New York Society Library

MAY 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bardach, Janusz - Surviving freedom: after the gulag
  • Becker, Jillian - Giving up: the last days of Sylvia Plath
  • Birstein, Ann - What I saw at the fair
  • Blount, Roy - Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives)
  • Callow, Philip - Body of truth: D.H. Lawrence, the nomadic years, 1919- 1930
  • Chierichetti, David - Edith Head: the life and times of Hollywood's celebrated costume designer
  • Cohen, Elizabeth - House on Beartown Road: a memoir
  • Diamant, Kathi - Kafka's last love: the mystery of Dora Diamant
  • Dunn, Jane - Elizabeth and Mary: cousins, rivals, queens
  • Faderman, Lilllian - Naked in the promised land
  • Fraser- Cavassoni, Natasha - Sam Spiegel
  • Harris, Frances - Transformations of love: the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin
  • Helms, Richard - A look over my shoulder: a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Kelsey, Harry - Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's slave trader
  • LeSeur, John - Digressions on some poems by Frank O'Hara: a memoir
  • Levenson, Thomas - Einstein in Berlin
  • Mansel, Philip - Prince of Europe: the life of Charles Joseph de Ligne
  • Marsden, George - Jonathan Edwards: a life
  • Nur - Leap of faith: memoirs of an unexpected life (Noor, Queen of Jordan)
  • Pepin, Jacques - The apprentice: my life in the kitchen
  • Phillips, Kate - Helen Hunt Jackson: a literary life
  • Rees, Sian - Shadows of Elisa Lynch: how a 19th century Irish courtesan became the most powerful women in Paraguay
  • Soderqvist, Thomas - Science as autobiography: the troubled life of Niels Jerne
  • Stewart, Alan - Cradle King: a life of James VI & I
  • Weir, Alison - Mary, Queen of Scots and the murder of Lord Darnley

FICTION

  • Alison, Jane - Marriage of the sea
  • Blanchard, Keith - The deed
  • D'Aguiar, Fred - Bethany Bettany
  • Davis, Amanda - Wonder when you'll miss me
  • Delillo, Don - Cosmopolis
  • Forster, Margaret - Diary of an ordinary woman
  • Godwin, Gail - Evenings at five
  • Grass, Günter - Crabwalk
  • Greeley, Andrew - Second spring
  • Gruber, Michael - Tropic of night
  • Hannah, Kristin - Between sisters
  • Jaffe, Rona - Room- mating
  • Jones, Susanna - Water lily
  • London, Joan - Gilgamesh
  • Loy, Rosetta - Hot chocolate at Hanselmann's
  • McElroy, Joseph - Actress in the house
  • Mackay, Shena - Heligoland
  • Mitchard, Jacquelyn - Twelve times blessed
  • Motion, Andrew - The invention of Dr. Cake
  • Nance, John - Skyhook
  • Padilla Suarez, Ignacio - Shadow without a name
  • Paine, Tom - The pearl of Kuwait
  • Parks, Tim - Judge Savage
  • Picoult, Jodi - Second glance
  • Powell, Sophie - Mushroom man
  • Roberts, Nora - Birthright
  • Shreve, Anita - All he ever wanted
  • Smiley, Jane - Good faith
  • Smith, Sid - House by the river
  • Steinhauer, Olen - Bridge of sighs
  • Stone, Robert - Bay of souls
  • Truong, Maxine - The book of salt
  • Vasilikos, Vasiles - The few things I know about Glafkos Thrassakis
  • Veronesi, Sandro - Force of the past
  • Weisberger, Lauren - Devil wears Prada

SHORT STORIES

  • Gordimer, Nadine - Loot
  • Haskell, John - I am not Jackson Pollock
  • McSweeney's mammoth treasury of thrilling tales (Crichton, King, Leonard, Hornby, Eggers, Moody, Chabon, et al.)

MYSTERIES

  • Andrews, Mary Kay - Savannah blues
  • Barnard, Robert - The mistress of Alderley *
  • Black, Cara - Murder in the Bastille
  • Brett, Simon - Murder in the museum *
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - Second time around
  • Connelly, Michael - Lost light
  • Estleman, Loren - Poison blond: an Amos Walker novel
  • Harrar, George - Spinning man
  • Hathaway, Robin - Scarecrow
  • Johansen, Iris - Dead aim
  • Judd, Alan - Legacy *
  • King, Jonathon - A visible darkness
  • Lehane, Dennis - Shutter island
  • Leon, Donna - Uniform justice
  • McCall Smith, Alexander - Kalahari typing school for men
  • Maxim, John - Bannerman's ghosts
  • Mewshaw, Michael - Shelter from the storm
  • Miscione, Lisa - Darkness gathers
  • Pall, Ellen - Slightly abridged
  • Parker, T. Jefferson - Cold pursuit
  • Pearce, Michael - The snake- catcher's daughter: a Mamur Zapt mystery
  • Peters, Elizabeth - Children of the storm
  • Spencer- Fleming, Julia - A fountain filled with blood
  • Swain, James - Sucker bet
  • Tracy, P.J. - Monkeewrench
  • Turnbull, Peter - Dark secrets *
  • Westlake, Donald - Money for nothing
  • Williamson, Penelope - Wages of sin
  • Woods, Stuart - Dirty work
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bloom, Harold - Hamlet: poem unlimited 822.23C
  • Cambridge companion to Ovid 871.2O
  • Elie, Paul - The life you save may be your own: Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day 820.9E
  • Kane, Daniel - All poets welcome: the Lower East Side poetry scene in the 1960s (w/ compact disc) 821.09K
  • Mirror, mirror on the wall: women writers explore their favorite fairy tales 820.8M
  • The next American essay 824.08N
  • Sabin, Margery - Dissenters and mavericks: writings about India in English, 1765- 2000 820.9S
  • Tatum, James - The mourner's song: war and remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam 809T
  • Vendler, Helen Hennessy - Coming of age as a poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath 821.09V
  • Walker, Carol Kyros - Breaking away: Coleridge in Scotland 828W
  • Warner, Marina - Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds: 809W

POETRY

  • Kinzie, Mary - Drift: poems 821K
  • Larkin, Philip - Collected poems (new edition) 821L
  • Paz, Octavio - Figures and figurations 861P
  • Piercy, Marge - Colors passing through us 821P
  • The Poetry anthology, 1912- 2002: 90 years of America's most distinguished verse magazine 821.08P

DRAMA

  • Albee, Edward - The play about the baby 822A
  • Hauptmann, Gerhart - Plays 832H
  • Mishima, Yukio - My friend Hitler: and other plays 895.6M

LANGUAGE

  • Lasch, Christopher - Plain style: a guide to written English 808L
  • Mah, Adeline Yen - A thousand pieces of gold: my discovery of China's character in its proverbs 398.9M
  • Searle, John R. - Consciousness and language 153.7S
  • Waquet, Francoise - Latin, or, The empire of the sign: from the 16th to the 20th century 471W

BOOKS AND READING

  • Brooks, Jeffrey - When Russia learned to read: literacy and popular literature, 1861- 1917 (1985) 028B
  • Cox, Richard - Vandals in the stacks?: a response to Nicholson Baker's assault on libraries 025.2C
  • McKillop, A.B. - The spinster and the prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the case of plagiarized text 029.6M

ART

  • Antonova, Irina Aleksandrovna - Old masters, impressionists, and moderns: French masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow 759.4A
  • Godwin, Joscelyn - The pagan dream of the Renaissance 704.94G
  • Harrison, Charles - Primitivism, cubism, abstraction: the early 20th century (1993) 709.04H
  • Himmelmann, Nikolaus - Reading Greek art (1998) 709.38H
  • Julius, Anthony - Transgressions: the offences of art 701J
  • Lesy, Michael - Long time coming: a photographic portrait of America, 1935- 1943 (FSA photographs) 973.91L
  • Lynes, Barbara Buhler - Georgia O'Keefe: catalogue raisonné (1999) 759.1O
  • Matisse, Picasso 759.4M
  • Maynard, W. Barksdale - Architecture in the United States, 1800- 1850 720.973M
  • Tinterow, Gary - Manet/Velázquez: the French taste for Spanish painting 759.4T

BIOGRAPHY

  • Horrox, Rosemary - Richard III: a study of service (1999) 92 R5113 H
  • Khrushchev, Sergei - Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower (2000) 947.085K
  • Knecht, R.J. - French Renaissance monarchy: Francis I and Henry II (1996) 944.02K
  • Labzina, Ann - Days of a Russian noblewoman, 1758- 1821 92 L13 L
  • Lamberton, Robert - Plutarch 888.8L
  • O'Hagan, Helen - Bill Blass 746.92O
  • Roman women 305.4R

HISTORY

  • Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world 912B Large Study Room
  • Berry, Stephen - All that makes a man: love and ambition in the Civil War South 973.7B
  • Bizot, Francois - The gate (Cambodia, 1970- 1975) 959B
  • Britain in the Hanoverian age, 1714- 1837 942.07B
  • Ginsborg, Paul - Italy and its discontents 945.09G
  • Hitchcock, William I. - The struggle for Europe: the turbulent history of a divided continent, 1945- 2002 940.55H
  • Kaplan, Lawrence - The war over Iraq 956.9K
  • Kissinger, Henry - Ending the Vietnam War 959K
  • McNeill, John Robert - The human web: a bird's- eye view of world history 909M
  • The Mexico reader: history, culture, politics 972M
  • Page, Jake - In the hands of the great spirit: the 20,000 year history of American Indians 970.1P
  • Paulsson, Gunnar - Secret city: the hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940- 1945 940.5315P
  • Price, Munro - The road from Versailles 944.04P
  • Record, Jeffrey - Making war, thinking history: Munich, Vietnam, and presidential uses of force 973.918R
  • Romero, Luis Alberto - A history of Argentina in the 20th- century 982R
  • Swofford, Anthony - Jarhead: a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles 956.9S
  • Walker, Dale L. - Eldorado: the California Gold Rush 979.4W
  • Welsh, Frank - The four nations: a history of the United Kingdom 942W

CIVILIZATION

  • Ascherson, Neal - Stone voices: the search for Scotland 941A
  • Cullen, Jim - The American dream: a short history of an idea that shaped a nation 973C
  • Hanák, Péter - The garden and the workshop: essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest (1998) 943.6H
  • Schorske, Carl E. - Thinking with history (1998) 940S
  • Todorov, Tzvetan - Imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism 140T

PHILOSOPHY

  • Benardete, Seth - Encounters & reflections (interviews) 880.9B
  • Dennett, Daniel Clement - Freedom evolves 123D
  • Gray, John - Straw dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals 128G
  • Passmore, John Arthur - The perfectibility of man 128P

ETHICS

  • Abelard, Peter - Ethical writings 171A
  • Margalit, Avishai - The ethics of memory 154M
  • Paley, William - The principles of moral and political philosophy 171P
  • Warnock, Mary - Making babies: is there a right to have children? 176W

RELIGION

  • Barth, Karl - Dogmatics in outline (1959) 230B
  • Fialka, John J. - Sisters: Catholic nuns and the making of America 271.9F
  • Klinghoffer, David - The discovery of God: Abraham and the birth of monotheism 221K
  • Kriwaczek, Paul - In search of Zarathustra: the first prophet and the ideas that changed the world 295K
  • McCabe, Herbert - God still matters 282M
  • Sells, Michael Anthony - Approaching the Qur'an: the early revelations 297S
  • Wilken, Robert Louis - The spirit of early Christian thought 230W

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Berlin, Ira - Generations of captivity: a history of African- American slaves 306.3B
  • Burns, James McGregor - Transforming leadership 301.15B
  • Emmott, Bill - 20/21 vision: 20th- century lessons for the 21st century 303.4E
  • Hacker, Andrew - Mismatch: the growing gulf between women and men 305.3H
  • Isaacson, Rupert - The healing land: the Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert 968I
  • Lears, T.J. - Something for nothing: luck in America (gambling) 363.4L
  • Markowitz, Gerald - Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution 363.7M
  • Priest, Dana - The mission: waging war and keeping peace with America's military 355P
  • Rothstein, Edward - Visions of utopia 321.07R
  • Sontag, Susan - Regarding the pain of others 303.6S
  • Wood, Peter - Diversity: the invention of a concept 305.8W

CITIES

  • Amery, Colin - The lost world of Pompeii 913.37A
  • Another city: writing from Los Angeles 820.8A
  • Higonnet, Patrice L.R. - Paris: capital of the world 944H
  • Jenkins, Roy - Twelve cities: a memoir 307.76J
  • Johns, Michael - Moment of grace: the American city in the 1950s 307.76J
  • Newman, Katherine - A different shade of gray: midlife and beyond in the inner city 362.5N

NEW YORK CITY

  • Adams, Michael Henry - Harlem, lost and found: an architectural and social history, 1765- 1915 974.71A
  • Roma, Thomas - Sanctuary (NYC churches) 770R
  • Rudnick, James - Gotham restored: the preservation of monumental New York 917.471R
  • Sansone, Gene - Evolution of New York City subways 388S

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

  • A Certain somewhere: writers on the places they remember 828.08C
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law - Walks and talks of an American farmer in England (originally published 1852) 914.2O
  • Richie, Donald - The Inland Sea 915.2R
  • Slaughter, Thomas P. - Exploring Lewis and Clark: reflections on men and wilderness 917.8S
  • Theroux, Paul - Dark star safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town 916T
  • Wideman, John Edgar - The island, Martinique 917.29W

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Abdo, Geneive - Answering only to God: faith and freedom in twenty- first century Iran 955A
  • Brovkin, Vladimir - Russia after Lenin (1998) 947.084B
  • Jones, Tobias - The dark heart of Italy 914.5J
  • Lind, Michael - Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern takeover of American politics 973.930L
  • Morris, Roy - Fraud of the century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876 973.8M
  • Roberts, Andrew - Hitler and Churchill: secrets of leadership 301.15R
  • Taubman, Philip - Secret empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America's space espionage 327.12T

LAW

  • Olson, Walter - The rule of lawyers: how the new litigation elite threatens America's rule of law 347.7O
  • Pound, Roscoe - The ideal element in law 340P

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

  • Berenson, Alex - The number: how the drive for quarterly earnings corrupted Wall Street and corporate America 338.6B
  • Burrows, Peter - Backfire: Carly Fiorina's high- stakes battle for the soul of Hewlett- Packard 338.7B
  • Chua, Amy - World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred 303.6C
  • Kingston- Mann, Esther - In search of the true West: culture, economics and problems of Russian development (1999) 947.084K
  • Micklethwait, John - The company: a short history of a revolutionary idea 338.7M
  • Partnoy, Frank - Infectious greed: how deceit and risk corrupted the financial markets 338.6P

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Bhagwati, Jagdish - The wind of the hundred days: how Washington mismanaged globalization (2000) 337B
  • Harvey, Robert - Global disorder: America and the threat of world conflict 327.73H
  • Kagan, Robert - Of paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order 327.73K
  • Larres, Klaus - Churchill's Cold War: the politics of personal diplomacy 327.42L
  • Purdy, Jedediah - Being America: liberty, commerce, and violence in an American world 327.73P

SCIENCE

  • Altschuler, Daniel R. - Children of the stars: our origin, evolution, and destiny 520A
  • Ball, Philip - The ingredients: a guided tour of the elements 540B
  • Benedict, Jeff - No bone unturned: the adventures of a top Smithsonian forensic scientist... 614.1B
  • Blumberg, Mark Samuel - Body heat: temperature and life on earth 591B
  • Chase, Marilyn - The Barbary plague: the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco 616.9C
  • Kuhn, Thomas S. - The road since structure: philosophical essays, 1970- 1993 (2000) 501K
  • Magueijo, Joăo - Faster than the speed of light 535M

MEDICINE

  • Elliott, Carl - Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream 610E
  • Gearin- Tosh, Michael - Living proof: a medical mutiny 362.1G
  • Lloyd, G.E.R. - The way and the world: science and medicine in early China and Greece 509L

COMPUTERS

  • Harrington, Jan L. - Relational database design clearly explained 004H
  • Johnson, George - A shortcut through time: the path to the quantum computer 001.6J
  • Zygmont, Jeffrey - Microchip: an idea, its genesis, and the revolution it created 338.7Z

EDUCATION

  • Geiger, Roger L. - Research and relevant knowledge: American research universities since World War II 378G
  • Troen, Vivian - Who's teaching your children? 372T

SPORTS

  • Heinrich, Bernd - Why we run: a natural history 612H
  • Robinson, Ray - Pennants & pinstripes: the New York Yankees, 1903- 2002 796.3R

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Chandler, Raymond - The big sleep (5 cassettes) AC C
  • Mann, Thomas - Royal highness (8 cassettes) AC M
  • Powell, Anthony - Dance to the music of time, parts 1 & 2 (22 cassettes) AC P
  • Selected shorts, volumes V, VII, XII (recorded at Symphony Space, New York) AC S
  • Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's travels (8 cassettes)


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