New York Society Library

DECEMBER 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Aleshire, Peter - Cochise: the life and times of the great Apache chief
  • Baldwin, Neil - Henry Ford and the Jews
  • Ball, Edward - The sweet hell inside: a family history
  • Barroll, Leeds - Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: a cultural biography
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Alma mater
  • Carson, Anne Conover - Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound
  • Conway, Jill K. - A woman's education
  • Crotty, Shane - Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in science
  • Erickson, Carolly - Alexandra: the last Tsarina
  • Feinstein, Elaine - Ted Hughes: the life of a poet
  • Foote, Horton - Beginnings: a memoir
  • Grove, Andrew - Swimming across: a memoir
  • Hammett, Jo - Dashiell Hammett: a daughter remembers
  • Hibbert, Christopher - The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill, 1650-1744
  • Jones, Quincy - Q: the autobiography of Quincy Jones
  • Jordan, Jane - Josephine Butler
  • Jordan, Vernon - Vernon can read
  • Kerik, Bernard - The lost son: a life in pursuit of justice
  • Leamer, Laurence - The Kennedy men: 1901-1963
  • Leaming, Barbara - Mrs. Kennedy: the missing history of the Kennedy years
  • Lewis, Adam - Van Day Truex: the man who defined twentieth-century taste and style
  • Lovell, Mary S. - The Mitford girls: the biography of an extraordinary family
  • McDonald, Dwight - Moral temper: letters of Dwight MacDonald
  • Montefiore, Sebag - Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin
  • Morris, Edmund - Theodore Rex
  • Noonan, Peggy - When character was king
  • Picasso, Marina - Picasso, my grandfather
  • Plisetskaya, Maya - I, Maya Plisetskaya
  • Recknagel, Marsha - If nights could talk: a family memoir
  • Secrest, Meryle - Somewhere for me: a biography of Richard Rodgers
  • Sheehan, Andrew - Chasing the hawk: looking for my father, finding myself
  • Teller, Edward - Memoirs: a twentieth century journey in science and politics
  • Tynan, Kenneth - The diaries of Kenneth Tynan
  • Wall, Geoffrey - Flaubert: a life

FICTION

  • Abreu, Caio Fernando - Whatever happened to Dulce Veiga?
  • Barth, John - Coming soon
  • Beauman, Sally - Rebecca's tale
  • Braselton, Jeanne - A false sense of well-being
  • Cruz, Angie - Soledad
  • Gabaldon, Diana - The fiery cross
  • Gilling, Tom - The sooterkin
  • Grisham, John - Skipping Christmas
  • Hart, Josephine - The reconstructionist
  • Harvey, Joanna - A second legacy
  • Herbert, Brian - Dune: house Corrino
  • Karon, Jan - The Mitford snowmen
  • Kilma, Ivan - No saints or angels
  • Klaven, Andrew - Man and wife
  • Lessing, Doris - The sweetest dream
  • Lipsyte, Sam - The subject Steve
  • Mitchell, David - Number 9 dream
  • Norfolk, Lawrence - In the shape of a boar
  • Nunez, Sigrid - For Rouenna
  • Parry, Owen - Call each river Jordan
  • Potok, Chaim - Old men at midnight
  • Quan, Tracy - Diary of a Manhattan call girl
  • Read, Piers Paul - Alice in exile
  • Rice, Anne - Blood and gold
  • Said, Kurban - The girl from the golden horn
  • Silber, Joan - Lucky us
  • Smith, Ali - Hotel world
  • Thayer, Nancy - Custody
  • Vargas Llosa, Mario - Feast of the goat
  • Willis, Connie - Passage

SHORT STORIES

  • Bellow, Saul - Collected fiction
  • Ford, Richard - Multitude of sins
  • Hegi, Ursula - Hotel of the saints
  • McCorkle, Jill - Creatures of habit
  • Mosley, Walter - Futureland
  • Munro, Alice - Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage
  • Orner, Peter - Esther stories
  • Proust, Marcel - Complete short stories

MYSTERIES

  • Albert, Susan Wittig - Bloodroot
  • Balducci, David - Last man standing
  • Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the prisoner of Wool House *
  • Bartholomew, Nancy - Strip Poker
  • Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin and the love from hell *
  • Block, Lawrence - Hope to die
  • Butler, Gwendolyn - Coffin's ghost *
  • Churchill, Jill - Someone to watch over me
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - He sees you while you're sleeping
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Chapel noir
  • Ellis, Kate - Bone garden *
  • Ferrigno, Robert - Flinch
  • Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina - Bitter sugar: a Lupe Solano mystery
  • Harris, Charlaine - Shakespeare's counselor
  • Hautman, Peter - Rag man
  • Janes, J. Robert - Kaleidoscope
  • Keating, H.R.F. - Breaking and entering *
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Flesh and blood
  • Kilmer, Nicholas - Lazarus, arise
  • Lansdale, Joe - Captains outrageous
  • Logue, Mary - Glare ice
  • Mayer, Archer - Tucker peak
  • Murder in Baker Street: new tales of Sherlock Holmes (Anne Perry, Stuart Kaminsky, Loren Estleman, et al.)
  • Patterson, James - Violets are blue
  • Raphael, Lev - Burning down the house: a Nick Hoffman novel
  • Todd, Charles - Watchers of time
  • Van Wormer, Laura - Trouble becomes her
  • Weir, Charlene - A cold Christmas
  • Wynne, Marcus - No other option
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

ISLAM*

  • Armstrong, Karen - The battle for God (2000) 201A
  • Armstrong, Karen - Islam: a short history (2000) 297A
  • Barber, Benjamin - Jihad vs. McWorld (1996) 909.82B
  • Firestone, Reuven - Jihad: the origin of the holy war in Islam (1999) 297F
  • Lewis, Bernard - Islam and the west (1993) 303.4L
  • Oxford history of Islam (1999) 297O

AFGHANISTAN & THE TALIBAN*

  • Bergen, Peter - Holy war, inc.: inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden 303.6B
  • Elliot, Jason - An unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan (1999) 915.8E
  • Gohari, M. J. - Taliban: ascent to power (2000) 958G
  • Goodson, Larry - Afghanistan's endless war: state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban 958G
  • Roy, Oliver - Afghanistan: from holy war to civil war (1995) 958R

THE MIDDLE EAST*

  • Kaplan, Robert - Soldiers of God: with Islamic warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan 958K
  • Kux, Dennis - The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: disenchanted allies 327.73K
  • Lewis, Bernard - The shaping of the modern Middle East (1994) 956.9L

TERRORISM*

  • How did this happen? Terrorism and the new war (edited by James F. Hoge and Gideon Rose) 303.6H
  • Juergensmeyer, Mark - Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence (2000) 364.1J
  • Laquer, Walter - The new terrorism: fanaticism and the arms of mass destruction (1999) 364L
  • Origins of terrorism: psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind (1998) 303.6O
*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.

BIOGRAPHY

  • Clendinnen, Inga - Tiger's eye: a memoir 362.1C
  • Dreiser, Theodore - Newspaper days: an autobiography (2000) 92 D771 D
  • Edel, Leon - The visitable past: a wartime memoir (2000) 940.548E
  • Morgan, Robert - The man who flew the Memphis Belle: memoir of a WWII bomber pilot 940.548M
  • Priestley, J.B. - Thomas Love Peacock (1966) 92 P356 P
  • Raskin, Jonah - For the hell of it: the life and times of Abbie Hoffman (1996) 92 H6991 R
  • Saint Augustine's childhood: Confessions book one (with commentary by Garry Wills) 92 A9228 A
  • Trefousse, Hans Louis - Thaddeus Stevens: nineteenth-century egalitarian 92 S8446 T
  • Wright, David - Fire on the beach: recovering the lost story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island lifesavers 920 W95 F

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich - The liberation of Tolstoy: a tale of two writers 891.7B
  • The Emily Dickinson Handbook (1998) 821.09D
  • Goldbarth, Albert - Many circles: new & selected essays 824G
  • Gordon, Sarah - Flannery O'Connor: The obedient imagination (2000) 823O
  • Life turns man up and down: high life, useful advice, and mad English: African market literature 896L
  • Roth, Philip - Shop talk: a writer and his colleagues and their work 809R
  • Rowe, John Carlos - The other Henry James (1998) 823J

BOOKS AND READING

  • Basbanes, Nicholas A. - Patience and fortitude: a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture 010B
  • Claxton, Eve - New York's 50 best bookstores for book lovers (2000) Ref 655.5C
  • Lost classics (edited by Michael Ondaatje) 028L
  • Pearlman, Mickey - What to read: the essential guide for reading group members and other book lovers (1999) 028P
  • Scholes, Robert - The crafty reader 028S

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Letters to Atticus (translated by D.R. Shackleton; 1999) 876.1C
  • Horace - The epistles of Horace (translated by David Ferry) 874.5H
  • Petrarca, Francesco - Canzoniere (translated by J.G. Nichols) 851P

POETRY

  • Collins, Billy - Sailing alone around the room 821C
  • Creeley, Robert - Just in time: poems, 1984-1994 821C
  • Epstein, Daniel Mark - What lips my lips have kissed: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay 821.09M
  • Olson, Charles - The collected poems 821O
  • Rich, Adrienne - Fox: poems, 1998-2000 821R

DRAMA

  • Duckworth, George Eckel - The complete Roman drama: all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations (1942) 872D
  • Great playwrights: twenty-five plays with commentaries by critics and scholars (1970) 808.82G
  • Margulies, Donald - Dinner with friends (2000) 822M
  • Mnemonic 822M

LANGUAGE

  • Hendrickson, Robert - Mountain range: a dictionary of expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks (1997) 427H
  • Metcalf, Allan A. - How we talk: American regional English today (2000) 427M

THE ARTS

  • Carringer, Robert L. - The Magnificent Ambersons: a reconstruction (1993) 791.4C
  • Caygill, Marjorie - The British museum: A-Z companion 708.2C
  • Chadwick, Bruce - The reel Civil War: mythmaking in American film 791.4C
  • Collins, Bradley - Van Gogh and Gauguin: electric arguments and utopian dreams 759.94C
  • Fiedler, Johanna - Molto agitato: the mayhem behind the music at the Metropolitan Opera 782.1F
  • Hofmann, Werner - Caspar David Friedrich 759.3F
  • Jansen, David - Black bottom stomp: eight masters of ragtime and early jazz 780.92J
  • Manguel, Alberto - Reading pictures: a history of love and hate 701M

PHILOSOPHY

  • Edmonds, David - Wittgenstein's poker: the story of a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers 193E
  • Ginzburg, Carlo - Wooden eyes: nine reflections on distance 195G
  • Hanssen, Beatrice - Walter Benjamin's other history: of stones, animals, human beings and angels 834H
  • Nylan, Michael - The five "Confucian" classics 299.51N
  • Outram, Dorinda - The Enlightenment (1995) 190O

HISTORY

  • Berthon, Simon - Allies at war: the bitter rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle 940.532B
  • Betts, Raymond - The false dawn: European imperialism in the 19th century (1975) 325.3B
  • Dixon, Simon - The modernization of Russia, 1676-1825 (1999) 947D
  • Dresch, Paul - A history of modern Yemen 953D
  • Gay, Peter - Schnitzler's century: the making of middle-class culture, 1815-1914 940.28G
  • Haigh, Christopher - English reformations: religion, politics, and society under the Tudors (1993) 942.05H
  • Kertzer, David I. - The Popes against the Jews: the Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-semitism 261K
  • Martin, Thomas R. - Ancient Greece: from prehistoric to Hellenistic times (2000) 938M
  • Murolo, Priscilla - From the folks who brought you the weekend: a short, illustrated history of labor in the United States 331M
  • Schama, Simon - A history of Britain - Vol. 1: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603; Vol. 2: The British wars, 1603-1776 942.05S
  • Thompson, E.P. - The Essential E.P. Thompson 942.07T
  • Twentieth century Britain: economic, social and cultural change (edited by Paul Johnson) (1994) 942.082T
  • Vinen, Richard - A history in fragments: Europe in the 20th century 940.5V
  • Wall, Irwin - France, the United States and the Algerian War 965W
  • Wills, Garry - Venice, lion city 945.3W

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Cooper, John Milton - Breaking the heart of the world: Woodrow Wilson and the fight for the League of Nations 327.73C
  • Griffiths, Richard - An intelligent person's guide to fascism (2000) 320.9G
  • Halberstam, David - War in a time of peace: Bush, Clinton, and the generals 327.73H
  • Hamilton, Alexander - Writings (Library of America) 973.4H
  • Johnson, Hayes Bonner - The best of times: America in the Clinton years 973.929J
  • Mearsheimer, John J. - The tragedy of great power politics 327M

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Black genius: African-American solutions to African-American problems (edited by Walter Mosley) 305.88B
  • Bragg, Rick - Somebody told me: the newspaper stories of Rick Bragg (2000) 306B
  • Doyle, William - An American insurrection: the battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 378D
  • Drinan, Robert F. - The mobilization of shame: a world of human rights 323.4D
  • Dying for growth: global inequality and the health of the poor (2000) 362.1D
  • Royko, Mike - For the love of Mike: more of the best of Mike Royko [Chicago] 977.3R
  • Walton, John K. - The British seaside: holidays and resorts in the twentieth century (2000) 306.4W

EDUCATION

  • Hart, Jeffrey Peter - Smiling through the cultural catastrophe: toward the revival of higher education 370.1H
  • Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor - The creation of the future: the role of the American university 378R

ECONOMICS

  • Rothschild, Emma - Economic sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment 330.1R
  • Rowbotham, Michael - Goodbye America!: globalisation, debt and the dollar empire (2000) 336.3R
  • Thompson, F.M.L. - Gentrification and the enterprise culture: Britain 1780-1980 305.5T
  • Welch, Jack - Jack: straight from the gut 338.7W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Reddy, William M. - The navigation of feeling: a framework for the history of emotions 157R
  • Silverman, Sue William - Love sick: one woman's journey through sexual addiction 616.8S
  • Wolf, Naomi - Misconceptions: truth, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood 618W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Brooklyn: a state of mind 974.71B
  • The Fun of it: stories from The New Yorker's "The talk of the town" (edited by Lillian Ross) 974.71F
  • Hannigan, William - New York noir: crime photos from the Daily News archive (1999) 917.471H
  • McFarland, Gerald W. - Inside Greenwich Village: a New York City neighborhood 305.8M
  • Monkkonen, Eric H. - Murder in New York City (2000) 364.1M
  • Tiedemann, Joseph S. - Reluctant revolutionaries: New York City and the road to independence (1997) 974.71T

TRAVEL

  • Crane, George - Bones of the master: a journey to secret Mongolia 294C
  • Dodd, Jan - The rough guide to Vietnam (2000) 915.9D
  • Hearn, Lafcadio - Two years in the French West Indies 917.29H
  • Murphy, Dervla - South from the Limpopo: travels through South Africa 916.8M
  • Solomon, Susan - The coldest march: Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition 919.9S

SCIENCE

  • Hubbell, Sue - Shrinking the cat: genetic engineering before we knew about genes 660H
  • Miller, Geoffrey - The mating mind: how sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature (2000) 575M
  • Smolin, Lee - Three roads to quantum gravity 530.1S
  • Strathern, Paul - Mendeleyev's dream: the quest for the elements 540.9S
  • Watson, James - A passion for DNA: genes, genomes, and society (2000) 575.1W

SPORTS & GAMES

  • Bonatti, Walter - The mountains of my life 92 B711 B
  • Knecht, G. Bruce - The proving ground: the inside story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart race 797.1K
  • Tennis and the meaning of life: a literary anthology of the game (1995) 820.8T
  • Wertheim, L. Jon - Venus envy: a sensational season inside the Women's Tour 796.3W

CITIES

  • Fogelson, Robert M. - Downtown: it's rise and fall, 1880-1950 307.76F
  • Madrid (Eyewitness travel guides) (1999) 914.6M
  • Morris, Jan - Trieste and the meaning of nowhere 914.5M
  • Richardson, Dan - The rough guide to Moscow 914.7R
  • Welsh, Alexander - The city of Dickens (1986) 823D

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Jay, Ricky - Jay's journal of anomalies: conjurers, cheats... 790J
  • Junger, Sebastian - Fire 904J
  • Our Monica, ourselves: the Clinton affair and the national interest 973.929O


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