NEW BOOKS
- Boyd, Valerie - Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston
- Chaffin, Tom - Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the course of American empire
- Coram, Robert - Boyd: the fighter pilot who changed the art of war
- Craig, Patricia - Brian Moore
- Foster, Shirley - Elizabeth Gaskell: a literary life
- Hattersley, Roy - A brand from the burning: a life of John Wesley
- Hilton, Lisa - Athenais: the life of Louis XIV's mistress
- Hotchner, A.E. - The day I fired Alan Ladd and other WWII adventures
- Howard, Elizabeth - Slipstream: a memoir
- Jenkins, Roy - Twelve cities: a memoir
- Karmi, Ghada - In search of Fatima: a Palestinian story
- Krass, Peter - Carnegie
- Lewis, Roger - Anthony Burgess
- Lockwood, Lewis - Beethoven: the music and the life
- MacCarthy, Fiona - Byron
- Madsen, Axel - The Marshall Fields: the evolution of an American business dynasty
- Morrison, Blake - Things my mother never told me
- O'Connor, Garry - Alec Guinness
- Sell, Louis - Slobodan Milosevic and the destruction of Yugoslavia
- Soames, Mary - Clementine Churchill
- Stacks, John F. - Scotty: James B. Reston and the rise and fall of American journalism
- Thwe, Pascal Khoo - From the land of green ghosts: a Burmese odyssey
- Timmerman, Jane - Jane Kenyon: a literary life
- Trevelyan, Raleigh - Sir Walter Raleigh
- Vincent, Glyn - The unknown night: the genius and madness of R.A. Blakelock, an American painter
- Wise, David - Spy: the inside story of how the FBI's Robert Hanssen betrayed America
- Ball, David - China run
- Botsford, Keith - The mothers
- Byatt, A.S. - Whistling woman
- Chance, Megan - Susannah Morrow
- Cook, Elizabeth - Achilles
- Coote, Cathy - The innocents
- Cornwell, Bernard - Vagabond
- Dobbs, Michael - Winston's war
- Follett, Ken - Hornet flight
- Gilder, Joshua - Ghost image
- Giraudoux, Jean - Choice of the elect
- Gornick, Lisa - A private sorcery
- Goytisolo, Juan - Cock-eyed comedy
- Hamill, Pete - Forever
- Hansen, Ron - Isn't it romantic?
- Horn, Dara - In the image
- Johnston, Jennifer - This is not a novel
- King, Ross - Domino
- Krusoe, James - Iceland
- Labiner, Norah - Miniatures
- McCann, Colum - Dancer
- McCullough, Colleen - October horse
- Moore, Ann - Leaving Ireland
- Proulx, Annie - That old ace in the hole
- Richards, David Adams - Mercy among the children
- Rucker, Rudy - As above, so below: a novel of Peter Bruegel
- Sernovitz, Gary - The contrarians
- Tennant, Emma - Adele
- Upadhyay, Samrat - Guru of love
- Updike, John - Seek my face
- Atkinson, Kate - Not the end of the world
- Bingham, Sallie - Transgressions
- Kureishi, Hanif - The body and seven stories
- Spatz, Gregory - Wonderful tricks
- Warner, Marina - Murderers I have known
- Bannister, Jo - True witness
- Blank, Hannah - Short life on a sunny isle
- Bowen, Rhys - Death of Riley
- Brown, Rita Mae - Hotspur
- Bruen, Ken - The guards
- Buckley, Fiona - A pawn for a queen *
- Connors, Rose - Absolute certainty
- Duchin, Peter - Blue moon: a Philip Damon mystery
- Dunn, Carola - Mistletoe and murder *
- Freemantle, Brian - Kings of many castles
- Greenberg, Martin - Murder, my dear Watson: new tales of Sherlock Holmes
- Hoffman, William - Wild thorn
- James, Bill - Naked at the window *
- Jeffries, Roderic - An artful death
- Kaminsky, Stuart - Not quite kosher
- Keating, H.R.F. - A detective in love *
- Kimball, Michael - Green girls
- McInerny, Ralph - Celt and pepper
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick - The prone gunman *
- Marks, Walter - Dangerous behavior
- Perry, Anne - Much ado about murder
- Rendell, Ruth - Babes in the wood
- Stella, Charlie - Jimmy Bench-press
- Wishnia, K.J.A. - Blood lake
* indicates a British mystery
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS
- Bonham Carter, Violet - Daring to hope: the diaries and letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969 92 B7142 B
- Carter, Jimmy - Christmas in Plains 92 C32365 C
- Farber, David R. - Sloan rules: Alfred P. Sloan & the triumph of General Motors 92 S634 F
- Lees-Milne, James - Holy dread: diaries, 1982-1984 92 L4875 L
- Literary lives ("intimate biographies of the famous by the famous") 820.9L
- Maney, Patrick J. - The Roosevelt presence: a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1992) 92 R7813 M
- Roberts, Andrew - Napoleon and Wellington: the Battle of Waterloo 944.05R
- Tsvetaeva, Marina - Earthly signs: Moscow diaries, 1917-1922 891.7T
- Valerio, Anthony - Anita Garibaldi 92 G2319 V
- Auden, W.H. - Prose and travel books in prose and verse 824A
- Cormac McCarthy: new directions 823M
- Eagleton, Terry - Sweet violence: the idea of the tragic 808.2E
- Gaddis, William - The rush for second place 828G
- Harrison, Jim - Just before dark: collected nonfiction824H
- Pinsky, Robert - Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry 821.09P
- Ricks, Christopher - Allusion to the poets 821.09R
- Sheed, Wilfrid - The morning after-and long after: selected essays and reviews 824S
- Simpson, James - The Oxford English literary history vol. 2, Reform and cultural revolution, 1350-1547 820.9O
- Ashberry, John - Chinese whispers 821A
- Kirchwey, Karl - At the palace of Jove 821K
- McClatchy, J.D. - Hazmat 821M
- Olds, Sharon - The unswept room 821O
- Seidel, Frederick - Area code 212 821S
- Mistral, Gabriela - Selected prose and prose-poems 868M
- Morand, Paul - Venices 92 M83 M
- Queneau, Raymond - Stories & remarks 848Q
- Basbanes, Nicholas A. - Among the slightly mad: perspectives and strategies for the book-hunter in the twenty-first century 010B
- Krystal, Arthur - Agitations: essays on life and literature 028K
- Satterfield, Jay - The world's best books: taste, culture, and the Modern library 070.5S
- Abernathy, David B. - The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empires, 1415-1980 940.2A
- Ambrose, Stephen E. - To America: personal reflections of an historian 973A
- Beschloss, Michael R. - The conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 940.5314B
- Bond, Brian - The unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in literature and history 940.342B
- Brumwell, Stephen - Redcoats: the British soldier and war in the Americas, 1755-1763 942.07B
- Camp, John - The world of the ancient Greeks 938C
- Colley, Linda - Captives: Britain, Empire and the world, 1600-1850 942C
- Cultures of the Jews: a new history 909.4C
- Ellsberg, Daniel - Secrets: a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers 959E
- Hanes, William Travis - Opium wars 951H
- Macmillan, Margaret Olwen - Paris 1919 940.314M
- McPherson, James M. - Crossroads of freedom: Antietam 973.7M
- Sweig, Julia - Inside the Cuban Revolution 972.91S
- Udall, Stewart - The forgotten founders: rethinking the history of the Old West 978U
- Barenboim, Daniel - Parallels and paradoxes: explorations in music and society (with Edward Said) 780.1B
- Cowell, Henry - Essential Cowell: selected writings 780.4C
- Veloso, Caetano - Tropical truth: a story of music and revolution in Brazil 780.981V
- Good, Edwin - Giraffes, black dragons, and other pianos 786.2G
- Rosen, Charles - Piano notes: the world of the pianist 786.2R
- Cunningham, Merce - Other animals: drawings and journals 793.3C
- Jamison, Judith - Dancing spirit: an autobiography (1993) 92 J324J
- Joseph, Charles - Stravinsky & Balanchine: a journey of invention 781.5J
- Eggleston, William - William Eggleston's guide 779E
- Homer, William Innes - Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 770H
- Sandweiss, Martha A. - Print the legend: photography and the American West 770S
- Struth, Thomas - Thomas Struth, 1977-2002 770S
- Lutyens abroad 720.92 L - closed stack
- O'Leary, Ann Stillman - Adirondack style 728.7O
- Reisley, Roland - Usonia, New York: building a community with Frank Lloyd Wright 728.6R
- Rybczynski, Witold - The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio 720.945R
- Campbell, Joseph - Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian journals, India 915.4C
- Clifford, Frank - The backbone of the world: a portrait of a vanishing way of life along the Continental Divide 978C
- Custine, Astolphe - Letters from Russia 947C
- Lewis, Norman - In Sicily 914.58L
- Lycett Green, Candida - Over the hills and far away: an English odyssey 914.2L
- Thorson, Robert M. - Stone by stone: the magnificent history in New England's stone walls 624T
- Barnard, Edward Sibley - New York City trees 635B
- Payne, Christopher - New York's forgotten substations: the power behind the subway 625.4P
- Scobey, David - Empire city: the making and meaning of the New York City landscape 307.76S
- White, Shane - Stories of freedom in Black New York 974.71W
- Williams, Ellen - The historic shops & restaurants of New York 917.471W
- Davis, Mike - Dead cities, and other tales 304D
- Dong, Stella - Shanghai: the rise and fall of a decadent city 951D
- Horne, Alistair - Seven ages of Paris 944.36H
- Klein, Norman M. - The history of forgetting: Los Angeles and the erasure of memory 979.49K
- Ackroyd, Peter - Albion: the origins of the English imagination 942A
- Keene, Donald - Landscapes and portraits: appreciations of Japanese culture 895.6K
- Menand, Louis - American studies 973.9M
- Carroll, James - Toward a new Catholic Church 282C
- Klagsburn, Francine - The Fourth Commandment: remember the Sabbath day 296.4K
- Richie, Donald - Zen inklings: some stories, fables, parables, and sermons (1991) 294R
- Wilson, David Sloan - Darwin's cathedral: evolution, religion, and the nature of society 201W
- Esposito, John L. - What everyone needs to know about Islam 297E
- Rubin, Barry M. - The tragedy of the Middle East 956.9R
- Schwartz, Stephen - The two faces of Islam: the house of Sa'ud from tradition to terror 297S
- Spencer, Robert - Islam unveiled: disturbing questions about the world's fastest growing faith 297S
- Derrida, Jacques - The work of mourning 194D
- Feibleman, James Kern - Understanding philosophy (1973) 109F
- Greek philosophers 182G
- Nietzsche, godfather of fascism? On the uses and abuses of a philosophy 193N
- Blum, Deborah - Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the science of affection 157B
- Reik, Theodor - Listening with the third ear: the inner experience of a psychoanalyst (1951) 131.34R
- Simmons, Rachel - Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls 305.23S
- Brown, Ruth Murray - For a "Christian America": a history of the religious right 322.1B
- Iakovlev, A.N. - A century of violence in Soviet Russia 947.084I
- Katherine Graham's Washington 975.3K
- Kupchan, Charles - The end of the American era: U.S. foreign policy and the geopolitics of the twenty-first century 327.73K
- Meyerson, Michael - Political numeracy: mathematical perspectives on our chaotic constitution 510M
- Sullivan, Joan - An American voter: my love affair with presidential politics 324S
- Fletcher, George P. - Romantics at war: glory and guilt in the age of terrorism 341.6F
- Ledeen, Michael Arthur - The war against the terror masters 303.6L
- Peters, Ralph - Beyond terror: strategy in a changing world 303.6P
- Preston, Richard - The demon in the freezer 616P
- Karsh, Efraim - The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 955K
- Pollack, Kenneth - The threatening storm: the case for invading Iraq 956P
- Tripp, Charles - A history of Iraq 956T
- Collins, Ronald K.L. - The trials of Lenny Bruce 347.5C
- Earley, Pete - WITSEC: inside the Federal Witness Protection Program 364.5E
- Friedman, Lawrence - Law in America: a short history 340F
- Starr, Kenneth - First among equals: the Supreme Court in American life 347.99S
- Hagstrom, Robert G. - The detective and the investor: uncovering investment techniques from the legendary sleuths 332.6H
- Levitt, Arthur - Take on the street: what Wall Street and corporate America don't want you to know 332.6L
- Levy, Leon - The mind of Wall Street 332.6L
- Democracies in flux: the evolution of social capital in contemporary society 302.3C
- Gallay, Alan - The Indian slave trade: the rise of the English empire in the American South, 1670-1717 326G
- Gilbert, Neil - Transformation of the welfare state: the silent surrender of public responsibility 361.6G
- Gore, Albert - Joined at the heart: the transformation of the American family 306.8G
- Little, Douglas - American orientalism: the United States and the Middle East since 1945 327.73L
- Partridge, Burgo - A history of orgies (originally published 1958) 306.7P
- Roach, Marilynne K. - The Salem witch trials: a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege 133.4R
- Skal, David J. - Death makes a holiday: a cultural history of Halloween 394S
- West Point: two centuries of honor and tradition 355.07W
- Howard, Jane Mary - Inside Iran: women's lives 305.4H
- Jaffe, Irma B. - Shining eyes, cruel fortune: the lives and loves of Italian Renaissance women poets 851.09J
- Roberts, Mary Louise - Disruptive acts: the new woman in fin-de-siecle France 305.4R
- Xinran - The good women of China: hidden voices 305.4X
- Alder, Ken - The measure of all things: the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world 526.9A
- Gribbin, John - Science: a history, 1543-2001 509G
- Kalb, Jon E. - Adventures in the bone trade: the race to discover human ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression 599K
- Morton, Oliver - Mapping Mars: science, imagination, and the birth of a world 523.4M
- Olson, Steve - Mapping human history 573O
- On the shoulders of giants: the great works of physics and astronomy (edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking) 509O
- Wolfson, Richard - Simply Einstein: relativity demystified 530.1W
- Juniper, Tony - Spix's macaw: the race to find the world's rarest bird 598.2J
- McPhee, John A. - The founding fish 597M
- Nothdurft, Willliam E. - The lost dinosaurs of Egypt 568N
- Irons, Peter - Jim Crow's children: the broken promise of the Brown decision 370.19I
- Steinberg, Jacques - The gatekeepers: inside the admissions process of a premier college 378W
- Zimmerman, Jonathan - Whose America? culture wars in the public schools 370.973Z
- Zwick, Rebecca - Fair game? the use of standardized admissions tests in higher education 378Z
- Buchwald, Art - We'll laugh again 827B
- The right words at the right time 170R
- Steingarten, Jeffrey - It must have been something I ate: the return of the man who ate everything 641S
- The bitch in the house: 26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage 305.4B
- Essential medication guidebook to healthy aging 615.1E
- Schneider, Meg F. - Sex & the single parent: a guide for parents who find themselves back in the dating game 306S
- Wiseman, Rosalind - Queen bees and wannabes: helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends, and other realities of adolescence 649W
- Cohen, Richard - By the sword: a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions 796.8C
- Hsu, Feng-hsiung - Behind Deep Blue: building the computer that defeated the world chess champion 794H
- Mitchell, Elizabeth - Three strides before the wire: the dark and beautiful world of horse racing 798M
- Parks, Tim - A season with Verona: travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and - goals! (soccer) 796.3P
- Halliday, Fred - Two hours that shook the world 973.9302H
- September 11: an oral history Lobby 973.9302S
- Woodward, Bob - Bush at war Lobby 973.930W
For an updated list of books relevant to the September 11th attacks available at the New York Society Library, go to our web site, or ask for a list at the circulation desk.
- Fierce Pajamas: selections from an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker (5 compact discs) 827.08F
- Kesey, Ken - One flew over the cuckoo's nest (7 cassettes) AC K
- Quindlen, Anna - Blessings (5 cassettes) AC Q
- Thoreau, Henry David - Cape Cod (6 cassettes) AC 917.44T
- Woolf, Virginia - To the lighthouse (8 cassettes) AC W
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