New York Society Library

MARCH 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ansay, A. Manette - Limbo: a memoir
  • Brookhiser, Richard - America's first dynasty: the Adamses
  • Carlyon, David - Dan Rice: the most famous man you've never heard of
  • Chen, Da - Sounds of the river
  • Daniels, Douglas Henry - Lester leaps in: the life and times of Lester "Pres" Young
  • Dearly beloved friends: Henry James's letters to younger men
  • Dhondy, Farrukh - C.L.R. James: a life
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke - Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy: a life
  • Fishgall, Gary - Gregory Peck
  • Griffin, Susan - The book of the courtesans
  • Kaufman, Michael T. - Soros: the life and times of a Messianic billionaire
  • Keynes, Randal - Darwin, his daughter, and human evolution
  • Lees, Gene - You can't steal a gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt and Nat
  • Lovell, Mary S. - The sisters: the saga of the Mitford family
  • MacIntyre, Ben - The Englishman's daughter: a true story of love and betrayal in World War I
  • McMorris, Jenny - The warden of English: a biography of H.W. Fowler
  • Machtan, Lothar - The hidden Hitler
  • Miller, William - Lincoln's virtues: an ethical biography
  • Munson, James - Maria Fitzherbert: secret wife of George IV
  • O'Connor, Sandra Day - Lazy B.
  • Rottenberg, Dan - Man who made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the rise of modern finance
  • Tanning, Dorothea - Between lives
  • Ward, Geoffrey - Mark Twain: an illustrated biography
  • Watson, James - Genes, girls and Gamow

FICTION

  • Altman, John - A game of spies
  • Beattie, Ann - Doctor's house
  • Bohjalian, Chris - Buffalo soldier
  • Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Three weeks in Paris
  • Butler, Robert Olen - Fair warning
  • Clark, Joan - Latitudes of melt
  • Coe, Jonathan - Rotter's Club
  • Cohen, Paula - Gramercy Park
  • Craig, Amanda - In a dark wood
  • Craig, Charmaine - The good men
  • Davis, Jill - Girl's poker night
  • DeMille, Nelson - Up country
  • Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Vine of desire
  • Edghill, India - Queenmaker
  • Finnamore, Suzanne - Zygote chronicles
  • Goldsmith, Olivia - Pen pals
  • Goodman, Carol - Lake of dead languages
  • Griffin, W.E.B. - Under fire
  • Grossman, David - Be my knife
  • Heller, Jane - Secret Ingredient
  • Hill, Tobias - Love of stones
  • Holthe, Tess Uriza - When the elephants dance
  • Huddle, David - La tour dreams of the wolf girl
  • Iness-Brown, Elizabeth - Burning Marguerite
  • Jiles, Paulette - Enemy women
  • Kidd, Sue Monk - Secret life of bees
  • Kirschenbaum, Bonnie - Hester among the ruins
  • Knox, Elizabeth - Billie's kiss
  • Koontz, Dean - One door away from heaven
  • McBride, James - Miracle at St. Anna
  • Nicholson, Geoff - Bedlam burning
  • Nova, Craig - Wetware
  • Passaro, Vince - Violence, nudity, adult content
  • Pearson, T.R. - Polar
  • Pelevin, Viktor - Homo zapiens
  • Rice, Luanne - Safe harbor
  • Rosenbaum, Thane - Golems of Gotham
  • Schwartz, John Burnham - Claire Marvel
  • Simon, Claude - Jardin des plantes
  • Slovo, Gilliam - Red dust
  • Stollman, Aryeh Lev - Illuminated soul
  • Szerb, Antal - Journey by moonlight
  • Torrey, Joanna - He goes, she goes
  • Vreeland, Susan - The passion of Artemesia
  • Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
  • Witchel, Alex - Me times three

SHORT STORIES

  • Berg, Elizabeth - Ordinary life
  • Doerr, Anthony - The shell collector
  • Papaleo, Joseph - Italian stories
  • Saroyan, Aram - Artists in trouble
  • Schnitzler, Arthur - Night games
  • Templeton, Edith - The darts of Cupid

MYSTERIES

  • Barr, Nevada - Hunting season
  • Black, Ethan - All the dead were strangers
  • Bowen, Rhys - Evans to Betsy
  • Cole, Margaret - The thunder keeper
  • Coleman, Reed Farrel - Walking the perfect square
  • Dewberry, Elizabeth - Sacrament of lies
  • Dunn, Carola - The case of the murdered muckraker *
  • Eccles, Marjorie - A sunset touch *
  • Erickson, K.J. - The dead survivors
  • Estleman, Loren - Sinister heights
  • Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre affair *
  • Gardner, Lisa - The next accident
  • Hayder, Mo - The treatment
  • Heffernan, William - Unholy order
  • Henderson, Lauren - Chained *
  • Holden, Craig - The jazz bird
  • Jardine, Quintin - Autographs in the rain *
  • Katzenbach, John - The analyst
  • Kelly, Jack - Mobtown
  • Langton, Jane - The Escher twist
  • Leonard, Elmore - Tishomingo blues
  • Miller, John - Tropical heat
  • Niles, Chris - Hell's kitchen
  • Pelecanos, George - Hell to pay
  • Pronzini, Bill - Bleeders: a "Nameless Detective" novel
  • Rankin, Ian - A good hanging *
  • Rawlinson, Peter - The Richmond affair *
  • Rendall, Ruth - Adam and Eve and Pinch me *
  • Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor - Conflict of interest
  • Rozan, S.J. - Winter and night
  • Sklepowich, Edward - Deadly to the sight
  • Smith, Mary Ann - Love her madly
  • Thayer, Steven - The wheat field
  • White, Robin - The ice curtain
  • Wimberly, Darryl - Strawman's hammock
  • Wishnia, K.J.A. - Red house
  • Wright, Eric - The last hand
*indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Allen, Felicity - Jefferson Davis, unconquerable heart (1999) 92 D2622 A
  • Casper, Scott E. - Constructing American lives: biography & culture in nineteenth-century America (1999) 808C
  • Harline, Craig E. - The burdens of Sister Margaret: inside a seventeenth-century convent 92 S6666 H
  • Hill, Bridget - Women alone: spinsters in England 396H
  • Lebert, Stephan - My father's keeper: children of Nazi leaders: an intimate history of damage and denial 943.085L
  • Liebling, Jerome - The Dickinsons of Amherst 92 D553 L
  • Register, Cheri - Packinghouse daughter: a memoir 92 R337 R
  • Vise, David - The bureau and the mole: the unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen 92 H2518 V

ARTS

  • Adriani, Götz - Henri Rousseau 759.4R
  • Berger, John - The shape of a pocket 704B
  • Boardman, John - The history of Greek vases: potters, painters, and pictures 738B
  • Brambilla Barcilon, Pinin - Leonardo: the Last Supper 759.5L
  • Christiansen, Keith - Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi 759.5G
  • Cohen-Solal, Annie - Painting American: the rise of American artists, Paris 1867- New York 1948 759.1C
  • Epstein, Lawrence - The haunted smile: the story of Jewish comedians in America 792.2E
  • The New York schools of music and visual arts 700N
  • Rosand, David - Myths of Venice: the figuration of a state 709.45R
  • Steiner, Wendy - Venus in Exile: the rejection of beauty in twentieth-century art 704.942S

MUSIC

  • Delbanco, Nicholas - The countess of Stanlein restored (violoncello) 787.1D
  • Isacoff, Stuart - Temperament: the idea that solved music's greatest riddle 781I
  • Santoro, Gene - Myself when I am real: the life and music of Charles Mingus 780.92M

ARCHITECTURE

  • Kamin, Blair - Why architecture matters: lessons from Chicago 720.973K
  • Moore, Charles - You have to pay for the public life: selected essays 720M
  • Rifkind, Carole - A field guide to contemporary American architecture 720.973R

BELLES LETTRES

  • Austerfeld, Thomas Carl - American women writers and the Nazis: ethics and politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman 823.08A
  • Calder, John - The philosophy of Samuel Beckett 828.09B
  • Crain, Caleb - American sympathy: men, friendship, and literature in the new nation 823.08C
  • D'Agata, John - Halls of fame: essays 824D
  • Ronell, Avital - Stupidity 801R
  • Stories and poems for extremely intelligent children of all ages (selected by Harold Bloom) 808.8S
  • Taylor, Anya - Bacchus in romantic England: writers and drink, 1780-1830 (1999) 820.9T
  • War of the words: 20 years of writing on contemporary literature (Village Voice Literary Supplement) 820.9W

POETRY

  • Brodsky, Joseph - Nativity poems 891.71B
  • Cooper, Jane - The flashboat: poems collected and reclaimed 821C
  • Dugan, Alan - Poems seven: new and complete poetry 821D
  • Murray, Albert - Conjugations and reiterations 821M

BOOKS AND READING

  • Camille, Michael - Mirror in parchment: the Luttrell psalter and the making of medieval England (1998) 757.1C
  • Korda, Michael - Making the list: a cultural history of the American bestseller, 1900-1999 820.9K
  • Reed, Walt - The illustrator in America, 1860-2000 741.64R

LANGUAGE

  • Kennedy, Randall - Nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word 420.9K
  • McWhorter, John H. - The power of Babel: a natural history of language 401M

HISTORY

  • Aldrich, Richard J. - Intelligence and the war against Japan: Britain, America and the politics of secret service 940.5485A
  • Burke, Peter - Eyewitnessing: the uses of images as historical evidence 907B
  • Chaplin, Joyce E. - Subject matter: technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 973.2C
  • Conversations about the end of time (Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, et al.) 901E
  • Durant, Will - Heroes of history: a brief history of civilization from ancient times to the dawn of the modern age 901D
  • Eicher, David J. - The longest night: a military history of the Civil War 973.73E
  • Gilbert, Martin - History of the twentieth-century 909.82G
  • Hutchings, Graham - Modern China: a guide to a century of change 951H
  • Keen, Maurice Hugh - England in the later Middle Ages: a political history 942.02K
  • Lentin, A. - Lloyd George and the lost peace: from Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940 942.083L
  • McMurtry, Larry - Sacagawea's nickname: essays on the American West 978M
  • Madigan, Tim - The burning: massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921 976.6M
  • Olson, Barbara - The final days: the last, desperate abuses of power by the Clinton White House 973.929O
  • Robinson, Greg - By order of the president: FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans 940.53R
  • Simeti, Mary Taylor - Travels with a medieval queen 945S
  • Taylor, Alan - American colonies 973.2T
  • Vrettos, Theodore - Alexandria: city of the western mind 932V

NEW YORK CITY

  • Cray, Robert E. - Paupers and poor relief in New York City and its rural environs, 1700-1830 (1988) 362.5C
  • Rosenthal, Mel - In the South Bronx of America 974.71R
  • Sanders, James - Celluloid skyline: New York and the movies 917.471S
  • Schulman, Arlene - 23rd precinct: the job 352.2S

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Bentley, Michael - Politics without democracy, 1815-1914: perception and preoccupation in British government (1999) 320.9B
  • Dollinger, Marc - Quest for inclusion: Jews and liberalism in modern America 973D
  • Halstead, Ted - The radical center: the future of American politics 320H
  • Hirsch, John L. - Sierra Leone: diamonds and the struggle for democracy 966H
  • Matthews, Christopher - Now, let me tell you what I really think 973.929M
  • Minow, Martha - Between vengeance and forgiveness: facing history after genocide and mass violence (1998) 364.1M
  • Toobin, Jeffrey - Too close to call: the thirty-six day battle to decide the 2000 election 324T
  • Wolin, Sheldon S. - Tocqueville between two worlds: the making of a political and theoretical life 321.8W

ECONOMICS

  • Gordon, Sarah - Passage to Union: how the railroads transformed American life, 1829-1929 (1996) 385G
  • Klein, Maury - Rainbow's end: the crash of 1929 338.5K
  • Taleb, Nassim - Fooled by randomness: the hidden role of chance in the markets and in life 332.6T
  • Throsby, C.D. - Economics and culture 306.3T

LAW

  • Roberts, Sam - The brother: the untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair 345R
  • Sunstein, Cass R. - Designing democracy: what constitutions do 342S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Dewald, Jonathan - The European nobility, 1400-1800 (1996) 323.3D
  • Fenn, Elizabeth - Pox Americana: the great smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782 614.4F
  • Hanley, Susan - Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture (1999) 952H
  • Hiaasen, Carl - Paradise screwed: selected columns [from the Miami Herald] 975.9H
  • History of the European family 306H
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Letters to a young contrarian 301.15H
  • Jackson, Kenneth T. - The Ku Klux Klan in the city, 1915-1930 (1992) 363J
  • Lewis, Earl - Love on trial: an American scandal in black and white 306.8L
  • Murakami, Haruki - Underground: the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche 303.6M
  • Pipes, Richard - Communism: a history 335.4P
  • Walton, C.S. - Little tenement on the Volga 947.086W

RELIGION

  • Bressler, Ann Lee - The Universalist movement in America, 1770-1880 288B
  • Campbell, Joseph - Thou art that: transforming religious metaphor 230C
  • Derrida, Jacques - Acts of religion 201D
  • Duffy, Eamon - The voices of Morebath: Reformation and rebellion in an English village 274.2D
  • McCrossen, Alexis - Holy day, holiday: the American Sunday 263M
  • Robinson, George - Essential Judaism: a complete guide to beliefs, customs, and rituals 296R

SCIENCE

  • Buchanan, Mark - Ubiquity: the science of history or why the world is simpler than we think 530B
  • Carlson, Elof Axel - The unfit: a history of a bad idea (eugenics) 575.1C
  • Casti, John L. - Mathematical mountaintops: the five most famous problems of all time 510C
  • Davidson, Osha Gray - Fire in the turtle house: the green sea turtle and the fate of the ocean 598.1D
  • Jago, Lucy - The northern lights 538J
  • Redfern, Ron - Origins: the evolution of continents, oceans and life 551.7 R Oversize
  • Weinberg, Steven - Facing up: science and its cultural adversaries 500W

NATURE & CONSERVATION

  • DeVoto, Bernard Augustine - The Western paradox: a conservation reader 333.7D
  • Matthiessen, Peter - The birds of heaven: travels with cranes 598.2M
  • Rabinowitz, Alan - Beyond the last village: a journey of discovery in Asia's forbidden wilderness 591.9R
  • Sibley, David - The Sibley guide to bird life and behavior 598.2S
  • Webber, Bill - In the kingdom of gorillas 599W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Freud, Sigmund - The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi (3 volumes) 131.34F
  • Hobson, J. Allan - Out of its mind: psychiatry in crisis, a call for reform 616.8H
  • Whitaker, Robert - Mad in America: bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill 362.2W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Apter, T.E. - Myth of maturity: what teenagers need from parents to become adults 306.8A
  • Johns Hopkins consumer guide to medical tests 616J
  • Lavine, Jay B. - The eye care sourcebook 617.7L
  • Mayo Clinic heart book 616.1M
  • Weinblatt, Michael - The arthritis action program: an integrated plan of traditional and complementary therapies 616.9W

FOOD

  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - Food: a history 394.1F
  • Kurlansky, Mark - Salt: a world history 664K
  • Simmonds, P.L. - The curiosities of food, or, The dainties and delicacies of different nations obtained from the animal kingdom (originally published in 1859) 641.3S

DESCRIPTION & TRAVEL

  • Cohen, David - Chasing the red, white and blue: a journey in Tocqueville's footsteps through contemporary America 917.3C
  • Prager, Emily - Wuhu diary: on taking my adopted daughter back to her hometown in China 915.1P
  • Shaffer, Marguerite - See America first: tourism and national identity, 1880-1940 910.9S
  • Stevenson, Matthew Mills - Letters of transit: essays on travel, politics, and family life abroad 910.4S

HUMOR

  • Leacock, Stephen - The Bodley Head Leacock (1957) 827L
  • Pinkwater, Daniel Manus - Uncle Boris in the Yukon and other shaggy dog stories 827P
  • Waugh, Auberon - Closing the circle: the best of the The way of the world 913.42W

SEPTEMBER 11

  • The Age of terror: America and the world after September 11 303.6A
  • Carr, Caleb - Lessons of terror: a history of warfare against civilizations 303.6C
  • Emerson, Steven - American Jihad: the terrorists living among us 303.6E
  • Ewans, Martin - Afghanistan: a short history of its people and politics 915.8E
  • Rashid, Ahmed - Jihad: the rise of militant Islam in Central Asia 958R


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