New York Society Library

DECEMBER 2002 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Andersen, Christopher - George and Laura: portrait of an American marriage
  • Bradford, Richard - Lucky him: the life of Kingsley Amis
  • Brokaw, Tom - A long way from home: growing up in the American heartland
  • Chin, Annping - Four sisters of Hofei: a history
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - Kitchen privileges: a memoir
  • Coughlin, Con - Saddam: king of terror
  • Craft, Robert - An improbable life: memoirs
  • Dalton, Kathleen - Theodore Roosevelt: a strenuous life
  • Doyle, Roddy - Rory and Ita
  • Felix, Antonia - Condi: the Condoleezza Rice story
  • Ficowski, Jerzy - Regions of the great heresy: Bruno Schulz, a biographical portrait
  • Foner, Moe - Not for bread alone: a memoir
  • Fuller, Samuel - A third face: my life of writing, fighting and filmmaking
  • Fumaroli, Marc - Poet and the King: Jean de la Fontaine and his century
  • Belli, Gioconda - The country under my skin: a memoir of love and war
  • Grigg, John - Lloyd George: war leader
  • Hall, N. John - Max Beerbohm: a kind of life
  • Keegan, John - Winston Churchill
  • Kuriyama, Constance - Christopher Marlowe: a Renaissance life
  • Leggett, John - A daring young man (William Saroyan)
  • MacInnes, Mairi - Clearances: a memoir
  • Olmstead, Kathryn - Red spy queen: a biography of Elizabeth Bentley
  • Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane - Puccini: a biography
  • Poolman, Jeremy - A wounded thing must hide: in search of Libbie Custer
  • Rokovska, Puah - My life as a radical Jewish woman: memoirs of a Zionist feminist in Poland
  • Roosevelt, David B. - Grandmere: a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Svenvold, Mark - Elmer McCurdy: the misadventures in life and afterlife of an American outlaw
  • Thwaite, Ann - Glimpses of the wonderful: the life of Philip Henry Gosse, 1810-1888
  • Tomalin, Claire - Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
  • Trefousse, Hans Lewis - Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Turner, Frank M. - John Henry Newman: the challenge to evangelical religion
  • Uglow, Jenny - Lunar men: five friends whose curiosity changed the world
  • Wicker, Tom - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Wright, Jonathan - Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's greatest statesman

FICTION

  • Baldacci, David - Christmas train
  • Binchy, Maeve - Quentins
  • Cabot, Meg - Boy next door
  • Carlson, Lori Marie - The flamboyant
  • Coover, Robert - The adventures of Lucky Pierre
  • Crichton, Michael - Prey
  • Djaout, Tahar - The watchers
  • Donnelly, Jennifer - The tea rose
  • Edric, Robert - Book of the heathen
  • Evans, Richard Paul - Last promise
  • Gaarder, Jostein - The ringmaster's daughter
  • Hamilton, Julia - Forbidden fruits
  • Hearn, Lian - Across the nightingale floor
  • Houellebecq, Michel - Platform
  • LaValle, Victor - The ecstatic, or, homunculus: a novel
  • Lindsey, Johanna - Prisoner of my desire
  • Lowenthal, Michael - Avoidance: a novel
  • Lupica, Mike - Wild pitch
  • McDermott, Alice - Child of my heart
  • Malloy, Brian - Year of ice
  • Maruya, Saiichi - Grass for my pillow
  • Matsuoka, Takashi - Cloud of sparrows
  • Michaels, Fern - Kentucky sunrise
  • Pratchett, Terry - Night watch: a novel of Discworld
  • Rice, Anne - Blackwood farm
  • Roberts, Nora - Chesapeake blue
  • Rosner, Elizabeth - Speed of light
  • Sha, Idries - Kara Kush: a novel of Afghanistan
  • Shaara, Jeff - The glorious cause: a novel of the American Revolution
  • Smolens, John - The invisible sword
  • Steel, Danielle - Answered prayers
  • Thayer, James - The gold swan
  • Ulitskaia, Liudmila - Medea and her children

SHORT STORIES

  • Adams, Alice - Stories of Alice Adams
  • Bakin, Dmitrii - Reasons for living
  • Boylan, Clare - Collected stories of Clare Boylan
  • Dick, Philip K. - Selected stories of Philip K. Dick
  • Kennedy, A.L. - Indelible acts
  • McCaffrey, Ann - A gift of dragons
  • Robison, Mary - Tell me: 30 stories

MYSTERIES

  • Ashford, Jeffrey - Truthful injustice *
  • Atkins, Ace - Dark end of the street
  • Beck, K.K. - The tell-tale tattoo and other stories
  • Broadbent, Tony - The smoke *
  • Buchanan, Edna - The ice maiden
  • Camilleri, Andrea - The terra-cotta dog
  • Dooling, Richard - Bet your life
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Castle rouge *
  • Evanovich, Janet - Visions of sugar plums
  • Frommer, Sara Hoskinson - Witness in Bishop Hill
  • Fusilli, Jim - A well-known secret
  • George, Elizabeth - I, Richard (stories)*
  • Gregson, J.M. - Death on the eleventh hole *
  • Handler, David - Hot pink farmhouse
  • Hart, Carolyn - Secrets and other stories of suspense
  • Hess, Joan - Out on a limb: a Claire Malloy mystery
  • Howard, Linda - Kill and tell
  • James, Bill - Double jeopardy *
  • Jardine, Quintin - Head shot
  • Johansen, Iris - No one to trust
  • Krich, Rochelle - Blues in the night
  • Leonard, Elmore - When the women come out to dance: stories
  • Marshall, Evan - Icing Ivy
  • Mortimer, John Clifford - Rumpole rests his case *
  • Patterson, James - Four blind mice
  • Simenon, Georges - 13 culprits (stories)
  • Slater, Harrison Gradwell - Nightmusic
  • Stark, Richard - Breakout
  • Tapply, William G. - A fine line
  • Truman, Margaret - Murder at Ford's Theatre
  • Turow, Scott - Reversible errors
  • Van Wormer, Laura - Bad witness
  • Yorke, Margaret - Cause for concern *
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Fenton, James - An introduction to English poetry 821.09F
  • Fisher, Margaret - Ezra Pound's radio operas: the BBC experiments, 1931-1933 782.1F
  • Franzen, Jonathan - How to be alone: essays 824F
  • Frost, Laura - Sex drives: fantasies of fascism in literary modernism (Duras, Plath, et. al) 809.9F
  • Kermode, Frank - The genesis of secrecy: on the interpretation of narrative (1979) 801K
  • McCarthy, Mary - A bolt from the blue and other essays 824M
  • Mariani, Paul L. - God and the imagination: on poets, poetry and the ineffable 809.1M
  • Myers, B.R. - A reader's manifesto: an attack on the growing pretentiousness in American literary prose 820.09M
  • Ricks, Christopher - Reviewery 820.9R
  • Rubin, Jay - Haruki Murakami and the music of words 895.6M
  • Rushdie, Salman - Step across this line: collected nonfiction, 1992-2002 824R
  • Weinberger, Eliot - Karmic traces, 1993-1999 824W

POETRY

  • The essential Rumi 891.5J
  • Greenan, Eamon - Still life with waterfall 821G
  • Kumin, Maxine - The long marriage 821K
  • Sappho - If not, winter: fragments of Sappho 884.2S
  • Sebald, W.G. - After nature 831S

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Beowulf: a prose translation (translation by E. Talbot Donaldson) 829B
  • Ovid - Ovid's Metamophoses (translation by Arthur Golding) 871.2O

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKTALES

  • Bierhorst, John - The mythology of Mexico & Central America 398.2B
  • Latin American folktales: stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions 398L
  • Orenstein, Catherine - Little Red Riding Hood uncloaked: sex, morality and the evolution of a fairy tale 398.2O

LANGUAGE

  • Ross-Larson, Bruce Clifford - Writing for the information age 808R
  • Wright, John D. - The language of the Civil War 423W

ARTS

  • Gombrich, E.H. - The preference for the primitive 709G
  • Livingston, Jane - The paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art) 759.1M
  • Manning, John - The emblem 704M
  • Marlow, Tim - Great artists: from Giotto to Turner 750.92M
  • Ostrower, Francie - Trustees of culture: power, wealth, and status on elite arts boards 700O
  • Page, Tim - Tim Page on music: views & reviews 780.9P
  • Price, Sally - Primtive art in civilized places 709.011P
  • Wilton, Andrew - American sublime: landscape painting in the United States, 1820-1880 759.1W

BIOGRAPHY

  • Berton, Ralph - Remembering Bix: a memoir of the jazz age 92 B421 B
  • Cole, Phyllis - Mary Moody Emerson & the origins of transcendentalism: a family history 92 E5358 C
  • Kelly, Catherine E. - In the New England fashion: reshaping women's lives in the 19th century 305.4K
  • Kelly, Linda - Women of the French Revolution (1987) 944.04K
  • Letters from the lost generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and friends 920 M9784 L
  • Mudge, Jean McClure - The poet and the dictator: Lauro de Bosis resists fascism in Italy and America 851.09D
  • Prose, Francine - The lives of the Muses: nine women & the artists they inspired 701P
  • Rawlinson, Peter - A price too high: an autobiography 92 R2615 R
  • Utley, Garrick - You should have been here yesterday: a life in television news 92 U915 U
  • Wiesel, Elie - Conversations with Elie Wiesel 824W

HISTORY

  • Aron, Raymond - The dawn of universal history (essays) 909.82A
  • Blainey, Geoffrey - A short history of the world 909B
  • Braithwaite, Rodric - Across the Moscow River: the world turned upside down 947.086B
  • Dwork, Deborah - Holocaust: a history 940.5315D
  • Garrioch, David - The making of revolutionary Paris 944.36G
  • Hanson, Neil - The Great Fire of London 942.1H
  • Jackson, Julian - France: the dark years, 1940-1944 944.081J
  • Jezer, Marty - The dark ages: life in the United States, 1945-1960 (1982) 973.918J
  • MacIntyre, Stuart - A concise history of Australia 994M
  • Scroggins, Deborah - Emma's war (Sudan-Civil War) 962S
  • Unlikely history: the changing German-Jewish symbiosis, 1945-2000 943U

SPIES & CODES

  • Budiansky, Stephen - Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II 940.5485B
  • Gannon, James - Stealing secrets, telling lies: how spies and codebreakers helped shape the 20th century 327.12G
  • Schecter, Jerrold L. - Sacred secrets: how Soviet intelligence operations changed American history 327.12S

JOURNALISM

  • Belkin, Lisa - Life's work: confessions of an unbalanced mom 306.8B
  • Brown, Joshua - Beyond the lines: pictorial reporting, everyday life, and the crisis of Gilded Age America 072B
  • The Journal of the century (Ladies' home journal) 1976 050J
  • Ross, Lillian - Reporting back: notes on journalism 070R
  • War torn: stories of war from the women reporters who covered Vietnam 959W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Goullart, Peter - Forgotten kingdom (China) 915.1G
  • Horwitz, Tony - Blue latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before 919H
  • Murgatroyd, Sarah P. - The dig tree: the extraordinary story of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition 919.4M
  • Seabrook, David - All the devils are here (England-Medway) 914.22D

NEW YORK CITY

  • Colby, Paul - The Bitter End: hanging out at America's nightclub 792.7C
  • Empire city: New York through the centuries 974.71E
  • Shade, Roderick - Harlem style: designing for the new urban aesthetic 747S
  • Stonehill, Judith - Greenwich Village: a guide to America's legendary Left Bank 917.471S
  • Wallace, Mike - A new deal for New York 974.71W

RELIGION

  • Betrayal: the crisis in the Catholic Church (investigative staff of the Boston Globe) 282.73B
  • Feiler, Bruce - Abraham: a journey to the heart of three faiths 221.92A
  • Fried, Stephen - The new rabbi: a congregation searches for its leader 296.6F
  • Merzel, Dennis Genpo - The eye never sleeps: striking to the heart of Zen 294M
  • Pipes, Daniel - Militant Islam reaches America 297P
  • Powell, Corey S. - God in the equation: how Einstein became the prophet of the new religious era 215P

PHILOSOPHY

  • Gadamer, Hans Georg - Praise of theory: speeches and essays 193G
  • Hartman, Geoffrey - Scars of the spirit: the struggle against inauthenticity 104H
  • Heidegger, Martin - Identity and difference 193H
  • Neiman, Susan - Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy 170H

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Berkin, Carol - A brilliant solution: inventing the American Constitution 973.3B
  • Caldicott, Helen - The new nuclear danger: George W. Bush's military-industrial complex 355C
  • Civil society and government 320.1C
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth - The magnificent activist: the writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) 828H
  • Mayer, Jeremy - Running on race: racial politics in presidential campaigns, 1960-2000 324.9M
  • Urbinati, Nadia - Mill on democracy: from the Athenian polis to representative government 321.8U
  • Viroli, Maurizio - Republicanism 321.8V

LEADERSHIP

  • Cohen, Eliot - Supreme command: soldiers, statesmen, and leadership in wartime 322.5C
  • Collins, James C. - Good to great: why some companies make the leap 658C
  • Khurana, Rakesh - Searching for a corporate savior: the irrational quest for charismatic CEOs 658.3K

LAW

  • Chang, Nancy - Silencing political dissent 323.4C
  • Garbus, Martin - Courting disaster: the Supreme Court and the dangerous unmaking of American law 347.99G
  • Looking back at law's century 340L
  • Noonan, John Thomas - Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states 342.73N
  • Scharf, Michael - Slobodan Milosevic on trial 949.7S

ECONOMICS

  • Hertz, Noreena - The silent takeover: global capitalism and the death of democracy 338.8H
  • McCarty, Marilu Hurt - The Nobel laureates: how the world's greatest economic minds shaped modern thought 330M
  • Wheelan, Charles J. - Naked economics: undressing the dismal science 330W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Epstein, Joseph - Snobbery: the American version 305.5E
  • Fredrickson, George M. - Racism: a short history 305.8F
  • Hobson, Charlotte - Black earth city: when Russia ran wild 947.086H
  • Horowitz, Helen - Rereading sex: battles over sexual knowledge and suppression in 19th-century America 306.7H
  • Lee, Jennifer - Civility in the city: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in urban America 305.8L
  • McGovern, George - The third freedom: ending hunger in our time 338.1M
  • Norton, Mary Beth - In the devil's snare: the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 133.4N
  • O'Connor, Alice - Poverty knowledge: social science, social policy, and the poor in 20th-century U.S. history 362.5O
  • Pleij, Herman - Dreaming of Cockaigne: medieval fantasies of the perfect life 398P
  • Rieff, David - A bed for the night (war relief) 361R
  • Robbins, Alexandra - Secrets of the tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League and the hidden paths of power 366R
  • Sarti, Raffaella - Europe at home: family and material culture, 1500-1800 306.8S
  • Tone, Andrea - Devices and desires: a history of contraceptives in America 363.96T
  • Wynter, Leon - American skin: pop culture, big business, and the end of white America 305.8W

SCIENCE

  • Hopkins, Donald R. - The greatest killer: smallpox in history 614.4H
  • Rigden, John S. - Hydrogen: the essential element 546R
  • Van Dulken, Stephen - Inventing the 19th century: 100 inventions that shaped the Victorian Age... 608V
  • Vertosick, Frank T. - The genius within: discovering the intelligence of every living thing 591.5V
  • Zimmer, Carl - Evolution: the triumph of an idea 575Z

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Baratay, Eric - Zoo: a history of zoological gardens in the West 590.7B
  • Mares, Michael A. - Desert calling: life in a forbidding landscape 599M
  • Safina, Carl - Song for the blue ocean: encounters along the world's coasts and beneath the seas 333.9S

EDUCATION

  • Levine, Melvin - A mind at a time 370.15L
  • Stabiner, Karen - All girls: single-sex education and why it matters 373S

HEALTH & HOME

  • McKhann, Guy M. - Keep your brain young 612.8M
  • Murray, John F. - Intensive care: a doctor's journal 362.1M
  • Restak, Richard M. - Mozart's brain and the fighter pilot: unleashing your brain's potential 612.8R
  • Steingraber, Sandra - Having faith: an ecologist's journey to motherhood 618S
  • Whalley, Lawrence - The aging brain 612.8W

SEPTEMBER 11*

  • Bodansky, Yossef - The high cost of peace: how Washington's Middle East policy left America vulnerable to terrorism 327.56B
  • Fallaci, Oriana - The rage and the pride 303.6F
  • Hanson, Victor Davis - An autumn of war: what America learned from September 11 and the war on terrorism 303.6H
  • New York, NY Office of the Comptroller - One year later: the fiscal impact of 9/11 on New York City 917.471N CS

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Cheever, John - The Wapshot chronicle (8 cassettes) AC C
  • Franzen, Jonathan - How to be alone: essays (6 cassettes) Lobby 824F
  • Munro, Alice - Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage (6 cassettes) Lobby AC M
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace - Barry Lyndon (8 cassettes) Lobby AC T


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