New York Society Library

JUNE 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Andreas-Salome, Lou - You alone are real to me: remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Arledge, Roone - Roone: a memoir
  • Blair, Betsy - The memory of all that: love & politics in New York, Hollywood and Paris
  • Brands, H.W. - Woodrow Wilson
  • Brodsky, Alyn - The great Mayor: Fiorello La Guardia and the making of the city of New York
  • Brookhiser, Richard - Gentleman revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
  • Brown, Chip - Good morning midnight: life & death in the wild
  • Figes, Eva - Tales of innocence & experience
  • Ford, Ann - Laughing Allegra: a mother's struggle and triumph raising a daughter with learning disabilities
  • Gleick, James - Isaac Newton
  • Gregorian, Vartan - The road to home: my life and times
  • Grondin, Jean - Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Gruber, Ruth - Inside of time: my journey from Alaska to Israel
  • Halberstam, David - The teammates
  • Hamilton, Hugo - The speckled people
  • Harrison, Kathryn - Seeking rapture
  • Jeffers, H. Paul - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
  • Leider, Emily Wortis - Dark lover (Rudolph Valentino)
  • Lowry, Beverly - Her dream of dreams (Madam C.J. Walker)
  • MacNeil, Robert - Looking for my country: finding myself in America
  • Mantel, Hilary - Giving up the ghost: a memoir
  • Masuda, Sayo - Autobiography of a Geisha
  • Meloy, Maile - Liars and saints
  • Mewshaw, Michael - Do I owe you something?: a memoir of the literary life
  • Nice, David - Prokofiev: from Russia to the west, 1891-1935
  • Phillips, Siân - Public places: my life in the theater
  • Reiner, Carl - My anecdotal life
  • Rodman, F. Robert - Winnicott
  • Rowse, A.L. - Diaries of A.L. Rowse
  • Schickel, Richard - Good morning Mr. Zip Zip Zip: movies, memories and World War II
  • Servadio, Gaia - Rossini
  • Skloot, Floyd - In the shadow of memory
  • Solomon, Maynard - Late Beehoven
  • Stott, Anne - Hannah Moore: the first Victorian
  • Talley, Andre Leon - A.L.T.: a memoir
  • Taraborrelli, Randy - Once upon a time: behind the fairy tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
  • Thomas, Evan - John Paul Jones
  • Thompson, Laura - Life in a cold climate: Nancy Mitford, portrait of a contradictory woman
  • Wagenbach, Klaus - Kafka

FICTION

  • Akunin, Boris - The winter queen
  • Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and crake
  • Besson, Phillipe - In the absence of men
  • Brown, Sandra - Not even for love
  • Coonts, Stephen - Victory
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's havoc
  • Corrick, Martin - Navigation log
  • Daum, Meghan - Quality of life report
  • Deveraux, Jude - Wild orchids
  • Epstein, Leslie - San Remo Drive
  • Govier, Katherine - Creation
  • Gowdy, Barbara - The romantic
  • Haynes, Melinda - Willem's field
  • Huebner, Andrew - We Pierce
  • Jong, Erica - Sappho's leap
  • Knipfel, Jim - The buzzing
  • Koppelman, Amy - Mouthful of air
  • McMurtry, Larry - Wandering hill
  • Morris, Scott - Waiting for April
  • Mosher, Howard Frank - The true account: a novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson expeditions
  • Newman, Sandra - The only good thing anyone has ever done
  • Oda, Makoto - Breaking jewel
  • Oren, Michael - Reunion
  • Quick, Amanda - Late for the wedding
  • Ricci, Nino - Testament
  • Robbins, Tom - Villa incognito
  • Robinson, Roxanna - Sweetwater
  • Rowland, Laura Joh - Dragon King's Palace
  • See, Lisa - Dragon bones
  • Smith, Brad - All hat
  • Swift, Graham - Light of day
  • Tremain, Rose - The colour
  • Turner, Frederick - 1929: a novel of the jazz age

SHORT STORIES

  • Hall, Donald - Willow temple
  • Swan, Mary - The deep and other stories

MYSTERIES

  • Altman, John - Deception
  • Blauner, Peter - Last good day
  • Blake, Michelle - The book of light
  • Booth, Stephen - Blind to the bones *
  • Bowen, Peter - Badlands
  • Box, C.J. - Winterkill
  • Bradby, Tom - The White Russian
  • Buffa, D.W. - Star witness
  • Butler, Gwendoline - Coffin knows the answer *
  • Camilleri, Andrea - The snack thief
  • Chang, Leonard - Underkill
  • Child, Lee - Persuader
  • Coben, Harlan - No second chance
  • Craig, Philip - A vineyard killing
  • Curzon, Clare - Body of a woman *
  • Donohue, John - Sensei
  • Duncker, Patricia - Seven tales of sex and death *
  • Erickson, K.J. - The last witness
  • Estep, Maggie - Hex
  • Flynn, Vince - Executive power
  • Fowler, Earlene - Sunshine and shadow
  • Fyfield, Frances - Seeking sanctuary *
  • Freemantle, Brian - Ice age
  • Gooden, Philip - Alms for oblivion *
  • Graham, Heather - Picture me dead
  • Hammond, Gerald - The snatch *
  • Hillerman, Tony - Sinister pig
  • Hime, James - Night of the dance
  • James, Bill - Middleman *
  • Johnson, Mat - Hunting in Harlem
  • Jones, Stan - Shaman pass
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Cold heart
  • Kellogg, Marne - Brilliant *
  • Lindsey, David - Rules of silence
  • Malcolm, John - Circles and squares: a Tim Simpson mystery *
  • Morrell, David - The protector
  • Page, Katherine Hall - A body in the lighthouse
  • Riodan, Rick - Cold springs
  • Rosenfelt, David - First degree
  • Sandford, John - Naked prey
  • Seranella, Barbara - Unpaid dues: a Munch Mancini crime novel
  • Shannon, John - City of strangers
  • Smith, April - Good morning, killer
  • Standiford, Les - Havana run
  • Stevenson, Richard - Tongue tied: a Donald Strachey mystery
  • Wright, Edward - Clea's moon
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Adamson, Judith - Graham Greene: the dangerous edge, where art and politics meet 823G
  • Brown, Bill - A sense of things: the object matter or American literature 823.09B
  • Cambridge companion to Tolstoy 891.7T
  • The Italian-American reader: a collection of outstanding fiction, memoirs, journalism, essays, and poetry (foreword by Nick Tosches)
  • MacCabe, Colin - James Joyce and the revolution of the word 823J
  • Parker, Robert Dale - The invention of Native American literature 897P
  • Planet on the table: poets on the reading life 809.1P
  • The portable sixties reader 820.8P
  • Richards, Robert J. - The romantic conception of life: science and philosophy in the age of Goethe 830.9R

POETRY

  • Burnshaw, Stanley - The collected poems & selected prose 820.81B
  • Howard, Richard - Talking cures: new poems 821H
  • Logue, Christopher - All day permanent red: the first battle scenes of Homer's Iliad rewritten 821L
  • Rexroth, Kenneth - The complete poems of Kenneth Rexroth 821R
  • Simic, Charles - The voice at 3:00 a.m. 821S

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Dante Aligheri - The inferno (Ciaran Carson) 851D
  • Gogol, Nikolai - Taras Bulba (Peter Constantine) F G
  • Leopardi, Giacomo- Thoughts; and, The broom (J.G. Nichols) 858L
  • Scève, Maurice - Emblems of desire: selections from the "Délie" (Richard Sieburth) 841S
  • Tsvetaeva, Marina - Milestones: a bilingual edition (Robin Kemball) 891.71T
  • The Unknown Socrates (William Calder III, et al.) 183U

WRITING

  • Booth, Wayne - The craft of research 001B
  • Deval, Jacqueline - Publicize your book! 070.5D
  • Koch, Stephen - Modern Library writer's workshop 808.3K
  • See, Carolyn - Making a literary life: advice for writers and other dreamers 808.3S

JOURNALISM

  • Alterman, Eric - What liberal media?: the truth about bias and the news 302A
  • Gans, Herbert J. - Democracy and the news 302G

ARTS

  • Alfred Hitchcock: interviews 791.4H
  • Brendel, Alfred - Me of all people (conversations with Martin Meyer) 786.2B
  • Carter, Elliott - Elliott Carter: collected essays and lectures, 1937-1995 780.8C
  • Denenberg, Thomas Andrew - Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America 770N
  • Devonshire, Duchess of - Chatsworth: the house 728.8D
  • Gray, Alexander Stuart - Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary (1986) 720.92G
  • Hendricks, Gordon - Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West 759.1B
  • Osborne, Robin - Archaic and classical Greek art (1998) 709.38O
  • Plant, Margaret - Venice: fragile city, 1797-1997 945.3P
  • Sassoon, Donald - Becoming Mona Lisa: the making of a global icon 759.5L
  • Tashjian, Dickran - A boatload of madmen: surrealism and the American avant-garde (1995) 709.73T

BIOGRAPHY

  • Abagnale, Frank M. - Catch me if you can 92 A1159 A
  • Cahalan, James M. - Edward Abbey 92 A1235 C
  • Cato, Bob - Joyce images (1994) 704.942C
  • Cropper, William - Great physicists 530.9C
  • Deschodt, Anne Marie - Fortuny 745.5D
  • Finley, John Huston - Thucydides (1947) 888.2F
  • Ford, Ford Madox - The correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen (1993) 92 F699 F
  • Hillier, Bevis - Young Betjeman (1988) 92 B5637 H
  • King, Margaret L. - Women of the Renaissance (1991) 305.4K
  • Langley, Monica - Tearing down the walls: how Sandy Weill fought his way to the top of the financial world—and then nearly lost it all 332.1L
  • Morris, John N. - Versions of the self: studies in English autobiography from John Bunyan to John Stuart Mill (1966) 808M
  • Newhall, David S. - Clemenceau: a life at war (1991) 92 C625 N

HISTORY

  • Anisimov, E.V. - The reforms of Peter the Great (1993) 947.05A
  • Cerami, Charles A. - Jefferson's great gamble: the remarkable story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the men behind the Louisiana Purchase 973.4C
  • Dershowitz, Alan - America declares independence 973.3D
  • Faber du Faur, Christian Wilhelm von - With Napoleon in Russia: the illustrated memoirs, 1812 940.27F Oversize
  • Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - The Americas: a hemispheric history 917F
  • Fleming, Fergus - The sword and the cross (Sahara) 966F
  • Green, Rayna - The British Museum encyclopedia of native North America (1999) 970.1G
  • History and historians in the 20th century 907H
  • Hourani, Albert - A history of the Arab peoples 909H
  • Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis - Empire: how Spain became a world power, 1492-1763 946.03K
  • Martines, Lauro - April blood: Florence and the plot against the Medici 945.5M
  • Patenaude, Bertrand M. - The big show in Bololand: the American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in the famine of 1921 947.084P
  • Taylor, Jean Gelman - Indonesia: peoples and histories 959T
  • Zinn, Howard - A people's history of the United States, 1492-present (2003 edition) 973Z

CIVILIZATION

  • Moe, Nelson - The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question 945.7M
  • Mosse, George L. - Fallen soldiers: reshaping the memory of the world wars (1991) 303.6M
  • Sardar, Ziauddin - Why do people hate America? 973.930S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Etzioni, Amitai - The monochrome society 306E
  • Guiliani, Rudolph - Leadership 301.15G
  • Israel, Betsy - Bachelor girl: the secret history of the single woman in the 20th century 305.4I
  • Perrucci, Robert - The new class society: goodbye American dream? 305.5P
  • Reporting Civil Rights (2 volumes) 323.1R
  • Schlosser, Eric - Reefer madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market 380.14S
  • Sleep of reason: erotic experience and sexual ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (edited by Martha Nussbaum) 306.7S

ECONOMICS

  • Bhagwati, Jagdish - A stream of windows: unsettling reflections on trade, immigration, and democracy (1998) 337.73B
  • Derber, Charles - People before profit: the new globalization in the age of terror, big money, and economic crisis 337D
  • Palast, Greg - The best democracy money can buy 364.13P

INDUSTRY

  • Brinkley, Douglas - Wheels for the world: Henry Ford, his company, and a century of progress, 1903-2003 338.7B
  • Klein, Maury - The change makers: from Carnegie to Gates 338K
  • Standiford, Les - Last train to paradise: Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean 385S

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Briody, Dan - The iron triangle: inside the secret world of the Carlyle Group 332.6B
  • Charen, Mona - Useful idiots: how liberals got it wrong in the cold war and still blame America first 335.4C
  • Crenson, Matthew - Downsizing democracy: how America sidelined its citizens and privatized its public 323.4C
  • Gutiérrez, David - Walls and mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants and the politics of ethnicity (1995) 305.85G
  • Moore, James - Bush's brain: how Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential 973.930M
  • Roy, Arundhati - War talk 327R
  • Sharpton, Al - Al on America 973.930S
  • Trulock, Notra - Code name Kindred Spirit: inside the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal 327.12T

TERRORISM

  • Berman, Paul - Terror and liberalism 303.6B
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke - Just war against terror: the burden of American power in a violent world 303.6E
  • Giorgio - Memoirs of an Italian terrorist 303.6G
  • Laqueur, Walter - No end to war: terrorism in the 21st century 303.6L

NEW YORK CITY

  • Gray, Christopher - New York streetscapes: tales of Manhattan's significant buildings and landmarks 720.973G
  • Kessner, Thomas - Capital city: New York City and the men behind America's rise to economic dominance, 1860-1900 330.973K
  • LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole - Random family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx 974.7L
  • Revell, Keith D. - Building Gotham: civic culture and public policy in New York City, 1898-1938 974.471R
  • Simmons, Peter - Gotham comes of age: New York through the lens of the Byron Company, 1892-1942 974.71S

TRAVEL

  • Belloc, Francois - Unknown lands: the log books of the great explorers 910.9B
  • Cambridge companion to travel writing 828.09C
  • Camuto, Christopher - Hunting from home: a year afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains 799C
  • Dyer, Geoff - Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it 910.4D
  • Kaye, Lincoln - Cousin Felix meets the Buddha and other encounters in China and Tibet 915.1K
  • McRae, Michael - The siege of Shangri-La: the quest for Tibet's sacred hidden paradise 951.5M

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Luckhurst, Roger - The invention of telepathy, 1870-1901 133.8L
  • The psychological assessment of political leaders: with profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton 320.1P
  • Shapiro, David - Neurotic styles (1965) 616.8S
  • Sheldrake, Rupert - The sense of being stared at: and other aspects of the extended mind 133.8S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Blau, Joseph L. - Men and movements in American philosophy (1952) 191B
  • Coelho, Paulo - Warrior of the light 170C
  • Radford, Gary - On Eco 195R

RELIGION

  • Allen, Charles - The search for the Buddha: the men who discovered India's lost religion 294A
  • Barr, Stephen - Modern physics and ancient faith 215B
  • Brown, Peter - The rise of Western Christendom (1998) 270B
  • DeHamel, Christopher - The book: a history of the Bible 220.9D
  • Fletcher, R.A. - The cross and the crescent: Christianity and Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Reformation 290F
  • Gallagher, Nora - Practicing resurrection 283G

JUDAISM

  • Kirsch, Jonathan - The woman who laughed at God: the untold history of the Jewish people 296K
  • Sutcliffe, Adam - Judaism & Enlightenment 296S
  • Viorst, Milton - What shall I do with this people?; Jews and the fractious politics of Judaism 296V

EDUCATION

  • Graff, Gerald - Clueless in academe: how schooling obscures the life of the mind 378G
  • Ravitch, Diane - The language police: how pressure groups restrict what students learn 371.3R
  • Showalter, Elaine - Teaching literature 807S

SCIENCE

  • Bryson, Bill - A short history of nearly everything 500B
  • Lane, Nick - Oxygen: the molecule that made the world 546L
  • Larson, Peter - Rex appeal: the amazing story of Sue, the dinosaur that changed science, the law and my life 560L
  • Livio, Mario - The golden ratio: the story of phi 510.9L
  • McKibben, Bill - Enough: staying human in an engineered age 660M
  • Wells, Spencer - The journey of man: a genetic odyssey 575.1W
  • Winchester, Simon - Krakatoa: the day the world exploded 551.2W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Bronson, Po - What should I do with my life? 170B
  • Hulbert, Ann - Raising America: experts, parents, and a century of advice about children 649H
  • Kolata, Gina Bari - Ultimate fitness: the quest for truth about exercise and health 613K
  • Mitchell, Stephen A. - Can love last?: the fate of romance over time 306.7M

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Chekhov, Anton - In the ravine & other short stories (3 cassettes) AC C
  • Conrad, Joseph - Typhoon (3 cassettes) AC C
  • Rashid, Ahmed - Taliban (8 cassettes) AC 948 R
  • Waugh, Evelyn - Vile bodies (7 cassettes) AC W


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