New York Society Library

AUGUST 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ainsztein, Reuben - In lands not my own: a wartime journey
  • Amis, Martin - Koba the Dread
  • Bird, Isabella - Letters to Henrietta
  • Bonner, John Tyler - Lives of a biologist
  • Brombert, Victor - Trains of thought
  • Burroughs, Augusten - Running with scissors
  • Charyn, Jerome - Bronx boy
  • Clarke, P.F. - The Cripps Version: the life of Sir Stafford Cripps
  • Daudet, Alphonse - In the land of pain
  • Eagleton, Terry - The gatekeeper
  • Gavin, James - Deep in a dream: the long night of Chet Baker
  • Hastings, Selina - Rosamond Lehmann
  • Invisible giants: 50 Americans who shaped the nation but missed the history books
  • Kohler, Joachim - Zarathustra's secret
  • Knox, John - The forgotten memoir of John Knox : a year in the life of a Supreme Court clerk in FDR's Washington
  • MacLean, Veronica - Past forgetting
  • Maddox, Brenda - Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA
  • Man, John - Gutenberg
  • Murphy, Richard - The Kick: a memoir
  • Nadel, Ira - Tom Stoppard
  • Newfield, Jack - Somebody's gotta tell it
  • Norris, Robert S. - Racing for the bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's indispensable man
  • Norton, Robert - Secret Germany: Stefan George and his circle
  • Rose, June - Demons and angels: a life of Jacob Epstein
  • Rubin, Richard - Confederacy of silence
  • Spurling, Hilary - Girl from the fiction department: a portrait of Sonia Orwell
  • Stewart, Shelley - The road South: a memoir
  • Toibin, Colm - Lady Gregory's toothbrush
  • Weldon, Fay - Auto da fay
  • Zwonitzer, Mark - Will you miss me when I'm gone?: The Carter Family and their legacy in American music

FICTION

  • Adler, Elizabeth - Summer in Tuscany
  • Beckman, John - Winter zoo
  • Bialosky, Jill - House under snow
  • Binding, Paul - My cousin the writer
  • Boyd, William - Any human heart
  • Brown, Dale - Wings of fire
  • Coetzee, J.M. - Youth
  • Dailey, Janet - Green Calder grass
  • Delinksy, Barbara - Accidental woman
  • Dixon, Stephen - I: a novel
  • Ebershoff, David - Pasadena
  • Edric, Robert - Peacetime
  • Ermelino, Louisa - The Sisters Mallone
  • Fowler, Nick - A thing (or two) about Curtis and Camilla
  • Garcia-Aguilera, Caroline - One hot summer
  • George, Margaret - Mary, called Magdalene
  • Gunn, Kirsty - Featherstone
  • Hannah, Kristin - Distant shores
  • Kimmel, Haven - Solace of leaving early
  • Kraft, Eric - Inflating a dog
  • Krauss, Nicole - A man walks into a room
  • Lanchester, John - Fragrant Harbor
  • McDonnell, Nick - Twelve
  • McDonough, Yona Zeldis - Four temperaments
  • Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
  • Morrow, Bradford - Ariel's crossing
  • Mount, Ferdinand - The man who rode Ampersand
  • Pritchard, Melissa - Disappearing ingenue: the misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard
  • Rabinyan, Dorit - Strand of a thousand pearls
  • Redhill, Michael - Martin Sloane: a novel
  • Sebold, Alice - Lovely bones
  • Simon, Claude - The trolley
  • Steel, Danielle - Sunset in St. Tropez
  • Trigiani, Adriana - Milk glass moon
  • Wall, Alan - The school of night
  • Warner, Alan - The man who walks
  • Zagel, James - Money to burn
  • Ziesk, Edra - A cold spring

SHORT STORIES

  • Barker, A.L. - Submerged
  • Bass, Rick - The hermit's story
  • Beller, Thomas - Before and after: stories from New York
  • Harfenist, Jean - A brief history of the flood
  • Haslett, Adam - You are not a stranger here
  • McGarry, Jean - Dream date
  • Meloy, Maile - Half in love: stories
  • Russo, Richard - Whore's child and other stories
  • Tate, James - Dreams of a robot dancing bee: 44 stories
  • Thien, Madeleine - Simple recipes

MYSTERIES

  • Ablow, Keith - Compulsion
  • Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin & the day the floods came *
  • Browne, Marshall - Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
  • Buffa, D.W. - The legacy
  • Corbett, David - The devil's redhead
  • Coulter, Catherine - Eleventh hour: an FBI thriller
  • Curzon, Clare - Dangerous practice *
  • D'Amato, Barbara - White male infant
  • Edwards, Martin - Take my breath away *
  • Evanovich, Janet - Hard eight
  • Ford, G.M. - Black River
  • Garcia-Roza, L.A. - The silence of the rain
  • Glass, Leslie - Silent bride
  • Greeley, Andrew - Bishop in the west wing
  • Hightower, Lynn - High water
  • Hunter, Evan - The moment she was gone
  • Iles, Greg - Sleep no more
  • Jacobs, Jonnie - Cold justice
  • Kahn, Michael - Trophy widow
  • Kaminsky, Stuart - To catch a spy
  • McGarrity, Michael - The big gamble
  • McKinzie, Clinton - The edge of justice
  • Mathews, Francine - Secret agent
  • The mighty Johns (Baldacci, Perry, Crumley, Block, et al.)
  • Millhiser, Marlys - The rampant reaper
  • Moorcraft, Paul - Anchoress of Shere *
  • Mosley, Walter - Bad Boy Brawly Brown
  • O'Brien, Charles - Black Gold *
  • Phillips, Scott - Walkaway
  • Reichs, Kathy - Grave secrets
  • Raine, Jerry - Small change *
  • Ripley, Mike - Angel underground *
  • Rosenfelt, David - Open and shut
  • Staincliffe, Cath - Towers of silence *
  • Stallwood, Veronica - Oxford double *
  • Swift, Virginia - Bad company
  • Turnbull, Peter - After the flood *
  • Vine, Barbara - The blood doctor *
  • Williams, Darren - Angel Rock
  • Wiltse, David - Hangman's knot
*indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • After Shakespeare: an anthology (edited by John Gross) 822.33C
  • Alryyes, Ala A. - Original subjects: the child, the novel, and the nation 823.09A
  • Auster, Paul - The red notebook: true stories 828A
  • Cowart, David - Don DeLillo: the physics of language 823D
  • Heaney, Seamus - Finders keepers: selected prose 1971-2001 821.09H
  • Kemp, Sandra - Edwardian fiction: an Oxford companion (1997) 823.09K
  • Lesser, Wendy - Nothing remains the same: rereading and remembering 028L
  • Scanlan, James P. - Dostoevsky the thinker 891.73D
  • Wald, Alan - Exiles from a future time: the forging of the mid-20th century literary left 820.9W

POETRY

  • Bialosky, Jill - Subterranean 821B
  • Faber book of sonnets (1976) 821.08F
  • Hill, Geoffrey - Speech! Speech! 821H
  • Oppen, George - The collected poems (1975) 821O
  • Strand, Mark - Chicken, shadow, moon & more 821S

LANGUAGE

  • Baltsan, Hayim - Webster's New World Hebrew dictionary (1992) 492.4B
  • Dictionary of dangerous words (compiled by Digby Anderson) 422 D Closed Stack
  • Lepore, Jill - A is for American: letters and other characters in the newly United States 420.9L
  • Robinson, Andrew - Lost languages: the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts 411R

BOOKS & READING

  • Belles lettres: manuscripts by the masters of French literature 091 B Oversize
  • Stern, Madeleine B. - Books have their fates 010S

CARTOGRAPHY

  • Newberry Library - Cartographic treasures of the Newberry Library 016.912N
  • Thrower, Norman - Maps & civilization: cartography in culture and society 526.9T

BIOGRAPHY

  • Blumenfeld, Laura - Revenge: a story of hope (Arab-Israeli conflict) 364.1B
  • Greenberg, Clement - The Harold letters, 1928-1943 92 G798858 G
  • Hollingdale, R.J. - Nietzsche: the man and his philosophy 92 N6775 H
  • Kaplan, Jonathan - The dressing station: a surgeon's chronicle of war and medicine 617K
  • Kiser, John W. - The monks of Tibhirine 271K
  • Meltzer, Francoise - For fear of the fire: Joan of Arc and the limits of subjectivity 92 J432 M
  • Saint-John Perse - The poet and the diplomat: correspondence of Dag Hammarskjöld & Alexis Leger 92 S1433 S

HISTORY

  • Barnes, Julian - Something to declare 944B
  • Bruni, Leonardo - History of the Florentine people 945.5B
  • Ellis, Stephen - The mask of anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war 966E
  • Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. - History's memory: writing America's past 1880-1980 973.07F
  • Merriman, John M. - The stones of Balazuc: a French village in time 944M
  • Payne, Leigh A. - Uncivil movements: the armed right wing and democracy 322.4P
  • Segev, Tom - Elvis in Jerusalem: post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel 956.94S
  • Stauffer, John - The black hearts of men: radical abolitionists and the transformation of race 973.7S
  • Walters, Ronald G. - American reformers, 1815-1860 303.4W

WORLD WAR II

  • Mitcham, Samuel W. - Retreat to the Reich: the German defeat in France 940.542M
  • No end save victory (essays) 940.542N
  • Sides, Hampton - Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission 940.542S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Austin, Joe - Taking the train: how graffiti art became an urban crisis in New York City 709.7471A
  • Ballon, Hilary - New York's Pennsylvania Stations 385B
  • Capote, Truman - A house on the heights 92 C2467 C
  • New York: the city in more than 500 memorable quotations 974.71N

CITIES

  • Brooks, Colette - In the city: random acts of awareness 307.76B
  • Davies, Norman - Microcosm (Warsaw, Poland) 943.8D
  • Nash, Gary B. - First City: Philadelphia & the forging of historical memory 974.81N
  • Tung, Anthony - Preserving the world's great cities 711T
  • White, Edmund - Our Paris: sketches from memory 944.092W
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir - Boston: a topographical history 974.46W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Cleere, Henry - Southern France: an Oxford archaeological guide 914.4C
  • Marshall, Andrew - The trouser people: a story of Burma 915.9M
  • Reding, Nick - The last cowboys at the end of the world: the story of the gauchos of Patagonia 918.2R
  • Wasserman, Carol - Swimming at suppertime: seasons of delight on the wrong side of Buzzard's Bay 974.4W
  • Willis, Abigail - Museums & galleries of London (1998) 708.2W

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Brearley, Joan McDonald - The book of the Akita 636.7B
  • Budiansky, Stephen - The character of cats 636.8B
  • Cocker, Mark - Birders: tales of a tribe 598.2C
  • Conley, Kevin - Stud: adventures in breeding 636.1C
  • Safina, Carl - Eyes of the albatross 598.2S

ENVIRONMENT

  • McGuire, Bill - A guide to the end of the world 500M
  • Steinberg, Theodore - Down to earth: nature's role in American history 575.3S
  • Tucker, Richard P. - Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world 333.7T

SCIENCE

  • Albert, David Z. - Time and chance 530.1A
  • Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter - Newton and the culture of Newtonianism 530D
  • The future of spacetime (Stephen Hawking, et al.) 530.1F
  • Jacob, James R. - The scientific revolution: aspirations & achievements, 1500-1700 (1999) 509J
  • Palmer, John D. - The living clock: the orchestrator of biological rhythms 591P
  • Rea, Tom - Bone wars: the excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur 560R

ART

  • Exposed: the Victorian nude 704.942E
  • Franck, Dan - Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the birth of modern art 709.44F
  • Joannides, Paul - Titian to 1518 759.5T
  • Meyer, Richard - Outlaw representation: censorship and homosexuality in 20th century American art 709.73M
  • Still, Clyfford - Clyfford Still: paintings, 1944-1960 759.1S
  • Tate Britain (Gallery) - Representing Britain, 1500-2000 708.2T
  • The Winterthur guide to recognizing styles (American decorative arts, 17th - 19th centuries) 740H

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Becher, Bernd - Water towers (1988) 778B
  • Misrach, Richard - Violent legacies: three cantos (with fiction by Susan Sontag) (1992) 778M
  • Rodchenko, Aleksandr - Photography 1924-1954 (1995) 770R
  • Strand, Paul - La France de profil 944S

MUSIC

  • Gerard, Charley - Jazz in black and white 780.973G
  • Opera: a history in documents 782.1O
  • Osborne, Charles - The complete operas of Richard Strauss 782.1O
  • The Richard Rodgers reader 780.92R

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Bloom, Samuel William - The word as scalpel: a history of medical sociology 306.4B
  • Ciulla, Joanne B. - The working life: the promise and betrayal of modern work 306.3C
  • Fuller, Margaret - Woman in the nineteenth century: an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism (1998) 396F
  • Guinier, Lani - The miner's canary: enlisting race, resisting power, transforming democracy 321.8G
  • Harms, Robert W. - The Diligent: a voyage through the worlds of the slave trade 380.14H
  • Jenkins, Philip - Pedophiles and priests (1996) 362.7J
  • Rees, Sian - The floating brothel: the extraordinary true story of an eighteenth-century ship and its cargo of female convicts 365R

ECONOMICS

  • Bruegel, Martin - Farm, shop, landing: the rise of a market society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860 330.973B
  • Greenfeld, Liah - The spirit of capitalism: nationalism & economic growth 338.9G
  • Rodney, Walter - How Europe underdeveloped Africa (1982) 330.96R
  • Wolman, William - The great 401(k) hoax 332W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Altschuler, Glenn C. - Rude republic: Americans & their politics in the 19th-century 320.9A
  • Black, Earl - The rise of the Southern Republicans 324.273B
  • Liberty and conscience: a documentary history of the experiences of conscientious objectors in America through the Civil War 355.22L
  • Marlin, George J. - Fighting the good fight: a history of the New York Conservative Party 324.273M
  • Neely, Mark E. - The union divided: party conflict in the Civil War North 324.273N

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Ganshof, Francois Louis - The Middle Ages: a history of international relations (1971) 327G
  • Gleijeses, Piero - Conflicting missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 327.7G
  • Heffer, Jean - The United States and the Pacific: history of a frontier 327.73H
  • Schulzinger, Robert D. - U.S. diplomacy since 1900 327.73S

LAW

  • Evans, Richard J. - Lying about Hitler: history, Holocaust, and the David Irving trial 940.5318E
  • O'Neil, Robert - The First Amendment and civil liability 323.4O

SPIES

  • Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri - Cloak and dollar: a history of American secret intelligence 327.12J
  • Stober, Dan - A convenient spy: Wen Ho Lee and the politics of nuclear espionage 327.12S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Averroës - The book of the decisive treatise determining the connection between law and wisdom 181A
  • Daniel Dennett 191D
  • Gomes, Peter J. - The good life: truths that last in times of need 170G
  • Grayling, A.C. - Meditations for the humanist 171G
  • Kuklick, Bruce - A history of philosophy in America, 1720-2000 191K
  • Rorty and his critics 191R
  • Velkley, Richard L. - Being after Rousseau: philosophy & culture in question 111V

RELIGION

  • Boyarin, Daniel - Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man (1997) 296B
  • Buddhism: the illustrated guide 294B
  • Gooch, Brad - Godtalk: travels in spiritual America 200G
  • Gordon, Matthew - Islam: origins, practices, holy texts... 297G
  • Jenkins, Philip - The next Christendom: the coming of global Christianity 270.8J

SPORTS AND GAMES

  • Baseball: a literary anthology 796.3B
  • Standage, Tom - The Turk: the life and times of the famous eighteenth-century chess-playing machine 794S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Dellasega, Cheryl - Surviving Ophelia: mothers share their wisdom in navigating the tumultuous teenage years 301.4D
  • Koehn, Cheryl - Rheumatoid arthritis 616.9K
  • Yalom, Irvin - The gift of therapy 616.8Y

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Gunaratna, Rohan - Inside Al Qaeda Lobby 303.6G
  • Kressel, Neil - Mass hate: the global rise of genocide & terror 364.1K
  • Vidal, Gore - Perpetual war for perpetual peace 301.15V
  • Zinn, Howard - Terrorism and war 303.6Z

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • James, Henry - The ambassadors (13 cassettes)
  • McEwan, Ian - Atonement (10 cassettes)
  • Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - The leopard (6 cassettes)
  • Trollope, Anthony - Trollope: an autobiography (8 cassettes) AC 92 T8474 T
  • Turgenev, Ivan - First love (2 cassettes)


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