DECEMBER 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

• Anderson, Christopher - Sweet Caroline (Kennedy)
• Armstrong, Lance - Every second counts
• Bair, Deirdre - Jung: a biography
• Bate, Jonathan - John Clare: a biography
• Beaton, Cecil - The unexpurgated Beaton: the Cecil Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1970 - 1980
• Black, Conrad - Franklin Delano Roosevelt: champion of freedom
• Bok, Francis - Escape from slavery (Sudan)
• Burrell, Paul - A royal duty
• Caesar, Sid - Caesar'shours: my life in comedy
• Coltman, Leycester - The real Fidel Castro
• Conrad, Peter - Orson Welles: the stories of his life
• De Courcy, Anne - Diana Mosley: Mitford beauty, British fascist, Hitler'sangel
• Decter, Midge - Rumsfeld: a personal portrait
• Eyre, Richard - National service: a diary of a decade (Director, Royal National Theatre)
• Foster, R.F. - W.B. Yeats: a life volume 2: the arch - poet, 1915 - 1939
• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Living to tell the tale
• Haygood, Wil - In black and white: the life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Isaacson, Walter (editor) - The Benjamin Franklin reader
• Jenkins, Roy - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (American Presidents Series)
• Lycett, Andrew - Dylan Thomas: a new life
• Orr, Elaine Neil - Gods of noonday: a White girl'sAfrican life
• Pipes, Richard - Vixi: memoirs of a non - belonger
• Read, Piers Paul - Alec Guinness: the authorized biography
• Sandler, Irving - A sweeper - up after artists: a memoir
• Thomson, Ian - Primo Levi: a life
• White, Barbara - The Beecher sisters
• Wiencek, Henry - An imperfect God: George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of America
• Wroe, Ann - The perfect prince (the mystery of Perkin Warbeck and his quest for the throne of England)

FICTION

• Auchincloss, Louis - Scarlet letters
• Auster, Paul - Oracle night
• Bram, Christopher - Lives of circus animals
• Brown, Sandra - Best kept secrets
• Carey, Peter - My life as a fake
• Chase - Riboud, Barbara - Hottentot Venus
• Collins, Larry - Road to Armageddon
• Courtemanche, Gil - A Sunday at the pool in Kigali
• Crace, Jim - Genesis
• Cussler, Clive - Trojan odyssey
• Docx, Edward - The calligrapher
• Dybeck, Stuart - I sailed with Magellan
• Evans, Richard Paul - A perfect day
• Fielding, Helen - Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination
• Ford, Robert - The student conductor
• Gabaldon, Diana - Lord John and the private matter
• Gould, Judith - Greek villa
• Halpern, Sue - The book of hard things
• Harris, Robert - Pompeii
• Hay, Elizabeth - Garbo laughs
• Hickam, Homer - The keeper'sson
• Howard, Linda - Cry no more
• Janowitz, Tama - Peyton Amberg
• Karon, Jan - Shepherds abiding
• King, Stephen - Wolves of the Calla
• Ludlum, Robert - Tristan betrayal
• McCabe, Patrick - Call me the breeze
• McMurtry, Larry - By sorrow'sriver
• Marks, John - War torn
• Martin, William - Harvard yard
• Moran, Thomas - Anja the liar
• Mortman, Doris - Before and again
• Mulisch, Harry - Siegfried
• Nance, John - Fire flight
• Newton, William - The two pound tram
• O - Hagan, Andrew - Personality
• Olafur Johann Olafsson - Walking into the night
• Phillips, Caryl - Distant shore
• Pratchett, Terry - Monstrous regiment
• Rice, Anne - Blood canticle
• Schnitzler, Arthur - Desire and delusion
• Shan Sa - Girl who played go
• Steel, Danielle - Safe harbour
• Stevenson, Jane - Shadow king
• Vargas Llosa, Mario - The way to paradise
• Wagner, Bruce - Still holding
• Wolff, Tobias - Old school
• Yehoshua, A.B. - The liberated bride
• Yu, Hua - Chronicle of a blood merchant

SHORT STORIES

• Arden, John - Stealing steps
• Brady, Catherine - Curled in the bed of love
• Chan, David Marshall - Goblin fruit
• Grau, Shirley - Selected stories
• Verga, Giovanni - Life in the country

MYSTERIES

• Alexander, Bruce - Price of murder *
• Astley, Neil - The end of my tether *
• Blanchard, Alice - The breathtaker
• Browne, Marshall - Eye of the Abyss
• Camerson, Stella - Kiss them goodbye
• Camilleri, Andrea - Voice of the violin
• Charles, Paul - The last boat to Camden Town *
• Churchill, Jill - Bell, book and scandal: a Jane Jeffry mystery
• Dee, Ed - The con man'sdaughter
• Eversz, Robert - Burning Garbo
• Fiffer, Sharon - The wrong stuff
• Fusilli, Jim - Tribeca blues
• Handler, David - The bright silver star
• Hathaway, Robin - Doctor dines in Prague
• Havill, Steven - A discount for death
• Hurwitz, Greg - The kill clause
• Huston, James - Secret justice
• Klavan, Andrew - Dynamite road
• Klempner, Joseph T. - Fogbound
• McInerny, Ralph - Irish coffee
• Mayor, Archer - Gatekeeper
• Mitchell, Kirk - Sky woman falling
• Patterson, James - Big bad wolf
• Pawson, Stuart - Laughing boy *
• Roiphe, Anne - Secrets of the city
• Sandford, John - The hanged man's song
• Tapply, William - Shadow of death
• Todd, Charles - The murder stone *
• Van Wormer, Laura - Kill fee
• Wilson, Robert - The big killing
• Wright, Eric - The Hemingway caper

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

• Bandits and Bibles: convict literature in 19th century America 365B
• Brecht, Bertolt - Brecht on his art and politics 701B
• Crossing into America: the new literature of immigration 808.89C
• Eccles, Mary Hyde - Mary Hyde Eccles: a miscellany of her essays and addresses 820.81E
• Nabokov at Cornell 823N
• Oates, Joyce Carol - The faith of a writer 808.3O
• Ricard, Francois - Anges'sfinal afternoon: an essay on the work of Milan Kundera 891.86K
• Williams, Raymond - The 20th century Spanish American novel 863W
• Wood, Michael - The road to Delphi: the life and afterlife of oracles 809W

POETRY

• American wits: an anthology of light verse 821.08A
• Hecht, Anthony - Collected later poems 821H
• Music while drowning: German expressionist poems 831M
• Stevenson, Robert Louis - The collected poems of Robert Louis Stevenson 821S

BOOKS & READING

• Baxter, John - A pound of paper: confessions of a book addict 010B
• The Book beautiful: Walter Pater and the house of Macmillan (1999) 655.5B
• Good fiction guide (2001) 016.8G
• Powers, Alan - Front cover: great book jacket and cover design 741.64P
• Zaid, Gabriel - So many books: reading and publishing in an age of abundance 028Z

ARTS

• Art of the first cities: the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus 709.3A
• Chapin, Theodore - Everything was possible: the birth of the musical Follies 792.0973C
• Curtis, Greg - Disarmed: the story of the Venus de Milo 733C
• Mayernik, David - Timeless cities: an architect'sreflections on Renaissance Italy 720.945M
• Reynolds, Nancy - No fixed points: dance in the 20th century 792.8R
• Walden, Sarah - Whistler and his mother: an unexpected relationship 759.1W

MUSIC

• Bowles, Paul - Paul Bowles on music 780.9B
• Dankworth, Avril - Jazz: an introduction to its musical basis (1968) 780.973D
• Ricks, Christopher - Dylan'svision of sin (Bob Dylan) 784.6R
• Schoenberg, Arnold - Style and idea: selected writings (1975) 780.8S

FILM

• Benson, Thomas W. - Reality fictions: the films of Frederick Wiseman (1989) 791.4B
• Hoberman, J. - The dream life: movies, media, and the mythology of the sixties 791.4H
• Monaco, James - How to read a film: the world of movies, media, multimedia (2000) 791.4M

DRAMA

• Cruz, Nilo - Anna in the tropics 822C
• Greenberg, Richard - Take me out 822G
• Menander, of Athens (plays) 882.6M
• Wilson, August - Jitney 822W

BIOGRAPHY

• Baiev, Khassan - The Oath: a surgeon under fire 947.086B
• Bobrick, Benson - Testament: a soldier'sstory of the Civil War 973.78B
• Carlson, Tucker - Politicians, partisans, and parasites: my adventures in cable news 070.4C
• Iusupov, F.F. - Lost splendor: the amazing memoirs of the man who killed Rasputin 947.08I
• Meacham, Jon - Franklin and Winston: an intimate portrait of an epic friendship 940.532M
• Merton, Thomas - The inner experience: notes on contemplation 282M
• Ondaatje, Christopher - Hemingway in Africa: the last safari 823H
• Robinson, Randall - Defending the spirit: a Black life in America 92 R66372 R (1998)

HISTORY

• Balakian, Peter - The burning Tigris: the Armenian genocide and America'sresponse 956.6B
• Blum, Harold - The eve of destruction (Yom Kippur War) 956.94B
• Campbell, Randolph - Gone to Texas: a history of the Lone Star state 976.4C
• Eraly, Abraham - The Mughal throne: the saga of India'sgreat emperors 954E
• Giliomee, Hermann Buhr - The Afrikaners: biography of a people 968G
• Karsh, Efraim - Arafat'swar 956.94K
• Keegan, John - Intelligence in war: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al - Qaeda 355.34K
• Politkovskaia, Anna - A small corner of hell: dispatches from Chechnya 947.086P
• Thomson, Hugh - The white rock: an exploration of the Inca heartland 985T
• Tyler, Christian - Wild west China: the taming of Xinjiang 951T
• Wells, Peter S. - The battle that stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the slaughter of the legions 937.06W

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Cole, David - Enemy aliens: double standards and constitutional freedoms in the war on terrorism 323.6C
• Davis, David Brion - Challenging the boundaries of slavery 306.3D
• Flanders, Judith - The Victorian house: domestic life from childbirth to deathbed 640F
• Rae, Douglas - City: urbanism and its end 307.76R
• Rostow, W.W. - Concept and controversy: sixty years of taking ideas to market 327.73R
• Verdon, Jean - Night in the Middle Ages 304V
• West Point in the making of America 355.07W

CIVILIZATION

• Beasley, W.G. - Japan encounters the barbarian: Japanese travellers in America and Europe 327.52B
• Cahill, Thomas - Sailing the wine - dark sea: why the Greeks matter 938C
• Konner, Melvin - Unsettled: an anthropology of the Jews 909.4K
• Sources of Japanese tradition (2001) 952S

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Bellin, Joshua David - The demon of the continent: Indians and the shaping of American literature (2001) 820.9B
• Fromson, Brett Duval - Hitting the jackpot: the inside story of the richest Indian tribe in history 974.6F
• The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes (4 volumes) Ref 970G

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• The devil may care: fifty intrepid Americans and their quest for the unknown 917.3D
• Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline - Prospect: journeys and landscapes 917.8D
• Hartley, Catharine - To the Poles (without a beard): the polar adventures of a world record - breaking woman 919.8H
• Horan, David - Oxford: a cultural and literary companion 942.5H
• Nichols, Peter - Evolution'scaptain: the dark fate of the man who sailed Charles Darwin around the world 910.4N
• Tubbs, Stephanie Ambrose - The Lewis and Clark companion: an encyclopedic guide 917.8T

NEW YORK CITY

• Bascomb, Neal - Higher: a historic race to the sky and the making of a city 720.973B
• Grossvogel, David I. - Scenes in the city: film versions of Manhattan before 9/11 917.471G
• Johnson, Marilynn S. - Street justice: a history of police violence in New York City 363J
• Whitehead, Colson - The colossus of New York: a city in 13 parts 917.471W

SCIENCE

• Crease, Robert P. - The prism and the pendulum: the ten most beautiful experiments in science 509C
• Gardner, Martin - Are universes thicker than blackberries - : discourses on G - del, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood - 510G
• Kidger, Mark R. - The star of Bethlehem: an astronomer'sview (1999) 523.8K
• Wallace, David Foster - Everything and more: a compact history of infinity 510.9W
• West, Michael - The immortal cell: one scientist'squest to solve the mystery of human aging 612.67W

TECHNOLOGY

• Comte, Hubert - Tools: making things around the world (1998) 621.9C
• Tobin, James - To conquer the air: the Wright Brothers and the great race for flight 629.13T
• Wood, Gaby - Edison'sEve: a magical history of the quest for mechanical life 001.6W

ENVIRONMENT

• Campanella, Thomas J. - Republic of shade: New England and the American elm 582C
• Kovel, Joel - The enemy of nature: the end of capitalism or the end of the world - 333.7K

RELIGION

• Chesler, Phyllis - The new anti - semitism: the current crisis and what we must do about it 296.9C
• Collinson, Patrick - The Reformation 270.6C
• Ehrman, Bart D. - Lost Christianities: the battles for Scripture and the faiths we never knew 229E
• Holifield, E. Brooks - Theology in America: Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War 230H
• What the Koran really says: language, text, and commentary 297W

MYTHOLOGY & LEGEND

• Bierhorst, John - The mythology of South America 299.7B
• Brown, Cecil - Stagolee shot Billy 808.89B
• Knight, Stephen Thomas - Robin Hood: a mythic biography 820.9K
• Lefkowitz, Mary R. - Greek gods, human lives: what we can learn from myths 292L
• The Medusa reader 292M

LAW

• Bork, Robert - Coercing virtue: the worldwide rule of judges 347.9B
• Brown, Michael - Who owns native culture - 347.73B
• Hess, Jonathan - Germans, Jews, and the claims of modernity 305.86H
• Precht, Robert E. - Defending Mohammad: justice on trial 345P
• Turow, Scott - Ultimate punishment: a lawyer'sreflections on dealing with the death penalty 343.2T

EDUCATION

• Be the dream: Prep for Prep graduates share their stories 371.9S
• Thernstrom, Abigail - No excuses: closing the racial gap in learning 371.9T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Barber, Benjamin - Fear'sempire: war, terrorism, and democracy 327.73B
• China in the National interest 951C
• Corn, David - The lies of George W. Bush: mastering the politics of deception 973.930C
• Crossroads: the future of American politics 324.273C
• Gray, William Glenn - Germany'scold war: the global campaign to isolate East Germany, 1949 - 1969 327.43G
• Heymann, C. David - The Georgetown ladies - social club: power, passion, and politics in the nation'scapital 305.4H
• Ivins, Molly - Bushwacked: life in George W. Bush'sAmerica 973.930I
• O'Hanlon, Michael - Crisis on the Korean peninsula: how to deal with a nuclear North Korea 951.9O
• O'Reilly, Bill - Who'slooking out for you - 973.930O

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

• Greider, William - The soul of capitalism: opening paths to a moral economy 330.1G
• McLean, Bethany - The smartest guys in the room: the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron 338.7M
• Zuboff, Shoshana - The support economy: why corporations are failing individuals 330.973Z

PSYCHOLOGY

• Horwitz, Allan - Creating mental illness 616.8H
• Tharp, Twyla - The creative habit: learn it and use it for life 155T

CRIME

• Bowden, Charles - Down by the river: drugs, money, murder, and family 363.45B
• Kersten, Jason - Journal of the dead: a story of friendship and murder in the New Mexico desert 364.1K
• Worrall, Simon - The poet and the murderer: a true story of literary crime and the art of forgery 098W

HUMOR

• Cart, Michael - What's so funny - : wit and humor in American children'sliterature 820.9C
• Lapham, Lewis - 30 satires 827L
• Twain, Mark - Is he dead - a comedy in three acts 822I

MISCELLANEOUS

• Karsh, Ellen - The only grant writing book you - ll ever need 658K
• Petroski, Henry - Small things considered: why there is no perfect design 620P
• Randall, Monica - Winfield: living in the shadow of the Woolworths 974.72R
• Strogatz, Steven H. - Sync: the emerging science of spontaneous order 003S

AUDIOCASSETTES

• Alexander, Caroline - The Bounty: the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty (10 cassettes) AC 910.4A
• Greene, Graham - The end of the affair (6 cassettes) AC G
• Trollope, Anthony - Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (8 cassettes) AC T
• Turgenev, Ivan - Smoke (5 cassettes) AC T

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