New York Society Library

JULY 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bentley, Toni - Sisters of Salome
  • Bernays, Anne - Back then: two lives in 1950s New York
  • Best, Geoffrey - Churchill: a study in greatness
  • Blow, Richard - American son (John F. Kennedy, Jr.)
  • Bosworth, R.J.B. - Mussolini
  • Carmona, Michel - Haussman: his life and times and the making of modern Paris
  • Collins, Theresa - Otto Kahn: art and modern time
  • Conant, Jennet - Tuxedo Park: a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II
  • D'este, Carlo - Eisenhower: a soldier's life
  • Douglas, Kirk - My stroke of luck
  • Everitt, Anothony - Cicero
  • Finan, Christopher - Alfred E. Smith: the happy warrior
  • Fox, Michael J. - Lucky man
  • Gordon, Robert - Can't be satisfied (Muddy Waters)
  • Haley, James - Sam Houston
  • Kennedy, Caroline - Profiles in courage for our time
  • Kerrey, Robert - When I was a young man
  • Klabunde, Anja - Magda Goebbels
  • Laber, Jeri - Courage of strangers: coming of age with the human rights movement
  • Lacey, Robert - Monarch (Elizabeth II)
  • McEnroe, John - You cannot be serious
  • Munro, Sheila - Lives of mothers & daughters: growing up with Alice Munro
  • Parker, Herschel - Herman Melville: a biography (volume 2, 1851-1891)
  • Robinson, Andrew - The man who deciphered Linear B: the story of Michael Ventris
  • Singh, Amar - Reversing the gaze: a colonial subject's narrative of Imperial India
  • Strober, Deborah - The monarchy: an oral biography of Elizabeth II
  • Thau, Harold - Bronx to Broadway: a life in show business
  • Thomas, Donald - Cardigan
  • Villas, James - Between bites
  • Watson, Richard - Cogito, ergo sum: the life of Rene Descartes
  • Zacks, Richard - The pirate hunter: the true story of Captain Kidd

FICTION

  • Adams, Douglas - Salmon of doubt
  • Baricco, Alessandro - City
  • Becker, Jurek - The boxer
  • Bell, Madison Smartt - Anything goes
  • Berg, Elizabeth - True to form
  • Biguenet, John - Oyster
  • Brady, James - Warning of war
  • Calisher, Hortense - Sunday Jews
  • Chee, Alexander - Edinburgh
  • Chidgey, Catherine - The strength of the sun
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - Mount Vernon love story
  • Costello, Mark - Big if
  • Cranny, Robert - Faces along the bar
  • Cunningham, Michael - Beautiful bodies
  • Davidar, David - The house of blue mangoes
  • Deveraux, Jude - Mulberry tree
  • Durham, David - A walk through darkness
  • Ferguson, Will - Happiness
  • Ford, Jeffrey - The portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
  • Garlock, Dorothy - High on a hill
  • Goudge, Eileen - Taste of honey
  • Grant, Linda - Still here
  • Grenville, Kate - Idea of perfection
  • Hansen, Erik Fosnes - Tales of protection
  • Hijuelos, Oscar - A simple Habana melody
  • Hill, Kathleen - Still waters in Niger
  • Hower, Edward - Shadows and elephants
  • Jacobs, Laura - Women about town
  • Jelloun, Tamar Ben - This blinding absence of light
  • Jennings, Kate - Moral hazard
  • Jewell, Lisa - One-hit wonder
  • Just, Ward S. - Weather in Berlin
  • Kadare, Ismail - Spring flowers, spring frost
  • Karon, Jan - In this mountain
  • Keyes, Marion - Angels
  • Koning, Hans - Zeeland
  • Lawrence, Anthony - In the half light
  • Lehmann, Nancy - Malaise
  • Long, Jeff - Year zero
  • Lustig, Arnost - Lovely green eyes
  • Miller, Linda Lael - The last chance cafe
  • Montemarano, Nicholas - A fine place
  • Phillips, Arthur - Prague
  • Phillips, Susan Elizabeth - Breathing room
  • Pressfield, Steven - The last of the Amazons
  • Price, Reynolds - Noble Norfleet
  • Quick, Amanda - Don't look back
  • Rathbone, Julian - Last English king
  • Ridley, John - Conversation with the man
  • Riviere, William - Kate Caterina
  • Scottoline, Lisa - Courting trouble
  • Sedgwick, John - Education of Mrs. Bemis
  • Selby, Hubert - Waiting period
  • Shteyngart, Gary - The Russian debutante's handbook
  • Southgate, Martha - The fall of Rome
  • Sorrentino, Gilbert - Little casino
  • Trotter, William R. - The sands of pride
  • Vautrin, Jean - Voice of the people
  • Walker, Persia - Harlem redux

SHORT STORIES

  • Auchincloss, Louis - Manhattan monologues
  • Bennett, Alan - The laying on of hands
  • Chernoff, Maxine - Some of her friends that year
  • Gifford, Barry - American falls
  • Hernandez, Felisberto - Lands of memory
  • McCourt, James - Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
  • Skvorecky, Josef - When Eve was naked

MYSTERIES

  • Abel, Kenneth - The burying field
  • Booth, Stephen - Blood on the tongue
  • Box, C.J. - Savage run
  • Burke, James Lee - Jolie Blon's bounce
  • Camilleri, Andrea - The shape of water
  • Cannell, Dorothy - The importance of being Ernestine *
  • Carter, Stephen - The emperor of Ocean Park
  • Charles, Paul - The hissing of the silent lonely room *
  • Clement, Peter - Critical condition
  • Collins, Max Allan - Chicago confidential
  • Dams, Jeanne - Silence is golden
  • Davidson, Diane Mott - Chopping spree
  • Devane, Terry - Juror number eleven
  • Dorsey, Tim - Triggerfish twist
  • Dubois, Brendan - Killer waves
  • Edwards, Michael - Murder at the Panionic games
  • Francis, Claire - Betrayal *
  • Gardner, Lisa - Survivor's club
  • Gooden, Philip - Pale companion *
  • Gunn, Elizabeth - 7th inning stretch: a Jake Hines mystery
  • Haddam, Jane - Somebody else's music
  • Hambly, Barbara - Wet grave
  • Henry, Sue - Cold company: an Alaska mystery
  • Hitchcock, Jane S. - Social crimes
  • Jackson, Jon - Badger games
  • Knief, Charles - Silversword
  • Lovesy, Peter - Diamond dust *
  • MacDonald, Marianne - Die once *
  • Marcuse, Irene - Consider the alternative
  • Mina, Denise - Resolution *
  • Muller, Marcia - Dead midnight
  • Patterson, James - Beach house
  • Preston, Douglas - Cabinet of curiosities
  • Pronzini, Bill - Step to the graveyard easy
  • Saul, John - Midnight voices
  • Silvis, Randall - Disquiet heart
  • Smith, Carol - Grandmother's footsteps *
  • Somoza, Jose Carlos - Athenian murders
  • Stabenow, Dana - A fine and bitter snow
  • Swain, James - Funny money
  • Trigoboff, Joseph - Shooting gallery
  • White, Randy Wayne - 12 mile limit
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Fabian, Ann - The unvarnished truth: personal narratives in 19th century America 920 F12 U
  • Jankowski, Paul - Stavisky: a confidence man... 944.08J
  • Johnson, Kurt - Nabokov's blues: the scientific odyssey of a literary genius (1999) 92 N1175 J
  • Moore, Henry - Henry Moore-writings and conversations 730.92M
  • Shawcross, William - Queen and country: the 50 year reign of Elizabeth II 942.085S
  • Thompson, Brian - Imperial vanities: the adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum 920 T468 I
  • Timmerman, Kenneth R. - Shakedown!: exposing the real Jesse Jackson 973.923T
  • Weissman, Susan Claudia - Victor Serge: the course is set on hope 947W

HISTORY

  • Assmann, Jan - The mind of Egypt: history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs 932A
  • Boot, Max - The savage wars of peace: small wars and the rise of American power 973B
  • Brewer, David - The Greek War of Independence 949.5B
  • Cohen, G.A. - Karl Marx's theory of history: a defence 335.4C
  • Guillermoprieto, Alma - Looking for history: dispatches from Latin America 980G
  • The history and narrative reader (ed. Geoffrey Roberts) 901H
  • Ibrahim, Saad Eddin - Egypt, Islam and democracy: twelve critical essays 962I
  • Raphael, Ray - The first American revolution: before Lexington and Concord 973.3R
  • Sachar, Howard Morley - Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the aftermath of the Great War 940.5S
  • Starr, Kevin - Embattled dreams: California in war and peace, 1940-1950 979.4S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Pritchard, Evan T. - Native New Yorkers: the legacy of the Algonquin people of New York 970.3P
  • Shield, Renée Rose - Diamond stories: enduring change on 47th Street 380.14S
  • Wetzsteon, Ross - Republic of dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1915-1950 974.71W

ARCHITECTURE

  • Harris, Eugene - The genius of Robert Adam 729H
  • Harvard Design School guide to shopping 720H
  • Lejeune, Jean-Francois - The making of Miami Beach, 1933-1942 (Lawrence Murray Dixon) 720.92D
  • Massie, Suzanne - Pavlovsk (Russian palace) 720.947M

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • FitzGerald, Frances - Vietnam: spirits of the earth 915.9F
  • Heffernan, Thomas Farel - Mutiny on the Globe: the fatal voyage of Samuel Comstock 910.4H
  • Kobalenko, Jerry - The horizontal Everest: extreme journeys on Ellesmere Island 919.8K
  • Turner, Katherine - British travel writers in Europe, 1750-1800: authorship, gender, and national identity 828.09T

SCIENCE

  • Bentley, P.J. - Digital biology: how nature is transforming our technology and our lives 570B
  • Chown, Marcus - The magic furnace: the search for the origins of atoms 541.2C
  • Gould, Stephen Jay - I have landed 574G
  • Keller, Evelyn Fox - Making sense of life: explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines 570K
  • Reichman, Lee B. - Timebomb: the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis 616.24R

TECHNOLOGY

  • Brooks, Rodney Allen - Flesh and machines: how robots will change us 621B
  • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz - A social history of American technology (1997) 609C
  • Tobin, James - Great projects: the epic story of the building of America 609T

COMPUTERS

  • Gleick, James - What just happened: a chronicle from the electronic frontier 301.2G
  • Health & medicine on the Internet: a comprehensive guide to medical information on the world wide web 610.58H
  • Levy, David M. - Scrolling forward: making sense of documents in the digital age 302L
  • Litan, Robert E. - Beyond the dot.coms: the economic promise of the Internet 338.4L

BELLES LETTRES

  • Benardete, Seth - The argument of the action: essays on Greek poetry and philosophy 880.9S
  • Carpenter, Humphrey - A great, silly grin: the British satire boom of the 1960s 827C
  • Dickstein, Morris - Leopards in the temple: transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970 823.09D
  • Foote, Stephanie - Regional fictions: culture and identity in 19th century American literature 823.09F
  • Ginzburg, Natalia - A place to live (essays) 854G
  • Kermode, Frank - Pleasing myself 820.9K
  • Kingsolver, Barbara - Small wonder (essays) 824K

SHAKESPEARE

  • Dulack, Tom - In love with Shakespeare 822.33C
  • Gollob, Herman - Me and Shakespeare 822.33C
  • Kerrigan, John - On Shakespeare and early modern literature 820.9K
  • Ryan, Kiernan - Shakespeare 822.33C

POETRY

  • Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths 808.81G
  • Leithauser, Brad - Darlington's fall: a novel in verse 821L
  • Ponsot, Marie - Springing: new and selected poems 821P
  • Van Duyn, Mona - Selected poems 821V

PHILOSOPHY

  • Berlin, Isaiah, Sir - Freedom and its betrayal: six enemies of human liberty 123B
  • Delacampagne, Christian - History of philosophy in the 20th century 190D
  • Ostrow, Matthew B. - Wittgenstein's Tractatus: a dialectical interpretation 193W
  • Robert Nozick (edited by David Schmidtz) 191N

ART

  • Bohm-Duchen, Monica - The private life of a masterpiece 709B
  • Galenson, David W. - Painting outside the lines: patterns of creativity in modern art 750.1G
  • Hans Holbein: paintings, prints, and reception 759.3H
  • Lapatin, Kenneth - Mysteries of the snake goddess (forgery, Minoans) 938L

MUSEUMS

  • Calas, Nicholas - The Peggy Guggenheim collection of modern art 709.04C
  • A grand design: the art of the Victoria & Albert Museum (1997) 708.2V
  • Selections: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 708.1V
  • The Smith College Museum of Art: European and American painting and sculpture, 1760-1960 709S

EDUCATION

  • Card, Tim - Eton established: a history from 1440 to 1860 373E
  • Simmons, Tracy Lee - Climbing Parnassus: a new apologia for Greek and Latin 375S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Farrell, Michael P. - Collaborative circles: friendship dynamics and creative work 302.3F
  • Godbeer, Richard - Sexual revolution in early America 306.7G
  • Jackson, Maggie - What's happening to home?: balancing work, life, and refuge in the information age 306.3J
  • Jensen, Derrick - The culture of make believe (race relations) 305.8J
  • Klein, Richard G. - The dawn of human culture 301.2K
  • Main, Gloria - Peoples of a spacious land: families and cultures in colonial New England 306.8M
  • Newton, Michael - Savage girls and wild boys: a history of feral children 305.23N
  • Rodriguez, Richard - Brown: the last discovery of America (Hispanic Americans) 305.85R

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Ackerman, Bruce A. - Voting with dollars: a new paradigm for campaign finance 329A
  • Drew, Elizabeth - Citizen McCain 328.73D
  • Jeffords, James - My declaration of independence 328.73J
  • Jerome, Fred - The Einstein file: J. Edgar Hoover's secret war against the world's most famous scientist 327.12J
  • Lampton, David M. - Same bed, different dreams: managing U.S.-China relations, 1989-2000 327.73L
  • Phillips, Kevin P. - Wealth and democracy 339.2P

ECONOMICS

  • Bollier, David - Silent theft: the private plunder of our common wealth 306.3B
  • Brenner, Robert - The boom and the bubble 338.973B
  • Hoffman, David E. - The oligarchs: wealth and power in the new Russia 338H
  • Stiglitz, Joseph - Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: the rebel within 339S

LAW

  • Alschuler, Albert W. - Law without values: the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes 92 H7522 A
  • Douglas, Lawrence - The memory of judgment: making law and history in the trials of the Holocaust 341.1D

RELIGION

  • Ashton, John - The quest for paradise: visions of heaven and eternity in the world's myths and religions 291A
  • Menocal, Maria Rosa - The ornament of the world: how Muslims, Jews and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain 946.02M
  • Polkinghorne, J.C. - Belief in God in an age of science 261P
  • Reeves, Minou - Muhammad in Europe 92 M697 R

PSYCHIATRY

  • Porter, Roy - Madness: a brief history 616.8P
  • Sirotkina, Irina - Diagnosing literary genius: a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930 616.8S
  • Torrey, E. Fuller - The invisible plague: the rise of mental illness from 1750 to the present 616.8T

MUSIC

  • Friedwald, Will - Stardust melodies: a biography of twelve of America's most popular songs 784.6F
  • Warrack, John Hamilton - German opera: from the beginnings to Wagner 782.1W
  • Williams, Peter F. - Bach, the Goldberg variations 786.4W

CINEMA

  • Ebert, Roger - The great movies 791.4E
  • Koppes, Clayton R. - Hollywood goes to war: how politics, profits, and propaganda shaped World War II movies (1990) 940.5488K
  • Richie, Donald - A hundred years of Japanese film 791.4R

SPORTS

  • Cookman, Scott - Atlantic: the last great race of princes 797.1C
  • Frazier, Ian - The fish's eye: essays about angling & the outdoors 799.1F
  • Tofel, Richard J. - A legend in the making: the New York Yankees in 1939 796.3T

HEALTH & HOME

  • Browning, Dominique - Around the house and in the garden: a memoir of heartbreak, healing, and home improvement 306.8B
  • Heart attack!: advice for patients by patients 616.1H
  • May, Jeffrey C. - My house is killing me!: the home guide for families with allergies and asthma 616.97M

SEPTEMBER 11*

  • Mackey, Sandra - The reckoning: Iraq & the legacy of Saddam Hussein 956M
  • Portraits 9/11/01: the collected "portraits of grief" from the New York times 303.6P
  • Striking terror: America's new war 303.6S
  • Williams, Rowan - Writing in the dust Lobby 242W

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Haggard, Rider - King Solomon's mines (6 cassettes) AC H
  • Silva, Daniel - The English assassin (7 cassettes) AC S
  • Morrison, Toni - Sula (4 cassettes) AC M
  • Trollope, Anthony - The way we live now (32 cassettes) AC T


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