New York Society Library

JANUARY 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bragg, Rick - I'm a soldier, too: the Jessica Lynch story
  • Carmichael, Stokely - Ready for revolution: the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael
  • David, Anthony - The patron: the life of Salman Schocken, 1887- 1958
  • Elliott, Marianne - Robert Emmet: the making of a legend
  • Fiennes, Ranulph - Captain Scott
  • Karbo, Karen - The stuff of life: a daughter's memoir
  • Kenny, Mary - Germany calling: a personal biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw
  • Lees- Milne, James - Beneath a waning moon: diaries, 1985- 1987
  • Pryor, Felix - Elizabeth I: her life in letters
  • Rankin, Nicholas - Telegram from Guernica: the extraordinary life of George Steer, war correspondent
  • Sharp, Kathleen - Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and their entertainment empire
  • Shloss, Carol - Lucia Joyce: to dance in the wake
  • Stern, Gerald - What I can't bear losing
  • Willetts, Paul - Fear and loathing in Fitzrovia: the bizarre life of Julian Maclaren- Ross

FICTION

  • Barker, Pat - Double vision
  • Carter, Jimmy - Hornet's nest
  • Collins, Jackie - Hollywood divorces
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Heretic
  • Ferris, Paul - Cora Crane
  • Finney, Patricia - Gloriana's touch
  • Galgut, Damon - The good doctor
  • Gardam, Jane - Faith fox
  • Grunwald, Henry - A saint, more or less
  • Hegi, Ursula - Sacred time
  • Jones, Ben - The rope eater
  • Lordan, Beth - But come ye back
  • McCullough, Colleen - Touch
  • McMullan, Margaret - In my mother's house
  • Molina, Antonio Muñoz - Sepharad
  • Niffenegger, Audrey - Time traveler's wife
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - Rape: a love story
  • Warner, Janet - Other sorrows, other joys: the marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and and William Blake

SHORT STORIES

  • Vapnyar, Lara - There are Jews in my house

MYSTERIES

  • Bannister, Jo - Reflections *
  • Bland, Eleanor Taylor - Whispers in the dark
  • Bowen, Rhys - For the love of Mike
  • Boyd, Bill - A rendezvous with death
  • Boyle, Gerry - Pretty dead
  • Hall, Adam - Quiller Balalaika *
  • Hall, Parnell - With this puzzle, I thee kill
  • Kaminsky, Stuart - Midnight pass
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Conspiracy club
  • Koontz, Dean - Odd Thomas
  • Lamar, Jake - Rendezvous eighteenth
  • Lashner, William - Fatal flaw
  • Lloyd, Dan - Radiant cool: a novel theory of consciousness
  • Mortimer, John - Rumpole and the primrose path *
  • Parker, Ann - Silver lies
  • Pearce, Michael - The fig tree murder: a Mamur Zapt mystery
  • Richards, John - Winter's end
  • Roberts, David - Dangerous sea (Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne series) *
  • Stella, Charlie - Charlie Opera: a novel of crime
  • Wachtler, Sol - Blood brothers
  • Walters, Minette - Disordered minds *
  • Watts, Timothy - Grand theft
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Chinitz, David - T.S. Eliot and the cultural divide 821.09E
  • Fitzgerald, Penelope - The afterlife 824F
  • For the love of Ireland: a literary companion for readers and travelers (2001) 820.8F
  • Freeborn, Richard - Furious Vissarion: Belinskii's struggle for literature, love and ideas 801F
  • Kazin, Alfred - Alfred Kazin's America: critical and personal writings 820.9K
  • Lopate, Phillip - Getting personal: selected writings 824L
  • Rodden, John - Scenes from an afterlife: the legacy of George Orwell 823O
  • Simpson, Margaret - The companion to Hard times (1997) 823D
  • Tan, Amy - The opposite of fate: a book of musings 828T

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote (translation by Edith Grossman; introduction by Harold Bloom) F C
  • Ovid - Metamorphoses (translated by Charles Martin) 871.2O

MYTHOLOGY & LEGEND

  • Dalby, Andrew - Bacchus: a biography 292D
  • Holzberg, Niklas - The ancient fable: an introduction 398.2H

SHAKESPEARE

  • Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's history plays 822.33C
  • Orgel, Stephen - The authentic Shakespeare, and other problems of the early modern stage 822.33H
  • Worthen, William B. - Shakespeare and the force of modern performance 822.33H

POETRY

  • Hughes, Ted - Collected poems 821H
  • Never such innocence: a new anthology of Great War verse (1988) 821.08N
  • Ungaretti, Giuseppe - Selected poems 851U
  • Willliams, C.K. - The singing 821W

BOOKS & READING

  • Long, Elizabeth - Book clubs: women and the uses of reading in everyday life 028L
  • Martin, Henri Jean - The history and power of writing (1995) 417M
  • Pearl, Nancy - Book lust: recommended reading for every mood, moment, and reason 011P
  • Roberts, Don - Rockwell Kent: the art of the bookplate 097R

ARTS

  • Feld, Ross - Guston in time: remembering Philip Guston 759.1G
  • El Greco (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalog, with essays) 759.6G
  • Kander, John - Colored lights: forty years of words and music, show biz, collaboration and all that jazz 782.6K
  • Paret, Peter - An artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933- 1938 709.43P
  • Titian: essays 759.5T
  • Vos, Dirk de - The Flemish primitives: the masterpieces 759.9V

BIOGRAPHY

  • Atik, Anne - How it was: a memoir of Samuel Beckett (2001) 92 B3962 A
  • Donald, David Herbert - We are Lincoln men: Abraham Lincoln and his friends 920 D67 W
  • Gribbin, John R. - The scientists: a history of science told through the lives of its greatest inventors 509G
  • Korda, Michael - Horse people: scenes from the riding life 798K
  • Prioleau, Elizabeth - Seductress: women who ravished the world and their lost art of love 305.4P
  • Wieck, Michael - A childhood under Hitler and Stalin: memoirs of a “certified” Jew 92 W643 W

HISTORY

  • Clark, J.C.D. - Our shadowed present: modernism, postmodernism and history 901C
  • Evans, Richard J. - The coming of the Third Reich 943.085E
  • Haynes, John Earl - In denial: historians, communism & espionage 327.12H
  • Maxwell, Kenneth - Naked tropics: essays on empire and other rogues (Brazil) 981N
  • These United States: original essays by leading American writers on their state within the Union 973T
  • Thomas, Hugh - Rivers of gold: the rise of the Spanish Empire 946.03T
  • Urban, Mark - Rifles: six years with Wellington's legendary sharpshooters 940.27U
  • Wawro, Geoffrey - The Franco- Prussian War: the German conquest of France in 1870- 1871 944.08W

CIVILIZATION

  • Cook, M.A. - A brief history of the human race 930C
  • Harvey, David - The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change 909.82H
  • Murray, Charles A. - Human accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 901M

EDUCATION

  • Halpern, Greg - Harvard works because we do 378H
  • Levin, Richard C. - The work of the university 378L
  • Light, Richard - Making the most of college: students speak their minds (2001) 378H
  • Oppenheimer, Todd - The flickering mind: the false promise of technology in the classroom 371.3O

PHILOSOPHY

  • Hecht, Jennifer - Doubt: a history: the great doubters and their legacy of innovation 121H
  • Malachowski, Alan R. - Richard Rorty 191M

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Alba, Richard D. - Remaking the American mainstream: assimilation and contemporary immigration 325.73A
  • Bermeo, Nancy Gina - Ordinary people in extraordinary times: the citizenry and the breakdown of democracy 306B
  • Lareau, Annette - Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life 305.23L
  • Levine, Stephanie Wellen - Mystics, mavericks, and merrymakers: an intimate journey among Hasidic girls 305.23L
  • Sunstein, Cass - Why societies need dissent 303.4S

CRIME

  • Horwitz, Sari - Sniper: inside the hunt for the killers who terrorized the nation 364.1H
  • Oney, Steve - And the dead shall rise: the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank 364.1O
  • Rule, Ann - Heart full of lies: a true story of desire and death 364.1R
  • Zuckoff, Mitchell - Judgment Ridge: the true story behind the Dartmouth murders 364.1Z

LAW

  • The Rehnquist court: a retrospective 347.99R
  • Shattuck, John H.F. - Freedom on fire: human rights wars and America's response 323.4S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Gould, Lewis L. - Grand Old Party: a history of the Republicans 324.273G
  • Hertzberg, Arthur - The fate of zionism: a secular future for Israel and Palestine 956.94H
  • Hitler, Adolf - Hitler's second book: the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf 943.085H
  • Miller, Zell - A national party no more: the conscience of a conservative Democrat 329M
  • Mullett, Michael A. - James II and English politics, 1678- 1688 (1994) 942.06M

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Cha, Victor D. - Nuclear North Korea: a debate on engagement strategies 951.9C
  • Cohen- Tanugi, Laurent - An alliance at risk: the United States and Europe since September 11 327C
  • Daalder, Ivo H. - America unbound: the Bush revolution in foreign policy 327.73D

IRAQ

  • The battle for Iraq: BBC news correspondents on the war against Saddam 956B
  • Clark, Wesley K. - Making modern wars: Iraq, terrorism, and the American empire 956C
  • Murray, Williamson - The Iraq war: a military history 956M

TRAVEL

  • Harrison, Kathryn - The road to Santiago 914.6H
  • Morris, Jan - The world: travels 1950- 2000 910.4M
  • Philbrick, Nat. - Sea of glory: America's voyage of discovery: the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838- 1842 910.9P
  • Sattin, Anthony - The gates of Africa: death, discovery, and the search for Timbuktu 916S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Glanz, James - City in the sky: the rise and fall of the World Trade Center 720.973G
  • Hirschfeld, Al - The speakeasies of 1932 917.471H
  • Kocieniewski, David - The brass wall: the betrayal of undercover detective #4126 363K
  • Sternfeld, Joel (with essays by Adam Gopnik) - Walking the High Line (elevated railroad) 917.471S

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

  • Bourdieu, Pierre - Firing back: against the tyranny of the market 2 303.4B
  • Geisst, Charles R. - Deals of the century: Wall Street, mergers, and the making of modern America 338.7G
  • Mahar, Maggie - Bull! A history of the boom, 1982- 1999…and what every investor needs to know about financial cycles 332.6M
  • Newman, Paul - Shameless exploitation: in pursuit of the common good 338.7N
  • Stiglitz, Joseph - The roaring nineties: a new history of the world's most prosperous decade 330.973S
  • Swisher, Kara - There must be a pony in here somewhere: the AOL Time Warner debacle 338.7S

SCIENCE

  • Benton, M.J. - When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time 576B
  • Leroi, Armand Marie - Mutants: on genetic variety and the human body 611L
  • Maienschein, Jane - Whose view of life?: embryos, cloning, and stem cells 176W
  • Tudge, Colin - The time before history: 5 million years of human impact (1996) 573T
  • Walters, Michael - A concise history of ornithology 598.2W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Braudy, Leo - From chivalry to terrorism: war and the changing nature of masculinity 305.3B
  • Harrison, Robert Pogue - The dominion of the dead 128H
  • Miller, William Ian - Faking it 155.2M
  • Rubin, Lillian B. - The man with the beautiful voice: and more stories from the other side of the couch 616.8R

RELIGION

  • Foxman, Abraham - Never again?: the threat of the new anti- Semitism 296.9F
  • God and time: essays on the divine nature 211G
  • Sedgwick, Mark J. - Sufism: the essentials 297S
  • Sifton, Elisabeth - The serenity prayer: faith and politics in times of peace and war 242S
  • Vermes, Geza - The authentic gospel of Jesus 232.9V

MEDICINE

  • Aufses, Arthur H. - This house of noble deeds: the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852- 2002 362A
  • Nuland, Sherwin B. - The doctors' plague: germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis 618N

HEALTH & HOME

  • Harvard Medical School family health guide (1999) Ref. 610.02H
  • Hymowitz, Kay S. - Liberation's children: parents and kids in a postmodern age 305.23H
  • Shoff, Karen - There's no place like “a nursing” home: 4 powerful steps that will change your life 362.6S
  • Warren, Elizabeth - The two- income trap: why middle- class mothers and fathers are going broke 306.3W

FASHION

  • Halston (2001) 746.92H
  • Martin, Richard - Gianni Versace (1997, Metropolitan Museum of Art) 746.92M
  • Steele, Valerie - Fifty years of fashion: new look to now (1997) 391S

HUMOR

  • Ade, George - The permanent Ade: the living writings (1947) 827A
  • Mortification: writers' stories of their public shame 828.08M
  • Mortimer, John - Where there's a will 828M

REFERENCE

  • The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies, 11th edition (1997) 808.8C
  • CQ's politics in America 2004 : the 108th Congress Ref. 328.73Q
  • Merriam- Webster's collegiate dictionary, 11th edition Ref. 423M

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Dickens, Charles - The mystery of Edwin Drood (8 cassettes) AC D (Lobby)
  • Galsworthy, John - Swan song (8 cassettes) AC G
  • Malamud, Bernard - The fixer (8 cassettes) AC M
  • Orczy, Emmuska - Scarlet Pimpernel (7 cassettes) AC O (Lobby)

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