New York Society Library

SEPTEMBER 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Anderson, Walter - Meant to be: a memoir
  • Becher, Matthias - Charlemagne
  • Bremer, Francis - John Winthrop: America's forgotten founding father
  • Bumpers, Dale - Best lawyer in a one lawyer town: a memoir
  • Eisenhower, John - General Ike: a personal reminiscence
  • Etzioni, Amitai - My brother's keeper: a memoir and a message
  • Foulkes, Nick - Last of the dandies: the scandalous life and escapades of Count d'Orsay
  • Geck, Martin - Bach
  • Glock, Allison - Beauty before comfort
  • Gottfried, Martin - Arthur Miller: his life and work
  • Harrison, Kathryn - Saint Therese of Lisieux (Penguin Lives)
  • Jackson, Robert - That man: an insider's portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Kanfer, Stefan - Ball of fire: the tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball
  • Klein, Edward - The Kennedy curse: why America's first family has been haunted by tragedy for 150 years
  • Lefanu, Sarah - Rose Macaulay
  • Mallett, Phillip - Rudyard Kipling: a literary life
  • Manea, Norman - Hooligan's return: a memoir
  • Matthews, David - Britten
  • Mitchell, L.G. - Bulwer Lytton: the rise and fall of a Victorian man of letters
  • Rember, John - Traplines: coming home to Sawtooth Valley
  • Rubin, Gretchen - Forty ways to look at Winston Churchill
  • Schipperges, Thomas - Prokofiev
  • Sheehy, Helen - Eleanora Duse
  • Siegel, Joel - Lessons for Dylan
  • Skoyles, John - Secret frequencies: a New York education
  • Stanton, Mike - Prince of Providence: the true story of Buddy Cianci, America's most notorious mayor, some wise guys, and the feds
  • Tims, Hilton - Erich Maria Remarque: the last romantic
  • Wolff, Geoffrey - The art of burning bridges: a life of John O'Hara

FICTION

  • Brookmeier, Kevin - Truth about Celia
  • Carey, Jacqueline - The Crossley baby
  • Carroll, James - Secret father
  • Choi, Susan - American woman
  • Cook, Robin - Seizure
  • Corbett, David - Done for a dime
  • Darrieussecq, Marie - Brief stay with the living
  • Davis - Goff, Annabel - Fox's walk
  • Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle
  • Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots
  • Freud, Esther - Sea house
  • Genna, Giuseppe - In the name of Ishmael
  • Goodwin, Stephen - Breaking her fall
  • Hearn, Lian - Grass for his pillow
  • Heller, Zoe - What was she thinking?: notes on a scandal
  • Holman, Sheri - Mammoth cheese
  • Hosseini, Khaled - Kite runner
  • Houellebecq, Michel - Platform
  • Johnson, Adam - Parasites like us
  • Joyce, Brenda - Double take
  • Joyce, Graham - Facts of life
  • Kachtick, Keith - Hungry ghost
  • Kross, Jaan - Treading air
  • Lively, Penelope - The photograph
  • Makine, Andrei - Hero's daughter
  • Matalon, Ronit - Bliss
  • Palahniuk, Chuck - Diary
  • Pottinger, Stanley - The last Nazi
  • Rosenstone, Robert - King of Odessa
  • Sole, Robert - The Alexandria semaphore
  • Wiggins, Marianne - Evidence of things unseen

SHORT STORIES

  • Brkic, Courtney Angela - Stillness and other stories
  • Bukoski, Anthony - Time between trains
  • Hill, Susan - The boy who taught the beekeeper to read
  • Mantel, Hilary - Learning to talk
  • Zadie Smith introduces The burned children of America

MYSTERIES

  • Armstrong, Vivien - No birds singing *
  • Barre, Richard - Burning moon
  • Block, Lawrence - Blood on their hands
  • Clancy, Tom - Teeth of the tiger
  • Clark, Mary Jane - Nowhere to run
  • Coulter, Catherine - Blindside: an FBI mystery
  • Curzon, Clare - Meeting of the minds *
  • Cutler, Judith - Power on her own *
  • Daheim, Mary - Hocus Croakus: a bed and breakfast mystery
  • DeCastrique, Mark - Dangerous undertaking
  • Dibdin, Michael - Medusa
  • Edric, Robert - Cradle song *
  • Egleton, Clive - Cry havoc
  • George, Elizabeth - Place of hiding *
  • Grimes, Martha - Foul matter
  • Hefferman, William - Time gone by
  • Hoyt, Richard - The weatherman's daughters
  • Iles, Greg - Footprints of God
  • Jahn, Michael - Murder in Coney Island
  • Kellerman, Faye - Street dreams
  • Kernick, Simon - Murder exchange *
  • Kirino, Natsuo - Out
  • Lanier, Virginia - A bloodhound to die for
  • Lardo, Vincent - McNally's dare
  • McGarrity, Michael - Everyone dies
  • Mahoney, Dan - Justice
  • Marston, Edward - Vagabond clown *
  • O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Presumption of death
  • Pirie, David - Night calls *
  • Reich, Christopher - The devil's banker
  • Robards, Karen - Beachcomber
  • Rucka, Greg - Fistful of rain
  • Siegel, Sheldon - Final verdict
  • Sloan, Bob - Middle of nowhere
  • Smith, Carol - Home from home
  • Smith, Julie - Mean woman blues
  • Spiegelman, Peter - Black maps
  • Taylor, Andrew - American boy *
  • Taylor, Sarah - O' artful death
  • Wait, Lea - Shadows on the coast of Maine: an antique prints mystery
  • Winspear, Jacqueline - Maisie Dobbs *
* indicates a British mystery


SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bennett, Alan - The complete Talking heads 793.11B
  • Castle, Terry - Boss ladies, watch out!: essays on women, sex, and writing 809.9C
  • Donoghue, Daniel - Lady Godiva: a literary history of the legend 398.2D
  • The idea of the modern in literature and the arts (edited by Irving Howe) (1963) 701H
  • Samuel, R.H. - Expressionism in German life, literature, and the theatre (1910 - 1924) (1971) 830.9S
  • Sherry, Vincent B. - The Great War and the language of modernism 820.9S
  • Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer - Privacy: concealing the 18th century self 823S
  • Vargas Llosa, Mario - The language of passion: selected commentary 864V

SHAKESPEARE

  • Hodgdon, Barbara - The Shakespeare trade: performances and appropriations (1998) 822.33H
  • Vickers, Brian - Shakespeare, co - author: a historical study of five collaborative plays 822.33A
  • Willbern, David - Poetic will: Shakespeare and the play of language (1997) 822.33C

POETRY

  • Mullen, Harryette Romell - Sleeping with the dictionary 821M
  • The Penguin book of Victorian verse: a critical anthology (1969) 821.08P
  • Poems for life: famous people select their favorite poem (introduction by Anna Quindlen) 808.81P
  • Valmiki - The Ramayana: a modern retelling of the great Indian epic (translated by Ramesh Menon) 891.2V

LANGUAGE

  • Abley, Mark - Spoken here: travels among threatened languages 401A
  • Cameron, Deborah - Feminism and linguistic theory (1985) 401C
  • Gibaldi, Joseph - MLA handbook for writers of research papers, 6th ed. LSR 808G

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ebenstein, Alan O. - Friedrich Hayek (2001) 92 H4145 E
  • King, Michael - Being Pakeha now: reflections and recollections of a white native (New Zealand) (1999) 92 K537 K
  • Manetti, Giannozzo (1396 - 1459) - Biographical writings 920 M275 B
  • Thurber, James - The Thurber letters 92 T5363 T

HISTORY

  • Berend, T. Ivan - History derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the long 19th century 940.28B
  • Darnton, Robert - George Washington's false teeth: an unconventional guide to the 18th century 944.03D
  • English, Richard - Armed struggle: the history of the IRA 941.5E
  • Hartley, Aidan - The Zanzibar chest: a story of life, love and death in foreign lands 967H
  • Huchthausen, Peter A. - America's splendid little wars: a short history of U.S. military engagements, 1975 - 1999 973.925H
  • Mali, Joseph - Mythistory: the making of a modern historiography 907M
  • Oberman, Heiko Augustinus - The two Reformations: the journey from the last days to the new world 270.6O
  • Richards, Leonard L. - Shays's rebellion: the American Revolution's final battle 974.4R
  • Tackett, Timothy - When the king took flight (Louis XVI) 944.04T

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Excavating voices: listening to photographs of Native Americans (1998) 970.1E
  • Kehoe, Alice Beck - America before the European invasions 970.1K
  • Secrest, William B. - When the great spirit died: the destruction of the California Indians, 1850 - 1860 970.5S

ARTS

  • Connor, Celeste - Democratic visions: art and theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924 - 1934 709.73C
  • Greenberg, Allan C. - George Washington, architect (1999) 720.973G
  • Orbach, Julian - Victorian architecture in Britain (1987) 720.942O
  • Spalding, Julian - The eclipse of art: tackling the crisis in art today 709.04S

COSTUME DESIGN

  • Frick, Carole Collier - Dressing Renaissance Florence: families, fortunes, & fine clothing 391.0945F
  • Koda, Harold - Goddess: the classical mode 391K
  • Troy, Nancy J. - Couture culture: a study in modern art and fashion 746.92T

MUSIC

  • Kempton, Arthur - Boogaloo: the quintessence of American popular music 784.6K
  • Nichols, Roger - The harlequin years: music in Paris, 1917 - 1929 780.944N
  • Van der Merwe, Peter - Origins of the popular style: the antecedents of 20th century popular music 784.6V

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Dorothea Lange — a visual life (1994) 770L
  • Greenberg, Stanley - Waterworks: a photographic journey through New York's hidden water system 628.1G
  • Photography's other histories 770P

PHILOSOPHY

  • Brague, Rémi - The wisdom of the world: the human experience of the universe in Western thought 113B
  • Hughes, Gerard - Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle on ethics 170H
  • Strauss, Leo - Jewish philosophy and the crisis of modernity (1997) 181.3S
  • Terada, Rei - Feeling in theory: emotion after the “death of the subject” (2001) 157T

RELIGION

  • Berg, Philip S. - The essential Zohar: the source of Kabbalistic wisdom 296.1B
  • Daniell, David - The Bible in English 220.5D
  • Dannin, Robert - Black pilgrimage to Islam 297D
  • Fishkoff, Sue - The Rebbe's army: inside the world of Chabad - Lubavitch 296.6F
  • King, Karen L. - What is Gnosticism? 299.9K
  • Krakauer, Jon - Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith 289.3K
  • Wacker, Grant - Heaven below: early Pentecostals and American culture 298.9W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Bellow, Adam - In praise of nepotism 306.8B
  • Hedges, Chris - What every person should know about war 355H
  • Hughes, Kathryn - The Victorian governess (1993) 371H
  • Lipsky, David - Absolutely American: four years at West Point 355.07L
  • Picard, Liza - Elizabeth's London: everyday life in Elizabethan London 942.1P
  • Singer, P.W. - Corporate warriors: the rise of the privatized military industry 355.26S

EDUCATION

  • Karabell, Zachary - What's college for?: the struggle to define American higher education 378K
  • Stern, Sol - Breaking free: public school lessons and the imperative of school choice 379S

SCIENCE

  • Carrell, Jennifer Lee - The speckled monster: a historical tale of battling smallpox 616.9C
  • Horton, Richard C. - Health wars: on the global front lines of modern medicine 610H
  • Keynes, R.D. - Fossils, finches and Fuegians: Darwin's adventures and discoveries on the Beagle 508K
  • Pendergrast, Mark - Mirror mirror: a history of the human love affair with reflection 535P
  • Rowland, Wade - Galileo's mistake: a new look at the epic confrontation between Galileo & the Church 520.9R
  • Seife, Charles - Alpha & omega: the search for the beginning and end of the universe 523.1S

TECHNOLOGY

  • Hallion, Richard - Taking flight: inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War 629.13H
  • Molotch, Harvey Luskin - Where stuff comes from 620M
  • Tenner, Edward - Our own devices: the past and future of body technology 303.4T
  • Ward, Diane Raines - Water wars: drought, flood, folly and the politics of thirst 333.9W
  • White, Michael - Acid tongues and tranquil dreamers: tales of bitter rivalry that fueled the advancement of science and technology 509W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Didi - Huberman, Georges - The invention of hysteria: Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpetriere 616.8D
  • Keenan, Julian Paul - The face in the mirror: the search for the origins of consciousness 153.7K
  • Lieberman, Lisa J. - Leaving you: the cultural meaning of suicide 362.2L

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

  • Hargrave, Louisa Thomas - The vineyard: the pleasures and perils of creating an American family winery 634.8H
  • Lears, T.J. - Fables of abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America (1994) 659.1L
  • Mann, Bruce H. - Republic of debtors: bankruptcy in the age of American independence 332.7M
  • Paulos, John Allen - Mathematician plays the stock market 332.6P
  • Yates, Michael - Naming the system: inequality and work in the global economy 330Y

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Ackerman, Kenneth D. - Dark horse: the surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield 973.8A
  • Grossman, David - Death as a way of life: Israel ten years after Oslo 956.94G
  • Houck, Davis W. - FDR and fear itself: the first inaugural address 353.03H
  • Kinzer, Stephen - All the Shah's men: an American coup and the roots of Middle East terror 955K
  • Olson, Keith W. - Watergate: the presidential scandal that shook America 364.13O
  • Weinstein, James - The long detour: the history and future of the American left 335W

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Baer, Robert - Sleeping with the devil: how Washington sold our soul for Saudi crude 327.56B
  • Bass, Warren - Support any friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the making of the U.S. - Israel alliance 327.73B
  • Hirsh, Michael - At war with ourselves: why America is squandering its chance to build a better world 327.73H

IRAQ WAR

  • Feldman, Noah - After Jihad: America and the struggle for Islamic democracy 327.73F
  • Stothard, Peter - Thirty days: Tony Blair and the test of history 942.085S

TERRORISM

  • Habermas, Jürgen - Philosophy in a time of terror (Habermas & Jacques Derrida interviews) 303.6H
  • Thompson, Marilyn - The killer strain: anthrax and a government exposed 614T

NEW YORK CITY

  • Biondi, Martha - To stand and fight: the struggle for civil rights in postwar New York City 323.4B
  • Design New York 745D
  • McNamara, Brooks - The New York concert saloon: the devil's own nights 792.7M

TRAVEL

  • Bawlf, R. Samuel - The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577 - 1580 910.B
  • Erdrich, Louise - Books and islands in Ojibwe country 917.13E
  • Fox, Stephen - Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the great Atlantic steamships 387.5F
  • Ginna, Robert Emmett - The Irish way: a walk through Ireland's past and present 913.415G
  • Grant, Richard - Ghost riders: travels with American nomads 917.3G

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Bennett, Paula - Poets in the public sphere: the emancipatory project of American women's poetry, 1800 - 1900 821.09B
  • Shahar, Shulamith - The fourth estate: a history of women in the Middle Ages 305.4S

LAW

  • Arkes, Hadley - Natural rights and the right to choose 340A
  • Hamel, Debra - Trying Neaira: the true story of a courtesan's scandalous life in ancient Greece 306.7H
  • Sabin, Arthur J. - Red scare in court: New York versus the International Workers Order (1993) 347.9S

CRIME

  • Flook, Maria - Invisible Eden: a story of love and murder on Cape Cod 364.1F
  • Linebaugh, Peter - The London hanged: crime and civil society in the 18th century 364L

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Baron - Faust, Rita - The autoimmune connection: essential information for women on diagnosis, treatment, and getting on with life 616.9B
  • Strauch, Barbara - The primal teen: what the new discoveries about the teenage brain tell us about our kids 618.9S

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Butler, Samuel - Way of all flesh (11 cassettes) AC B
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott - This side of paradise (8 cassettes) AC F
  • Golding ,William - Lord of the flies (4 cassettes) AC G Lobby
  • Maugham, W. Somerset - Razor's edge (8 cassettes) AC M


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