New York Society Library

MARCH 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Arendt, Hannah & Martin Heidegger - Letters 1925-1975
  • Boorman, John - Adventures of a suburban boy
  • Brook-Shepherd, Gordon - Uncrowned emperor: the life and times of Otto van Habsburg
  • Burns, James McGregor & Susan Dunn - George Washington (American Presidents series)
  • Calder, Angus - Gods, mongrels, and demons: 101 brief but essential lives
  • Capaldi, Nicholas - John Stuart Mill: a biography
  • Cheever, Susan - My name is Bill (Bill Wilson/Alcoholics Anonymous)
  • Clinton, Catherine - Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom
  • Cohen, Richard - Blindsided: a reluctant memoir (Multiple Sclerosis)
  • Connell, Evan S. - Francisco Goya
  • Cox, Lynne - Swimming to Antartica
  • Cray, Ed - Ramblin- man: the life and times of Woody Guthrie
  • Englund, Steven - Napoleon: a political life
  • Fenby, Jonathan - Chiang Kai-Shek: China-s generalissimo and the nation he lost
  • Finlayson, Iain - Browning: the private life
  • Garnett, Henrietta - Anny: a life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
  • Gerhart, Ann - The perfect wife: the life and choices of Laura Bush
  • Gilmour, Ian - The making of the poets: Byron & Shelley in their time
  • Hazleton, Lesley - Mary: a flesh and blood biography of the Virgin Mother
  • Hodges, Graham Russell Gao - Anna May Wong: from laundryman-s daughter to Hollywood legend
  • Jardine, Lisa - The curious life of Robert Hooke: the man who measured London
  • Lambert, Gavin - Natalie Wood: a life
  • Lord, Graham - Niv: the authorised biography of David Niven
  • Louvish, Simon - Keystone: the life and clowns of Max Sennett
  • MacCabe, Colin - Godard: a portrait of the artist at 70
  • McGilligan, Patrick - Alfred Hitchcock
  • McGoogan, Ken - Ancient mariner: the Arctic adventures of Samuel Hearne, the sailor who inspired Coleridge-s masterpiece
  • McMeekin, Sean - The red millionaire: a political biography of Willi M-nzenberg, Moscow-s secret propaganda Tsar in the west
  • Marty, Martin - Martin Luther (Penguin Lives series)
  • Medvedev, Roy & Zhores - The unknown Stalin: his life, death, and legacy
  • Meyers, Jeffrey - Somerset Maugham
  • Niven, Jennifer - Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Arctic
  • Pegolotti, James A. - Deems Taylor
  • Seigenthaler, John - James K. Polk (American Presidents series)
  • Shermer, Michael - In Darwin-s shadow: the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Silesky, Barry - John Gardner: life of a literary outlaw
  • Stephens, Philip - Tony Blair: the making of a world leader
  • Weiser, Benjamin - A secret life: the Polish officer, his covert mission (Ryszard Kuklinski)
  • Wilson, Frances - Courtesan-s revenge: Harriette Wilson, the woman who blackmailed the king
  • Yellin, Jean Fagan - Harriet Jacobs: a life

FICTION

  • Alexander, Robert - The kitchen boy: a novel of the last Tsar
  • Ball, David - Ironfire
  • Bayard, Louis - Mr. Timothy
  • Binding, Tim - Anthem
  • Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Emma-s secret
  • Brown, Sandra - Sunny Chandler-s return
  • Byrd, Max - Shooting the sun
  • Christensen, Lars Saabye - The half brother
  • Crusie, Jennifer - Bet me
  • Dawson, Jill - Wild boy
  • Delbanco, Francesca- Ask me anything
  • Delinsky, Barbara - The passions of Chelsea Kane
  • DeMarinis, Rick - Sky full of sand
  • Dixon, Keith - Ghostfires: a novel
  • Doughty, Louise - Fires in the dark
  • Fischer, Tibor - Voyage to the end of the room
  • Fisher, Carrie - Best awful
  • Frank, Jeffrey - Bad publicity
  • Greer, Andrew Sean - Confessions of Max Tivoli
  • Griffin, W.E.B. - Retreat, hell!
  • Hadley, Tessa - Everything will be all right
  • Indiana, Gary - Do everything in the dark
  • Jaeggy, Fleur - S.S. Proleterka
  • Karnezis, Panos- The maze
  • Kimmel, Havel - Something rising (light and swift)
  • Kirshenbaum, Binnie - An almost perfect moment
  • Lessing, Doris - Grandmothers: four short novels
  • Llamazares, Julio - The yellow rain
  • McBride, Regina - Land of women
  • Manfredi, Renee - Above the thunder
  • Manguel, Alberto - Stevenson under the palm trees
  • Massie, Allan - Caligula
  • Michaels, Fern - Crown jewel
  • Min, Anchee - Empress Orchid
  • Mosley, Walter - The man in my basement
  • Nattel, Lillian - The singing fire
  • Novak, Barbara - The Margaret-ghost
  • Phillips, Scott - Cottonwood
  • Pilcher, Robin - A risk worth taking
  • Plain, Belva - Sight of the stars
  • Rice, Luanne - Dance with me
  • Robinson, Elizabeth - The true and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters
  • Robinson, Peter - Playing with fire
  • Rubens, Bernice - The sergeant-s tale
  • Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg - The snow fox
  • Sharpe, Matthew - Sleeping father
  • Shepard, Jim - Project X
  • Stevenson, Jane - The empress of the last days
  • Stevenson, Talitha - An empty room
  • Stone, Katherine - Another man-s son
  • Thompson, Jean - City boy
  • Tyler, Anne - Amateur marriage
  • Vanderhaeghe, Guy - The last crossing
  • Vreeland, Susan - The forest lover
  • Weinstein, Debra - Apprentice to the flower poet Z
  • Yarbrough, Steve - Prisoners of war
  • Yu, Hua - To live

SHORT STORIES

  • Bausch, Richard - The stories of Richard Bausch
  • Humphreys, Emyr - Old people are a problem
  • Men from boys (Jeffrey Deaver, George Pelecanos, Bill James, Reginald Hill, James Sallis, et al.)
  • Shonk, Katherine - Red passort
  • Theroux, Paul - The stranger at the Palazzo d-Oro: and other stories
  • Xingjian, Gao - Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather

MYSTERIES

  • Aird, Catherine - Chapter and hearse *
  • Albert, Susan Wittig - A dilly of a death
  • Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Marmora
  • Alvtegen, Karin - Missing
  • Andrews, Donna - We'll always have parrots
  • Andrews, Russell - Aphrodite
  • Anthony, Evelyn - Codeword Janus *
  • Arvin, Reed - The last goodbye
  • Barnard, Robert - A cry from the dark
  • Barnes, Linda - Deep pockets
  • Barr, Nevada - High country
  • Beaton, M. C. - Death of a poison pen *
  • Bernhardt, William - Hate crime
  • Booth, Martin - A very private gentleman
  • Braun, Lilian Jackson - The cat who talked turkey
  • Bruen, Ken - The killing of the tinkers *
  • Cannell, Stephen J. - Vertical coffin
  • Compton, Jodi - The 37th hour
  • Cook, Thomas H. - Peril
  • Cray, David - Partners
  • Daniel, David - Goofy foot
  • Darden, Christopher - Lawless
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - Twisted: the collected stories of Jeffrey Deaver
  • Edwards, Grace F. - The Viaduct: a Harlem thriller
  • Ehrman, Kit - A dead man-s touch
  • Elkins, Aaron - Good blood
  • Estleman, Loren D. - Port hazard
  • Fairstein, Linda A. - The kills
  • Finder, Joseph - Paranoia
  • Frazer, Margaret - The hunter's tale *
  • Gash, Jonathan - Ten word game *
  • Gordon, Alan - An antic disposition
  • Green, Tim - The first 48
  • Grisham, John - The last juror
  • Hall, Oakley M. - Ambrose Bierce and the trey of pearls
  • Harrison, Colin - The Havana room
  • Hart, Carolyn - Murder walks the plank
  • Hess, Joan - The deadly ackee and other stories of crime and catastrophe
  • Hill, Reginald - Good morning midnight *
  • Hills, Kathleen - Hunter-s dance
  • Hoffman, Jilliane - Retribution
  • James, Bill - A man-s enemies *
  • Kisor, Henry - Season-s revenge
  • Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating dead men
  • Krentz, Jayne Ann - Truth or dare
  • Krueger, William Kent - Blood hollow
  • Lawton, John - Bluffing Mr. Churchill *
  • Le Carre, John - Absolute friends *
  • Leonard, Elmore - Mr. Paradise
  • Lescroart, John T. - The second chair
  • Lloyd, Dan Edward - Radiant cool: a novel theory of consciousness
  • McBain, Ed - The frumious bandersnatch : a novel of the 87th Precinct
  • Manuel, David - A matter of principle
  • Meltzer, Brad - The zero game
  • Nadel, Barbara - Belshazzar-s daughter
  • Nelscott, Kris - Stone cribs
  • Pawel, Rebecca - Law of return
  • Pawson, Stuart - Limestone cowboy *
  • Penman, Sharon Kay - Dragon-s lair: a medieval mystery
  • Preston, Douglas J. - The codex
  • Rankin, Ian - The watchman *
  • Robinson, John B. - The Sapphire Sea
  • Robinson, Peter - Playing with fire *
  • Russell, Alan - Political suicide
  • Siler, Jenny - Flashback
  • Turnbull, Peter - Treasure trove *
  • White, Stephen - Blinded
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bernard, Andre - Madame Bovary c-est moi!: the great characters of literature and where they came from 809.3B
  • Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas - The lesson of the master: on Borges and his work 863B
  • Goytisolo, Juan - Saracen chronicles: a selection of literary essays (1992) 860.9G
  • Lone Star literature: from the Red River to the Rio Grande 820.8L
  • Podhoretz, Norman - The Norman Podhoretz reader (1950s-1990s) 828P
  • Yu, Christopher - Nothing to admire: the politics of poetic satire from Dryden to Merrill 821.09Y

POETRY

  • Auster, Paul - Collected poems 821A
  • Forch, Carolyn - Blue hour 821F
  • Moore, Marianne - The poems of Marianne Moore 821M
  • Rawlings, Jane - The Penelopeia 821R

LANGUAGE

  • Partridge, Eric - A dictionary of slang and unconventional English Ref. 427P
  • Truss, Lynne - Eats, shoots, and leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation 421T

ARTS

  • Chagall, Marc - Marc Chagall on art and culture 759.7C
  • Deleuze, Gilles - Francis Bacon: the logic of sensation 759.2B
  • From traveling show to vaudeville: theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910 791.1F
  • Scott, Jonathan - The pleasures of antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome 733S
  • Sims, Eleanor - Peerless images: Persian painting and its sources 759.95S
  • Symphony: Frank Gehry-s Walt Disney Concert Hall 720.973S

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Duncan, David Douglas - Photo nomad 779D
  • Epstein, Mitch - Family business 779E
  • New Yorkers: as seen by Magnum photographers 778N

BIOGRAPHY

  • Brinkley, Douglas - Tour of duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War 959T
  • Feldman, Alfred - One step ahead: a Jewish fugitive in Hitler-s Europe 940.48F
  • Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives 306.3U

HISTORY

  • Bose, Sumantra - Kashmir: roots of conflict, paths to peace 954B
  • Crouch, David - The Normans: the history of a dynasty 944.02C
  • Cruickshanks, Eveline - The glorious revolution (2000) 942.06C
  • Heffner, Richard - A conversational history of modern America 973.92H
  • Keene, Donald - Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: the creation of the soul of Japan 952K
  • Kurlansky, Mark - 1968: the year that rocked the world 909.82K
  • Martines, Lauro - Power and imagination: city-states in Renaissance Italy (1988) 945M
  • Stafford, David - Ten days to D-Day: countdown to the liberation of Europe 940.542S

CIVILIZATION

  • Needleman, Jacob - The American soul: rediscovering the wisdom of the founders 973N
  • Osborne, June - Urbino: the story of a Renaissance city 945.6O

EDUCATION

  • Bauer, S. Wise - The well-educated mind: a guide to the classical education you never had 028B
  • Moreau, Joseph - Schoolbook nation: conflicts over American History textbooks from the Civil War to the present 973M

PHILOSOPHY

  • Foucault, Michel - Abnormal: lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975 194F
  • Ricoeur, Paul - The just 172R
  • Sorensen, Roy A. - A brief history of the paradox: philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind 160S
  • What philosophers think 190W

SCIENCE

  • Cutler, Alan - The seashell on the mountaintop: a story of science, sainthood- (Nicolaus Steno) 550C
  • German essays on science in the 19th-century (1996) 500G
  • Waller, John - The discovery of the germ: twenty years that transformed the way we think about disease 616.01W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Easterbrook, Gregg - The progress paradox: how life gets better while people feel worse 303.4E
  • Jim Crow New York: a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877 323.1J
  • Murray, Sylvie - The progressive housewife: community activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965 305.4M
  • Scarborough, William Kauffman - Masters of the big house: elite slaveholders of the mid-19th century South 975S
  • Watters, Ethan - Urban tribes: a generation redefines friendship, family, and commitment 305.24W

RELIGION

  • Coffin, William Sloane - Credo 230C
  • Downing, Michael - Shoes outside the door: desire, devotion, and excess at San Francisco Zen Center (2001) 294D
  • Gimbutas, Marija - The language of the goddess: unearthing the hidden symbols of western civilization 291G
  • Pascal, Jacqueline - A rule for children and other writings (Jansenism) 284.8P
  • Prothero, Stephen R. - American Jesus: how the Son of God became a national icon 232P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Hansen, Jonathan - The lost promise of patriotism: debating American identity, 1890-1920 973.8H
  • Johnson, Chalmers A. - The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic 355J
  • Suskind, Ron - The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the education of Paul O-Neill 973.930S
  • Trees, Andrew S. - The founding fathers and the politics of character 973.4T

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Cooper, Robert - The breaking of nations: order and chaos in the 21st-century 327C
  • Revel, Jean Francois - Anti-Americanism 327.73R
  • Soros, George - The bubble of American supremacy: correcting the misuse of American power 327.73S
  • Todd, Emmanuel - After the empire: the breakdown of the American order 327.73T

TERRORISM

  • Frum, David - An end to evil: how to win the war on terror 303.6F
  • Kessler, Ronald - The CIA at war: inside the secret campaign against terror 327.12K
  • Levitas, Daniel - The terrorist next door: the militia movement and the radical right 322.5L
  • Ressa, Maria - Seeds of terror: an eyewitness account of Al-Qaeda-s newest center of operations in Southeast Asia 303.6R

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • De Vries, Andr- - Brussels: a cultural and literary history 949.3D
  • Dorfman, Ariel - Desert memories: journeys through the Chilean North 918.3D
  • FitzLyon, Kyril - The companion guide to St. Petersburg 914.74F
  • Frost, O.W. - Bering: the Russian discovery of America 917.98F
  • Homes, A.M. - Los Angeles: people, places, and the castle on the hill 979.49H

NEW YORK CITY

  • Goodman, James E. - Blackout 974.71G
  • Harris, Luther - Around Washington Square: an illustrated history of Greenwich Village 974.71H
  • LeDuff, Charlie - Work and other sins: life in New York City and thereabouts 917.47L
  • Lehrer, Warren - Crossing the blvd.: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America 917.471L

MEDIA

  • Auletta, Ken - Backstory: inside the business of news 070A
  • Biskind, Peter - Down and dirty pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the rise of independent film 791.4B
  • Kohn, Bob - Journalistic fraud: how the New York times distorts the news- 070.4K
  • The media and the war on terrorism 070.4M
  • Shales, Tom - Live from New York; an uncensored history of Saturday night live 792.9S

FINANCE

  • Denby, David - American sucker 332.6D
  • Malkiel, Burton Gordon - The random walk guide to investing: ten rules for financial success 332.6M

HUMOR

  • Franken, Al - Lies (and the lying liars who tell them) 973.929F
  • Moore, Michael - Dude, where-s my country- 973.930M

FOOD

  • McGovern, Patrick E. - Ancient wine: the search for the origins of viniculture 663.1M
  • Moxham, Roy - Tea: addiction, exploitation, and empire 394.1M
  • Weinzweig, Ari - Zingerman-s guide to good eating: how to choose the best bread, cheeses-and much more 641.5W

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Bliss, Edward - For love of Lois (Alzheimer-s disease) 618.97B
  • Ellsberg, Robert - The saints- guide to happiness 248E
  • Jackson, Luke - Freaks, geeks and Asperger syndrome: a user guide to adolescence 618.9J

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Kafka, Franz - The castle (8 cassettes) AC K - Lobby
  • Scott, Walter - The talisman (11 cassettes) AC S - Lobby
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis - Master of Ballantrae (6 cassettes) AC S - Lobby


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