New York Society Library

NOVEMBER 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Adams, William Howard - Gouverneur Morris: an independent life
  • Albright, Madeleine - Madam secretary
  • Allen, Paula Gunn - Pocahontas: medicine woman, spy, entrepreneur, diplomat
  • Beaton, Roderick - George Seferis: waiting for the angel, a biography
  • Beer, Anna - My just desire: the life of Bess Raleigh, wife to Sir Walter
  • Braudy, Susan - Family circle: the Boudins and the aristocracy of the left
  • Brown, Judith - Nehru
  • Burton, Sarah - A double life: a biography of Charles and Mary Lamb
  • Bush, Barbara - Reflections: life after the White House
  • Colquhoun, Kate - A thing in disguise: the visionary life of Joseph Paxton
  • Dirda, Michael - An open book: coming of age in the heartland
  • Fowles, John - The journals, volume one
  • Gelb, Arthur - City room
  • Hamilton, Nigel - Bill Clinton: an American journey
  • Height, Dorothy I. - Open wide the freedom gates: a memoir
  • Johnson, Paul E. - Sam Patch, the famous jumper
  • Joyce, Davis - Howard Zinn: a radical American vision
  • Kaplan, Fred - The singular Mark Twain
  • Klemperer, Victor - The lesser evil: the diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945 -1959
  • Knox, James - Robert Byron
  • Leapman, Michael - Inigo: the troubled life of Inigo Jones, architect of the English Renaissance
  • Lidz, Franz - Ghosty men
  • Maier, Thomas - The Kennedys: America's emerald kings
  • Meeropol, Robert - An execution in the family: one son's journey
  • Middlebrook, Diane - Her husband: Hughes and Plath, portrait of a marriage
  • Oberdorfer, Don - Senator Mansfield: the extraordinary life of a great American statesman and diplomat
  • Pearl, Mariane - A mighty heart: the brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl
  • Peters, Margot - Design for living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine
  • Pietrusza, David - Rothstein: the life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 World Series
  • Robinson, Peter - How Ronald Reagan changed my life
  • Schanke, Robert - "That furious lesbian": the story of Mercedes de Acosta
  • Silverman, Kenneth - Lightning man: the accursed life of Samuel F.B. Morse
  • Varon, Elizabeth - Southern lady, yankee spy: the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the confederacy
  • Verrett, Shirley - I never walked alone
  • Wilson, A.N. - Iris Murdoch as I knew her
  • Wineapple, Brenda - Hawthorne: a life

FICTION

  • Amis, Martin - Yellow dog
  • Anthony, Piers - Cube route
  • Barthelme, Frederick - Elroy nights
  • Bosworth, Beth - Tunneling
  • Brady, James - The marine
  • Brown, Sandra - Hello, darkness
  • Coetzee, J.M. - Elizabeth Costello
  • Cowell, Alan - A walking guide
  • Czuchlewski, David - Empire of light
  • Edgerton, Clyde - Lunch at the piccadilly
  • Fuguet, Alberto - The movies of my life
  • Graham, Laurie - The great husband hunt
  • Guterson, David - Our lady of the forest
  • Hagedorn, Jessica - Dream jungle
  • Hamill, Denis - Sins of two fathers
  • Hart, Carolyn - Letter from home
  • Hamann, H.T. - Anthropology of an American girl
  • Hazzard, Shirley - The great fire
  • Huneven, Michelle - Jamesland
  • Ignatieff, Michael - Charlie Johnson in the flames
  • Itani, Frances - Deafening
  • Landis, J.D. - The taking
  • Moore, Susanna - One last look
  • Moynahan, Molly - Stone garden
  • Nersesian, Arthur - Chinese takeout
  • Patterson, Richard North - Balance of power
  • Peck, Dale - What we lost
  • Piazza, Tom - My cold war
  • Pierre, DBC - Vernon God little
  • Rayfiel, Thomas - Eve in the city
  • Smith, Sarah - Chasing Shakespeares
  • Stephenson, Neal - Quicksilver
  • Vincenzi, Penny - No angel
  • Waldman, Ayelet - Daughter's keeper
  • White, Edmund - Fanny: a fiction
  • Willett, Jincy - Winner of the National Book Award

SHORT STORIES

  • Auerbach, John - The owl and other stories
  • Best American short stories 2003 (Walter Mosley, editor)
  • On glorious wings: the best flying stories of the century (Stephen Coonts, editor)
  • Dislocation: stories from a new Ireland (Caroline Walsh, editor)
  • Updike, John - Early stories, 1953 -1975

MYSTERIES

  • Allbeury, Ted - Due process *
  • Ashford, Jeffrey - A fair exchange is robbery
  • Aubert, Rosemary - Leave me by dying
  • Baldacci, David - Split second
  • Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin and the haunted house *
  • Best American mystery stories 2003 (Michael Connelly, editor)
  • Billingham, Mark - Lazybones *
  • Burley, W.J. - Wycliffe and the Guild of Nine *
  • Cooper, Natasha - A place of safety
  • Cornwell, Patricia - Blow fly
  • Crombie, Deborah - Now may you weep *
  • Devane, Terry - A stain upon the robe
  • Dunn, Carola - Die laughing *
  • Greely, Andrew M. - The Bishop goes to the university
  • Harstad, Donald - A long December
  • Heywood, Joseph - Chasing a blond moon
  • Hunter, Stephen - Havana
  • Kelman, Judith - Every step you take
  • Kent, Bill - Street hungry
  • Krich, Rochelle - Dream house
  • McKinty, Adrian - Dead I may well be
  • Staincliffe, Cath - Bitter blue *
  • Stone, Jonathan - Breakthrough
  • Straub, Peter - Lost boy lost girl
  • Woods, Stuart - Capital crimes
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Berriault, Gina - The tea ceremony: the uncollected writings of Gina Berriault 820.81B
  • Chaudhuri, Amit - D.H. Lawrence and 'difference' 821.09L
  • Davenport, Guy - The death of Picasso: new & selected writing 824D
  • Dos Passos, John - Travel books and other writings, 1916 -1941 820.81D
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - A year with Emerson: a daybook 808.8E
  • Soyinka, Wole - Myth, literature, and the African world (2000) 896S
  • Unknown masterpieces: writers rediscover literature's hidden classics 828.08U
  • Warner, Marina - Signs and wonders: essays on literature and culture 820.4W

POETRY

  • Erdrich, Louise - Original fire: selected and new poems 821E
  • Minhinnick, Robert - After the hurricane 821M
  • Pavese, Cesare - Disaffections: complete poems, 1930 -1950 851P
  • Poems for the millennium: the University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry (1998) 821.08P
  • Simpson, Louis - The owner of the house: new collected poems, 1940 -2001 821S

LANGUAGE

  • Adkins, Lesley - Empires of the plain: Henry Rawlinson and the lost languages of Babylon 935A
  • Sacks, David - Language visible: unraveling the mystery of the alphabet from A to Z 411S
  • Winchester, Simon - The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English dictionary 423S

PUBLISHING

  • Levin, Martin P. - Be your own literary agent: the ultimate insider's guide to getting published 070.5L
  • Miller, Harold T. - Publishing: a leap from mind to mind 070.5M

ARTS

  • Africa: arts and cultures (2000) 709A
  • Boorstin, Jon - The Hollywood eye: what makes movies work (1990) 791.4B
  • China, 5000 years: innovation and transformation in the arts (1998) 709.51C
  • Fisher, Jennifer - "Nutcracker" nation: how an Old World ballet became a Christmas tradition in the New World 792.8F
  • Herbert, Robert - From Millet to Léger: essays in social art history 759.4H
  • Johnson, Paul - Art: a new history 709J
  • The Oxford companion to J.M.W. Turner (2001) 759.2O

MUSIC

  • Carroll, Mark - Music and ideology in Cold War Europe 780.9C
  • Lott, R. Allen - From Paris to Peoria: how European piano virtuosos brought classical music to the American heartland 786.2L
  • Mann, William - The operas of Mozart (1977) 782.1M

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ginzburg, Natalia - It's hard to talk about yourself 858G
  • Lapotaire, Jane - Time out of mind 612.8L
  • The presidents: a reference history Ref 973P
  • Prestwich, P.F. - The translation of memories: recollections of the young Proust (1999) 920 P967 T
  • Turnbull, Sarah - Almost French: love and a new life in Paris 914.436T

HISTORY

  • Calloway, Colin G. - One vast winter count: the Native American West before Lewis & Clark 978C
  • Dershowitz, Alan - The case for Israel 956.94D
  • Didion, Joan - Where I was from (California) 979.4D
  • The Great War: perspectives on the First World War 940.4G
  • Greenberg, David - Nixon's shadow: the history of an image 973.924G
  • Hagedorn, Ann - Beyond the river: the untold story of the heroes of the Underground Railroad 973.71H
  • History and biography: essays in honour of Derek Beales (edited by T.C.W. Blanning and David Cannadine) 909H
  • Keay, John - Sowing the wind: the seeds of conflict in the Middle East 956.9K
  • Kimmerling, Baruch - The Palestinian people: a history 956.9K
  • King, Greg - The fate of the Romanovs 947.084K
  • Meier, Andrew - Black earth: a journey through Russia after the fall 947.086M
  • Wood, Michael - Conquistadors (2000) 980W

CIVILIZATION

  • Boardman, Jonathan - Rome: a cultural and literary companion 945.6B
  • Burke, James - Twin tracks: the unexpected origins of the modern world 909B
  • Cantor, Norman F. - Antiquity: the civilization of the ancient world 930C
  • Colls, Robert - Identity of England 942C
  • Nadeau, Jean -Benoit - Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong: why we love France but not the French 944N

NEW YORK CITY

  • Adler, Cy - Walking Manhattan's rim, the great saunter 917.471A
  • Okrent, Daniel - Great fortune: the epic of Rockefeller Center 974.71O
  • Schwarz, Daniel R. - Broadway boogie woogie: Damon Runyon and the making of New York culture 823R
  • Stuart, Diana - Designs underfoot: the art of manhole covers in New York City 739S
  • Thabit, Walter - How East New York became a ghetto 305.8T

CITIES

  • Dutta, Krishna - Calcutta: a cultural and literary history 954D
  • Paris in mind: three centuries of Americans writing about Paris 914.436P

TRAVEL

  • Alexander, Caroline - The Bounty: the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty 910.4A
  • Bissell, Tom - Chasing the sea: being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan 915.8B
  • Cook, Theodore Andrea - Old Provence (originally published 1905) 914.49C
  • Mullins, Edwin - The pilgrimage to Santiago (originally published 1974) 263M
  • Tidwell, Mike - Bayou farewell: the rich life and tragic death of Louisiana's Cajun coast 917.63T

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Buhle, Paul - Hide in plain sight: the Hollywood blacklistees in film and television 1950 -2002 791.4B
  • Churchill, Ward - The COINTELPRO papers: documents from the FBI's secret wars against dissent in the United States 351.74C
  • Coulter, Ann - Treason: liberal treachery from the cold war to the war on terrorism 320.9C
  • Kissinger, Henry - Crisis: the anatomy of two major foreign policy crises 327.73K
  • McGerr, Michael E. - A fierce discontent: the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870 -1920 973.8M
  • The Oxford companion to 20th century British politics 942.082O
  • Schlesinger, Stephen C. - Act of creation: the founding of the United Nations 341.1S
  • Service, Robert - Russia: experiment with a people 947.086S

TERRORISM

  • Anti -American terrorism and the Middle East: a documentary reader 303.6A
  • Burke, Jason - Al -Qaeda: casting the shadow of terror 303.6B
  • Miniter, Richard - Losing Bin Laden: how Bill Clinton's failures unleashed global terror 973.929M
  • Posner, Gerald - Why America slept: the failure to prevent 9/11 973.9302P
  • Sheehy, Gail - Middletown, America: one town's passage from trauma to hope 973.9302S
  • Stern, Jessica - Terror in the name of God: why religious militants kill 303.6S

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Browner, Jesse - The duchess who wouldn't sit down: an informal history of hospitality 395B
  • Diamant, Anita - Pitching my tent: on marriage, motherhood, friendship, and other leaps of faith 296D
  • Gig: Americans talk about their jobs at the turn of the millennium (2000) 331G
  • Hayden, Dolores - Building suburbia: green fields and urban growth 307.76H
  • Kipnis, Laura - Against love: a polemic 306.7K
  • McCarthy, Kathleen D. - American creed: philanthropy and the rise of civil society, 1700 -1865 361M
  • Mithen, Steven - After the ice (prehistoric peoples) 930M
  • Shambroom, Paul - Face to face with the bomb: nuclear reality after the Cold War 355.4S
  • White, Curtis - The middle mind: why Americans don't think for themselves 306W

WOMEN'S STUDIES

  • Collins, Gail - America's women: 400 years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines 305.4C
  • Corbin, Alain - Women for hire: prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850 (1990) 306.74C
  • Saxton, Martha - Being good: women's moral values in early America 170S

ECONOMICS

  • The literary book of economics 808.8L
  • Madrick, Jeffrey G. - Why economies grow: the forces that shape prosperity and how we can get them working again 338.9M
  • Smith, B. Mark - The equity culture: the story of the global stock market 332.6S
  • Tett, Gillian - Saving the sun: a Wall Street gamble to rescue Japan from its trillion -dollar meltdown 330.952T

LAW

  • Hentoff, Nat - The war on the Bill of Rights 323.4H
  • Lost liberties: Ashcroft and the assault on personal freedom 323.4L
  • Steelwater, Eliza - The hangman's knot: lynching, legal execution, and America's struggle with the death penalty 343.2S

PROPAGANDA & PUBLIC RELATIONS

  • Conason, Joe - Big lies: the right -wing propaganda machine and how it distorts the truth 973.930C
  • Rampton, Sheldon - Weapons of mass deception: the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq 956R
  • Stauber, John C. - Toxic sludge is good for you: lies, damn lies, and the pubic relations industry (1995) 659.1S

RELIGION

  • The ancient gods speak: a guide to Egyptian religion 299.31A
  • O'Connor, Flannery - Spiritual writings 282O
  • Science and religion: are they compatible? 215S
  • Wootton, David - Paolo Sarpi: between Renaissance and Enlightenment 230W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Fogelin, Robert J. - Walking the tightrope of reason: the precarious life of a rational animal 153F
  • Lévy, Bernard Henri - Sartre: the philosopher of the 20th century 194L
  • Oxford companion to philosophy (1995) 100O
  • Rubenstein, Richard E. - Aristotle's children: how Christians, Muslims, and Jews rediscovered ancient wisdom and illuminated the Dark Ages 189R
  • Soames, Scott - Philosophical analysis in the 20th century 140S

EDUCATION

  • Egan, Kieran - Getting it wrong from the beginning: our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget 370.1E
  • Halpin, Brendan - Losing my faculties 371H
  • Salomone, Rosemary C. - Same, different, equal: rethinking single -sex schooling 371.8S
  • Steiner, George - Lessons of the masters 371S

MATHEMATICS

  • Davis, Philip J. - Descartes' dream: the world according to mathematics 510D
  • Sabbagh, Karl - The Riemann hypothesis: the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics 510.9S

SCIENCE

  • Casati, Roberto - The shadow club: the greatest mystery of the universe, shadows, and the thinkers who unlocked their secrets 535C
  • Kingdon, Jonathan - Lowly origin: where, when, and why our ancestors first stood up 575K
  • Waldbauer, Gilbert - What good are bugs?: insects in the web of life 595.7W

ENVIRONMENT

  • Glennon, Robert Jerome - Water follies: groundwater pumping and the fate of America's fresh waters 333.9G
  • Richards, John F. - The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world 304.2R

DISASTERS

  • Goodell, Jeff - Our story: 77 hours that tested our friendship and our faith (coal mining) 363.3G
  • Greene, Melissa Fay - Last man out: the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster 363.3G
  • Rees, Martin J. - Our final hour: a scientist's warning: how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future 303.4R

HEALTH

  • Hall, Stephen S. - Merchants of immortality: chasing the dream of human life extension 612.67H
  • Seaman, Barbara - The greatest experiment ever performed on women: exploding the estrogen myth 618S

SPORTS

  • Bowen, William G. - Reclaiming the game: college sports and educational values 796B
  • Fetter, Henry D. - Taking on the Yankees: winning and losing in the business of baseball, 1903 -2003 796.3F
  • Rotella, Carlo - Cut time: an education at the fights 796.8R

FOOD

  • Denker, Joel - The world on a plate: a tour through the history of America's ethnic cuisine 641D
  • Garten, Ina - Barefoot Contessa family style 641.5G
  • Tower, Jeremiah - California dish: what I saw (and cooked) at the American culinary revolution 641.5T

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Ashbery, John - John Ashbery (The voice of the poet) AC 821A
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and punishment (17 cassettes) AC D
  • Macdonald, Ross - The underground man (6 cassettes) AC M Lobby
  • Wharton, Edith - Madame de Treymes and two novellas (6 cassettes) AC W Lobby


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