New York Society Library

FEBRUARY 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ashley, Mike - Starlight man: the extraordinary life of Algernon Blackwood
  • Conde, Maryse - Tales from the heart: true stories from my childhood
  • Denis, Brian - Pulitzer: a life
  • Faas, Ekbert - Robert Creeley: a biography
  • Feltrinelli, Carlo - Senior service: a story of riches, revolution and violent death
  • Gray, Simon - Enter a fox
  • Guinness, Alec - A commonplace book
  • Gurewitsch, Edna - Kindred souls: the friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch
  • Hickam, Homer - Sky of stone
  • Kennedy, Pagan - Black Livingstone: a true tale of adventure in the nineteenth-century Congo
  • Kluger, Ruth - Still alive: a Holocaust girlhood remembered
  • Lingeman, Richard - Sinclair Lewis: rebel from Main Street
  • Mathews, Nancy - Paul Gauguin: an erotic life
  • Monsaingeon, Bruno - Sviatoslav Richter: notebooks and converstations
  • Nicolson, Adam - Sea room: an island life
  • Partridge, Frances - Ups and downs: diaries, 1972-1975
  • Perret, Geoffrey - Jack: a life like no other (John F. Kennedy)
  • Piercy, Marge - Sleeping with cats: a memoir
  • Rahman, Aishah - Chewed water: a memoir
  • Seymour-Jones, Carole - Painted shadow: a life of Vivienne Eliot
  • Shehadeh, Raja - Strangers in the house: coming of age in occupied Palestine
  • Urban, Mark - The man who broke Napoleon's code
  • Walker, Peter - The fox boy
  • Wu, Duncan - Wordsworth: an inner life

FICTION

  • Brett, Lily - Too many men
  • Byler, Stephen - Searching for intruders
  • Cookson, Catherine - Silent lady
  • Cornwell, Bernard - The archer's tale
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's prey
  • Dee, Jonathan - Palladio
  • DeMoor, Margriet - Duke of Egypt
  • Faulks, Sebastian - On green dolphin street
  • Green, Tim - The fourth perimieter
  • Hamilton-Paterson, James - Loving monsters
  • Krentz, Jayne Ann - Smoke in mirrors
  • Lerner, Lisa - Just like beauty
  • Lethem, Jonathan & Carter Scholz - Kafka Americana
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Eden burning
  • McKnight, Reginald - He sleeps
  • Minot, Susan - Rapture
  • Murray, Sabrina - The caprices
  • Parsons, Julie - Eager to please
  • Robards, Karen - To trust a stranger
  • Stewart, Fred Mustard - The savages in love and war
  • Thompson, Jean - Wide blue yonder
  • Trillin, Calvin - Tepper isn't going out
  • Wagner, Bruce - I'll let you go
  • Weld, William - Stillwater

SHORT STORIES

  • Ballard, J.G. - Complete short stories
  • Berberova, Nina - The Billancourt tales
  • Link, Kelly - Stranger things happen
  • Tuck, Lily - Limbo, and other places I have lived

MYSTERIES

  • Alexander, Bruce - Smuggler's moon *
  • Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Minnesota *
  • Arnott, Jake - He kills coppers *
  • Banks, T.F. - The thief taker *
  • Beaton, M.C. - Death of a celebrity *
  • Braun, Lilian Jackson - Cat who went up the creek
  • Cannell, Stephen - The Viking funeral
  • Cleary, Jon - Yesterday's shadow
  • Doss, James - White shell woman
  • Fiffer, Sharon - Killer stuff
  • Fulmer, David - Chasing the devil's tail
  • Fyfield, Frances - Nature of the beast *
  • Hall, Patricia - Skeleton at the feast *
  • Gear, Kathleen O'Neal - Bone walker
  • Gilman, Dorothy - Kaleidoscope
  • Gorman, Ed - Save the last dance for me
  • Hall, James - Blackwater sound
  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Gone tomorrow *
  • Harvey, John - In a true light *
  • Hiaasen, Carl - Basket case
  • Jahn, Michael - Murder on the waterfront
  • Law, Janice - The lost diaries of Iris Weed
  • Lawrence, Martha - Ashes of ashes
  • Lescroart, John - The oath
  • Lucarelli, Carlo - Almost blue
  • Rankin, Ian - Resurrection men *
  • Rathbone, Julian - Accidents will happen *
  • Sallis, James - Ghost of a flea
  • Stella, Charles - Eddie's world
  • Stewart, Mike - A clean kill
  • Walters, Minette - Acid row *
  • Yorke, Margaret - A case to answer *
  • Wessel, John - Kiss it goodbye
  • Wilson, Laura - My best friend *
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Boswell, James - Boswell's Edinburgh journals, 1767-1786 92 B7477 B
  • Brownell, Morris R. - The prime minister of taste: a portrait of Horace Walpole 706.9B
  • Clarke, William M. - The secret life of Wilkie Collins (1991) 92 C7136C
  • Duby, Georges - Women of the twelfth century (3 volumes) 305.4D
  • Dutton, David - Neville Chamberlain 92 C444 D
  • Edwards, Paul - Wyndham Lewis: painter and writer (2000) 759.2L
  • Lottman, Herbert R. - Man Ray's Montparnasse 709.2M
  • Nabokov, Vladimir - Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: the Nabokov-Wilson letters, 1940-1971 92 N1175 N
  • Oderman, Stuart - Lillian Gish: a life on stage and screen (2000) 92 G5325 O
  • Richardson, John - Sacred monsters, sacred masters: Beaton, Capote, Dali, Picasso, Freud, Warhol and more 920 R53 S
  • Russell, Bertrand - Yours faithfully, Bertrand Russell: a lifelong fight for peace, justice, and truth in letters to the editor 192R
  • Smith, Gerald Stanton - D.S. Mirsky: a Russian-English life, 1890-1939 (2000) 801S
  • Wolin, Richard - Heidegger's children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse 193W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bénabou, Marcel - Dump this book while you still can! 848B
  • Best contemporary Jewish writing 820.8B
  • Eco, Umberto - Five moral pieces 854E
  • Hentoff, Nat - The Nat Hentoff reader 828H
  • Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature in the United States 820.8H
  • Malcolm, Janet - Reading Chekhov: a critical journey 891.73C
  • Milosz, Czeslaw - To begin where I am: selected essays 891.95M
  • Nalbantian, Suzanne - Aesthetic autobiography: from life to art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Anaďs Nin (1997) 820.9N
  • Sage, Lorna - Moments of truth: twelve twentieth-century women writers 809S
  • Simon, John Ivan - Dreamers of dreams: essays on poets and poetry 809.1S
  • Worley, Sam McGuire - Emerson, Thoreau, and the role of the cultural critic 820.9W
  • Writing New England: an anthology from the Puritans to the present (edited by Andrew Delbanco) 974W

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Babel, Isaac - The complete works of Isaac Babel (translated by Peter Constantine) 891.7B
  • Dante Alighieri - Inferno: a new verse translation by Michael Palma 851D
  • Murasaki, Shikibu - The tale of Genji (translated by Royall Tyler) F M
  • Svevo, Italo - Zeno's conscience (translation by William Weaver) F S

POETRY

  • Doyle, Ben - Radio, radio 821D
  • Early modern women poets (1520-1700): an anthology 821.08E
  • Milosz, Czeslaw - New and collected poems, 1931-2001 891.95M
  • White man's burdens: an anthology of British poetry of the Empire (1996) 821.08W

FOLKLORE

  • Hurston, Zora Neale - Every tongue got to confess: Negro folk-tales from the Gulf states 398H
  • Morris, Jan - A Venetian bestiary (1982) 398M
  • Shay, Frank - Here's audacity: American legendary heroes (1930) 398.2S

JOURNALISM

  • Hartsock, John C. - A history of American literary journalism: the emergence of a modern narrative form 070H
  • Princeton anthology of writing: favorite pieces by the Ferris/McGraw writers at Princeton University 820.8P
  • Written into history: Pulitzer Prize reporting of the twentieth century from the New York times 070W

ARTS

  • Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 709.43B
  • Brustein, Robert Sanford - Siege of the arts: collected writings, 1994-2001 792.0973B
  • Crossroads: art and religion in American life 704C
  • Godfrey, Richard T. - James Gillray: the art of caricature 741.5G
  • Hockney, David - Secret knowledge: rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters 751H
  • Klimt, Gustav - Gustav Klimt: modernism in the making 759.36K
  • Signac, Paul - Signac, 1863-1935 759.4S
  • Strindberg: painter and photographer 759.8S

MUSIC

  • Magee, Bryan - The Tristan chord: Wagner and philosophy 780.92W
  • Rorem, Ned - A Ned Rorem reader 780.9R
  • Shack, William A. - Harlem in Montmartre: a Paris jazz story between the great wars 780.973S
  • Shostakovich in context 780.92S

HISTORY

  • Baecque, Antoine de - Glory and terror: seven deaths under the French Revolution 944.04B
  • Casey, Steven - Cautious crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American public opinion, and the war against Nazi Germany 940.5373C
  • Guevara, Ernesto - The African dream: the diaries of the revolutionary war in the Congo (2000) 967G
  • Hill, Christopher - Puritanism and revolution: studies in interpretation of the English Revolution of the seventeenth century (1997) 942.06H
  • Mead, Walter Russell - Special providence: American foreign policy and how it changed the world 327.73M
  • Okihiro, Gary Y. - The Columbia guide to Asian-American history 305.87O
  • Past masters: the best of History Today 909H
  • Reaching for glory: Lyndon Johnson's secret White House tapes, 1964-1965 973.923R
  • Richter, Daniel - Facing East from Indian country: a Native history of early America 970R
  • Sereny, Gitta - The healing wound: experiences and reflections on Germany, 1938-2001 943.087S
  • Stalinism as a way of life: a narrative in documents 947.084S
  • Ulrich, Laurel - The age of homespun: objects and stories in the creation of an American myth 974U
  • Wasserstein, Bernard - Divided Jerusalem: the struggle for the Holy City 956.94W
  • Witte, Ludo de - The assassination of Lumumba 967W

RELIGION

  • Arendt, Hannah - Love and Saint Augustine (1996) 177A
  • Cox, Harvey - Common prayers: faith, family, and a Christian's journey through the Jewish year 263C
  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - Reformations: a radical interpretation of Christianity and the world, 1500-2000 (1997) 270F
  • Fuller, Robert C. - Spiritual, but not religious: understanding unchurched America 248F
  • Miles, Jack - Christ: a crisis in the life of God 232M

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Glassner, Barry - The culture of fear: why Americans are afraid of the wrong things (1999) 301.15G
  • Lasch-Quinn - Race experts: how racial etiquette, sensitivity training, and new age therapy hijacked the civil rights revolution 323.4L
  • Murray, Albert - From the briarpatch file: on context, procedure, and American identity 304M
  • Perkin, Harold James - Origins of modern English society (1996) 306P
  • Posner, Richard A. - Public intellectuals: a study of decline 305.5P
  • Sweet, Matthew - Inventing the Victorians 942.08S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Alpern, Andrew - The New York apartment houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter 728A
  • Eliot, Marc - Down 42nd Street: sex, money, culture and politics at the crossroads of the world 947.71E
  • Jackson, John - Harlemworld: doing race and class in contemporary Black America 974.71J
  • Rethinking the urban agenda: reinvigorating the liberal tradition in New York City and urban America 352R
  • Sagalyn, Lynne B. - Times Square roulette: remaking the city icon 309.2S
  • Segal, Gillian Zoe - New York characters 920 S44 N

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Buruma, Ian - Bad elements: Chinese rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing 951B
  • Farah, Nuruddin - Yesterday, tomorrow: voices from the Somali diaspora 967F
  • Goldberg, Robert Alan - Enemies within: the culture of conspiracy in modern America 973G
  • Ignatieff, Michael - Human rights as politics and idolatry 323.4I
  • Kotkin, Stephen - Armageddon averted: the Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 974.085K
  • Lilla, Mark - Reckless mind: intellectuals in politics 305.5L
  • Reynolds, David - Britannia overruled: British policy and world power in the twentieth century 327.42R
  • Ronson, Jon - Them: adventures with extremists 323.2R
  • Roy, Arundhati - Power politics (India) 320.9R

ECONOMICS & INDUSTRY

  • Deffeyes, Kenneth S. - Hubbert's peak: the impending world oil shortage 333.8D
  • Gompers, Paul A. - The money of invention: how venture capital creates new wealth 332.6G
  • Hobsbawm, E.J. - Industry and empire: from 1750 to the present day (1999) 330.942H
  • Rothfeder, Jeffrey - Every drop for sale: our desperate battle over water in a world about to run out 333.9R
  • Satterthwaite, Ann - Going shopping: consumer choices and community consequences 306S

LAW

  • Dean, John W. - The Rehnquist choice: the untold story of the Nixon appointment that redefined the Supreme Court 347.991D
  • Dershowitz, Alan - Letters to a young lawyer 340D
  • Gillman, Howard - The votes that counted: how the court decided the 2000 presidential election 324.9G
  • Guttenplan, D.D. - The Holocaust on trial 940.5318G
  • Lessig, Lawrence - The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world 347.73L

DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

  • Dolnick, Edward - Down the great unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon 917.91D
  • Ehrlich, Gretel - This cold heaven: seven seasons in Greenland 998E
  • Ma, Jian - Red dust: a path through China 915.1M

SCIENCE

  • Croswell, Ken - The universe at midnight: observations illuminating the cosmos 523.1C
  • Flannery, Tim F. - A gap in nature: discovering the world's extinct animals 591.5F
  • Franklin, James - The science of conjecture: evidence and probability before Pascal 510.9F
  • Hawking, Stephen - The universe in a nutshell 530.1H
  • Piel, Gerard - The age of science: what scientists learned in the 20th century 509P
  • Powell, John Wesley - Seeing things whole: the essential John Wesley Powell 575.3P

EDUCATION

  • Heilbrun, Carolyn - When men were the only models we had: my teachers Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling 378H
  • Keller, Morton - Making Harvard modern: the rise of America's university 378K

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Appignanesi, Richard - Freud for beginners (1992) 150A
  • Deutsch, Helene - Neuroses and character types: clinical and psychoanalytic studies (1965) 131.34D
  • Jones, Ernest - Essays in applied psycho-analysis (2 volumes) (1964) 616.8J

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Mayo Clinic on arthritis (1999) 616.9M
  • Mayo Clinic on digestive health 616.3M
  • Mayo Clinic on high blood pressure 616.1M

FOOD

  • Carney, Judith Ann - Black rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas 633C
  • Charles, Daniel - Lords of the harvest: biotech, big money and the future of food 338.1C
  • Weinberg, Bennett Alan - The world of caffeine: the science and culture of the world's most popular drug 613.8W

FASHION

  • Ashelford, Jane - The art of dress: clothes and society, 1500-1914 (1996) 391.0942A
  • Gross, Elaine - Halston: an American original (1999) 92 H1967G
  • Joselit, Jenna Weissman - A perfect fit: clothes, character, and the promise of America 391J

SPORTS

  • Hoff, Charles - The fights (photographs; with essays by A.J. Liebling, James Baldwin, Richard Ford, et al.) 770H
  • Tygiel, Jules - Past time: baseball as history 796.3T
  • Wideman, John Edgar - Hoop roots 92 W6392W

COMPUTERS

  • Gurak, Laura J. - Cyberliteracy: navigating the Internet with awareness 004.678G
  • Kuo, J. David - Dot.bomb: my days and nights at an Internet Goliath 338.7K
  • Waldrop, M. Mitchell - The dream machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal 001.6W

MIDDLE EAST*

  • Ajami, Fouad - The dream palace of the Arabs: a generation's odyssey (1999) 956.9A
  • Gerges, Fawaz A. - America and political Islam: clash of cultures or clash of interests? (1999) 327.73G
  • Lewis, Bernard - What went wrong?: Western impact and Middle Eastern response 956.9L
  • McAlister, Melani - Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 327.56M


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