New York Society Library

APRIL 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Abse, Dannie - Goodbye, twentieth century
  • Allen, Paul - Alan Ayckbourn: grinning at the edge
  • Ashton, Rosemary - Thomas and Jane Carlyle: portrait of a marraige
  • Asimov, Isaac - It's been a good life
  • Blunt, Judy - Breaking clean
  • Cahill, Thomas - Pope John XXIII (Penguin Lives Series)
  • Coleman, Terry - The Nelson touch: life and legend of Horatio Nelson
  • Crane, David - Kindness of sisters: Annabella Millbanke and the destruction of the Byrons
  • Dundy, Elaine - Life itself
  • Dworkin, Andrea - Heartbreak: the political memoir of a feminist militant
  • Gillham, Nicholas - A life of Sir Francis Galton: from African exploration to the birth of eugenics
  • Hannay, Alastairb - Kierkegaard
  • Healey, Edna - Emma Darwin: the inspiration wife of a genius
  • Kristeva, Julie - Melanie Klein
  • Leder, Mary - My life in Stalinist Russia
  • Loeffler, Jack - Adventures with Ed: a portrait of Abbey
  • Marnham, Patrick - Resistance and betrayal: the death and life of the greatest hero of the French Resistance (Jean Moulin)
  • Morley, Sheridan - John Gielgud
  • Pearson, Michael - Inessa: Lenin's mistress
  • Plowright, Joan - And that's not all
  • Wills, Garry - James Madison
  • Wilson, Edmund - Edmund Wilson, the man in letters

FICTION

  • Bayer, William - Dream of the broken horses
  • Brown, Sandra - Honor bound
  • Codrescu, Andrei - Casanova in Bohemia
  • DuFresne, John - Deep in the shade of paradise
  • Eisenberg, Nora - The war at home: a memoir-novel
  • Frayn, Michael - Spies
  • Freed, Lynn - House of women
  • Grand, David - The disappearing body
  • Greenberg, Paul - Leaving Katya
  • Greig, Andrew - The clouds above: a novel of love and war
  • Hope, Christopher - Heaven forbid
  • Kasischke, Laura - The life before her eyes
  • McGahern, John - By the lake
  • McLaughlin, Emma - The nanny diaries
  • Michaels, Fern - Texas fury
  • Mukherjee, Bharati - Desirable daughters
  • O'Brien, Edna - In the forest
  • Oe, Kenzaburo - Rouse up, o young men of the new age
  • Penman, Sharon Kay - Time and chance
  • Pineiro, R.J. - Firewall
  • Rice, Christopher - The snow garden
  • Smith, Deborah - Stone flower garden
  • Steel, Danielle - The cottage
  • Stern, Richard - Pacific tremors
  • Trollope, Joanna - Girl from the south
  • Urquhart, Jane - Stone carvers
  • Waugh, Evelyn - New you survival kit
  • Wilcken, Hugo - The execution
  • Williams, Niall - The fall of light

SHORT STORIES

  • Cohen, Robert - Varieties of romantic experience
  • Davidson, Avram - The other 19th century
  • King, Stephen - Everything's eventual: 14 dark tales
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. - The birthday of the world and other stories
  • Nelson, Antonya - Female trouble
  • O'Connell, Mary - Living with saints

MYSTERIES

  • Andrews, Robert - Murder of promise
  • Armstrong, David - Small vices *
  • Borthwick, J.S. - Muder in the rough
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Catch as cat can
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - Stone monkey
  • Dewberry, Elizabeth - Sacrament of lies
  • Dibdin, Michael - And then you die
  • Diehl, William - Eureka
  • Flute, Joanne - Blueberry muffin
  • Gordon, Alan - Death in the Venetian quarter
  • King, Laurie - Justice hall *
  • Lee, Wendi - Habeas campus
  • McDermid, Val - Last temptation *
  • Malcolm, John - Simpson's Homer *
  • Menkell, Henning - One step behind
  • Moody, Bill - Looking for Chet Baker
  • Page, Katherine Hall - Body in the bonfire
  • Parker, Robert - Widow's walk
  • Patterson, James - 2nd chance
  • Perry, Anne - Southampton row *
  • Silva, Daniel - The English assassin
  • Spencer-Fleming, Julia - In the bleak midwinter
  • White, Stephen Walsh - Warning signs
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barlow, Frank - William Rufus (William II) 92 W7152B
  • Chrimes, S.B. - Henry VII (1999) 92 H5217C
  • Eskin, Blake - A life in pieces: the making and unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski 809.9E
  • Guy, J.A. - Thomas More 92 M8365G
  • Mackay, James A. - Allan Pinkerton: the first private eye (1997) 92 P6550M
  • Miller, John - James II 92 J274M
  • Morris, Jan - A writer's house in Wales 942.9M
  • Thomas, Lately - The Astor orphans: a pride of lions (1999) 920 T4583A
  • Wolffe, Bertram Percy - Henry VI 92 H5216W
  • Wilson, Derek A. - Hans Holbein: portrait of an unknown man (1996) 759.3H

HISTORY

  • Bragdon, Kathleen - Columbia guide to American Indians of the Northeast 970.1B
  • Breen, T.H. - Puritans and adventurers: change and persistence in early America (1980) 974.4B
  • Crossley, Pamela Kyle - The Manchus (1997) 951C
  • Dandelet, Thomas James - Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 945.6D
  • Grafton, Anthony - Bring out your dead: the past as revelation 940.21G
  • Holdsworth, May - Foreign devils: expatriates in Hong Kong 951.2H
  • Kupperman, Karen Ordahl - Indians and English: facing off in early America 973.2K
  • Laurence, John - The cat from Hué: a Vietnam war story 959L
  • McWilliams, Carey - Fool's paradise (California) 979.4M
  • Miller, Lee - Roanoke: solving the mystery of the Lost Colony 975.6M
  • Tanner, Marcus - Ireland's holy wars: the struggle for a nation's soul, 1500-2000 941.5T
  • Treadgold, Warren T. - A history of the Byzantine state and society (1997) 949.5T

ANTIQUITY

  • Fox, Edward - Sacred geography: a tale of murder and archeology in the Holy Land 913.39F
  • Verner, Miroslav - The pyramids: the mystery, culture, and science of Egypt's great monuments 932V

CIVILIZATION

  • Herman, Arthur - How the Scots invented the Modern World 941H
  • Steinbeck, John - America and Americans, and selected nonfiction 973.917S
  • Stevenson, Louise L. - The Victorian homefront: American thought and culture, 1860-1880 973.8S
  • Vasunia, Phiroze - The gift of the Nile: hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander 932V

NEW YORK CITY

  • Almeida, Linda Dowling - Irish immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 974.71A
  • Benjamin, Gerald - Regionalism and realism: a study of governments in the New York metropolitan area 917.471B
  • Bergman, Edward - The spiritual traveler: New York City: the guide to sacred spaces and peaceful places 974.71B
  • Binnewies, Robert O. - Palisades: 100,000 acres in 100 years 333.7B
  • New York in the sixties (edited by George Perry) 974.71N

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Cidylo, Lori - All the clean ones are married: and other everyday calamities in Moscow 914.7C
  • Gargan, Edward A. - The river's tale: a year on the Mekong 915.9G
  • Salak, Kira - Four corners: one woman's solo journey into the heart of Papua New Guinea 919.5S
  • Simeone, Nigel - Paris-a musical gazetteer 780.944S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Beam, Alex - Gracefully insane: the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital 362B
  • Dalrymple, Theodore - Life at the bottom: the worldview that makes the underclass 362.2D
  • Dray, Philip - At the hands of persons unknown: the lynching of Black America 364.1D
  • Gately, Iain - Tobacco: the story of how tobacco seduced the world 394.1G
  • Hancock, LynNell - Hands to work: the stories of three families racing the welfare clock 361.6H
  • I thought my father was God and other true tales from the National Story Project (edited and introduced by Paul Auster) 973.9I
  • Kusmer, Kenneth T. - Down & out, on the road: the homeless in American history 362.5K
  • Ridley, Jasper Godwin - The Freemasons: a history of the world's most powerful secret society 366.1R
  • Tennant, Emma - A house in Corfu: a family's sojourn in Greece 949.5T
  • Tosches, Nick - The last opium den 363.45T

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Kaplan, Robert - Warrior politics: why leadership demands a Pagan ethos 327K
  • O'Reilly, Bill - The no spin zone: confrontations with the powerful and famous in America 973.929O
  • Power, Samantha - A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide 364.1P

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • Leibovich, Mark - The new imperialists 338.7L
  • Lindsey, Brink - Against the dead hand: the uncertain struggle for global capitalism 337L
  • Orman, Suze - The road to wealth: a comprehensive guide to your money 332O

LAW

  • Dershowitz, Alan M. - Shouting fire: civil liberties in a turbulent age 323.4D
  • Heins, Marjorie - Not in front of the children: "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth 323.4H

BELLES LETTRES

  • Barzun, Jacques - A Jacques Barzun reader 820.81B
  • Beard, Mary - The invention of Jane Harrison (literature and anthropology) 801B
  • Bundtzen, Lynda - The other Ariel (Sylvia Plath) 821.09P
  • Donoghue, Denis - Adam's curse: reflections on religion and literature 821.09D
  • Fante, John - The John Fante reader 820.81F
  • Guinness, Alec - A commonplace book 828G
  • Kristeva, Julia - Sense and nonsense of revolt 840K
  • Larkin, Philip - Further requirements: interviews, broadcasts, statements and book reviews, 1952-1985 820.81L
  • Nayder, Lillian - Unequal partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Victorian authorship 823.08N
  • Robson, Catherine - Men in wonderland: the lost girlhood of the Victorian gentlemen 823.08R

POETRY

  • Blackburn, Thomas - Selected poems 821B
  • The Garnett book of Russian verse: a treasury of Russian poets from 1730 to 1996 891.71G
  • Reid, Christopher - Mermaids explained 821R
  • Shapiro, Alan - Selected poems, 1974-1996 821S

LANGUAGE

  • Safire, Willliam - Let a simile be your umbrella 428.3S
  • Weinstein, Miriam - Yiddish: a nation of words 492.4W

JOURNALISM

  • An American album: 150 years of Harper's magazine 824.08A
  • Goldberg, Bernard - Bias: a CBS insider exposes how the media distort the news 302G
  • McGowan, William - Coloring the news: how crusading for diversity has corrupted American journalism 070.4M
  • May, Derwent - Critical times: the history of the Times literary supplement 072M

BOOKS AND READING

  • Davis, Kenneth - Two-bit culture: the paperbacking of America (1984) 070.5D
  • Glaister, Geoffrey - The Encyclopedia of the book (1996) 655G
  • Hill, Heywood - A bookseller's war (1997) 920 H645 H
  • Klebanoff, Arthur - The agent: personalities, publishing and politics 070.5K

EDUCATION

  • Kerr, Clark - The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 92 K411K
  • Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor - The creation of the future: the role of the American university 378R
  • Winterer, Caroline - The culture of classicism: ancient Greece and Rome in American intellectual life, 1780-1910 378W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Berlin, Isaiah - The first and the last (1999) 192B
  • Gadamer, Hans Georg - Gadamer in conversation: reflections and commentary 193G
  • Safranski, Rüdiger - Nietzsche: a philosophical biography 193S

ETHICS

  • Alford, C. Fred - Whistleblowers: broken lives and organizational power 174A
  • In defense of sin (edited by John Portmann) 170I

RELIGION

  • Cornwell, John - Breaking faith: the Pope, the people and the fate of Catholicism 282C
  • Novak, Michael - On two wings: humble faith and common sense at the American founding 200N
  • Ricard, Matthieu - The quantum and the lotus: a journey to the frontiers where science and Buddhism meet 215R

ARTS

  • Campbell, Thomas - Tapestry in the Renaissance: art and magnificence 746C
  • Coppel, Stephen - Picasso and printmaking in Paris (1998) 769C
  • Corn, Wanda - The great American thing: modern art and national identity, 1915-1935 (1999) 709.73C
  • Franklin, David - Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550 759.5F
  • Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow - Landscape design: a cultural and architectural history 710R
  • Steinberg, Leo - Leo's incessant Last Supper 759.5L

THEATER

  • Lhamon, W.T. - Raising Cain: blackface performance from Jim Crow to hip hop (1998) 791.1L
  • Mordden, Ethan - Open a new window: the Broadway musical in the 1960s 792.0973M
  • New York times book of Broadway: on the aisle for the unforgettable plays of the last century 792.0973N
  • Wren, Gayden - A most ingenious paradox: the art of Gilbert and Sullivan 782.6W

MUSIC

  • Leur, Walter van de - Something to live for: the music of Billy Strayhorn 781.6S
  • Rethinking Dvorák: views from five countries (1996) 780.92D
  • Shawn, Allen - Arnold Schoenberg's journey 780.92S

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Brassaď - Proust in the power of photography 840.9B
  • Salgado, Sebastiăo - Migrations: humanity in transition 778S
  • Sander, August - August Sander, 1876-1964 (1999) 770S
  • The tumultuous fifties: a view from the New York times photo archives (Alan Trachtenberg, Luc Sante, et al.) 770T

CINEMA

  • Best American movie writing 2001 791.4B
  • Davis, Natalie Zemon - Slaves on screen: film and historical vision 791.4D
  • Grove book of Hollywood (edited by Christopher Silvester) 791.4P

MUSEUMS

  • Art across America: a comprehensive guide to American art museums and exhibition galleries 708.1A
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art catalog (1997) 708.1B
  • J. Paul Getty Museum handbook of the photographs collection 770J

FASHION

  • Gutner, Howard - Gowns by Adrian: the MGM years, 1928-1941 746.92G
  • Lehmann, Ulrich - Tigersprung: fashion in modernity 391L
  • Palmer, Alexandra - Couture & commerce: the transatlantic fashion trade in the 1950s 687P

COLOR

  • Ball, Philip - Bright earth: art and the invention of color 704B
  • Duffy, Patricia Lynne - Blue cats and chartreuse kittens: how synesthetes color their worlds 152D
  • Pastoureau, Michel - Blue: the history of a color 152P

SCIENCE

  • Chatters, James C. - Ancient encounters: Kennewick Man and the first Americans 572C
  • Ellis, Richard - Aquagenesis: the origin and evolution of life in the sea 591.92E
  • Galton, David J. - In our own image: eugenics and the genetic modification of people 575.1G
  • Greeley, Ronald - The compact NASA atlas of the solar system LSR 523.2G
  • Kitcher, Philip - Science, truth, and democracy 501K
  • Mayr, Ernst - What evolution is 575M
  • Novacek, Michael - Time traveler: in search of dinosaurs and ancient mammals from Montana to Mongolia 560N
  • Porter, Roy - Bodies politic: disease, death, and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 610P
  • Wilson, Edward Osborne - The future of life (endangered species/environmental conservation) 591.9W

CRIME

  • Mallon, Thomas - Mrs. Paine's garage and the murder of John F. Kennedy 364.1M
  • Ruddick, James - Death at the Priory: love, sex, and murder in Victorian England 364.1R
  • Rule, Ann - Every breath you take: a true story of obsession, revenge, and murder 364.1R
  • Temple-Raston, Dina - A death in Texas: murder, race, and a small town's struggle for redemption 364.1T

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Friedman, Bonnie - The thief of happiness: the story of an extraordinary psychotherapy 616.8F
  • Lewin, Bertram David - Selected writings (1973) 616.8L
  • Theroux, Paul - Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks 155.3T

HEALTH & HOME

  • Manger, William Muir - 100 questions and answers about hypertension 616.1M
  • Smith, Ian K. - Dr. Ian Smith's guide to medical websites REF 610.58S
  • Tolle, Eckhart - The power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment (1999) 291.4T
  • Witkin, Georgia - The female stress syndrome survival guide 155.6W

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Brotherhood - introduction by Frank McCourt (New York Fire Dept.) 363.3B
  • Chomsky, Noam - 9-11 303.6C
  • Daugherty, William J. - In the shadow of the Ayatollah: a CIA hostage in Iran 955D
  • De Becker, Gavin - Fear less: real truth about risk, safety, and security in a time of terrorism 303.6D
  • Pearlstein, Richard M. - The mind of the political terrorist (1991) 303.6P


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