New York Society Library

SEPTEMBER 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barrett, Anthony - Livia: first lady of Imperial Rome
  • Birkerts, Sven - My sky blue trades: growing up counter in a contrary time
  • Blass, Bill - Bare Blass
  • Collingridge, Vanessa - Captain Cook
  • Courtney, Nicholas - Gale force 10: the life and legacy of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857
  • Freeling, Nicholas - Village book
  • Graff, Henry F. - Grover Cleveland
  • Haffner, Sebastian - Defying Hitler: a memoir
  • Hirshon, Stanley - General Patton: a soldier's life
  • Holmes, Richard - Wellington
  • Hughes, Lindsey - Peter the Great
  • Ivan Bunin: the twilight of emigre Russia, 1934-1953: a portrait from letters, diaries, and memoirs
  • Jackson, Lawrence - Ralph Ellison: emergence of genius
  • Johnson, John - Only son: a memoir
  • Klima, Ivan - Karel Capek: life and work
  • Kurzke, Hermann - Thomas Mann: life as a work of art
  • Milton, Giles - Samurai William
  • Morgan, Edmund - Benjamin Franklin
  • Page, Nick - Lord Minimus
  • Remini, Robert - John Quincy Adams
  • Ridley, Jane - The architect and his wife: the life of Sir Edward Lutyens
  • Ross, Andrew - David Livingstone: mission and empire
  • Steinberg, Saul - Reflections & shadows
  • Stone, Amey - King of Capital (Sandy Weill & Citigroup)
  • Suiter, John - Poets on the peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades
  • Wefali, Amine - Westchester burning: portrait of a marriage
  • Zemanova, Mirka - Janacek

FICTION

  • Abse, Dannie - The strange case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
  • Auster, Paul - Book of illusions
  • Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Street boys
  • Card, Orson Scott - Shadow puppets
  • Cartwright, Justin - White lightning
  • Cela, Camilo Jose - Boxwood
  • Clancy, Tom - Red rabbit
  • Clark, Robert - Love among the ruins
  • Crowell, Jean - Letting the body lead
  • Crusie, Jennifer - Faking it
  • Darnton, John - Mind catcher
  • Davis, Kathryn - Versailles
  • Eisler, Barry - Rain fall
  • Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
  • Farrington, Tim - The monk downstairs
  • Fielding, Joy - Whispers and lies
  • Flagg, Fannie - Standing in the rainbow
  • Furst, Alan - Blood of victory
  • Gaffney, Patricia - Flight lessons
  • Gee, Maggie - White family
  • Gertler, Stephanie - Puzzle bark tree
  • Gould, Judith - The best is yet to come
  • Graham, Laurie - The unfortunates
  • Griffiths, Niall - Sheepshagger
  • Harris, E. Lynn - Love of my own
  • Hatoum, Milton - The brothers
  • Huth, Angela - Of love and slaughter
  • Jakes, John - Charleston: a novel
  • Keun, Irmgard - The artificial silk girl
  • Leebron, Fred - In the middle of all this
  • Lehrer, Jim - No certain rest
  • McGovern, Cammie - Art of seeing
  • McNab, Andy - Last light
  • Makine, Andrei - Music of a life
  • Mda, Zakes - Heart of redness
  • Michon, Pierre - Origin of the world
  • Morgenroth, Kate - Saved
  • Morris, J.M. - Lonely places
  • Nigam, Sanjay - Transplanted man
  • Pears, Tim - Wake up
  • Plain, Belva - Her father's house
  • Pratt, James Michael - Paradise Bay
  • Robbins, Harold - Sin city
  • Roberts, Nora - Cordina's royal family
  • Sebastian, Barry - Annie Dunne
  • Sherwood, Frances - Book of splendor
  • Sinclair, Iain - Landor's tower
  • Staincliffe, Cath - Trio
  • Storey, David - As it happened
  • Sullivan, Mark T. - Labyrinth
  • Thubron, Colin - To the last city
  • Toer, Pramoedya Ananta - Girl from the coast
  • Tosches, Nick - In the hand of Dante
  • Wells, Ken - Logan's storm
  • Wiesel, Elie - Judges
  • The year's best science fiction

SHORT STORIES

  • Capek, Karel - Cross roads
  • Evans, Elizabeth - Suicide's girlfriend
  • Gilchrist, Ellen - I, Rhoda Manning, go hunting with my daddy
  • Murakami, Haruki - After the quake
  • Papernick, Jon - Ascent of Eli Israel
  • Stories from the Blue Moon Café (Rick Bragg, Pat Conroy, William Gay, W.E.B. Griffin, et al.)
  • Winegardner, Mark - That's true of everybody

MYSTERIES

  • Bernhardt, William - Criminal intent
  • Billingham, Mark - Scaredy cat *
  • Block, Lawrence - Enough rope
  • Brett, Simon - Torso in the town
  • Burcell, Robin - Fatal truth
  • Butler, Gwendoline - Coffin knows the answer *
  • Cameron, Stella - Cold day in July
  • Carlon, Patricia - Who are you, Linda Condrick?
  • Clark, Mary Jane - Nobody knows
  • Cleverly, Barbara - The last Kashmiri rose *
  • Conant, Susan - Wicked flea
  • Constantine, K.C. - Saving room for dessert
  • Cooper, Natasha - Out of the dark *
  • Crombie, Deborah - And justice there is none *
  • Davis, Lindsey - Jupiter myth
  • Davis, Patrick - The commander
  • Diamond, Diana - Good sister
  • Doherty, P.C. - Slayers of Seth: a story of intrigue and murder set in Ancient Egypt
  • Eddy, Paul - Flint's law
  • Engel, Howard - Cooperman variations
  • Estleman, Loren - Black powder, white smoke
  • Gardner, John - Bottled spider *
  • Gerritsen, Tess - Apprentice
  • Gleeson, Janet - The grenadillo box *
  • Granger, Ann - A restless evil *
  • Grimes, Martha - The grave Maurice *
  • Grippando, James - Beyond suspicion
  • Hamill, Denis - Long time gone
  • Hansen, Joseph - Bohannon's women
  • Harris, Charlaine - Last scene alive
  • Hart, Ellen - Immaculate midnight
  • Hills, Kathleen - Past imperfect
  • Hooper, Kay - Whisper of evil
  • Horn, Stephen - Law of gravity
  • Jance, J.A. - Partner in crime
  • Kava, Alex - Soul catcher
  • Kellerman, Faye - Stone kiss
  • McClendon, Lise - Sweet and lowdown
  • MacDonald, Marianne - Blood lies *
  • McGown, Jill - Births, deaths & marriages *
  • McInerny, Ralph - As good as dead
  • Maitland, Barry - Silver meadow *
  • Maron, Margaret - Slow dollar
  • Marston, Edward - Bawdy basket *
  • Martin, Andrew - The necropolis railway *
  • Michaels, Kasey - Maggie needs an alibi
  • O'Marie, Carol Anne - The corporal works of murder
  • O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Unfit to practice
  • Owen, Barry - Honor's kingdom
  • Pearson, Ridley - Art of deception
  • Pickard, Nancy - The truth hurts
  • Reich, Christopher - First billion
  • Roberts, Les - The Irish sports pages
  • Sanders, Lawrence - McNally's alibi
  • Santlofer, Jonathan - The death artist
  • Siegel, Sheldon - Criminal intent
  • Siler, Jenny - Shot
  • Simmons, Dan - Hard freeze
  • Tannenbaum, Robert - Absolute rage
  • Tope, Rebecca - Grave concerns
  • Turnbull, Peter - The return *
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bettini, Maurizio - Classical indiscretions: a millennial enquiry into the state of the classics 880.9B
  • Gay, Peter - Savage reprisals: Bleak house, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks 809.3G
  • Hamilton, Ian - Against oblivion: some lives of the 20th century poets 821.09H
  • James, Clive - Reliable essays 824J
  • Larkin, Philip - Trouble at Willow Gables and other fictions 828.08L
  • Sackville-West, Vita - Selected writings 828S
  • Vargas Llosa, Mario - Letters to a young novelist 808.3V
  • Warshow, Robert - The immediate experience: movies, comics, theatre & other aspects of popular culture (originally published in 1962; includes new chapters) 824W
  • Zipes, Jack David - Sticks and stones: the troublesome success of children's literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter 809Z

POETRY

  • Evaristo, Bernandine - The emperor's babe 821E
  • Poems to live by in uncertain times (Joan Murray, editor) 821.08P
  • Strand, Mark - The story of our lives 821S

BOOKS & READING

  • Justice, Keith L. - Bestseller index: all books, by author, on the list of Publisher's Weekly and the New York times through 1990 (1998) 016J
  • Spufford, Francis - The child that books built 028S
  • Sutherland, John - Reading the decades: fifty years of the nation's bestselling books (UK) 028S

LANGUAGE

  • Dunn, Jerry Camarillo - Idiom savant (1997) 427C
  • Nunberg, Geoffrey - The way we talk now: commentaries on language and culture from NPR's "Fresh air" 401N

ARTS

  • Bröhan, Torsten - Glass of the avant-garde 748B
  • Brooks, H. Allen - Le Corbusier's formative years (1997) 720.92B
  • Chapman, H. Perry - Jan Steen, painter and storyteller (1996) 759.9S
  • Gebhard, David - The National Trust guide to Art Deco in America (1996) 720.973G
  • Klaus, Susan - A modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. & the plan for Forest Hills Gardens 307K
  • Shiner, L.E. - The invention of art: a cultural history 709S
  • Stafford, Barbara Maria - Devices of wonder: from the world in a box to images on a screen 701S

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ames, Jonathan - My less than secret life 92 A5138 A
  • Barlow, Frank - The Godwins 942.01B
  • Gelles, Edith Belle - Abigail Adams (1998) 92 A199 G
  • Litwak, Leo - The medic: life and death in the last days of WWII 940.548L
  • Millet, Catherine - The sexual life of Catherine M. 92 M6832 M
  • The Norton book of interviews: an anthology from 1859 to the present (1996) 920 P41 N

HISTORY

  • Benjamin, Thomas - La Revolución: Mexico's great revolution as memory, myth & history 972B
  • Blanning, T.C.W. - The culture of power and the power of culture: old regime Europe, 1660-1789 940.25B
  • Cradock, Percy - Know your enemy: how the Joint Intelligence Committee saw the world 355.34C
  • Eley, Geoff - Forging democracy: the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 940.28E
  • Gerolymatos, André - The Balkan wars 949.6G
  • Gilbert, Martin - Letters to Auntie Fori: the 5000 year history of the Jewish people and their faith 909.4G
  • Glassberg, David - Sense of history: the place of the past in American life 973G
  • Gregson, Jonathan - Blood against the snows: the tragic story of Nepal's royal dynasty 954.96G
  • Lamb, David - Vietnam, now: a reporter returns 915.9L
  • Morris, Dick - Power plays: win or lose-how history's greatest political leaders play the game 909.82M
  • Parker, Geoffrey - Success is never final: empire, war, and faith in early modern Europe 940.22P

CIVILIZATION

  • Cartledge, Paul - Spartan reflections 938C
  • D'Souza, Dinesh - What's so great about America 973D
  • Hartog, Francois - Memories of Odysseus: frontier tales from ancient Greece 938H
  • An Oxford companion to the romantic age: British culture, 1776-1832 306O

TRAVEL

  • Chaffetz, David - A journey through Afghanistan: a memorial 915.8C
  • De Botton, Alain - The art of travel 910D
  • Lane, Edward William - Description of Egypt (1825-1828) 916.2L
  • Tattlin, Isadora - Cuba diaries: an American housewife in Havana 972.91T

NEW YORK CITY

  • A Community of many worlds: Arab-Americans in New York City 974.71C
  • Kornblum, William - At sea in the city: New York from the water's edge 974.71K
  • Stoller, Paul - Money has no smell: the Africanization of New York City 305.88S

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Adler, E. Scott - Why congressional reforms fail: reelection and the House Committee system 328.73A
  • Bobbitt, Philip - The shield of Achilles: war, peace, and the course of history 327B
  • Chandler, David - From Kosovo to Kabul: human rights and international intervention 323.4C
  • Coulter, Ann H. - Slander: liberal lies about the American right 320.9C
  • Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Globalization and its discontents 337S
  • Talbott, Strobe - The Russia hand: a memoir of presidential diplomacy 327.73T

RELIGION

  • Buber, Martin - Eclipse of God: studies in the relation between religion and philosophy (1952) 201B
  • Croce, Paul Jerome - Science and religion in the era of William James (1995) 215C
  • Dever, William - What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it? 220.9D
  • Lipsey, Roger - Have you been to Delphi?: tales of the ancient oracle for modern minds 292L
  • Waugh, Alexander - God: the biography 212W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Ficino, Marsilio - Platonic theology 184F
  • Flanagan, Owen J. - The problem of the soul: two visions of mind and how to reconcile them 128F
  • Gilson, Etienne - The philosophy of St. Bonaventure (1965) 189G
  • Magee, Bryan - Confessions of a philosopher: a journey through western philosophy (1997) 100M

INDUSTRY AND ECONOMICS

  • Defying corporations, defining democracy: a book of history & stategy 322.3D
  • LeBaron, Dean - Mao, Marx and the market: capitalist adventures in Russia and China 330.947L
  • McMillan, John - Reinventing the bazaar: a natural history of markets 330.1M
  • Nestle, Marion - Food politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health 338.4N

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Banner, Stuart - The death penalty: an American history 343.2B
  • Florida, Richard L. - The rise of the creative class: and how it is transforming work, leisure, community & everyday life 305.5F
  • Foster, Gaines M. - Moral reconstruction: Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 322.4F
  • Freedman, Estelle B. - No turning back: the history of feminism and the future of women 305.4F
  • Hewlett, Sylvia Ann - Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children 306.8H
  • Horowitz, David - Uncivil wars: the controversy over reparations for slavery 323.1H
  • Mitchell, Richard G. - Dancing at Armageddon: survivalism and chaos in modern times 301M
  • Roiphe, Anne - Married: a fine predicament 306.8R
  • Segal, Ronald - Islam's Black slaves: the other Black diaspora 306.3S

CRIMES

  • Pollock, Ellen Joan - The pretender: how Martin Frankel fooled the financial world and led the feds on one of the most publicized manhunts in history 364.1P
  • Taylor, John - The count and the confession 364.1T
  • Wambaugh, Joseph - Fire lover: a true story 364.1W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Bruner, Jerome - Making stories: law, literature, life 121B
  • Chesler, Phyllis - Woman's inhumanity to woman 305.4C
  • Essential papers on the psychology of aging 155.6E
  • Gilligan, Carol - The birth of pleasure 155.3G

SCIENCE

  • Emsley, John - Nature's building blocks: an A-Z guide to the elements 546E
  • Flowers, Charles - Instability rules: the ten most amazing ideas of modern science 509F
  • Gould, Stephen Jay - The structure of evolutionary theory 575G
  • Hawking, Stephen - The theory of everything 523.1H
  • Jahme, Carole - Beauty and the beasts: woman, ape and evolution 599J

ENVIRONMENT

  • Ashcroft, Frances M. - Life at the extremes (2000) 612A
  • Foster, David R. - New England forests through time: insights from the Harvard Forest dioramas (2000) 634.9F
  • Lomborg, Bjørn - The skeptical environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world 363.7L
  • McDonough, William - Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things 658M

HUMOR

  • Floating off the page: the best stories from the Wall Street journal's "Middle column" 081F
  • Franken, Al - Oh, the things I know! 170F
  • Moore, Michael - Stupid white men-and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! 973.929M

SPORTS

  • Bellos, Alex - Futebol: the Brazilian way of life 796.3B
  • Charyn, Jerome - Sizzling chops and devilish spins: ping-pong and the art of staying alive 794.7C
  • Fletcher, Colin - The complete walker IV 796.51F

COOKERY

  • Boorstin, Sharon - Let us eat cake 641.5B
  • Brenner, Leslie - The fourth star: dispatches from inside Daniel Boulud's celebrated New York Restaurant 647.9B
  • David, Elizabeth - Is there a nutmeg in the house? 641.5D

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Gallagher, Winifred - Spiritual genius 291.4G
  • Legato, Marianne - Eve's rib: the new science of gender-specific medicine and how it can save your life 616L
  • Weinblatt, Michael E. - The arthritis action program 616.9W

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Miller, John - The cell: inside the 9/11 plot and why the CIA and FBI failed to stop it 303.6M
  • Ruthven, Malise - A fury for God: the Islamist attack on America 303.6R
  • September 11th photo project Oversize 974.71S

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio (6 cassettes; readings by Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Paul Auster, et al.) AC A
  • Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent (8 cassettes) AC C Lobby
  • Proust, Marcel - Swann's way (16 cassettes) AC P - Lobby


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