New York Society Library

AUGUST 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Berg, A. Scott - Kate remembered (Katherine Hepburn)
  • Corrington, Robert - Wilhelm Reich: psychoanalyst and radical naturalist
  • Dry, Sarah - Curie
  • Field, Ophelia - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough : the queen's favourite
  • Herrera, Hayden - Arshile Gorky: his life & work
  • Hoffman, Paul - Wings of madness: Alberto Santos- Dumont & the invention of flight
  • Jenkins, Annibel - I'll tell you what: the life of Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Karasik, Paul - The ride together: a brother and sister's memoir of autism in the family
  • Klieman, Rikki - Fairy tales can come true: how a driven woman changed her destiny
  • Magee, Bryan - Clouds of glory: a childhood in Hoxton
  • Pérez Rosales, Vicente - Times gone by: memoirs of a man of action
  • Rose, Kenneth - Elusive Rothschild: the life of Victor, third Baron
  • Rounding, Virginia - Grandes Horizontales: the lives and legends of four 19th- century courtesans
  • Shellard, Dominic - Kenneth Tynan
  • Solotaroff, Ted - First loves: a memoir
  • Starkey, David - Six wives: the queens of Henry VIII
  • VanDeMark, Brian - Pandora's keepers: nine men and the atomic bomb
  • Wilson, Andrew - Beautiful shadow: a life of Patricia Highsmith
  • Woodhead, Lindy - War paint: Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein: their lives, their times their rivalry

FICTION

  • Bahal, Aniruddha - Bunker 13
  • Bragg, Melvyn - Son of war
  • Brookner, Anita - The rules of engagement
  • Bushnell, Candace - Trading up
  • Cercas, Javier - Soldiers of Salamis
  • Chevalier, Tracy - The virgin blue
  • Clements, Marcelle - Midsummer
  • Coulter, Catherine - The heir
  • Dailey, Janet - Shifting Calder wind
  • David, Stuart - Nalda said
  • Deb, Siddhartha - The point of return
  • Dickey, Eric Jerome - The other woman
  • Eisler, Barry - Hard rain
  • Flander, Scott - Four to midnight
  • Gingrich, Newt - Gettysburg: a novel of the Civil War
  • Gordon, Neil - Company you keep
  • Grondahl, Jens Christian - Lucca
  • Hall, Sarah - Haweswater
  • Holmes, Rupert - Where the truth lies
  • Hospital, Janette Turner - Due preparations for the plague
  • Houellebecq, Michel - Lanzarote
  • Judd, Alan - The Kaiser's last kiss
  • Julavits, Heidi - The effect of living backwards
  • Keillor, Garrison - Love me
  • Lewis, Jim - The king is dead
  • Lightman, Alan - Reunion
  • Lindsay, Johanna - A man to call my own
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Die in plain sight
  • McCrumb, Sharon - Ghost riders
  • Moriarty, Laura - Center of everything
  • Parkhurst, Carolyn - Dogs of Babel
  • Ridgway, Keith - The parts
  • Sanchez, Thomas - King bongo
  • Steele, Danielle - Johnny Angel
  • Trapido, Barbara - Frankie and Stankie
  • Trigiani, Adriana - Lucia Lucia
  • Ullman, Ellen - The bug
  • Vanderbes, Jennifer - Easter Island
  • Wilson, Jonathan - Palestine affair
  • Zimler, Richard - Hunting midnight

SHORT STORIES

  • Epstein, Joseph - Fabulous small Jews
  • Furst, Joshua - Short people
  • Le Guin, Ursula - Changing planes

MYSTERIES

  • Ablow, Keith - Psychopath
  • Bernhardt, William - Death row
  • Birmingham noir *
  • Black, Ethan - Dead for life
  • Block, Valerie - None of your business
  • Brookmyre, Christopher - One fine day in the middle of the night *
  • Brown, Jim - Black valley
  • Burke, Alafair - Judgment calls
  • Cannell, Stephen - Runaway heart
  • Connors, Rose - Temporary sanity
  • Evanovich, Janet - To the nines
  • Ford, G.M. - A blind eye
  • Gardner, Lisa - Killing hour
  • Geary, Nancy - Redemption
  • Grippando, James - Last to die
  • Haddam, Jane - Conspiracy theory
  • Hambly, Barbara - Days of the dead
  • Henry, Sue - Death trap
  • James, P.D. - The murder room *
  • Jance, J.A. - Exit wounds
  • Kaminsky, Stuart - Mildred pierced
  • Koontz, Dean - The face
  • Lee, Anthony - Martin Quinn
  • Littell, Robert - The sisters
  • McDonald, Gregory - Flynn's world
  • McKinzie, Clinton - Trial by ice and fire
  • Mosley, Walter- Fear itself: a Fearless Jones novel
  • Muller, Marcia - Cyanide Wells
  • Phillips, Clyde - Sacrifice
  • Preston, Douglas J. - Still life with crows
  • Reichs, Kathy - Bare bones
  • Sklepowich, Edward - The last gondola
  • Spencer, Sally - A death left hanging *
  • Strohmeyer, Sarah - Bubbles ablaze
* indicates a British mystery


SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Donoghue, Denis - Speaking of beauty 820.9D
  • Hayward, Helen - The enigma of V.S. Naipaul: sources and contexts 823N
  • Holzberg, Niklas - Ovid: the poet and his work 871.2O
  • Huncke, Herbert - The Herbert Huncke reader (1997) 820.81H
  • Leonard, John - Lonesome rangers (exiled authors) 820.4L
  • Pritchard, William - Shelf life: literary essays and reviews 820.9P
  • Segal, Harold - The Columbia guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 809S
  • Tauber, Alfred - Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing 828.09T
  • Winegarten, Renee - Accursed politics: some French women writers and political life, 1715- 1850 840.9W

POETRY

  • Kumin, Maxine - Bringing together: uncollected early poems, 1958- 1988 821K
  • Lowell, Robert - Collected poems 821L
  • Muske, Carol - Sparrow: poems 821M
  • Shapiro, Karl Jay - Selected poems 821S
  • Walker, Alice - Absolute trust in the goodness of the earth 821W

BOOKS & READING

  • Collier, Mark - How to read Egyptian hieroglyphs: a step- by- step guide (1993) 493C
  • Eisenstein, Elizabeth - The printing revolution in early modern Europe (1993) 655.1E
  • Mason, Clifford - The African- American bookshelf: 50 must- reads from before the Civil War through today 016.82M

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barber, Michael - The Captain: the life and times of Simon Raven (2001) 92 R254 B
  • Collected Black women's narratives 920 C695 C
  • Courtenay, Tom - Dear Tom: letters from home 92 C8634 C
  • Dmitrov, Georgi - The diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933- 1949 (Soviet official) 949.7D
  • Eberhardt, Isabelle - The nomad: diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt 92 E162 E
  • Hammond, Grant Tedrick - The mind of war: John Boyd and American security 92 B78965 H
  • Macdonald, Dwight - Interviews with Dwight Macdonald 973.9M
  • Ofri, Danielle - Singular intimacies: becoming a doctor at Bellevue 610.7O
  • Radi, Nuha - Baghdad diaries: a woman's chronicle of war and exile 92 R129 R
  • Spotts, Frederic - Hitler and the power of aesthetics 92 H675 S

HISTORY

  • Carpenter, Teresa - The Miss Stone affair: America's first modern hostage crisis (Macedonia, 1901) 949.6C
  • Cartledge, Paul - The Spartans: the world of the warrior- heroes of ancient Greece 938C
  • Curtis, Michael - Verdict on Vichy: power and prejudice in the Vichy France regime 944.081C
  • Denton, Sally - American massacre: the tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 979.2D
  • Historical imagination in early modern Britain: history, rhetoric and fiction, 1500- 1800 907H
  • Lendvai, Paul - The Hungarians: a thousand years of victory in defeat 943.91L
  • Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer - New myth, new world: from Nietzsche to Stalinism 947.084R
  • Roy, Denny - Taiwan: a political history 951R
  • Sears, Stephen - Gettysburg 973.73S
  • Seidman, Michael - Republic of egos: a social history of the Spanish Civil War 946.081S
  • Werner, Emmy - A conspiracy of decency: the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II 940.5318W

ARTS

  • Atkins, Cholly- Class act: the jazz life of choreographer Cholly Atkins 92 A8737 A
  • De Vonyar, Jill - Degas and the dance 759.4D
  • Greenberg, Clement - Late writings 709G
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried - Sculpture: some observations on shape and form from Pygmalion's creative dream 730H
  • Leonardo da Vinci, master draftsman 741.3L
  • Lord, James - Plausible portraits of James Lord 704.942L
  • Spoerri, Elka - The art of Adolf Wölfli 741.3W

MUSEUMS

  • Cooke, Lynne - Dia: Beacon Lobby 708.1D
  • The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987) 792.0942T

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Davidson, Bruce - Central Park (1995) 917.471D
  • Fire & ice: treasures from the photographic collection of Frederic Church 779C
  • Hunt, Melinda - Hart Island (1998) 917.47H

FILM

  • Cunneen, Joseph - Robert Bresson: a spiritual style in film 791.4C
  • Merchant, Ismail - My passage from India: a filmaker's journey from Bombay to Hollywood and beyond 92 M555 M
  • Saeed- Vafa, Mehrnaz - Abbas Kiarostami 791.4S

MUSIC

  • Cambridge companion to Chopin 786.2C
  • Hear me talkin' to ya: the story of jazz as told by the men who made it (edited by Nat Henthoff & Nat Shapiro) (1955) 780.973S
  • Steinitz, Richard - György Ligeti: music of the imagination 780.92L

ARCHITECTURE

  • Arnold, Dieter - The encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian architecture 722A
  • Gardiner, Stephen - The house: its origins and evolution 728G
  • Heald, David - Architecture of silence: Cistercian abbeys of France 726H

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Bremner, Robert Hamlett - Giving: charity and philanthropy in history (1996) 361B
  • Deutschman, Alan - A tale of two valleys: wine, wealth, and the battle for the good life in Napa and Sonoma 979.46D
  • Hemley, Robin - Invented Eden: the elusive, disputed history of the Tasaday (Philippines) 919.14H
  • Hope, Judith - Pinstripes and pearls: the women of Harvard Law School class of '64 340.7H
  • Lomnitz- Alder, Claudio - Deep Mexico, silent Mexico: an anthropology of nationalism 320.9L
  • Pipes, Richard - The Degaev affair: terror and treason in Tsarist Russia 303.6P
  • Schuck, Peter H. - Diversity in America: keeping government at a safe distance 305.8S
  • Van Meter, Jonathan - The last good time: Skinny D'Amato, the notorious 500 Club, and the rise and fall of Atlantic City 974.9V

SCIENCE

  • Atkins, P.W. - Galileo's finger: the ten great ideas of science 500A
  • Dawkins, Richard - A devil's chaplain: selected essays 500D
  • Gould, Stephen Jay - The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox: mending the gap between science and the humanities 501G
  • Mlodinow, Leonard - Feynman's rainbow: a search for beauty in physics and life 530M
  • Stott, Rebecca - Darwin and the barnacle 575S

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Andrews, Jonathan - Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad- doctoring in 18th- century England 616.8A
  • McNally, Richard J. - Remembering trauma 616.8M
  • Said, Edward W. - Freud and the non- European 956.94S

ECONOMICS

  • Alcaly, Roger E. - The new economy 330.973A
  • Macdonald, James - A free nation in debt: the financial roots of democracy 336.3M
  • Tomlinson, Jim - Democratic socialism and economic policy: the Attlee years, 1945- 1951 (1997) 330.942T

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Didion, Joan - Fixed ideas: America since 9.11 973.930D
  • Friend, Theodore - Indonesian destinies 959F
  • Frum, David - The right man: the surprise presidency of George W. Bush 973.930F
  • Hiro, Dilip - Iraq: in the eye of the storm 956.9H
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Regime change 956H
  • Pocock, J.G.A. - The Machiavellian moment: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition 320.1M
  • Prestowitz, Clyde - Rogue nation: American unilateralism and the failure of good intentions 327.73P

LAW

  • Garner, Bryan A. - A dictionary of modern legal usage 2nd edition Ref. 340G
  • Posner, Richard A. - Law, pragmatism, and democracy 340P

NEW YORK CITY

  • Crimes of New York: stories of crooks, killers and corruption from the world's toughest city 364C
  • Kelley, Wyn - Melville's city: literary and urban form in 19th century New York (1996) 823M
  • Kostelanetz, Richard - Soho: the rise and fall of an artists' colony 709.7471K
  • New York City (City secrets) 917.471N

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Bedford, Sybille - Pleasures and landscapes: a traveler's tales from Europe 940.55B
  • Bengis, Ingrid - Metro stop Dostoevsky: travels in Russian time 914.7B
  • Dugard, Martin - Into Africa: the Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone 967D
  • Kanter, Evelyn - The Hudson Valley book: a complete guide 917.47K
  • Spornick, Charles D. - An outdoor guide to Bartram's travels 917.5S

SPORTS

  • Elias, Norbert - Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilizing process (1986) 796E
  • Macfarlane, Robert - Mountains of the mind (mountaineering) 796.52M
  • Snyder, Brad - Beyond the shadow of the Senators: the untold story of the Homestead Grays and the integration of baseball 796.3S

MONUMENTS

  • Thomas, Christopher - The Lincoln Memorial & American life 975.3T
  • Zivie-Coche, Christiane - Sphinx: history of a monument 932Z

RELIGION

  • Atran, Scott - In gods we trust: the evolutionary landscape of religion 201A
  • Efron, Noah - Real Jews: secular versus ultra- Orthodox and the struggle for Jewish identity in Israel 296.9E
  • McGrath, Alister E. - A brief history of heaven 237M
  • Mahoney, Rosemary - The singular pilgrim: travels on sacred ground 291.4M
  • Tolan, John Victor - Saracens: Islam in the medieval European imagination 261T
  • Wheatcroft, Andrew - Infidels: the conflict between Christendom and Islam, 638- 2002 290W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Marinoff, Lou - The big questions: how philosophy can change your life 100M
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich - Writings from the late notebooks 193N

ETHICS

  • Grayling, A.C. - Life, sex, and ideas: the good life without God 171G
  • Huffington, Arianna - Pigs at the trough: how corporate greed and political corruption are undermining America 364.13H
  • Tabb, William K. - The amoral elephant: globalization and the struggle for social justice in the 21st century 337T

ANIMALS AND PETS

  • Arden, Darlene - The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital book of wellness and preventive care for dogs 636.7A
  • Awe for the tiger, love for the lamb: a chronicle of sensibility to animals 179A
  • Salisbury, Gay - The cruelest miles: the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic 614.4S

GARDENING

  • Cobbett, William - The American gardener: a treatise on the situation, soil, and laying out of gardens...(new reprint of 1856 text) 635C
  • Hobhouse, Penelope - The story of gardening 712H
  • Shephard, Sue - Seeds of fortune: a gardening dynasty 635S
  • Warner, Charles Dudley - My summer in a garden 635W

FOOD AND DRINK

  • Dillon, Patrick - Gin: the much- lamented death of Madam Geneva 363.4D
  • Laszlo, Pierre - Salt: grain of life 553L
  • Macfarlane, Alan - Green gold: the empire of tea 633.7M
  • Pringle, Peter - Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto—the promises and perils of the biotech harvest 338.1P
  • Saffron, Inga - Caviar: the strange history and uncertain future of the world's most coveted delicacy 641.3S
  • Serventi, Silvano - Pasta: the story of a universal food 641S

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Applebome, Peter - Scout's honor: a father's unlikely foray into the woods 369.4A
  • Hesser, Amanda - Cooking for Mr. Latte: a food lover's courtship with recipes 641.5H
  • Hochschild, Arlie Russell - The commercialization of intimate life: notes from home and work 302H
  • Kabat- Zinn, Jon - Wherever you go, there you are: mindfulness meditation in everyday life 155.9K

DISASTERS

  • Greene, Melissa Fay - Last man out: the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster 363.3G
  • O'Donnell, Edward T. - Ship ablaze: the tragedy of the steamboat General Slocum 910.4O
  • Shaw, David W. - The sea shall embrace them: the tragic story of the steamship Arctic 910.4S

REFERENCE

  • Bleiler, Richard - Reference guide to mystery and detective fiction (1999) Ref. 016.8B
  • Dictionary of American history (10 volumes) Ref. 973.03D
  • Encyclopedia of African- American culture and history LSR 973E
  • Merck manual of medical information, 2nd home edition Ref. 616M

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Elizabeth Bishop (The voice of the poet) (1 cassette w/book) AC 821B
  • Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews (9 cassettes) AC F
  • Henry, O. - The four million (6 cassettes) AC H
  • James Merrill (The voice of the poet) (1 cassette w/ book) AC 821M
  • Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt (11 cassettes) AC L
  • Sylvia Plath (The voice of the poet) (1 cassette w/book) AC 821P


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