SELECTED NEW BOOKS
- Asprey, Robert - Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Baldridge, Letitia - A lady, first: my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- Barthelme, Helen Moore - Donald Barthelme: the genesis of a cool sound
- Caldwell, Zoe - I will be Cleopatra: an actress's journey
- Citron, Stephen - Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: the new musical
- Conradi, Peter - Iris Murdoch: a life
- Dutton, David - Neville Chamberlain
- Ernaux, Annie - Happening
- Flanders, Judith - Circle of sisters
- Fox, Paula - Borrowed finery
- Ginsberg, Allen & Louis - Family business: selected letters between father and son
- Habegger, Alfred - My wars are laid away in books: the life of Emily Dickinson
- Hillerman, Tony - Seldom disappointed
- Hack, Richard - Hughes: the private diaries, memos, and letters
- Harman, Claire - Fanny Burney: a biography
- Heilbrun, Carolyn G. - When men were the only models we had: my teachers Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling
- Hollander, Robert - Dante: a life in works
- Jenkins, Roy - Churchill
- Koestenbaum, Wayne - Andy Warhol (Penguin Lives)
- Lauck, Jennifer - Still waters
- Levin, Phyllis Lee - Edith and Woodrow: the Wilson White House
- Lindbergh, Reeve - No more words: a journal of my mother
- Marton, Kati - Hidden power: presidential marriages that shaped our recent history
- Murray, Donald - My twice-lived life
- Penrose, Anthony - Roland Penrose: the friendly surrealist
- Pottker, Jan - Janet and Jackie
- Raby, Peter - Alfred Russel Wallace: a life
- Reich-Ranicki, Marcel - Author of himself
- Sacks, Oliver - Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood
- Sale, Kirkpatrick - The fire of his genius: Robert Fulton & the American dream
- Smith, Sylvia - Misadventures
- Tennant, Emma - Burnt diaries
- Taylor, D. J. - Thackeray: the life of a literary man
- Taylor, Kendall - Sometimes madness is wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
- Tinniswood, Adrian - His invention so fertile: a life of Christopher Wren
- Welch, Jack - Jack: straight from the gut
- Wolfe, Thomas - To loot my life clean: the Thomas Wolfe- Maxwell Perkins correspondence
- Allende, Isabel - Portrait in sepia
- Anthony, Piers - Swell foop
- Bradbury, Ray - From the dust returned
- Brown, John Gregory - Audubon's watch
- Burt, Guy - The hole
- Cameron, Stella - Tell me why
- Chevalier, Tracy - Falling angels
- Chopra, Depak - Soulmate
- Coupland, Douglas - All families are psychotic
- Crace, Jim - The devil's larder
- Diamant, Anita - Good harbor
- Dorrie, Doris - Where do we go from here
- Esquivel, Laura - Swift as desire
- Fielding, Joy - Grand avenue
- Garlock, Dorothy - The edge of town
- Gordimer, Nadine - The pickup
- Gran, Sara - Saturn's return to New York
- Guedj, Denis - The measure of the world
- Hunter, Stephen - Pale horse coming
- Jackson, Mick - Five boys
- Kidd, Chip - The cheese monkeys
- Kureishi, Haneif - Gabriel's gift
- Lafarge, Paul - Haussmann, or The distinction
- Leguin, Ursula K. - Other wind
- Lethem, Jonathan - This shape we're in
- Lincoln, Christine - Sap rising
- Marai, Sandor - Embers
- MacLaverty, Bernard - Anatomy school
- Maguire, Gregory - Lost: a novel
- Makine, Andrei - Requiem for a lost empire
- Marius, Richard - An affair of honor
- Martel, John - Billy Strobe
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- Michaels, Fern - Kentucky rich
- Miller, Andrew - Oxygen
- Miller, Sue - World below
- Morgan, Robert - This rock
- Muller, Herta - The appointment
- Naipaul, V S. - Half a life
- Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The nautical chart
- Picoult, Jodi - Songs of the humpback whale
- Puzo, Mario - The family
- Roiphe, Katie - Still she haunts me
- Rudel, Anthony - Imagining Don Giovanni
- Sagastizabal, Patricia - A secret for Julia
- Sebald, W.G. - Austerlitz
- Shakar, Alex - The savage girl
- Spanbauer, Tom - In the city of shy hunters
- Sparks, Nicholas - A bend in the road
- Stirling, Jessica - Prized possessions
- Veryan, Patricia - The riddle of the shipwrecked spinster
- Vollmann, William - Argall
- Wang, Annie - Lili: a novel of Tiananmen
- Webb, James - Lost soldiers
- Willis, Sarah - The rehearsal
- Youmans, Marly - The wolf pit
- Arenas, Reinaldo - Mona and other tales
- Bowles, Paul - Stories of Paul Bowles
- Gurganus, Alan - The practical heart
- Just, Ward - Lowell Limpett and two stories
- Schlink, Bernhard - Flights of love
- Schmidt, Heidi Jon - Darling
- Tzalas, Harry E. - Farewell to Alexandria: eleven short stories
- Wilson, Robley - Book of lost fathers
- Booth, Stephen - Dancing with the virgins *
- Brandon, Jay - Executive privilege
- Corley, Elizabeth - Fatal legacy *
- Cornwell, Patricia - Isle of dogs
- Crumley, James - The final country
- Dams, Jeanne M. - To perish in Penzance *
- Fairstein, Linda - The dead house
- Flynn, Vince - Separation of power
- Friedman, Kinky - Steppin' on a rainbow
- Garwood, Julie - Mercy
- Granger, Ann - Shades of murder *
- Handler, David - The cold blue blood
- Hayes, John R. - Catskill
- Jacobs, Jonnie - Witness for the defense
- Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
- Kanon, Joseph - The good German
- Ludlum, Robert - Sigma protocol
- Malone, Michael - First lady
- O'Brien, Charles H. - Mute witness *
- Perry, Anne - Funeral in blue *
- Robinson, Peter - Aftermath *
- Rosem, R.D. - Dead ball
- Rucka, Greg - Critical space
- Schanker, D.R. - Natural law
- Slaughter, Karin - Blindsighted
- Tapply, William - Past tense
- Twain, Mark - A murder, a mystery, and a marriage
- Vachss, Andrew - Pain management
- Waldman, Ayelet - The big nap
- Woods, Stuart - Orchid blues
* indicates a British mystery
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS
- Fundamentalism reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (1998) 958F
- Griffin, Michael - Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan 958G
- Margolis, Eric G. - War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet (2000) 950 M
- Marsden, Peter - The Taliban: war, religion and the new order in Afghanistan (1998) 958M
- Rashid, Ahmed - Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia (2000) 915.8R
- Rubin, Barnett R. - The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state (1995) 958R
- Bodansky, Yossef - Bin Laden: the man who declared war on America 92 B614B
- Yonah, Alexander - Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: profile of a terrorist network 303.6A
- Cooley, John K. - Unholy wars: Afghanistan, America and international terrorism (1999) 958C
- Heymann, Philip B. - Terrorism and America: a commonsense strategy for a democratic society (1998) 364H
- Lake, Anthony - 6 Nightmares: real threats in a dangerous world and how America can meet them 363.3L
- Pillar, Paul R. - Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy 327.73P
- Reeve, Simon - The new jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism 364.1R
- Stern, Jessica - The ultimate terrorists (1999) 303.6S
- Guillemin, Jeanne - Anthrax: the investigation of a deadly outbreak (1999) 614G
- Miller, Judith - Germs: biological weapons and America's secret war 358.3M
- Tucker, Jonathan B. - Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox 616.9T
*For an updated list of books relevant to the September 11th attacks available at the New York Society Library, visit Books for Understanding or ask for a list at the circulation desk. Books included concern Afghanistan, terrorism, Islam, biological weapons, the Taliban, religious fundamentalism, Osama bin Laden, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
- Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke - War diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke 940.548A
- Barber, Benjamin R. - The truth of power: intellectual affairs in the Clinton White House 92 C6398B
- Levi, Primo - Conversations with Primo Levi (1989) 92 L664L
- Read, Mike - Forever England: the life of Rupert Brooke (2000) 92 B8726R
- Reeves, Richard - President Nixon: alone in the White House 973.924R
- Wellstone, Paul David - The conscience of a liberal: reclaiming the compassionate agenda 92 W4556W
- Amis, Martin - The war against cliché: essays and reviews,
- 1971-2000 809A
- The assassin's cloak: an anthology of the world's greatest diarists (2000) 808.8A
- Eco, Umberto - Experiences in translation 418E
- Gornick, Vivian - The situation and the story: the art of personal narrative 808G
- Lindemann, Marilee - Willa Cather: queering America (1999) 823C
- Novel history: historians and novelists confront America's past (and each other) 823N
- Sontag, Susan - Where the stress falls: essays 824S
- Coleridge, Hartley - Bricks without mortar 821C
- Hecht, Anthony - The darkness and the light 821H
- Shapiro, Harvey - How Charlie Shavers died and other poems 821S
- Simic, Charles - Night picnic 821S
- Yowl: selected poems about cats 808.81Y
- Germano, William P. - Getting it published: a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books 070.5G
- West, Paul - Master class: scenes from a fiction workshop 808.3W
- Approaches to the American musical (1996) 782.6A
- Brushes with history: writing on art from The Nation: 1865- 2001 701B
- Eyre, Richard - Changing stages: a view of British and American theatre in the twentieth century 792.09E
- Levey, Michael - Dürer (1964) 759.3D
- Zissner, William Knowlton - Easy to remember: the great American songwriters and their songs 784.6Z
- Brandt, Bill - Brandt: the photography of Bill Brandt (1999) 770B
- Eggleston, William - The democratic forest (1989) 770E
- Friedlander, Lee - American musicians (1998) 770F
- Kaplan, Daile - Lewis Hine in Europe (1988) 770H
- Liebling, Jerome - The people, yes (1995) 770L
- Salgado, Sebastiao - The children (2000) 778S
- Winogrand, Garry - The man in the crowd: the uneasy streets of Garry Winogrand (1999) 770W
- Brzezinski, Matthew - Casino Moscow: a tale of greed and adventure on capitalism's wildest frontier 947.086B
- Cannadine, David - Ornamentalism: how the British saw their empire 942C
- Clark, Wesley - Waging modern war: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the future of combat 949.7C
- Douglas-Home, Charles - Dignified & efficient: the British monarchy in the twentieth century (2000) 942.082D
- Hanson, Victor Davis - Carnage and culture: landmark battles in the rise of Western power 904H
- Hartley, Janet M. - A social history of the Russian empire 1650- 1825 (1999) 947H
- Spain Betrayed: the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War 946.081S
- Stone, Norman - Europe transformed, 1878
-1919 (1999) 940.28S
- Thompson, Leonard Monteath - A history of South Africa 968T
- The 20th Century 909.82T Oversize
- Eisenhower, John S. - Yanks: the epic story of the American army in World War I 940.4E
- Ferguson, Niall - The pity of war (1999) 940.3F
- Johnson, J.H. - Stalemate! Great trench warfare battles (1999) 940.4J
- Strachan, Hew - The First World War 940.3S
- Anbinder, Tyler - Five points: the 19th century New York neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum 974.71A
- Register, Woody - The kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements 92 T472R
- Rock, Howard B. - Cityscapes: a history of New York in images 974.71R
- Aeberhard, Danny - The rough guide to Argentina 918.2A
- Botting, Douglas - Dr. Eckener's dream machine: the great Zeppelin and the dawn of air travel 629.13B
- Carey, Peter - 30 days in Sydney 919.4C
- Cronkite, Walter - Around America: a tour of our magnificent coastline 917.3C
- Sachs, Dana - The house on Dream Street: a memoir of an American woman in Vietnam (2000) 959S
- Shaw, David W. - Flying cloud: the true story of America's most famous clipper ship and the woman who guided her (2000) 910.4S
- Adler, Renata - Canaries in the mineshaft: essays on politics and media 973.92A
- Birnbaum, Pierre - The idea of France 944B
- Didion, Joan - Political fictions 324D
- Radosh, Ronald - Commies: a journey through the old left, the new left and the leftover left 335R
- Stalin's secret pogrom: the postwar inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee 344N
- Barker-Benfield, G.J. - The culture of sensibility: sex and society in 18th century Britain (1992) 305.4B
- Bennett, William J. - The broken hearth: reversing the moral collapse of the American family 306.8B
- Courtwright, David T. - Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world 362.293C
- Modern American queer history 306.7M
- Russo, David - American towns: an interpretive history 307.76R
- Ellis, Charles D. - Wall Street people: true stories of today's masters and moguls 332.6E
- Ferguson, Niall - The cash nexus: money and power in the modern world 332.4F
- Brooks, Peter - Whose Freud?: the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary culture (2000) 150W
- Nussbaum, Martha - Upheavals of thought: the intelligence of emotions 152N
- Sullivan, Harry Stack - Schizophrenia as a human process (1974) 616.8S
- Adams, James Eli - Dandies and desert saints: styles of Victorian masculinity (1995) 820.9A
- Morgan, Susan - Place matters: gendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia (1996) 828.09M
- Folbre, Nancy - The invisible heart: economics and family values 306.3F
- Paris, Erna - Long shadows: truth, lies, and history 940.5315P
- Wolfe, Alan - Moral freedom: the impossible idea that defines the way we live now 170W
- Brookes, Martin - Fly: the unsung hero of 20th century science 575.1B
- Davis, Kenneth C. - Don't know much about the universe 523.1D
- Hamblyn, Richard - The invention of clouds: how an amateur meteorologist forged the language of the skies 551.5H
- Stanford, Craig - Significant others: the ape-human continuum and the quest for human nature 573S
- Sykes, Bryan - The seven daughters of Eve 575S
- Winchester, Simon - The map that changed the world: William Smith and the birth of modern geology 550W
- Fenster, J.M. - Ether day: the strange tale of America's greatest medical discovery and the haunted men who made it 615.7F
- Gamwell, Lynn - Madness in America: cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914 (1995) 362.2G
- Greenberg, Peter - The travel detective: how to get the best service 910G
- Lerner, Barron - The breast cancer wars: hope, fear and the pursuit of a cure in 20th century America 616.9L
- Solomon, Andrew - The noonday demon: an atlas of depression 616.8S
- Tannen, Deborah - I only say this because I love you: how the way we talk can make or break family relationships throughout our lives 306.8T
- Fatsis, Stefan - Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players 793.7F
- Kennedy, A.L. - On bullfighting 791.8K
- Kram, Mark - Ghosts of Manila: the fateful blood feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier 796.8K
- Carlin, George - Napalm & silly putty 827C
- Crews, Frederick - Postmodern Pooh 823C
- Miller, Mark Crispin - The Bush dyslexicon: observations on a national disorder 973.930M
- Crume, Jeff - Inside Internet security (2000) 004.67C
- Lewis, Michael - Next: the future just happened 301.2L
- Campbell, Jeremy - The liar's tale: a history of falsehood 177C
- Capuzzo, Mike - Close to shore: a true story of terror in an age of innoncence 597C
- Garfield, Simon - Mauve: how one man invented a color that changed the world 667.2G
- Johnson, Steven - Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software 001.6J
- Melchior-Bonnet, Sabine - The mirror: a history 748M
- Pastoureau, Michel - The devil's cloth: a history of stripes and striped fabric 391P
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