JANUARY 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

SELECTED NEW BOOKS

• Ascending peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey (interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin)
• Befriending life: encounters with Henri Nouwen (edited by Beth Porter)
• Burana, Lily - Strip city: a stripper's farewell journey across America
• Carter, Miranda - Anthony Blunt: his lives
• Donn, Linda - The Roosevelt cousins: growing up together, 1882 -1924
• Galilei, Maria Celeste - Letters to father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623 -1633 (translated by Dava Sobel)
• Gill, Anton - Peggy Guggenheim: the life of an art addict
• Goodrich, David L. - The real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, writers of stage and screen classics
• Jones, J.D.F. - Storyteller: the lives of Laurens van der Post
• Kurth, Peter - Isadora: a sensational life
• Long, Robert Emmet - Broadway, the golden years: Jerome Robbins and the great choreographer -directors, 1940 to the present
• Mehta, Ved - All for love
• Mogador, Céleste - Memoirs of a courtesan in nineteenth -century Paris (new translation by Monique Fleury Nagem)
• Nikitenko, Aleksandr - Up from serfdom: my childhood and youth in Russia, 1804 -1824
• O'Connell, Marvin Richard - Edward Sorin
• Pugh, Martin - Pankhursts
• Roe, Sue - Gwen John: a painter's life
• Seebohm, Caroline - Boca Rococo: how Addison Mizner invented Florida's gold coast
• Van Hensbergen, Gijs - Gaudi: a biography
• Wullschlager, Jackie - Hans Christian Andersen: the life of a storyteller

• Dawson, Jill - Fred and Edie
• Delillo, Don - Pafko at the wall: a novella
• Dugain, Marc - The officers' ward
• Echenique, Alfredo Bryce - Tarzan's tonsillitis
• Enright, Anne - The wig my father wore
• Fitzhugh, Bill - Fender benders
• Follett, Ken - Jackdaws
• Hambly, Barbara - Magic time
• Kennedy, William - Roscoe
• Kinder, Chuck - Honeymooners: a cautionary tale
• Kurkov, Andrey - Death and the penguin
• Makiya, Kanan - The rock: a tale of seventh century Jerusalem
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Beasts
• Pap, Karoly - Azarel
• Pilcher, Robin - Starting over
• Quint, Michel - In our strange gardens
• Robison, Mary - Why did I ever
• Sobin, Gustaf - In pursuit of a vanishing star
• Vernon, John - The last canyon
• Wilson, James - The dark clue

• Davis, Lydia - Samuel Johnson is indignant
• Greenman, Ben - Superbad
• Roth, Joseph - Collected shorter fiction of Joseph Roth

• Bannister, Jo - Echoes of lies *
• Bernhardt, William - Natural Suspect: a collaborative novel of suspense (with Phillip Margolin, John Lescroart, Brad Meltzer, Lisa Scottoline, Michael Palmer, et al.)
• Buckley, Fiona - Queen of ambition *
• Clark, Carol Higgins - Fleeced
• Cohen, Gabriel - Red hook
• Cray, David - Little girl blue
• Gambino, Michael - The honored society
• Hathaway, Robin - The doctor and the dead man's chest
• Hegwood, Martin - Massacre Island
• Kaminsky, Stuart - Retribution: a Lew Fonesca novel
• MacDonald, Ross - Strangers in town: three newly discovered mysteries
• Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology (includes new stories by James Crumley, Donald Westlake, Ed McBain, Stuart Kaminsky, et al.)
• Perry, Thomas - Pursuit
• Simpson, Marcia - Crow in stolen colors
• Smith, Taylor - Deadly grace
• Stark, Richard - Firebreak

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

• Alexander, Michael - Jazz Age Jews 305.8A
• Cole, Natalie - Angel on my shoulder: an autobiography (2000) 780.92C
• Llewellyn Smith, Julia - Traveling on the edge: journeys in the footsteps of Graham Greene 92 G7995 L
• Lohr, Steve - Go to: the story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists and iconoclasts -the programmers who created the software revolution 004L
• Medawar, J.S. - Hitler's gift: the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime 943.085M
• Montefiore, Sebag - Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin 92 P8616 M
• Neal, Steve - Harry and Ike: the partnership that remade the postwar world 973.918N
• Packard, Jerrold M. - Victoria's daughters (1999) 920 P1194 V
• Philip, Leila - A family place: a Hudson Valley farm, three generations, five wars, one family 974.7P
• Pilz, Jeffrey - The life, work and times of George Henry Evans, newspaperman, activist and reformer (1829 -1849) 92 E923 P
• Roberts, David - Great exploration hoaxes 920 R644 G
• Rodgers, Richard - Letters to Dorothy (1988) 92 R6917 R CS
• Swade, Doron - The difference engine: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer 92 B1125 S

• Hamilton, John Maxwell - Casanova was a book lover: and other naked truths and provocative curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books (2000) 028H
• Lupoff, Richard A. - The great American paperback: an illustrated tribute to the legends of the book 070.5L
• Miller, Jane - Seductions: studies in reading and culture (1991) 809M
• Tolzmann, Dan Heinrich - The memory of mankind: the story of libraries since the dawn of time 027T

• Born, Daniel - The birth of liberal guilt in the English novel: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells (1995) 823B
• Buñuel, Luis - An unspeakable betrayal: selected writings (2000) 868B
• Cambridge companion to D.H. Lawrence (edited by Anne Fernihough) 823L
• Levi, Primo - The search for roots: a personal anthology 808.8L
• Oz, Amos - The same sea (Hebrew literature) 892.4O
• Parks, Tim - Hell and back: selected essays 824P
• Segal, Erich - The death of comedy 809.2S
• Watkin, William - In the process of poetry: the New York school and the avant -garde 821.09W

• Holderness, Graham - Shakespeare: the histories 822.33C
• Shakespeare's comedies: comprehensive research and study guide (edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom) 822.33C
• Smith, Bruce R. - Shakespeare and masculinity 822.33C

• Ho, Xuan Huong - Spring essence (2000) 895.9H
• Merwin, W.S. - The pupil 821M
• Tate, James - Memoir of the hawk 821T

• Barquist, David L. - Myer Myers: Jewish silversmith in colonial New York 739B
• Behind the scenes of Tiffany glassmaking: the Nash notebooks 748B
• Bell, Clare - Hirschfeld's New York 741.5B
• Delacroix, Eugène - Delacroix: the late work (1998) 759.4D
• Graham -Dixon, Andrew - A history of British art (1999) 709.42G
• Haas, Richard - The city is my canvas 759.1H
• Herbert, Robert - Seurat: drawings and paintings 759.4S
• Huse, Norbert - The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture and painting, 1460 -1590 (1993) 709.45H
• Nash, John Malcolm - The age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Dutch painting in the seventeenth century (1972) 759.9N

• Harvey, James - Movie love in the fifties 791.4H
• Spoto, Donald - The art of Alfred Hitchcock: fifty years of his motion pictures (1992) 791.4S
• Spoto, Donald - Stanley Kramer, film maker (1990) 92 K8944 G

• Da Capo best music writing 2000 780.5D
• Shipton, Alyn - A new history of jazz 780.973S

• Foucault, Michel - The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences (1994) 901F
• Richie, Donald - The Donald Richie reader: 50 years of writing on Japan 952R
• Sahlins, Marshall David - Culture in practice: selected essays (2000) 306S

• Columbia guide to America in the 1960s 973.922C
• Booknotes: stories from American history (Brian Lamb, editor)973B
• Dessalles, Pierre - Sugar and slavery, family and race: the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles, planter in the Martinique, 1808 -1856 (1996) 972.98D
• Duby, Georges - The chivalrous society (1977) 309.1D
• Hanley, Charles J. - The bridge at No Gun Ri: a hidden nightmare from the Korean War 951.9H
• Kinzer, Stephen - Crescent and star: Turkey between two worlds 956K
• McClain, James L. - Japan, a modern history 952M
• Mertus, Julie - Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war (1999) 949.7M
• Nossiter, Adam - The Algeria Hotel: France, memory, and the Second World War 940.5344N
• Persico, Joseph - Roosevelt's secret war: FDR and World War II espionage 940.5486P
• St. George, Robert Blair - Conversing by signs: poetics of implication in colonial New England culture (1998) 974S
• Stora, Benjamin - Algeria, 1830 -2000: a short history 965S
• Tye, Larry - Home lands: a portrait of the new Jewish diaspora 909.4T
• Warburton, Robert - Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879 -1898 (1970; originally published 1900) 954W
• What if? 2: eminent historians imagine what might have been 355.45W

• Bennett, G.H. - Survivors: British merchant seamen in the Second World War (1999) 940.545B
• Hough, Richard Alexander - Naval battles of the twentieth century 359H
• Spector, Ronald H. - At war, at sea: sailors and naval warfare in the twentieth century 359S

• Cantwell, Anne -Marie E. - Unearthing Gotham: the archaeology of New York City 974.71C
• It happened in Manhattan: an oral history of life in the city during the mid -twentieth century 974.71I
• Morehouse, Ward - Inside the Plaza: an intimate portrait of the ulimate hotel 974.71M
• New Immigrants in New York (revised and updated, 2001) 325.73N
• Pacelle, Mitchell - Empire: a tale of obsession (Empire State Building) 917.471P
• Wilder, Craig Steven - In the company of Black men: the African influence on African -American culture in New York City 305.88W

• Dunford, Martin - The rough guide to Amsterdam (2000) 914.92D
• Holland, Jack - The rough guide to Berlin 914.3H
• Pavitt, Jane - Prague (2000) 720.94P

• Bridges, Marilyn - Planet Peru: an aerial journey through a timeless land (1991) 918.5B
• Glazebrook, Philip - The electric rock garden (India) 915.4G
• Milton, Giles - The riddle and the knight: in search of Sir John Mandeville, the world's greatest traveler 910.4M
• Nichols, Peter - A voyage for madmen (Golden Globe Race) 910.4N

• Contact with Jung: essays on the influence of his work and personality (edited by Michael Fordham, 1963) 150C
• Geleerd, Elisabeth R. - The child analyst at work (1967) 131.34G
• Kohut, Heinz - The restoration of the self (1977) 131.34K
• Kohut, Heinz - The analysis of the self: a systematic approach to the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic personality disorders(1971) 131.34K
• Rado, Sandor - Psychoanalysis of behavior: collected papers (2 volumes, 1956 -1962) 131.34R
• Waal, F.B.M. de - The ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections by a primatologist 151.3W

• Chamberlain, Theodore J. - Realized religion: research on the relationship between religion and health (2000) 291C
• Dennis, Anthony J. - The rise of the Islamic empire and the threat to the West (1996) 297D
• Goddard, Hugh - A history of Christian -Muslim relations 297G
• Stark, Rodney - One true God: historical consequences of monotheism 291S
• Terkel, Studs - Will the circle be unbroken?: reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for a faith 128T
• Vernant, Jean Pierre - The universe, the gods and men: ancient Greek myths 292V

• Calasso, Roberto - The forty -nine steps 190C
• Eco, Umberto - Belief or non -belief?: a confrontation (2000) 195E
• Nozick, Robert - Invariances: the structure of the objective world 110N
• Todorov, Tzvetan - Frail happiness: an essay on Rousseau 194T

• Becher, Bernd - Industrial facades (1995) 778B
• Horst - Horst portraits: 60 years of style 778H
• Levitt, Helen - Crosstown 917.471L

• Brands, H.W. - The strange death of American liberalism 320.9B
• Harpaz, Beth J. - The girls in the van: covering Hillary 973.929H
• Kaplan, David A. - The accidental president: how 413 lawyers, 9 Supreme Court justices, and 5,963,110 (give or take a few) Floridians landed George W. Bush in the White House 324K
• MacMillan, Margaret - Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war 940.314M
• McNamara, Robert S. - Wilson's ghost: reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century 327.73M
• Roy, Oliver - The failure of political Islam (1994) 322R
• Whitcomb, Christopher - Cold zero: inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team 363W

• Borjas, George J. - Heaven's door: immigration policy and the American economy 325.73B
• Study of economic history: collected inaugural lectures, 1893 -1970 (edited by N.B. Harte, 1971) 330.9H

• Cheever, Benjamin - Selling Ben Cheever: back to square one in a service economy 331.13C
• Held, David - Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas (1980) 301H
• Kasson, John F. - Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man: the White male body and the challenge of modernity in America 305.3K
• Maalouf, Amin - In the name of identity: violence and the need to belong 302.3M
• Martinez, Rubén - Crossing over: a Mexican family on the migrant trail 305.8M
• Victor, David G. - The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming 363.7V

• Burnett, D. Graham - A trial by jury (chronicle of jury duty on a New York City homicide trial) 345B
• Gourevitch, Philip - A cold case (New York City murder investigation) 364.1G

• Berlinski, David - Newton's gift: how Sir Isaac Newton unlocked the system of the world (2000) 530B
• Gould, Stephen Jay (with Rosamond Wolff Purcell) - Crossing over: where art and science meet (2000) 500G
• Grady, Wayne - The bone museum: travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds 569G
• Hellman, Hal - Great feuds in medicine: ten of the liveliest disputes ever 610.9H
• Nadler, Spencer - The language of cells: life as seen under the microscope 616N
• Ridley, Mark - Mendel's demon: gene justice and the complexity of life (2000) 575.1R
• Wade, Nicholas - Life script: how the human genome discoveries will transform medicine and enhance your health 575.1W

• Holland, Jimmie C. - The human side of cancer: living with hope, coping with uncertainty 616.9H
• Sheffield, Anne - Sorrow's web: overcoming the legacy of maternal depression (2000) 616.8S
• Shenk, David - The forgetting: Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic 618.97S

• Harrison, Jim - The raw and the cooked: adventures of a roving gourmand 641H (Lobby)
• Meyer, Danny - Second helpings from Union Square Café 641.5M
• Plotkin, Fred - La terra fortunata: the splendid food and wine of Friuli -Venezia Giulia 641.5P

• Fierce pajamas: an anthology of humor writing from The New Yorker 827.08N
• O'Rourke, P.J. - The CEO of the sofa 827O

• The English novel, 1770 -1829: a bibliographical survey of prose fiction published in the British Isles (2 volumes) MARSHALL ROOM 016.82E
• Libraries in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (2002) REF 027L

• Delinsky, Barbara - The woman next door F D (Lobby)
• Dubus, Andre - House of sand and fog F D (Lobby)
• Hillenbrand, Laura - Seabiscuit 798H
• Martini, Steve - The jury F M
• Shreve, Anita - The last time they met F S (Lobby)
• Woods, Stuart - Cold Paradise F W (Lobby)

• Mylroie, Laurie - Study of revenge: the first World Trade Center attack and Saddam Hussein's war against America 303.6M (Lobby)
• New York September 11 (Photographs by the staff of Magnum Photographers, with an introduction by David Halberstam) 974.71 N (Lobby)

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