New York Society Library

APRIL 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Allen, Bruce - Wild Bill: the legend and life of William O. Douglas
  • Alonso, Harriet - Growing up abolitionist: the story of the Garrison children
  • Benardete, Seth - Encounters & reflections: conversations with Seth Benardete
  • Calvino, Italo - The hermit in Paris: autobiographical writings
  • Chase, Alston - Harvard and the Unabomber: education of an American terrorist
  • Clegg, Brian - The first scientist: a life of Roger Bacon
  • Clifford, Colin - The Asquiths
  • Curtis, James - W.C. Fields: a biography
  • Eire, Carlos - Waiting for snow in Havana
  • Eisler, Benita - Chopin's funeral
  • Feuer, Cy - I got the show right here: the amazing, true story of how an obscure Brooklyn horn player became the last great Broadway showman
  • Gao, Anhua - To the edge of the sky
  • Gristwood, Sarah - Arbella: England's lost queen
  • Gross, Michael - Genuine authentic: the real life of Ralph Lauren
  • Inwood, Stephen - Man who knew too much: the strange and inventive life of Robert Hooke, 1635 -1703
  • Miller, Sue - The story of my father
  • O'Faolain, Nuala - Almost there: the onward journey of a Dublin woman
  • Olsen, Victoria - From life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian photography
  • Rossant, Colette - Return to Paris: a memoir
  • Waugh, John C. - Surviving the Confederacy: rebellion, ruin and recovery - Roger and Sara Pryor during the Civil War

FICTION

  • Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'm not scared
  • Barnes, Kim - Finding Caruso
  • Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Drop city
  • Brown, Sandra - The thrill of victory
  • Clark, Nancy - The hills at home
  • Connelly, Joe - Crumbtown
  • Delinsky, Barbara - Heart of the night
  • Diliberto, Gioia - I am Madame X
  • Dreyer, Eileen - With a vengeance
  • Galloway, Janice - Clara: a novel
  • Gordon, Alan - Widow of Jerusalem
  • Griffin, W.E.B. - Final justice
  • Hustvedt, Siri - What I loved
  • Keneally, Thomas - Office of innocence
  • Kumpfmuller, Michael - Adventures of a bed salesman
  • Land, Jon - Blue widows
  • Laurens, Stephanie - Perfect lover
  • Liss, David - Coffee trader
  • Lively, Penelope - Photograph
  • McNaught, Judith - Someone to watch over me
  • Maillard, Keith - Clarinet polka
  • Maynard, Joyce - The usual rules
  • Moses, Kate - Wintering: a novel of Sylvia Plath
  • Nunez, Elizabeth - Grace
  • O'Connor, Joseph - Star of the sea
  • Oe, Kenzaburo - Somersault
  • O'Neill, Anthony - Lamplighter
  • Ozeki, Ruth - All over creation
  • Patterson, James - The jester
  • Pearl, Matthew - Dante club
  • Pye, Michael - Pieces from Berlin
  • Shattuck, Jessica - Hazards of good breeding
  • Smith, Deborah - Sweet hush
  • Steele, Danielle - Dating game
  • Sutherland, Grant - The consignment
  • Wall, Alan - Lightning cage
  • Wallach, Janet - Seraglio
  • Walsh, Michael - And all the saints
  • Welsh, Louise - Cutting room
  • West, Paul - Cheops: a cupboard for the sun
  • Wolitzer, Meg - The wife
  • Woodiwiss, Kathleen - Reluctant suitor

SHORT STORIES

  • Bauman, Beth Ann - Beautiful girls
  • Huth, Angela - Collected stories
  • Packer, Z.Z. - Drinking coffee elsewhere

MYSTERIES

  • Adam, Paul - Flash point
  • Allbeury, Ted - The networks *
  • Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity takes a holiday *
  • Barclay, Tessa - A better class of person
  • Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin and the case of the curious curate *
  • Bowen, Rhys - Evan only knows
  • Brown, Dale - The Da Vinci code
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Tail of the tip -off
  • Bruen, Ken - The white trilogy
  • Conant, Susan - The dogfather: a dog lover's mystery
  • Corcoran, Tom - Octopus alibi
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - Vanished man
  • Dobson, Joanne - The Maltese manuscript
  • Ellis, David - Life sentence
  • Ellis, Kate - Skeleton room *
  • Emerson, Earl - Into the inferno
  • Fforde, Jasper - Lost in a good book *
  • Fluke, Joanne - Lemon meringue pie murder
  • French, Nicci - Land of the living *
  • Glass, Leslie - Over his dead body
  • Green, Christine - Deadly echo *
  • Hall, Parnell - Manslaughter: a Stanley Hastings mystery
  • Hall, Patricia - Death in dark waters *
  • Hamilton, Denise - Sugar skull
  • Hart, Carolyn - Engaged to die
  • Hess, Joan - Big foot stole my wife and other stories
  • Jeffries, Roderic - An intriguing murder
  • Lovett, Sarah - Dark alchemy
  • Margolin, Philip - Ties that bind
  • Massey, Sujata - The Samurai's daughter
  • Mina, Denise - Sanctum *
  • Paige, Robin - Death at Glamis castle
  • Parker, Barbara - Suspicion of madness
  • Parker, Robert - Back story
  • Pelecanos, George - Soul circus
  • Reilly, Matthew - Contest
  • Silva, Daniel - The confessor
  • Steiner, Peter - A French country murder
  • Thayer, Steve - Wolf pass
  • Walsh, Jill P. - Presumption of death *
  • Walter, Jess - Land of the blind
*indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Augustine, Saint - Saint Augustine's memory: Confessiones book two (introduction and commentary by Garry Wills) 92 A9228 A
  • Beckerman, Michael - New worlds of Dvorák: searching in America for the composer's inner life 780.92D
  • Garcia Márquez, Gabriel - Vivir para contarla Sp. 92 G2177 G Closed Stack
  • Horrox, Rosemary - Richard III: a study of service (1999) 92 R5113 H
  • Oltuski, Enrique - Vida clandestina: my life in the Cuban Revolution 972.91O
  • Published and perished: memoria, eulogies, and rememberances of America writers 920 P978 P
  • Spoto, Donald - Reluctant saint: the inner life of Francis of Assisi 92 F8157 S

BELLES LETTRES

  • The Book of prefaces 820.9B
  • Broch, Hermann - Geist and Zeitgeist: the spirit in an unspiritual age 834B
  • Delany, Paul - Literature, money and the market 823.09D
  • Fresonke, Kris - West of Emerson: the design of manifest destiny 820.9F
  • Lurie, Alison - Boys and girls forever: children's classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter 820.9L
  • Quick studies: the best of Lingua franca 001Q
  • Tolstaya, Tatyana - Pushkin's children: writings on Russia and Russians 891.7T
  • Walker, Carol Kyros - Breaking away: Coleridge in Scotland 828W

POETRY

  • Anthologie de la poésie francaise Fr. 841.08A Closed Stack
  • Jiggery -pokery: a compendium of double dactyls (1983) 821.08J
  • Murdoch, Iris - A year of birds (w/engravings by Reynolds Stone) (1984) 821M Closed Stack
  • Sebald, Winfried Georg - For years now: poems (2001) 831S
  • Zagajewski, Adam - Without end: new and selected poems 891.85Z

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Mallarmé, Stéphane - Mallarmé in prose 848M
  • Proust, Marcel - In search of lost time: v.1. Way by Swann's; v.3. Guermantes way; v.4. Sodom and Gomorrah; v.5. Prisoner F P
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a new verse translation (by W.S. Merwin) 821G

ARTS

  • Bailey, Colin - Patriotic taste: collecting modern art in pre -revolutionary Paris 759.4B
  • Goffen, Rona - Renaissance rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian 709.45G
  • Kantor, Sybil Gordon - Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and the intellectual origins of the Museum of Modern Art 708.1K
  • King, Ross - Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling 759.5M
  • Koerner, Joseph Leo - The moment of self -portraiture in German Renaissance art 759.3K
  • Quilts of Gee's Bend 746Q
  • Zischler, Hanns - Kafka goes to the movies 791.4Z

HISTORY

  • Ambrose, Stephen - The Mississippi and the making of a nation: from the Louisiana Purchase to today 977A
  • Bailyn, Bernard - To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders 973.3B
  • Buruma, Ian - Inventing Japan, 1853 -1964 952B
  • Coogan, Tim - Wherever green is worn: the story of the Irish diaspora 909.4C
  • Crouzet -Pavan, Elisabeth - Venice triumphant: the horizons of a myth 945.3C
  • Deane, Philip - Power & greed: a short history of the world 909D
  • Gaddis, John Lewis - The landscape of history: how historians map the past 901G
  • Gay, Ruth - Safe among the Germans: liberated Jews after World War II 943G
  • Higham, N.J. - King Arthur 942.01H
  • Judd, Denis - The Boer War 968.2J
  • Kearney, Hugh - The British Isles: a history of four nations 942K
  • Kenyon, Cecelia - Men of little faith: selected writings (18th c. U.S. history) 973K
  • Menzies, Gavin - 1421: the year China discovered America 910.9M
  • The Saddam Hussein reader: selections from leading writers on Iraq 956.9S
  • Sokolow, Jayme - The great encounter: native peoples and European settlers in the Americas, 1492 -1800 970.1S
  • Steers, Edward - Blood on the moon: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 973.7S
  • Taylor, Jane - Petra and the lost kingdom of the Nabataeans 939.4T
  • Words to outlive us: voices from the Warsaw ghetto 940.5315P

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Bragdon, Kathleen Joan - The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Northeast 970.1B
  • McFeely, Eliza - Zuni and the American imagination 970.3M
  • Seed, Patricia - American pentimento: the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches 970.5S

WAR

  • Gilbert, Martin - The righteous: the unsung heroes of the Holocaust 940.5315G
  • James, Lawrence - Warrior race: a history of the British at war 942J
  • Mosier, John - The myth of the Great War: a new military history of World War I 940.4M
  • Sebald, Winfried Georg - On the natural history of destruction 940.5343S

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Bryson, Bill - Bill Bryson's African diary 916.7B
  • Kanigel, Robert - High season (Nice) 914.4K
  • Lamb, Christina - The sewing circles of Herat: a personal journey through Afghanistan 915.8L
  • Molavi, Afshin - Persian pilgrimages: journeys across Iran 955M
  • Shah, Tahir - In search of King Solomon's mines 916.3S
  • Steavenson, Wendell - Stories I stole from Georgia (republic) 914.7S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Denson, Charles - Coney Island - lost and found 974.71D
  • Harris, Leslie - In the shadow of slavery: African -Americans in New York City, 1626 -1863 305.88H
  • Marlin, George J. - Fighting the good fight: a history of the New York Conservative Party 324.273M
  • Schecter, Barnet - The battle for New York: the city at the heart of the American revolution 974.2S
  • Sloat, Warren - A battle for the soul of New York: Revered Charles Parkhurst's crusade against police corruption, vice, and Tammany Hall, 1892 -1895 363.4S

CIVILIZATION

  • Ancient Greece: a political, social, and cultural history 938A
  • Schiavone, Aldo - The end of the past: ancient Rome and the modern West 937.06S

ARCHAEOLOGY

  • Camp, John - The archaeology of Athens 938C
  • Flood, Josephine - Archaeology of the dreamtime: the story of prehistoric Australia (1990) 994F
  • Magness, Jodi - The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls 933M

RELIGION

  • Benedict, Philip - Christ's churches purely reformed: a social history of Calvinism 284.2B
  • Mitchell, Donald W. - Buddhism: introducing the Buddhist experience 294M
  • Porter, J.R. - The lost Bible: forgotten scriptures revealed 229P
  • Ten rungs: Hasidic sayings (collected and edited by Martin Buber) (1947) 296.6T

EDUCATION

  • Brimelow, Peter - The worm in the apple: how the teacher unions are destroying American education 331.88B
  • Gatto, John Taylor - The underground history of American education: a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling 370.973G
  • Levine, Melvin - The myth of laziness 370.15L
  • Weinstein, Rhona S. - Reaching higher: the power of expectations in schooling 370.15W
  • Wills, Garry - Mr. Jefferson's university 720.973W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Crister, Greg - Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world 362.1C
  • Keller, Edward - The influentials 303.3K
  • Manso, Peter - Ptown: art, sex and money on the outer Cape (Provincetown, MA) 974.4M
  • Ozment, Steven - Ancestors: the loving family in old Europe 306.8O
  • Polsgrove, Carol - Divided minds: intellectuals and the civil rights movement 323.4P
  • Roberts, Andrew - Hitler & Churchill: secrets of leadership 301.15R
  • Theriault, Reg - The unmaking of the American working class 305.5T
  • Warner, Jessica - Craze: gin and debauchery in an age of reason 394.1W

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Berlin, Isaiah - Liberty: incorporating Four essays on liberty 323.4B
  • Bruce, Tammy - The new thought police: inside the Left's assault on free speech and free minds 320.9B
  • Frum, David - The right man: the surprise presidency of George W. Bush 973.930F
  • Morley, Morris - Unfinished business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989 -2001 327.73M

ECONOMICS / COMMERCE

  • Cohen, Lizabeth - A consumer's republic: the politics of mass consumption in postwar America 339.4C
  • Goodwin, Jason - Greenback!: the almighty dollar and the invention of America 332.4G
  • Hine, Thomas - I want that!: how we all became shoppers 339.4H
  • McCormick, Michael - Origins of the European economy: communications and commerce, A.D. 300 -900 380M
  • Weightman, Gavin - The frozen -water trade: a true story 380.14W

CRIME

  • Cornwell, Patricia - Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper - case closed 364.1C
  • Fletcher, R.A. - Bloodfeud: murder and revenge in Anglo -Saxon England 942.01F
  • Schiller, Lawrence - Cape May Court House 364.1S

SCIENCE

  • Gratzer, W.B. - Eurekas and euphorias: the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes 509G
  • Kirshner, Robert - The extravagant universe: exploding stars, dark energy, and the accelerating cosmos 523.8K
  • Mazur, Barry - Imagining numbers 510M
  • Sossinsky, A.B. - Knots: mathematics with a twist 510S

ENVIRONMENT

  • Davis, Devra Lee - When smoke ran like water: tales of environmental deception 615.9D
  • Royte, Elizabeth - The Tapir's morning bath: mysteries of the tropical rain forest and the scientists who are trying to solve them 575.3R

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Hanson, Elizabeth - Animal attractions: nature on display in American zoos 590.7H
  • Heinrich, Bernd - Winter world: the ingenuity of animal survival 591.5H
  • Rogers, Lesley - Songs, roars and rituals: communication in birds, mammals, and other animals 591.5R

DISEASE AND MEDICINE

  • Grob, Gerald - The deadly truth: a history of disease in America 616G
  • Hayden, Deborah - Pox: genius, madness and the mysteries of syphilis 616.9H
  • Marriott, Edward - The plague race: a tale of fear, science and heroism 614M
  • Porter, Roy - Blood and guts: a short history of medicine 610.9P

TECHNOLOGY

  • Auster, Paul - The story of my typewriter 652A
  • Axelrod, Karen - Watch it made in the U.S.A. 917.3A
  • Freese, Barbara - Coal: a human history 553.2F
  • Moran, Richard - Executioner's current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair 364M

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Droit, Roger -Pol - 101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life 128D
  • Olson, James Stuart - Bathsheba's breast: women, cancer & history 616.9O
  • Reichman, Judith - I'm too young to get old: health care for women after forty (1996) 613R
  • Robinson, Jancis - How to taste: a guide to enjoying wine 641.2R

REFERENCE

  • Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary Ref 610.3D
  • Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment LSR 940.25E
  • Fishman, Stephen - The copyright handbook 6th edition Ref 655.6F

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Faulkner, William - Collected stories (22 cassettes) AC F
  • Fraser, Antonia - Marie Antoinette (15 cassettes) AC 92 M3342 F
  • Hawking, Stephen - The universe in a nutshell (3 cassettes) AC 5301.1H
  • Hemingway, Ernest - For whom the bell tolls (11 cassettes) AC H
  • Sebold, Alice - Lovely bones (7 cassettes) Lobby AC S
  • Strachey, Lytton - Eminent victorians (9 cassettes) Lobby AC 920 S894 E


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