New York Society Library

OCTOBER 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Benz, Ernst - Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Browne, Janet - Charles Darwin: a biography, volume 2
  • Cash, Jean - Flannery O'Connor: a life
  • Cottret, Bernard - Calvin: a biography
  • Eleanor and Harry: the correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
  • Hamilton, James - Faraday: the life
  • Jansen, Marc - Stalin's loyal executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
  • Kael, Pauline - Afterglow: a last conversation with Pauline Kael
  • Kelly, Daniel - James Burnham and the struggle for the world
  • Kimmel, Haven - A girl named Zippy: growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
  • Lukacs, John - Churchill: visionary, statesman, historian
  • Mendez, Antonio - Spy dust: two masters of disguise reveal the tools and operations that helped win the Cold War
  • Pevitt, Christine - Madame de Pompadour: mistress of France
  • Prose, Francine - Lives of the muses: nine women and the artists they inspired
  • Raines, Theron - Rising to the light: a portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
  • Reeve, Christopher - Nothing is impossible: reflections on a new life
  • Sheridan, Peter - 47 roses
  • Speller, Elizabeth - Following Hadrian: a 2nd-century journey through the Roman Empire
  • Spoto, Donald - A reluctant saint: the life of Francis of Assisi
  • Tabachnick, Stephen - Fiercer than tigers: the life and works of Rex Warner
  • Tea, Michelle - The Chelsea whistle
  • West, Paul - Oxford days: an inclination

FICTION

  • Bausch, Richard - Hello to the cannibals
  • Brownstein, Gabriel - Curious case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
  • Buckley, Christopher - No way to treat a first lady
  • Carter, Charlotte - Walking bones
  • Cisneros, Sandra - Carmelo
  • Coggins, Mark - Vulture capital
  • Egolf, Tristan - Skirt and the fiddle
  • Elsschot, Willem - Cheese
  • Faber, Michael - The crimson petal and the white
  • Friedmann, Patty - Secondhand smoke
  • Gao, Xingjian - One man's bible
  • Gilling, Tom - The adventures of Miles and Isabel
  • Hawke, Ethan - Ash Wednesday
  • Hemon, Aleksandar - Nowhere man
  • Henley, Patricia - In the river sweet
  • Hensher, Philip - The Mulberry Empire: or the two virtuous journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
  • Humphries, Helen - Lost garden
  • Johansen, Iris - Reap the wind
  • Jones, Tayari - Leaving Atlanta
  • Kafka, Franz - Amerika: the man who disappeared (a new translation by Michael Hofmann)
  • Kaye, John - Dead circus
  • Knauss, Sibylle - Eva's cousin
  • Krist, Gary - Extravagance
  • Lamott, Anne - Blue shoe
  • Larsen, Deborah - The white: a novel
  • Moran, Thomas - What Harry saw
  • Neate, Patrick - Twelve bar blues
  • Otsuka, Julie - When the Emperor was divine
  • Palahniuk, Chuck - Lullaby
  • Quindlen, Anna - Blessings
  • Reuss, Frederick - The wasties
  • Roberts, Nora - Hot ice
  • Scott, Joanna - Tourmaline
  • Sparks, Nicholas - Nights in Rodanthe
  • Tuten, Frederic - The green hour
  • Valdes, Zoe - Dear first love
  • Volpi Escalante, Jorge - In search of Klingsor
  • Weiner, Jennifer - In her shoes
  • Welsh, Irvine - Porno
  • Yoshimoto, Banana - Goodbye Tsugumi
  • Zafris, Nancy - The metal shredders

SHORT STORIES

  • Best American short stories, 2002
  • Gay, William - I hate to see that evening sun go down
  • Highsmith, Patricia - Nothing that meets the eye: the uncollected stories
  • Homes, A.M. - Things you should know
  • Hudson, Gabe - Dear Mr. President
  • Mathews, Harry - A human country
  • Tillman, Lynne - This is not it

MYSTERIES

  • Billingham, Mark - Sleepy head *
  • Brookmyre, Christopher - Country of the blind *
  • Bruen, Ken - London Boulevard *
  • Carver, Caroline - Blood junction
  • Clark, Carol Higgins - Jinxed
  • Dunlap, Susan - Karma and other stories
  • Evanovich, Janet - Full house
  • Friedman, Kinky - Meanwhile, back at the ranch
  • Henderson, Lauren - Pretty boy *
  • Heywood, Joseph - Blue wolf in green fire
  • Hoag, Tami - Dark horse
  • Hurwitz, Gregg - Do no harm
  • Joyce, Brenda - The chase
  • Kahn, Sharon - Hold the cream cheese, kill the lox
  • Mahoney, Dan - The protectors
  • Manuel, David - A matter of time: a Faith Abbey mystery
  • Morgan, Fidelis - The rival queens: a novel of artifice, gunpowder, and murder in eighteenth-century London *
  • O'Connell, Carol - Crime school
  • Parker, Robert - Shrink rap
  • Pattison, Eliot - Bone mountain
  • Qiu, Xiaolong - A loyal character dancer
  • Randisi, Robert J. - East of the arch: a Joe Keough mystery
  • Reed, Philip - Marquis de Fraud
  • Robb, J.D. - Purity in death
  • Rubens, Bernice - Nine lives *
  • Shaber, Sarah - Fugitive king
  • Siegel, Barry - Line of defense
  • Slaughter, Karin - Kisscut
  • Smith, Julie - Louisiana bigshot
  • Stabenow, Dana - Better to rest
  • Strohmeyer, Sarah - Bubbles in trouble
  • Wait, Lea - Shadows at the fair
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Exploring stereotyped images in Victorian and 20th century literature and society (1993) 823.09E
  • Green thoughts, green shades: essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric 821.09G
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Orwell's victory 828.09O
  • Hofmann, Michael - Behind the lines: pieces on writing and pictures 809H
  • In nature's name: an anthology of women's writing and illustration, 1780-1930 820.8I
  • Leask, Nigel - Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 828.09L
  • Naipaul, V.S. - The writer and the world: essays 824N
  • Padel, Ruth - 52 ways of looking at a poem, or, How reading modern poetry can change your life 821.09P
  • Phaedrus - Telling tales on Caesar 871.6P
  • The Sappho companion 884.2S
  • Sommerstein, Alan H. - Greek drama and dramatists 880S
  • Take my advice: letters to the next generation from people who know a thing or two (edited by James Harmon) 826.08T
  • Zimmerman, Everett - The boundaries of fiction: history & the 18th century British novel (1996) 823Z

POETRY

  • Balakian, Peter - June-tree: new and selected poems, 1974-2000 821B
  • García Lorca, Frederico - Collected poems 861G
  • Logue, Christopher - War music: an account of books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Illiad 821L
  • Poems to read: a new favorite poem project anthology 808.81P
  • Rein, Evgenii - Selected poems 891.71R

JOURNALISM

  • Inglis, Fred - People's witness: the journalist in modern politics 070I
  • Into the buzzsaw: leading journalists expose the myth of a free press 323.4I
  • Muckraking!: the journalism that changed America 070M
  • Pearl, Daniel - At home in the world: collected writings from the Wall Street journal 070.4P

LANGUAGE

  • Blevins, Winfred - Dictionary of the American West 427B
  • Bryson, Bill - Bryson's dictionary of troublesome words 423B
  • Dalby, Andrew - Language in danger 407D
  • MacAlpine, Neil - Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic dictionary (1971) 491.6M

ART

  • Bann, Stephen - Parallel lines: printmakers, painters, and photographers in 19th-century France 769B
  • Beard, Mary - The Parthenon 733B
  • Hockney, David - Hockney on 'art': conversations with Paul Joyce 770H
  • Klemm, Christian - Alberto Giacometti 709.04G
  • Lemaire, Gérard-Georges - The Orient in Western art 709.4L
  • Robinson, William W. - Bruegel to Rembrandt 741.3R
  • Studies in Islamic and later Indian art 709A

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Dimock, Julian - Camera man's journey: Julian Dimock's South 975.7D
  • Rothkopf, Scott - Mel Bochner photographs, 1966-1969 770B
  • Weston, Edward - Edward Weston nudes (1977) 778W

FILM

  • Buhle, Paul - Radical Hollywood: the untold story behind America's favorite movies 791.4B
  • Kauffmann, Stanley - Regarding film 791.4K
  • O'Brien, Geoffrey - Castaways of the image planet: movies, show business, public spectacle 791.4O
  • Schroeder, David P. - Cinema's illusions, opera's allure: the operatic impulse in film 791.4S

MUSIC

  • Crombie, David - Piano (1995) 786.2C
  • Hess, Carol A. - Manuel de Falla and modernism in Spain, 1898- 1936 780.92F
  • Landon, H.C. Robbins - Horns in high C: a memoir (1999) 780.92L
  • Morgenstern, Sheldon - No Vivaldi in the garage: a requiem for classical music in North America 780.92M
  • Reich, Steve - Writings on music, 1965-2000 780.8R

BIOGRAPHY

  • Gorbachev, Mikhail - Conversations with Gorbachev 92 G6612 G
  • Hebron, Stephen - John Keats 92 K255 H
  • Ivan Bunin: Russian requiem, 1885-1920: a portrait from letters, diaries, and fiction (1993) 92 B9417 I
  • Joyce, Stanislaus - The complete Dublin diary of Stanislaus Joyce (1971) 92 J895 J
  • Manly, William Lewis - Death valley in '49: the autobiography of a pioneer 92 M281 M
  • Ray, John - Reflections of Osiris: lives from ancient Egypt 920 R266 R
  • Sherrill, Marcia Stevens - Stylemakers: inside fashion 920 S5522 S
  • Vasil?ev, Aleksandr - Beauty in exile: the artists, models, and nobility who fled the Russian Revolution and influenced the world of fashion 920 V37 B
  • Woerden, Henk van - The assassin: a story of race and rage in the land of apartheid 92 T877 W
  • Wyatt, Woodrow - Distinguished for talent: some men of influence and enterprise (1958) 920 W977 D

HISTORY

  • Authers, John - The victim's fortune: inside the epic battle over the debts of the Holocaust 940.5318A
  • Blackman, Winifred S. - The fellahin of Upper Egypt 962B
  • Brotton, Jerry - The Renaissance bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo 940.21B
  • Foster, Lynn V. - A brief history of Central America 972.8 F
  • Goñi, Uki - The real Odessa: how Perón brought the Nazi war criminals to Argentina 364.1G
  • Harsin, Jill - Barricades: the war of the streets in revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848 944.36H
  • Lincoln, Abraham - This fiery trial: the speeches & writings of Abraham Lincoln 973.7L
  • McCauley, Martin - Afghanistan & Central Asia: a modern history 958M
  • McLynn, F.J. - Wagons west: the epic story of America's overland trails 978M
  • Perdue, Theda - The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Southeast 970.1P
  • Ridley, Jasper Godwin - A brief history of the Tudor age 942.05R
  • Ross, Robert - A concise history of South Africa (1999) 968R

CIVILIZATION

  • Bark, William - Origins of the medieval world (1958) 940.1B
  • Culligan, Matthew J. - The wandering Irish in Europe 940C

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Bowden, Charles - Blues for cannibals 973.92B
  • Danticat, Edwidge - After the dance: a walk through carnival in Jacmel, Haiti 972.94D
  • Maggio, Teri - The stone boudoir: travels through the hidden villages of Sicily 914.58M
  • Thorpe, I.J. - 8 men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island 910.4T
  • Williams, Glyndwr - Voyages of delusion: the Northwest Passage in the age of reason 919.8W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Andersen, Tom - This fine piece of water: an environmental history of Long Island Sound 574.4A
  • Capote, Truman - A house on the heights 92 C2467 C
  • Jews of Brooklyn 974.71J
  • Quotable New York 974.71Q

CITY PLANNING

  • Celik, Zeynep - The remaking of Istanbul: portrait of an Ottoman city in the 19th century (1986) 720.9496C
  • Sorkin, Michael - Some assembly required 711S

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Anarchy!: an anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother earth 335.8A
  • Benard, Cheryl - Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance 305.4B
  • Ganguly, Sumit - Conflict unending: India-Pakistan tensions since 1947 327.54G
  • Goulding, Marrack - Peacemonger 341.1G
  • Judis, John B. - The emerging Democratic majority 324.273J
  • La Guardia, Anton - War without end: Israelis, Palestinians, and the struggle for a promised land 956.9L

RELIGION

  • Balmer, Randall Herbert - Protestantism in America 284B
  • Givens, Terryl - By the hand of Mormon: the new American scripture that launched a new world religion 289.3G
  • Inside Islam 297I
  • Polkinghorne, J.C. - The God of hope and the end of the world 236P
  • Wills, Garry - Why I am a Catholic 262.13W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Bennett, Jonathan Francis - Learning from six philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume 190B
  • Hallen, B. - A short history of African philosophy 199H
  • Jolley, Nicholas - Locke: his philosophical thought (1999) 192L
  • Menn, Stephen Philip - Descartes and Augustine 194M
  • Vico: the first new science 195V

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Abramsky, Sasha - Hard time blues (prison) 365A
  • Beyond the color line: new perspectives on race and ethnicity in America 305.8B
  • Lapierre, Dominique - Five past midnight in Bhopal 363.17L
  • Levy, Shawn - Ready, steady, go!: the smashing rise and giddy fall of Swinging London 942.1L
  • Russo, Gus - The Outfit: the role of Chicago's underworld in the shaping of modern America 364.1R
  • Viscusi, W. Kip - Smoke-filled rooms: a postmortem on the tobacco deal 362V

EDUCATION

  • Humanist educational treatises 370.1H
  • Johnston, Michael - In the deep heart's core 373J
  • McSherry, Corynne - Who owns academic work? 347.73M

SCIENCE

  • Bernhardt, Peter - The rose's kiss: a natural history of flowers 582B
  • Davies, P.C.W. - How to build a time machine 530.1D
  • Honigsbaum, Mark - The fever trail: in search of the cure for malaria 616.9H
  • Pickover, Clifford A. - The stars of heaven 523.8P
  • Schulten, Susan - The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950 911S
  • Wallace, Alfred Russel - Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology 575W
  • Weidensaul, Scott - The ghost with trembling wings: science, wishful thinking and the search for lost species 575.7W
  • Wolfram, Stephen - A new kind of science 500W

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Guide to marine mammals of the world (National Audubon Society) 599G
  • Kilham, Benjamin - Among the bears: raising orphan cubs in the wild 599K
  • Morton, Alexandra - Listening to whales 599M
  • Watson, Lyall - Elephantoms: tracking the elephant 599W

ENVIRONMENT

  • Grossman, Elizabeth - Watershed: the undamming of America 333.9G
  • Stoll, Steven - Larding the lean earth: soil and society in 19th century America 631.4S

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Brison, Susan J. - Aftermath: violence and the remaking of a self 364.1B
  • Essential papers on the psychology of women (1990) 155.6E
  • Goleman, Daniel - Primal leadership: realizing the power of emotional intelligence 658.3G
  • Martin, Paul R. - Counting sheep: the science and pleasures of sleep and dreams 612.8M
  • Myers, David G. - Intuition: its power and perils 153M
  • Phillips, Adam - Equals 131.34P
  • Zenderland, Leila - Measuring minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing 151.2Z

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Bronfman, Edgar - The third act: reinventing yourself after retirement 305.26B
  • The Case against assisted suicide 179C
  • Cusk, Rachel - A life's work: on becoming a mother 306.8C
  • Top doctors, New York Metro area Ref 610.58T

COOKERY

  • Diner, Hasia R. - Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration 394.1D
  • Haber, Barbara - From hardtack to home fries: an uncommon history of American cooks and meals 394.1H
  • Roberts, Jonathan - The origins of fruit & vegetables 581.6R

GAMES

  • Danesi, Marcel - The puzzle instinct: the meaning of puzzles in human life 793.7D
  • Decker, Ronald - A history of the occult tarot, 1870-1970 133.3D

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Bernstein, Richard - Out of the blue 303.6F
  • Brisard, Jean-Charles - Forbidden truth: U.S.-Taliban secret oil diplomacy and the failed hunt for Bin Laden 327.73B
  • Dershowitz, Alan - Why terrorism works Lobby 303.6D
  • Friedman, Thomas - Longitudes and attitudes: exploring the world after September 11th 303.6F
  • Kolko, Gabriel - Another century of war? 327.73K
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein - Heart of Islam 297N

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot (16 tapes) AC D
  • Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie (13 tapes) Lobby AC D
  • Durrell, Lawrence - Balthazar (7 tapes) Lobby AC D
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity fair (22 tapes) AC T
  • Zola, Emile - The belly of Paris (10 tapes) AC Z


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