa - Babe in paradise
- Spencer, Elizabeth - Southern woman: new and selected fiction
- Tanizaki, Junichiro - The gourmet club: a sextet
- Upadhyay, Samrat - Arresting God in Kathmandu
MYSTERIES
- Berenson, Laurien - Once bitten: a Melanie Travis mystery
- Clark, Mary Jane Behrends - Close to you
- Davis, Patrick A. - The colonel
- Engel, Howard - Dead and buried
- Fraser, Anthea - Past shadows *
- Fusilli, Jim - Closing time
- Gerritsen, Tess - The surgeon
- Gores, Joe - Cons, scams and grifts
- Isaacs, Susan - Long time no see
- James, Bill - Pay days *
- Kahn, Sharon - Don't cry for me, hot pastrami
- Lewis, J.R. - A form of death *
- Lipman, Laura - In a strange city
- McBain, Ed - Money, money, money: a novel of the 87th precinct
- Margolin, Philip - The associate
- Marston, Edward - The devil's apprentice
- Massey, Sujata - The bride's kimono
- Moinot, Pierre - As night follows day
- Nabb, Magdalen - Property of blood
- Paretsky, Sara - Total recall
- Parker, Robert - Death in paradise
- Spencer, Sally - Golden mile to murder *
- Spencer, Sally - The dark lady *
- Stevenson, Jane - London bridges *
- Swain, James - Grift sense
- Takagi, Akimitsu - The informer
- Webb, Betty - Desert noir
*indicates a British mystery
SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS
BIOGRAPHY
- Ambrose, Stephen E. - The wild blue: the men and boys who flew the B -24s over Germany 920 A68 W
- Brokaw, Tom - An album of memories: personal histories from the greatest generation 940.548B
- Castle, Terry - Nöel Coward & Radclyffe Hall: kindred spirits (1996) 920 C35 N
- Clendinnen, Inga - Tiger's eye: a memoir 362.1C
- Eidam, Klaus - The true life of Johann Sebastian Bach 92 B118 E
- Epstein, Daniel Mark - What lips my lips have kissed: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay 821.09M
- Goodall, Jane - Beyond innocence: an autobiography in letters 92 G6467 G
- Howarth, David Armine - Nelson: the immortal memory (Horatio Nelson) (1997) 92 N4263 H
- Kamen, Henry - Philip of Spain 92 F3155 K
- Kristeva, Julia - Hannah Arendt 92 A6795 K
- The Lincoln enigma: the changing faces of an American icon (essays) 973.7L
- Maccioni Ruju, P. Alessandra - The life and times of Guglielmo Libri (1995) 92 L71 M
- Varnay, Astrid - 55 years in five acts: my life in opera (2000) 92 V316 V
ARTS
- A Biographical dictionary of artists (1995) 709.2B
- Holloway, Carson - All shook up: music, passion & politics 306.3H
- Lechner, Jack - Can't take my eyes off of you: 1 man, 7 days, 12 televisions 791.4L
- Pestelli, Giorgio - The age of Mozart and Beethoven (1984) 780.9P
- Quermann, Andreas - Domenico di Tommaso di Currado Bigordi Ghirlandaio, 1449 -1494 (1998) 759.5G Oversize
- Schapiro, Meyer - The unity of Picasso's art (2000) 759.6P
- Steadman, Philip - Vermeer's camera 770S
- Stoppard, Tom - Doing it: five performing arts 790S
- William Morris (1996 exhibition, London) 745W
ARCHITECTURE
- Morrone, Francis - An architectural guidebook to Brooklyn 917.471M
- Morrone, Francis - An architectural guidebook to Philadelphia (1999) 720.973M
BELLES LETTRES
- A company of readers: uncollected writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the The Readers' Subscription and Mid -Century book clubs 028C
- Abbott, H. Porter - Diary fiction (1984) 808.3A
- Cecil, David, Lord - Poets and storytellers (1961) 820.4C
- Coetzee, J.M. - Stranger shores: literary essays, 1986 -1999 804C
- Kiberd, Declan - Irish classics 820.9K
- A Place in the world called Paris (1994) 808.8P
- The Scene of my selves: new work on New York School Poets 821.09S
- Wagner, Erica - Ariel's gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the story of Birthday letters 821.09H
BOOKS & READING
- Cheuse, Alan - Listening to the page 809C
- Naipaul, V.S. - Reading & writing (2000) 92 N1574 N
- Rose, Jonathan - The intellectual life of the British working classes 028R
- Scarry, Elaine - Dreaming by the book (1999) 801S
- Zboray, Ronald J. - A handbook for the study of book history in the United States (2000) 010Z
POETRY
- Bradley, George - Some assembly required 821B
- Lasdun, James - Landscape with chainsaw 821L
- Lux, Thomas - The street of clocks 821L
- Manning, Maurice - Lawrence Booth's book of visions 821M
FOLK TALES & FAIRIES
- The Great fairy tale tradition: from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm: texts, criticism 398.2G
- Kamenetsky, Christa - The Brothers Grimm & their critics: folktales and the quest for meaning (1992) 398K
- Mack, Carol - A field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels and other subversive spirits (1998) 133.4M
- McElroy, Colleen J. - Over the lip of the world: among the storytellers of Madagascar (1999) 398.2M
PHILOSOPHY
- Benjamin: philosophy, aesthetics, history (1989) 193B
- Comte -Sponville, André - A small treatise on the great virtues: the uses of philosophy in everyday life 170C
- Johnson, W.R. - Lucretius and the modern world (2000) 871.1J
- Strauss, Leo - Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium 184S
- Zeller, Eduard - Aristotle and the earlier Peripatetics (1897) 185Z
NEW TRANSLATIONS
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America (2000) 320.9T
- Virgil - The eclogues of Virgil (1999) 873.1V
HISTORY
- Brigden, Susan - New worlds, lost worlds: the rule of the Tudors, 1485 -1603 942.05B
- Century (1999) 909.82C
- Chang, Gordon G. - The coming collapse of China 951C
- Cunningham, Andrew - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe (2000) 940.22C
- Davis, William C. - An honorable defeat: the last days of the Confederate government 973.71D
- The End of Czechoslovakia (1995) 943.7E
- Ford, Franklin L. - Robe and sword: the regrouping of the French aristocracy after Louis XIV (1953) 944.03F
- Lincoln, W. Bruce - Sunlight at midnight: St. Petersburg and the rise of modern Russia (2000) 947L
- Oberman, Heiko Augustinus - The dawn of the reformation: essays in late medieval and early Reformation thought (1992) 270.6O
- Remini, Robert Vincent - Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars 970.5R
- Ridley, Jasper Godwin - Bloody Mary's martyrs: the story of England's terror 942.05R
WORLD WAR II
- Burleigh, Michael - The Third Reich: a new history 943.086B
- Gross, Jan Tomasz - Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland 940.5315G
- Morgan, Robert - The man who flew the Memphis Belle: memoir of a WWII pilot 940.548M
- Stanton, Doug - In harm's way: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors 940.54S
NEW YORK CITY
- Anderson, Paul Allen - Deep river: music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought 780.973A
- Bao, Xiaolan - Holding up more than half the sky: Chinese women garment workers in New York City, 1948 -1992 331.4B
- Feirstein, Sanna - Naming New York: Manhattan places and how they got their names 917.471F
- Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York 305.88I
- Mambo Montage: the Latinization of New York 974.71M
- New York glory: religions in the city 974.71N
- Time Out book of New York walks (2000) 917.471T
- Zero Tolerance: quality of life and the new police brutality in New York City 363Z
TRAVEL
- Dalrymple, William - Age of Kali: Indian travels & encounters (2000) 915.4D
- Gatenby, Greg - Toronto: a literary guide (1999) 917.13G
- Lightner, Sam - All elevations unknown: an adventure in the heart of Borneo 919.1L
- Stevens, Thomas - Around the world on a bicycle (1887) 910.4S
- Suleiman, Susan Rubin - Budapest diary: in search of the motherbook (1996) 914.39S
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Albert, Alexa - Brothel: Mustang Ranch and its women 306A
- Barone, Michael - The new Americans: how the melting pot can work again 325.73B
- Bodroghkozy, Aniko - Groove tube: sixties television and the youth rebellion 302B
- Creswell, Tim - The tramp in America 305.5C
- Ignatieff, Michael - The needs of strangers 361I
- Orme, Nicholas - Medieval children 305.23O
- Tönnies, Ferdinand - Community and civil society 307T
- Walker, Lisa - Looking like what you are: sexual style, race, and lesbian identity 306.7W
RELIGION
- Boyer, Pascal - Religion explained: the evolutionary origins of religious thought 201B
- McLeod, Hugh - Religion and the people of Western Europe, 1789 -1989 (1997) 201M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Berman, Larry - No peace, no honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and betrayal in Vietnam 959B
- Harris, Ian - The mind of John Locke: a study of political theory in its intellectual setting (1998) 320.9H
- Posner, Richard A. - Breaking the deadlock: the 2000 election, the Constitution, and the courts 324P
- Mommsen, Wolfgang J. - Imperial Germany, 1867 -1918: politics, culture, and society in an authoritarian state (1995) 943.08M
- Said, Edward W. - Power, politics, and culture: interviews with Edward W. Said 956.9S
LAW
- Fairclough, Adam - Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890 -2000 323.4F
- Maltz, Earl M. - The chief justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969 -1986 (2000) 347.99M
- Rawls, John - Justice as fairness: a restatement 320.1R
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Bartiromo, Maria - Use the news: how to separate the noise from the investment nuggets and make money in any economy 332.6B
- Colbert, David - Eyewitness to Wall Street: 400 years of dreamers, schemers, busts and booms 332.6C
- Dranove, David - The economic evolution of American health care: from Marcus Welby to managed care (2000) 362D
- Lapham, Lewis H. - The agony of mammon: the imperial world economy explains itself to the membership in Davos, Switzerland (1998) 338L
- Sinclair, David - The pound: a biography (2000) 332.4S
SCIENCE
- Aczel, Amir D. - The riddle of the compass: the invention that changed the world 910.4A
- Beattie, Donald - Taking science to the moon: lunar experiments and the Apollo Program 629.4B
- Cramer, Deborah - Great waters: an Atlantic passage 551.4C
- Emsley, John - The 13th element: the sordid tale of murder, fire, and phosphorous (2000) 546E
- Quinn, Susan - Human trials: scientists, investors, and patients in the quest for a cure 610.9Q
- Russell, Dick - Eye of the whale: epic passage from Baja to Siberia 599R
- Tudge, Colin - The impact of the gene: from Mendel's peas to designer babies 575.1T
COSMOLOGY
- The Book of the cosmos: imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking (2000) 523.1B
- Scientific American book of the cosmos 523.1S
NATURAL HISTORY
- Coppinger, Raymond - Dogs: a startling new understanding of canine origin, behavior, and evolution 636.7C
- Meyer, Kathleen - Barefoot -hearted: a wild life among wildlife 574M
ENVIRONMENT
- Geertz, Clifford - Agricultural involution: the process of ecological change in Indonesia (1963) 991G
- Roy, Arundhati - The cost of living (1999) 333.9R
PSYCHOLOGY
- Concise encyclopedia of psychology (1996) 150E
- Melson, L. Gail - Why the wild things are: animals in the lives of children 636M
- Phillips, Adam - Houdini's box: the art of escape 155.2P
- Pincus, Jonathan H. - Base instincts: what makes killers kill? 364.1P
- Schacter, Daniel L. - The seven sins of memory: how the mind forgets and remembers 154S
HEALTH & HOME
- Batterson, Anne - The black swan: memory, midlife, and migration 305.24B
- Siegler, Ava - What should I tell the kids?: a parent's guide to real problems in the real world (1993) 649S
- Stein, Sara Bonnett - Noah's children: restoring the ecology of childhood 305.23S
- Wilcox, Bradley J. - The Okinawa program: how the world's longest -lived people achieve everlasting health -and how you can too 613W
PHYSICIANS
- On doctoring: stories, poems, essays 808.8O
MISCELLANEOUS
- Foglesong, Richard E. - Married to the mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando 338.7F
- Levieux, Eleanor - Insiders' French: beyond the dictionary (1999) 448L
- Parkinson, R.B. - Cracking codes: the Rosetta stone and decipherment (1999) 493P Oversize
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