New York Society Library

OCTOBER 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


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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