New York Society Library

NOVEMBER 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Alexander, Eleanor - Lyrics of sunshine and shadow: the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth
  • Athill, Diana - Yesterday morning: a very English childhood
  • Beckwith, John - Making genes, making waves
  • Binyon, T.J. - Pushkin
  • Bowden, Mark - Finders keepers: the story of a man who found $1 million
  • Brown, David - Musorgsky: his life and works
  • Chandler, Charlotte - Nobody's perfect: Billy Wilder, a personal biography
  • Chavez, Linda - An unlikely conservative
  • Ford, Michael - Father Mychal Judge
  • Freeman-Devonshire, Deborah - Counting my chickens (Duchess of Devonshire)
  • Graham, Ysenda Mastone - Real Mrs. Miniver
  • Harrison, Jim - Off to the side: a memoir
  • Hibberd, Dominic - Wilfred Owen
  • Hibbert, Christopher - Napoleon: his wives and women
  • Hobsbawm, E.J. - Interesting times
  • Iwasaki, Mineko - Geisha: a life
  • Koch, Karl - Men of steel: the story of the family that built the World Trade Center
  • Kuhn, William - Henry & Mary Ponsonby: life at the court of Queen Victoria
  • Leavy, Jane - Sandy Koufax
  • Lever, Evelyne - Madame de Pompadour
  • Lewis, Norman - In Sicily
  • McCain, John - Worth the fighting for: a memoir
  • Martin, Justin - Nader: crusader, spoiler, icon
  • Pearce, Joseph - Old Thunder: a life of Hilaire Belloc
  • Remini, Robert - Joseph Smith
  • Rockefeller, David - Memoirs
  • Rodriguez, Suzanne - Wild heart (Natalie Clifford Barney)
  • Rogers, Katherine - L. Frank Baum: creator of Oz
  • Saddlemyer, Ann - Becoming George: the life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats
  • Sikov, Ed - Mr. Strangelove: a biography of Peter Sellers
  • St. Albans, Suzanne - Mango and mimosa
  • Stewart, Chris - Parrot in the pepper tree
  • Stiles, T.J. - Jesse James: last rebel of the Civil War
  • Sullivan, Russell - Rocky Marciano
  • Surya, Michel - Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography
  • Teachout, Terry - The Skeptic: a life of H.L. Mencken
  • Unger, Harlow Giles - Lafayette
  • Zora Neale Hurston: a life in letters

FICTION

  • Anthony, Piers - Up in a heaval
  • Banville, John - Shroud
  • Bailey, Paul - Uncle Rudolf
  • Baker, Kevin - Paradise Alley
  • Banks, Iain - Dead air
  • Barker, Nicola - Behindlings
  • Barry, Dave - Tricky business
  • Bausch, Robert - Gypsy man
  • Braver, Gary - Gray matter
  • Brown, Sandra - Crush
  • Buckley, William F. - Nuremberg
  • Burke, James Lee - White doves at morning
  • Byatt, A.S. - Whistling woman
  • Coonts, Stephen - Saucer
  • Eco, Umberto - Baudolino
  • Eggers, David - You shall know our velocity
  • Enright, Anne - Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
  • Foden, Giles - Zanzibar
  • Gaddis, William - Agapé agape
  • Graham, Laurie - Future homemakers of America
  • Hackett, Joyce - Disturbance of the inner ear
  • Hoffman, Eva - The secret
  • Jin, Ha - The crazed
  • Johnston, Wayne - The navigator of New York
  • King, Cassandra - The Sunday wife
  • King, Stephen - From a Buick 8
  • Kundera, Milan - Ignorance
  • L'Heureux, John - The miracle
  • McPhee, Martha - Gorgeous lies
  • Maalouf, Amin - Balthasar's odyssey
  • Malone, Michael - The last noel
  • Maraini, Dacia - Darkness
  • Marciano, Francesca - Casa Rossa
  • Mayes, Frances - Swan
  • Mooney, Robert - Father of the man
  • Morrison, Blake - Justification of Johann Gutenberg
  • Nguyen, Kien - The tapestries
  • North, Oliver - Mission compromised
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - I'll take you there
  • O'Brien, Tim - July, July
  • Pearson, Allison - I don't know how she does it
  • Pogrebin, Letty Cottin - Three daughters
  • Pontiggia, Giuseppe - Born twice
  • Raffel, Dawn - Carrying the body
  • Rahimi, Atiq - Earth and ashes
  • Reza, Yasmina - Desolation
  • Roberts, Nora - Summer pleasures
  • Schwarz, Christina - All is vanity
  • Self, Will - Dorian
  • Shaykh, Hanan - Only in London
  • Smith, Diane - Pictures from an expedition
  • Smith, Lee - Last girls
  • Smith, Martin Cruz - December 6
  • Smith, Zadie - Autograph man
  • Stevenson, Jane - Winter queen
  • Tartt, Donna - The little friend
  • Trevor, William - The story of Lucy Gault
  • Unsworth, Barry - The songs of the kings

SHORT STORIES

  • Braun, Lilian Jackson - Short and tall tales
  • Casey, Maud - Drastic: stories
  • Shepard, Sam - Great dream of heaven
  • Steinbeck, Thomas - Down to a soundless sea

MYSTERIES

  • Alexander, Bruce - Experiment in treason *
  • Best American mystery stories, 2002 (James Ellroy, editor)
  • Burke, Jan - Nine
  • Connelly, Michael - Chasing the dime
  • Coward, Mat - In and out *
  • Crider, Bill - A knife in the back
  • Cross, Amanda - Edge of doom
  • Darden, Christopher (with Dick Lochte) - The last defense
  • Fiffer, Sharon - Dead guy's stuff
  • Garwood, Julie - Killjoy
  • Grafton, Sue - Q is for quarry
  • Green, Christine - Deadly bond *
  • Henning, Mankell - Firewall: a Kurt Wallender mystery
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - The murder book
  • Kent, Bill - Street money
  • Kernick, Simon - Business of dying *
  • Kerr, Philip - Dark matter: the private life of Sir Isaac Newton
  • Lehane, Cornelius - Beware the solitary drinker
  • Lewis, Roy - Ways of death *
  • Lindsay, Paul - Traps: a novel of the F.B.I.
  • Lippman, Laura - The last place
  • Ludlum, Robert - Janson directive
  • Maitland, Barry - Babel *
  • Mayor, Archer - The sniper's wife
  • Mills, Kyle - Sphere of influence
  • Nabb, Magdalen - Some bitter taste
  • Palmer, Shirley - Danger zone
  • Perry, Anne - Death of a stranger *
  • Rankin, Ian - Beggar's banquet *
  • Soos, Troy - Gilded cage
  • Todd, Charles - A fearsome doubt *
  • Tope, Rebecca - Sting of death *
  • Tremayne, Peter - Our lady of darkness: a novel of ancient Ireland
  • Vachss, Andrew - Only child
  • Woods, Stuart - Blood orchid
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bloom, Harold - Genius: a mosaic of 100 exemplary creative minds 151B
  • Crews, Harry - Classic Crews: a Harry Crews reader (1995) 828C
  • Ford, Ford Madox - Critical essays 824F
  • A historical guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne 823H
  • Kott, Jan - The bottom translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival tradition (1987) 822.33E
  • McGowan, John - Democracy's children: intellectuals and the rise of cultural politics 801M
  • Miller, J. Hillis - On literature 801M
  • Nadar, Paul - The world of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadar 843P
  • Tosches, Nick - The Nick Tosches reader 828T

POETRY

  • Collins, Billy - Nine horses 821C
  • Heine, Heinrich - Poems of Heinrich Heine 831H
  • Kleinzahler, August - Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: poems, 1975-1990 821K
  • Mallarmé, Stéphane - Selected poems 841M
  • Minot, Susan - Poems 4 a.m. 821M
  • Pasternak, Boris - My sister - life 891.71P
  • Poems of New York 821.08P

ART

  • Clark, Kenneth - The art of humanism (1981) 709.45C
  • Clark, T.J. - The absolute bourgeois: artists and politics in France, 1848-1851 709.44C
  • Danto, Arthur Coleman - Philosophizing art: selected essays (1999) 701D
  • Florman, Lisa Carol - Myth and metamorphosis: Picasso's classical prints of the 1930s 769P
  • Hirsch, Edward - The demon and the angel: searching for the source of artistic inspiration 701H
  • Zanker, Paul - The power of images in the Age of Augustus (1988) 709.37Z

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Turner, Evan - Ray K. Metzker: landscapes 778M
  • W. Eugene Smith: photographs, 1934-1975 770S
  • Weems, Carrie Mae - The Hampton Project 778W

MUSEUMS

  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) - A handbook of the collection (1998) 708.1H
  • Meier, Richard - Building the Getty (1999) 727M

FILM

  • Arnold, Eve - Film journal 791.4A
  • Ford, John - John Ford: interviews 791.4F
  • Huston, John - John Huston: interviews 791.4H
  • Welles, Orson - Orson Welles: interviews 791.4O

MUSIC

  • Adorno, Theodor - Essays on music 780.1A
  • Barenboim, Daniel - Parallels and paradoxes: explorations in music and society 780.1B
  • Maes, Francis - A history of Russian music: from Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar 780M
  • Mallach, Alan - Pietro Mascagni and his operas 780.92M

BIOGRAPHY

  • Corelli, Maria - In love and war: a letter to my parents (WWII, Rome) 940.548C
  • Frank, Mortimer H. - Arturo Toscanini: the NBC years 780.92T
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong - To be the poet 808.1K
  • Orsenna, Erik - André Le Notre: gardener to the sun king
  • 92 L5725 O
  • Steinmetz, Jean-Luc - Arthur Rimbaud: presence of an enigma 92 R5753 S
  • Talking with poets 821.09T

HISTORY

  • Aberth, John - From the brink of the apocalypse: confronting famine, war, plague, and death in the later middle ages 942.04A
  • Boorstin, Daniel - Hidden history (1987) 973B
  • Brands, H.W. - The age of gold: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream 979.4B
  • Cavallo, Dominick - A fiction of the past: the sixties in American history (1999) 973.922C
  • Crimes of war: guilt and denial in the twentieth century 940.5405C
  • Encyclopedia of world history (revised and updated) LSR 903E
  • Gardiner, John - The Victorians 942.08G
  • Ketchum, Richard - Divided loyalties: how the American Revolution came to New York 974.7K
  • Mandelbaum, Michael - The ideas that conquered the world: peace, democracy, and free markets in the 21st century 909.82M
  • Snowman, Daniel - The Hitler emigrés: the cultural impact on Britain of refugees from Nazism 940.5432S
  • Udall, Stewart - The forgotten founders: rethinking the history of the Old West 978U

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Barbaro, Paolo - Venice revealed 914.53B
  • Biggers, Shirley Hoover - American author houses, museums, memorials, and libraries: a state-by-state guide 917.3B
  • Chetwode, Penelope - Two middle-aged ladies in Andalusia 914.6C
  • Muir, John - John Muir's last journey: south to the Amazon and east to Africa (unpublished journals & correspondence) 508M
  • Stone, Nathaniel - On the water: discovering America in a rowboat 917.3S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Brockmann, Jorg - One thousand New York buildings 974.71B Oversize
  • Harlem Renaissance: one hundred years of history, art and culture (map and walking tour) 917.471E CS
  • Homberger, Eric - Mrs. Astor's New York: money and social power in a gilded age 974.71H
  • Podair, Jerald E. - The strike that changed New York: blacks, whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis 331.89P
  • Rose, Joel - New York sawed in half: an urban historical 974.71R

RELIGION

  • Eck, Diana L. - Encountering God: a spiritual journey to Bozeman to Banaras (1993) 290E
  • Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone - Reading the women of the Bible 221.92F
  • Putney, Clifford - Muscular Christianity: manhood and sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 277.3P
  • Thiede, Carsten Peter - The Dead Sea scrolls and the Jewish origins of Christianity 296.1T
  • Ward, Keith - God: a guide for the perplexed 212W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Adorno, Theodor - Metaphysics: concept and problems 110A
  • Bynum, Caroline Walker - Metamorphosis & identity 155.2B
  • Hadot, Pierre - What is ancient philosophy? 180H
  • Hornung, Erik - The secret lore of Egypt: its impact on the west 133H
  • Lane, M.S. - Plato's progeny: how Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind 184L

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Pipes, Daniel - Conspiracy: how the paranoid style flourishes and where it comes from 909.8P
  • Patterson, Thomas E. - The vanishing voter 324P
  • Troy, Tevi - Intellectuals and the American presidency: philosophers, jesters, or technicians 353.03T

ECONOMICS

  • Barro, Robert - Nothing is sacred 330B
  • Cruver, Brian - Anatomy of greed (Enron) 364C
  • Maier, Nicholas - Trading with the enemy: seduction and betrayal on Jim Cramer's Wall Street 332.6M
  • Weisman, Steven - The great tax wars: Lincoln to Wilson 336.2W

COPYRIGHT

  • Lowenstein, Joseph - The author's due: printing and the prehistory of copyright 070.5L
  • Perelman, Michael - Steal this idea: intellectual property rights and the corporate confiscation of creativity 347.73P

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Adorno, Theodor - The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture 306.4A
  • Davenport-Hines, R.P.T. - The pursuit of oblivion: a global history of narcotics 363.45D
  • Hartog, Hendrik - Man and wife in America: a history 306.8H
  • In the Catskills: a century of the Jewish experience in "The mountains" 974.7I
  • Kressel, Neil - Mass hate: the global rise of genocide and terror 364.1K
  • Kulikoff, Allan - From British peasants to colonial American farmers 338.1K
  • Leavitt, Sarah Abigail - From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: a cultural history 640L
  • Malcolm, Joyce Lee - Guns and violence: the English experience 363.3M
  • Moran, William - The belles of New England: the women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove 331.4M
  • Warner, Jessica - Craze: gin and debauchery in the age of reason 394.1W

SCIENCE

  • Cook, Nick - The hunt for zero point: inside the classified world of anti-gravity technology 629.13C
  • Lawrence, David - Upheaval from the abyss: ocean floor mapping and the earth science revolution 551.4L
  • McManus, I.C. - Right hand, left hand: the origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms, and cultures 152M
  • Segrè, Gino - A matter of degrees: what temperature reveals about the past and future of our species, planet, and universe 536S
  • Sheets, Bob - Hurricane watch 551.6S
  • Zirker, Jack B. - Journey from the center of the sun 523.7Z

SCIENCE FRAUD

  • Crewdson, John - Science fictions: a scientific mystery, a massive coverup and the dark legacy of Robert Gallo 616.97C
  • Hooper, Judith - Of moths and men: the untold story of science and the peppered moth 576H

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Caputo, Philip - Ghosts of Tsavo: stalking the mystery lions of East Africa 599C
  • Cohen, Claudine - The fate of the mammoth: fossils, myth and history 569C
  • Cooper, Susan Fenimore - Essays on nature and landscape 574C
  • Linden, Eugene - The octopus and the orangutan 591.5L
  • Pearls: a natural history 639.4P

TECHNOLOGY

  • Danius, Sara - The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics 809.9D
  • Gordon, John Steele - A thread across the ocean: the heroic story of the transatlantic cable 384G
  • The Great Northern Railway: a history (1988) 385G

HUMOR

  • Grimes, William - My fine feathered friend 636.5G
  • Mammoth book of literary anecdotes 828.08M

SPORTS

  • Anasi, Robert - The gloves: a boxing chronicle 796.8A
  • McCarver, Tim - Tim McCarver's baseball for brain surgeons and other fans (1998) 796.3M
  • Squires, James D. - Horse of a different color: a tale of breeding geniuses, dominant females, and the fastest Derby winner since Secretariat 798S

HEALTH & HOME

  • DePaulo, J. Raymond - Understanding depression 616.8D
  • Gawande, Atul - Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science 617G
  • Lorig, Kate - The arthritis helpbook 616.9L
  • Small, Gary W. - The memory bible: an innovative strategy for keeping your brain young 154S

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Akbar, M.J. - The shade of swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity 287A
  • Benjamin, Daniel - Age of sacred terror 303.6B
  • Critical views of September 11: analyses from around the world 973.9302C
  • Frist, William - When every moment counts: what you need to know about bioterrorism from the Senate's only doctor 614F
  • Gonzalez, Juan - Fallout: the environmental consequences of the World Trade Center collapse 973.9302G
  • Restoring faith: America's religious leaders answer terror with hope 252R

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Auchincloss, Louis - Portrait in brownstone (8 cassettes) AC A
  • Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist (11 cassettes) AC D
  • Hemingway, Ernest - A moveable feast (6 cassettes) AC 828H
  • Hugo, Victor - Hunchback of Notre Dame (13 cassettes) AC H
  • MacDonald, Ross - Find a victim (5 cassettes) AC M


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