New York Society Library

JUNE 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Angier, Carole - Double bond: Primo Levi, a biography
  • Ansary, Tamim - West of Kabul, east of New York: an Afghan American story
  • Bellows, James - The last editor
  • Blackburn, Julia - Old man Goya
  • Buchanan, R.A. - Brunel: the life and times of I.K. Brunel
  • Cohen, Rich - Lake effect
  • Cramer, James - Confessions of a street addict
  • Dasmann, Raymond - Called by the wild: the autobiography of a conservationist
  • Dawidoff, Nicholas - The fly swatter: how my grandfather made his way in the world
  • Fisher, Clive - Hart Crane: a life
  • Frank, Joseph - Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881
  • Gammel, Irene - Baroness Elsa: gender, Dada, and everyday modernity: a cultural biography
  • Gilbert, Elizabeth - The last American man
  • Harlan, Malvina Shanklin - Some memories of a long life, 1854-1911
  • Jeffers, Paul - The Napoleon of N.Y. (Mayor LaGuardia)
  • Johnson, Paul - Napoleon (Penguin Lives)
  • Keene, Donald - Emperor of Japan: Meiji & his world, 1852-1912
  • Kershaw, Alex - Blood and champagne (Robert Capa)
  • Lacey, Robert - Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
  • Latifa - My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban
  • Lawrence, Mary Wells - A big life in advertising
  • Lerner, Gerda - Fireweed: a political autobiography
  • Lively, Penelope - A house unlocked
  • Lyttelton, George - The Lyttelton Hart-Davis letters: a selection
  • McDonough, Jimmy - Shakey: Neil Young's biography
  • Michel, Prince of Greece - Empress of farewells: the story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico
  • Moody, Rick - Black veil: a memoir, with digressions
  • Murray, Nicholas - Aldous Huxley
  • Nicholls, C.S. - Elspeth Huxley
  • Nicolson, Nigel - Virginia Woolf
  • O'Connor, Larry - Tip of the iceberg
  • Oliveira, Carmen L. - Rare and commonplace flowers: the story of Elizabeth Bishop & Lota de Macedo Soares
  • Pizzichini, Lilian - Dead men's wages
  • Rayner, Richard - Drake's fortune: the fabulous true story of the world's greatest confidence artist
  • Schiller, Lawrence - Into the mirror: the life of master spy Robert P. Hanssen
  • Shields, David - Enough about you: adventures in autobiography
  • Silver-Isenstadt, Jean - Shameless: the visionary life of Mary Grove Nichols
  • Skomal, Lenore - Keeper of Lime Rock: the remarkable true story of Ida Lewis, America's most celebrated lighthouse keeper
  • Slaughter, Carolyn - Before the knife: memories of an African childhood
  • Smiley, Jane - Charles Dickens (Penguin Lives Series)
  • Smith, Bob - Hamlet's dresser: a memoir
  • Steiker, Valerie - The leopard hat: a daughter's story
  • Sudhalter, Richard - Stardust melody: the life and music of Hoagy Carmichael
  • Sweeney, Emma - As always, Jack: a wartime love story
  • Thatcher, Margaret - Statecraft: strategies for a changing world
  • Thomas, Helen - Thanks for the memories, Mr. President: wit and wisdom from the front row at the White House
  • Unger, Harlow Giles - Noah Webster: the life and times of an American patriot
  • Vickers, Hugo - Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece
  • Wheeler, Sara - Cherry: a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • Wilson, Derek - In the lion's court: power, ambition, and sudden death in the reign of Henry VIII
  • Ziolkowski, Thad - On a wave
  • Zoya - Zoya's story: an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom

FICTION

  • Alai - Red poppies
  • Amberchele, J.C. - How you lose: a novel in stories
  • Auel, Jean - The shelters of stone
  • Bartolomeo, Christina - The side of the angels
  • Cameron, Peter - The city of your final destination
  • Chavarria, Daniel - Adios muchachos
  • Coleridge, Nicholas - Godchildren
  • Collins, Michael - Resurrectionists
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Gallows thief
  • Dark, Alice Elliott - Think of England
  • Duncker, Patricia - The deadly space between
  • Fuentes, Carlos - Inez
  • Glendinning, Victoria - Flight
  • Hadley, Tessa - Accidents in the home
  • Hofman, Gert - Luck
  • Kernan, Alvin - The fruited plain: fables for a post-modern democracy
  • Kincaid, Jamaica - Mr. Potter
  • Lent, Jeffrey - Lost nation
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Running scared
  • McGuane, Thomas - Cadence of rain
  • McMurtry, Larry - Sin killer
  • Mandel, Sally - Heart and soul
  • Marcus, Ben - Notable American women: a novel
  • Michaels, Fern - Kentucky heat
  • Millet, Lydia - My happy life
  • Mistry, Rohinton - Family matters
  • Nothomb, Amelie - Character of rain
  • Novak, Karen - Ordinary monsters
  • O'Farrell, Maggie - My lover's lover
  • Pears, Iain - Dream of Scipio
  • Saylor, Steven - A mist of prophecies
  • Shields, Carol - Unless
  • Shimoda, Todd - The fourth treasure
  • Slouka, Mark - God's fool
  • Stone, Sarah - True sources of the Nile
  • Tepper, Sheri S. - The visitor
  • Tsukiyama, Gail - Dreaming water
  • Udall, Brady - Miracle life of Edgar Mint
  • Warner, Marina - The Leto bundle
  • Willett, Marcia - A week in winter
  • Winton, Tim - Dirt music
  • Wittenborn, Dirk - Fierce people
  • Zigman, Laura - Her
  • Zucker, Benjamin - Green

SHORT STORIES

  • Donoghue, Emma - Woman who gave birth to rabbits
  • Jackson, Shelley - Anatomy of melancholy
  • Ochsner, Gina - Necessary grace to fall

MYSTERIES

  • Bloch, Jon P. - Best murder of the year
  • Bowen, Rhys - Murphy's law
  • Bradby, Tom - Master of rain
  • Chazini, Suzanne - Flashover
  • Child, Lee - Without fail
  • Coben, Harlan - Gone for good
  • Crow, Michael - Red rain
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Cat in a midnight choir
  • Drayson, Nicholas - Confessing a murder
  • Elkins, Aaron - Turncoat
  • Ellis, Kate - Painted doom *
  • Emerson, Earl - Vertical burn
  • Haig, Brian - Mortal allies
  • Hamilton, Lyn - The Etruscan chimera: an archaeological mystery
  • Henry, April - Learning to fly
  • Hill, Reginald - Death's jest book *
  • Hillerman, Tony - The wailing wind
  • Janes, J. Robert - The dollmaker
  • Jardine, Quintin - On honeymoon with death
  • Kerr, Blaine - Wrongful death
  • Leon, Donna - Wilful behavior
  • Lira, Gonzalo - Acrobat
  • Lopez, Steve - In the clear
  • Mann, Jessica - Voice from the grave *
  • Morrell, David - Long lost
  • Nadelson, Reggie - Sex Dolls *
  • Nance, John T. - Turbulence
  • Palmer, Michael - Fatal
  • Russell, Alan - Exposure *
  • Sandford, John - Mortal prey
  • Scott, Manda - No good deed
  • Seranella, Barbara - No man standing: a Munch Mancini crime novel
  • Standiford, Les - Bone key
  • Taylor, Andrew - Death's own door *
  • White, Kate - If looks could kill
  • Wignall, Kevin - People die
* indicates a British mystery


SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Feuchtwanger, E.J. - Disraeli 92 D613 F
  • Hirsch, Foster - Kurt Weill on stage: from Berlin to Broadway 92 W4226 H
  • Lerner, Jimmy - You got nothing coming: notes from a prison fish 92 L6167 L
  • Lynch, John - Argentine caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas92 R788 L
  • Raphael, Frederic - Personal terms 92 R2170 R
  • Wills, Garry - James Madison 973.5W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Atwood, Margaret - Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing 808.3A
  • Cerf, Bennett - Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: the wartime correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer 070.5C
  • Gass, William - Tests of time 823.09G
  • Holroyd, Michael - Works on paper: the craft of biography & autobiography 808H
  • James, Clive - Even as we speak: new essays, 1993-2001 824J
  • Kraus, Karl - Dicta and contradicta 838K
  • Letters to J.D. Salinger 823S
  • Roman holidays: American writers & artists in nineteenth-century Italy 823.08R

POETRY

  • Hall, Donald - The painted bed 821H
  • Raine, Kathleen - The collected poems of Kathleen Raine 821R
  • Rimbaud, Arthur - Rimbaud complete 848R

LANGUAGE

  • Cabantous, Alain - Blasphemy: impious speech in the West from the 17th to the 19th century 179C
  • Landau, Sidney - Dictionaries: the art & craft of lexicography 423L
  • Smith, Ken - Junk English 428.3S

HISTORY

  • Almog, Oz - The Sabra: the creation of the new Jew 956.94A
  • Brock, David - Blinded by the right: the conscience of an ex-conservative 973.929B
  • Bruni, Frank - Ambling into history: the unlikely odyssey of George W. Bush 973.930B
  • Foner, Eric - Who owns history?: rethinking the past in a changing world 973F
  • Fukuyama, Francis - Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution 303.4F
  • Hesse, Carla Alison - The other Enlightenment: how French women became modern 944H
  • Miller, Kerby - Journey of hope: the story of Irish immigration to America 325.2M
  • White, Ronald - Lincoln's greatest speech: the second inaugural 973.7W
  • Wood, Gordon S. - The American revolution: a history 973.3W
  • Young, Robert J.C. - Postcolonialism: an historical introduction 325.3Y
  • Ziegler, Philip - Soldiers: fighting men's lives, 1901-2001 355.0942Z

CITIES

  • City wilds: essays and stories about urban nature 820.8C
  • Davis, Mike - Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the U.S. city 305.85D
  • Kunstler, James Howard - The city in mind: meditations on the urban condition 307.76K

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Dolan, Brian - Ladies of the Grand Tour: British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in 18th century Europe 914D
  • Henderson, Norman - Rediscovering the Great Plains: journeys by dog, canoe & horse 917.12H
  • Sacks, Oliver - Oaxaca journal 917.2S
  • Souhami, Diana - Selkirk's Island: the true and strange adventures of the real Robinson Crusoe 910.4S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Berman, Miriam - Madison Square: the park & its celebrated landmarks 974.71B
  • Gandy, Matthew - Concrete & clay: reworking nature in New York City 307.76G
  • Kozloff, Max - New York: capital of photography 770K

CIVILIZATION

  • Cohen, Warren I. - The Asian-American century 327.73C
  • Higham, John - Hanging together: unity and diversity in American culture 305.8H
  • Lukacs, John - At the end of an age 121L
  • Stearns, Peter - Cultures in motion: mapping key contacts and their imprints in world history 911S

PAINTING

  • John Koch: painting a New York life 759.1K
  • Prelinger, Elizabeth - After The scream: the late paintings of Edvard Munch 759.8M
  • Sewell, Darrel - Thomas Eakins 759.1E
  • Storr, Robert - Gerhard Richter: 40 years of painting 759.3R

MUSIC

  • Davis, Francis - Like young: jazz, pop, youth and middle age780.973D
  • Gendron, Bernard - Between Montmartre & the Mudd Club: popular music and the avant-garde 780.9G
  • Kivy, Peter - The possessor and the possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and the idea of musical genius 781.6K
  • Rosen, Charles - Beethoven's piano sonatas: a short companion 786.4R

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Anderson, Digby C. - Losing friends 302.3A
  • Gregory, Alexis - Families of fortune: life in the Gilded Age 909.81G
  • Hayden, Tom - Irish on the inside: in search of the soul of Irish America 305.81H
  • Pipher, Mary Bray - The middle of everywhere: the world's refugees come to our town 325.2P
  • Wilson, James Q. - The marriage problem: how our culture has weakened families 306.8W

RACE

  • Graves, Joseph L. - The Emperor's new clothes: biological theories of race at the millennium 323.1G
  • Loury, Glenn C. - The anatomy of racial inequality 305.88L
  • Philosophers on race: critical essays 305.8P

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Buchanan, Patrick W. - The death of the West 306B
  • Chomsky, Noam - Understanding power: the indispensable Chomsky 320.4C
  • Hoggart, Richard - Between two worlds: politics, anti-politics, and the unpolitical 824H

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • Aliber, Robert Z. - The new international money game 332A
  • Blustein, Paul - The chastening: inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system 332B
  • Collins, Robert - More: the politics of economic growth in postwar America 338.973C
  • Nader, Ralph - Cutting corporate welfare 338.973N
  • Soros, George - George Soros on globalization 337S

MEDIA

  • Downie, Leonard - The news about the news: American journalism in peril 070D
  • Gitlin, Todd - Media unlimited: how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelms our lives 302G
  • McChesney, Robert Waterman - Rich media, poor democracy: communication politics in dubious times (1999) 302M
  • Stashower, Daniel - The boy genius and the mogul: the untold story of television 621.388S

LAW

  • Dahl, Robert Alan - How democratic is the American Constitution? 342.73D
  • Friedman, Lawrence Meir - American law in the 20th century 340F
  • Simon, James - What kind of nation: Thomas Jefferson, John
  • Marshall, and the epic struggle to create a United States 342.73S

EDUCATION

  • Hanson, Victor Davis - Bonfire of the humanities: rescuing the classics in an impoverished age 370.1H
  • School, the story of American public education 370.973S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Danto, Arthur Coleman - The body/body problem: selected essays 100D
  • Long, A.A. - Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life 188.7L
  • McGinn, Colin - The making of a philosopher: my journey through 20th-century philosophy 192M
  • Pratt, Scott L. - Native pragmatism: rethinking the roots of American philosophy 140P

ETHICS

  • Cohen, Randy - The good, the bad & the difference: how to tell right from wrong in everyday situations 170C
  • George, Robert P. - The clash of orthodoxies: law, religion, and morality in crisis 322.1G

RELIGION

  • Carroll, Vincent - Christianity on trial: arguments against anti-religious bigotry 239C
  • Nicholi, Armand - The question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex, and the meaning of life 211N
  • Oxford guide to ideas & issues of the Bible 220.3O
  • Taylor, Charles - Varieties of religion today: William James revisited 201T

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Blos, Peter - Son and father: before & beyond the Oedipus complex 136.7B
  • Kahn, Michael - Basic Freud: psychoanalytic thought for twenty first century 131.34K
  • Kristeva, Julia - Melanie Klein 150K
  • LeDoux, Joseph - Synaptic self: how our brains become who we are 612.8L
  • Roudinesco, Elisabeth - Why psychoanalysis? 131.34R

SCIENCE

  • Comfort, Nathaniel C. - The tangled field: Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control 576C
  • Crump, Thomas - A brief history of science: as seen through the development of scientific instruments 509C
  • Essential John Nash 510E
  • It must be beautiful: great equations of modern science 504I

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Fiennes,William - The snow geese: a story of home 598.2F
  • Nature writing: the tradition in English 574N
  • Schweid, Richard - Consider the eel 597S

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • Cassidy, John - Dot.con: the greatest story ever sold 338C
  • Castells, Manuel - End of millennium 303.4C
  • Steinbock, Dan - The Nokia revolution: the story of an extraordinary company that transformed an industry 384S

SEPTEMBER 11

  • A Just response: the Nation on terrorism, democracy & September 11, 2001 303.6J
  • After the World Trade Center: rethinking New York City (edited by Michael Sorkin & Sharon Zukin) 711A
  • Ali, Tariq - Clash of fundamentalisms: crusades, Jihads & modernity Lobby 297A
  • Esposito, John L. - Unholy war: terror in the name of Islam 303.6E

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The house of the seven gables (8 cassettes) AC H - Lobby
  • Joyce, James - The sisters (2 cassettes) AC J
  • Naipaul, V.S. - Half a life (5 cassettes) AC N - Lobby
  • Sebald, W.G. - Austerlitz (5 cassettes) AC S - Lobby


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