New York Society Library

JULY 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Albertson, Chris - Bessie (blues singer Bessie Smith)
  • Barzman, Norma - The red and the blacklist: the intimate memoir of a Hollywood expatriate
  • Bruck, Connie - When Hollywood had a king (Lew Wasserman)
  • Burroughs, Augusten - Dry: a memoir
  • Clayson, Alan - Edgard Varese
  • Clinton, Hilary - Living history
  • Diggins, John Patrick - John Adams
  • Enright, D.J. - Injury time: a memoir
  • Ferguson, Robert - Short, sharp life of T.E. Hulme
  • Frey, James - A million little pieces
  • Gilmour, David - Curzon: imperial statesman
  • Isaacson, Walter - Benjamin Franklin: an American life
  • Juska, Jane - A round - heeled woman: my late - life adventures in sex and romance
  • McCalman, Iain - The last alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
  • Meaker, Many Jane - Highsmith: a romance of the 1950s (Patricia Highsmith)
  • Mehta, Ved - Dark harbor: building house and home on an enchanted island
  • Raphael, Frederic - Spoilt boy
  • Rubin, Gretchen - Forty ways to look at Winston Churchill
  • Sandys, Celia - Chasing Churchill: the travels of Winston Churchill
  • Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis
  • Stern, Jane - Ambulance girl: how I saved myself by becoming an EMT
  • Taylor, D.J. - Orwell: the life
  • Wein, George - Myself among others: a life in music

FICTION

  • Ali, Monica - Brick lane
  • Auerbach, John - Tales of Grabowski
  • Berg, Elizabeth - Say when
  • Berger, Thomas - Best friends
  • Bernhard, Thomas - Three novellas
  • Brink, Andre - Other side of silence
  • Byers, Michael - Long for this world
  • Ciresi, Rita - Remind me again why I married you
  • Connolly, John - Bad men
  • Coupland, Douglas - Hey Nostradamus
  • Cunningham, Laura - Dreams of rescue
  • Cusk, Rachel - Lucky ones
  • Cussler, Clive - White death
  • Dorrestein, Renate - Without mercy
  • Dunant, Sarah - Birth of Venus
  • Elderkin, Susan - The voices
  • Ford, Michael Curtis - Gods and legions: a novel of the Roman Empire
  • Franklin, Tom - Hell at the breech
  • Glastra van Loon, Karel - A father’s affair
  • Grazer, Gigi - Maneater
  • Griesemer, John - Signal and noise
  • Grossman, David - Someone to run with
  • Gutman, Amy - The anniversary
  • Haddon, Mark - Curious incident of the dog in the night - time
  • Hart, Erin - Haunted ground
  • Jewell, Lisa - Friend of the family
  • Keyes, Marian - Sushi for beginners
  • Koeppen, Wolfgang - A sad affair
  • Le, Thi Diem Thuy - The gangster we are all looking for
  • Lipman, Elinor - The pursuit of Alice Thrift
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Forbidden
  • Marias, Javier - Man of feeling
  • Mendelson, Cheryl - Morningside Heights
  • Montero, Mayra - Deep purple
  • O’Hagan, Andrew - Personality
  • Patterson, James - Lake house
  • Roberts, Michelle - Mistressclass
  • Rush, Norman - Mortals
  • Scott, Manda - Dreaming the eagle
  • Shaw, Fiona - The sweetest thing
  • Smith, Wilber - Blue horizon
  • Thorpe, Adam - No telling
  • Timm, Uwe - Morenga
  • Wadham, Lucy - Castro’s dream
  • Wood, James - Book against God
  • Yoshikawa, Mako - Once removed

SHORT STORIES

  • Alexie, Sherman - Ten little Indians
  • Cavell, Benjamin - Rumble, young man, rumble
  • Dunmore, Helen - Ice cream
  • Iagnemma, Karl - On the nature of human romantic interaction
  • Rylands, Jane Turner - Venetian stories
  • Smith, Ali - The whole story and other stories

MYSTERIES

  • Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the ghosts of Netley (a Jane Austen mystery)
  • Blunt, Giles - The delicate storm
  • Bruce, Leo - Death at Hallow’s End
  • Burdett, John - Bangkok 8
  • DuBois, Brendan - Betrayed
  • Eidson, Bill - Repo
  • Francis, Claire - A dark devotion *
  • Fraser, Anthea - Brought to book *
  • Freedman, J.F. - Fallen idols
  • Garcia - Aguilera, Carolina - Luck of the draw
  • Garcia - Roza, L.A. - December heat
  • Gardner, John - Streets of town *
  • Gray, John - Fiend in human *
  • Green, Norman - Angel of Montague Street
  • Gregson, J.M. - Murder at the lodge *
  • Hall, James - Off the chart
  • Hamilton, Steve - Blood is the sky
  • King, Larry (w/Thomas Cook) - Moon over Manhattan
  • Langton, Jane - The deserter
  • Lovesy, Peter - House sitter *
  • McDermid, Val - Distant echo
  • Moore, Harker - Cruel season for dying
  • Rand, Naomi - Stealing for a living
  • Sallis, James - Cypress grove
  • Scottoline, Lisa - Dead ringer
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bloom, Harold - A map of misreading 821.09B (1980)
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Coleridge’s notebooks: a selection 828C
  • Damrosch, David - What is world literature? 809D
  • Hecht, Anthony - Melodies unheard: essays on the mysteries of poetry 821.09H
  • Latham, Sean - "Am I a snob?": modernism and the novel 823.09L
  • Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books 820.7N
  • Pritchard, R.E. - Dickens’s England: life in Victorian times 823P
  • Thorlby, Anthony - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1987) 891.73T

LANGUAGE AND WRITING

  • Language in the U.S.A. (1981) 427L
  • Safire, William - No uncertain terms: more writing from the popular "On language" column 428S
  • The writing life: writers on how they think and work 820.9W

POETRY

  • Beat poets 821.08B
  • Great American prose poems: from Poe to the present 821.08G
  • Hoffman, Daniel - Beyond silence: selected shorter poems, 1948 - 2003 821H
  • Hollander, John - Picture window: poems 821H

ART

  • Baldass, Ludwig von - Jan van Eyck (1952) 759.9E
  • Clayson, Hollis - Paris in despair: art & everyday life under siege (1870 - 71) 709.44C
  • Fried, Michael - Menzel’s realism: art and embodiment in 19th century Berlin 759.3M
  • Leader, Darian - Stealing the Mona Lisa: what art stops us from seeing 701L
  • Longhi, Roberto - Piero della Francesca 759.5P
  • Primitivism and 20th-century art: a documentary history 709.04P
  • Sander, August - Men without masks: faces of Germany, 1910 - 1938 (1973) 770S CS

ARCHITECTURE

  • Edgerton, Samuel - Theaters of conversion: religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico 704.948E
  • Pennoyer, Peter - The architecture of Delano & Aldrich 720.972P
  • Sanger, Martha Frick - The Henry Clay Frick houses (2001) 728.8S
  • Scully, Vincent Joseph - Modern architecture and other essays 724S

MUSEUMS

  • Anderson, John - Art held hostage: the battle over the Barnes collection 708A
  • MoMA highlights: 325 works from the Museum of Modern Art (1999) 708.1M

MUSIC

  • Buch, Estaban - Beethoven’s Ninth: a political history 785.11B
  • Lomax, Alan - Selected writings, 1934 - 1997 784.4L
  • Whitney, Craig R. - All the stops: the glorious pipe organ and its American masters 786.6W

THEATRE

  • Croyden, Margaret - Conversations with Peter Brook, 1970 - 2000 792C
  • Fischer - Lichte, Erika - The semiotics of theater (1992) 792F

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barr, Nevada - Seeking enlightenment: a skeptic’s path to religion 92 B2684 B
  • Bingham, Emily - Mordecai: an early American family 929.3B
  • Blumenthal, Sidney - The Clinton wars 973.929B
  • Mapping lives: the uses of biography 808M
  • Roberts, Andrew - The holy fox: the life of Lord Halifax (1997) 92 H1727 R
  • Warner, Philip - Auchinleck: the lonely soldier 92 A8977 W

UNITED STATES HISTORY

  • Ferling, John E. - A leap in the dark: the struggle to create the American republic 973.3F
  • Gould, Lewis - The modern American presidency 973.9G
  • Kukla, Jon - A wilderness so immense: the Louisiana Purchase and the destiny of America 973.4K
  • McPherson, James M. - Hallowed ground: a walk at Gettysburg 973.73M
  • Solnit, Rebecca - Savage dreams: a journey into the hidden wars of the American West (1974) 978S
  • Vidal, Gore - Dreaming war: blood for oil and the Cheney - Bush junta 973.930V

EUROPEAN HISTORY

  • Bosworth, A.B. - Conquest and empire: the reign of Alexander the Great (1988) 938B
  • Burton, Richard - Blood in the city: violence and revelation in Paris, 1789 - 1945 (2001) 944.36B
  • Ferguson, Niall - Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order 909F
  • Hirst, Derek - England in conflict, 1603 - 1660 (1999) 942.06H
  • Kagan, Donald - The Peloponnesian War 938K

RUSSIA

  • Applebaum, Anne - Gulag: a history 365A
  • Kenez, Peter - A history of the Soviet Union from the beginning to the end (1999) 947.084K
  • Pares, Bernard - The fall of the Russian monarchy (2001) 947.08P
  • Strayer, Robert - Why did the Soviet Union collapse? (1998) 947.085B

WORLD WAR II

  • Eizenstat, Stuart - Imperfect justice: looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II 940.5318E
  • Macksey, Kenneth - Military errors of World War II (1998) 940.54M
  • Tec, Nechama - Resilience & courage: women, men, and the Holocaust 940.5318T

CIVILIZATION

  • Argentina reader: history, culture, politics 982A
  • Benfey, Christopher - The great wave: gilded age misfits, Japanese eccentrics, and the opening of old Japan 303.4B
  • Brazil reader: history, culture, politics (1999) 981B

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Brodsky, Anne - With all our strength: the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan 305.4B
  • Gobodo - Madikizela, Pumla - A human being died that night: a South African story of forgiveness 323.4G
  • Orizio, Riccardo - Talk of the devil: encounters with seven dictators 321.9O
  • Schell, Jonathan - The unconquerable world: power, nonviolence, and the will of the people 303.6S
  • Schivelbusch, Wolfgang - The culture of defeat: on national trauma, mourning, and recovery 303.6S
  • Schram, Martin - Avoiding Armageddon: our future, our choice 355.4S
  • Weitz, Eric D. - A century of genocide: utopias of race and nation 364.1W

RACE

  • Alland, Alexander - Race in mind: race, IQ, and other racisms 305.8A
  • Hendrickson, Paul - Sons of Mississippi: a story of race and its legacy 305.8H
  • Swain, Carol - The new white nationalism in America: its challenge to integration 305.8S

ECONOMICS

  • Mokyr, Joel - The gifts of Athena: historical origins of the knowledge economy 338M
  • Shiller, Robert J. - The new financial order: risk in the 21st century 368S
  • Wachtel, Howard M. - Street of dreams - boulevard of broken hearts: Wall Street’s first century 332.63

LAW

  • Greene, Joshua - Justice at Dachau: the trials of an American prosecutor 940.5315G
  • O’Connor, Sandra Day - The majesty of the law: reflections of a Supreme Court justice 347.99O
  • Neier, Aryeh - Taking liberties: four decades in the struggle for rights 323.4N
  • Ripples of hope: great American civil rights speeches 323.1R

CRIME

  • Brown, Irene Quenzler - The hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: a story of rape, incest, and justice early America 364.1B
  • Hodel, Steve - Black Dahlia avenger: a genius for murder 364.1H
  • Lebsock, Suzanne - A murder in Virginia: Southern justice on trial 364.1L

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Axelrod, Alan - Nothing to fear: lessons in leadership from FDR 973.917A
  • Bearden, Milt - The main enemy: the inside story of the CIA’s final showdown with the KGB 327.12B
  • Collateral language: a user’s guide to America’s new war 973.930C
  • Dawley, Alan - Changing the world: American progressives in war and revolution 973.91D
  • Farber, Daniel - Lincoln’s Constitution 342.73F
  • Pepper, William - An act of state: the execution of Martin Luther King 364.1P
  • Zakaria, Fareed - The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad 321.8Z

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Schwartz, Thomas Alan - Lyndon Johnson and Europe: in the shadow of Vietnam 327.73S
  • Schweizer, Peter - Reagan’s war: the epic story of his 40 year struggle and final triumph over communism 327.73S

TERRORISM

  • Brill, Steven - After: how America confronted the September 12 era 973.9302B
  • Gold, Dore - Hatred’s kingdom: how Saudi Arabia supports the new global terrorism 297G
  • Lewis, Bernard - The crisis of Islam: holy war and unholy terror 297L

AFGHANISTAN

  • Crile, George - Charlie Wilson’s war: the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history 958C
  • Rubin, Barnett - The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system 958R

NEW YORK CITY

  • Ephemera Press - The East Village, New York City: a walking tour (map) 917.471E CS
  • Kane, Daniel - All poets welcome: the Lower East Side poetry scene in the 1960s 821.09K
  • Miller, Sara Cedar - Central Park, an American masterpiece 917.471M

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Murray, William - City of the soul: a walk in Rome 914.56M
  • Paolicelli, Paul - Under the Southern sun: stories of the real Italy and the Americans it created 914.5P
  • West, Rebecca - Survivors in Mexico 917.2W

RELIGION

  • Jenkins, Philip - The new anti - Catholicism 282.73J
  • Pagels, Elaine - Beyond belief: the secret Gospel of Thomas 229P
  • Price, Reynolds - A serious way of wondering: the ethics of Jesus imagined 241P
  • Shanks, Hershel - The brother of Jesus: the dramatic story & meaning of the first archaeological link to Jesus 220.9S

THE BIBLE

  • Kass, Leon - The beginning of wisdom: reading Genesis 222K
  • Kugel, James L. - The God of old: inside the lost world of the Bible 296.3K
  • Nicolson, Adam - God’s secretaries: the making of the King James Bible 220.5N

SCIENCE

  • Kryza, Frank - The power of light: the epic story of man’s quest to harness the sun 333.8K
  • Kandel, Robert S. - Water from heaven: the story of water from the big bang to the rise of civilization, and beyond 551.4K
  • Le Couteur, Penny - Napoleon’s buttons: how 17 molecules changed history 540.9L
  • Repcheck, Jack - The man who found time: James Hutton and the discovery of the earth 551R
  • Ridley, Matt - Nature via nurture: genes, experience, and what makes us human 575.1R
  • Watson, James D. - DNA: the secret of life 576W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Greenfield, Susan - The private life of the brain: emotions, consciousness and the secret of the self 157G
  • Knapp, Caroline - Appetites: why women want 616.8K
  • Women confronting retirement: a nontraditional guide 646.79W

PARENTING

  • Füredi, Frank - Paranoid parenting: why ignoring the experts may be best for your child 649F
  • Stearns, Peter - Anxious parents: a history of modern childrearing in America 649S

SPORTS

  • Kahn, Roger - October men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees’ miraculous finish in 1978 796.3K
  • Lewis, Michael - Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game 796.3L
  • Scanlon, Thomas Francis - Eros & Greek athletics 796S
  • Shapiro, Michael - The last good season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and their final pennant race together 796.3S

COMPUTERS

  • Barabasi, Albert Laszlo - Linked: the new science of networks 303.4B
  • Cohen, Adam - The perfect store: inside eBay 381C
  • Hillis, W. Daniel - The pattern on the stone: the simple ideas that make computers work (1998) 004H

HUMOR

  • Borowitz, Andy - Who moved my soap?: the CEO’s guide to surviving in prison 365B
  • Buckley, Christopher - Washington schlepped here: walking in the nation’s capital 917.53B
  • Nachman, Gerald - Seriously funny: the rebel comedians of the 1950s and 1960s 792.2N

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Hughes, Kathryn - George Eliot: the last Victorian (15 cassettes) AC 92 E425 H
  • Percy, Walker - The moviegoer (5 cassettes) AC P
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair (20 cassettes) AC T
  • Tolstoy, Leo - The Cossacks (8 cassettes) AC T Lobby


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