New York Society Library

APRIL 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Abish, Walter - Double vision
  • Alexander, Robert - The kitchen boy
  • Armstrong, Karen - The spiral staircase : my climb out of darkness
  • Ball, Edward - Peninsula of lies: a true story of a mysterious birth and taboo love
  • Burge, James - Heloise & Abelard: a twelfth-century love story
  • Cohen, Rachel - A chance meeting: intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967
  • Doerry, Martin - My wounded heart: the life of Lilli Jahn
  • Dudman, Martha Tod - Expecting to fly: a sixties reckoning
  • Eszterhas, Joe - Hollywood animal: a memoir
  • Frieda, Leonie - Catherine de Medici
  • Ginsberg, Debra - About my sisters
  • Halaas, David Fridtjof - Halfbreed: the remarkable true story of George Bent : caught between the worlds of the Indian and the white man
  • Harris, William C. - Lincoln-s last months
  • Kashner, Sam - When I was cool: my life at the Jack Kerouac School : a memoir
  • Kudrova, I.V. - The death of a poet: the last days of Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Land, Brad - Goat: a memoir
  • Landers, Robert K. - An honest writer: the life and times of James T. Farrell
  • LaPlante, Eve - American Jezebel: the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
  • LeCompte, Tom - The last sure thing : the life & times of Bobby Riggs
  • Lescot, Patrick - Before Mao: the untold story of Li Lisan and the creation of Communist China
  • Louvish, Simon - Keystone: the life and clowns of Mack Sennett
  • Reidel, James - Vanished act : the life and art of Weldon Kees
  • Schwartz, Jonathan - All in good time : a memoir
  • Volkov, Solomon - Shostakovich and Stalin: the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator
  • Warburton, Eileen - John Fowles: a life in two worlds
  • White, G. Edward - Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars: the covert life of a Soviet spy
  • Young, Alfred Fabian - Masquerade: the life and times of Deborah Sampson

FICTION

  • Brown, Sandra - Above and beyond
  • Cabot, Meg - Boy meets girl
  • Chamberlain, Diane - Her mother-s shadow
  • Coehlo, Paul - Eleven minutes: a novel
  • Ellmann, Lucy - Dot in the universe
  • Esterhazy, Peter - Celestial harmonies
  • Farah, Nuruddin - Links
  • Freemantle, Brian - Triple cross
  • Gillison, Samantha - The king of America: a novel
  • Gischler, Victor - The pistol poets
  • Gregory, Philippa - The queen-s fool: a novel
  • Halldor Laxness - Iceland-s bell
  • Harris, Joanne - Holy fools
  • Isegawa, Moses - Snakepit
  • Khadra, Yasmina - The swallows of Kabul
  • Kirshenbaum, Binnie - An almost perfect moment
  • Kureishi, Hanif - The body: a novel
  • Loh, Vyvyane - Breaking the tongue: a novel
  • Markson, David - Vanishing point: a novel
  • Mda, Zakes - The Madonna of Excelsior
  • Menendez, Ana - Loving Che
  • Moggach, Deborah - These foolish things
  • Morris, Mary McGarry - A hole in the universe
  • Murkoff, Bruce - Waterborne: a novel
  • Newman, Robert - The fountain at the center of the world
  • Perrotta, Tom - Little children
  • Pritchard, Melissa - Late bloomer
  • Ravel, Edeet - Ten thousand lovers
  • Robb, J. D. - Divided in death
  • Rosenfeld, Lucinda - Why she went home: a novel
  • Rutherfurd, Edward - The princes of Ireland: the Dublin saga
  • St. Aubyn, Edward - Some hope: a trilogy
  • Steel, Danielle - Ransom
  • Sterns, Kate - Down there by the train: a novel
  • Sullivan, Mary - Ship sooner
  • Swann, Maxine - Serious girls
  • Trotter, William - The fires of pride: a novel
  • Vernon, Olympia - Eden
  • Wenzel, Kurt - Gotham tragic: a novel

MYSTERIES

  • Benoit, Charles - Relative danger
  • Burcell, Robin - Cold case
  • Death by Dickens (edited by Anne Perry)
  • Deere, Dicey - The Irish village murder
  • Dunning, John - The bookman's promise: a Cliff Janeway novel
  • Egleton, Clive - A spy-s ransom *
  • Fluke, Joanne - Fudge cupcake murder
  • Fossum, Karin - Don-t look back
  • Frey, Stephen - Shadow account
  • Garcia-Roza, L.A. - Southwesterly wind
  • Graham, Heather - Dead on the dance floor
  • Graves, Sarah - Mallets aforethought
  • Green for danger (edited by Martin Edwards; stories by Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesy, et al.) *
  • Gregson, J.M. - Mortal taste *
  • Grossman, Lev - Codex
  • Hart, Ellen - An intimate ghost
  • Hess, Joan - Muletrain to Maggody: an Arly Hanks mystery
  • Ison, Graham - Light fantastic *
  • James, Bill - The girl with the long back *
  • King, Laurie - The game: a Mary Russell novel
  • Klavan, Lawrence - The cutting room
  • Liss, David - A spectacle of corruption
  • McKevett, G.A. - Cereal killer: a Savnnah Reid mystery
  • Mankell, Henning - The return of the dancing master
  • Minichino, Camille - The carbon murder: a periodic table mystery
  • Mosby, Steve - Third person *
  • Oakes, Andy - Dragon-s eye: a Chinese noir
  • Parker, Robert B. - Bad business
  • Pelecanos, George P. - Hard revolution: a novel
  • Silva, Daniel - A death in Vienna
  • Steinhauer, Olen - The confession
*indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

  • Berry, Wendell - That distant land: the collected stories
  • Gao, Xingjian - Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather: stories
  • Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - Referred pain: and other stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

ARTS

  • Blum, Dilys - Shocking! the art and fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli 746.92B CS
  • Cort, Louise Allison - Isamu Noguchi and modern Japanese ceramics 730.92C
  • Most, Andrea - Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway musical 782.6M
  • Watson, Steven - Factory made: Warhol and the sixties 709.2W
  • Weitman, Wendy - Kiki Smith: prints, books, and things (MoMA QNS exhibit) 769W
  • White, Samuel G. - McKim, Mead & White: the masterworks 720.973W
  • Wood, Christophe - Victorian painting (2000) 759.2W
  • Zega, Michael E. - Travel by train: the American railroad poster, 1870-1950 741.7Z

MUSIC

  • Britten, Benjamin - Britten on music 780B
  • Loesser, Frank - The complete lyrics of Frank Loesser 782.6L
  • Scherer, F.M. - Quarter notes and bank notes: the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 780.9S

DANCE

  • Balanchine: celebrating a life in dance 792.8B
  • Reminiscences II of Ballets Russes dancers 792.8R CS

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Ettlinger, Marion - Author photo: portraits, 1983-2002 770E
  • Leavitt, Helen - Here and there 779L
  • Light, Michael - 100 suns, 1945-1962 (nuclear weapons) 623.4L Oversize
  • Thompson, Jerry L. - Truth and photography: notes on looking and photographing 770T

BELLES LETTRES

  • Adams, David - Colonial odysseys: empire and epic in the modernist novel 823.09A
  • Fletcher, Angus - A new theory for American poetry 821.09F
  • Howe, Fanny - The wedding dress: meditations on word and life 824H
  • Lives in translation: bilingual writers on identity and creativity 401L
  • O-Connor, Flannery - Conversations with Flannery O-Connor 823O
  • Rosemary, Brian - Tolkien: a cultural phenomenon 823T
  • Schoolfield, George C. - A Baedeker of decadence: charting a literary fashion, 1884-1927 809.9S

POETRY

  • Breton, Andre - Selections 841B
  • Murray, Les - Poems the size of photographs 821M
  • Oxford book of sonnets 821.08O
  • Parfitt, George A.E. - English poetry of the First World War: contexts and themes 821.09P

BOOKS & READING

  • Hart-Davis, Duff - Audubon-s elephant: the story of John James Audubon-s epic struggle to publish The Birds of America 751.42H
  • Nelson, Sara - So many books, so little time: a year of passionate reading 028N
  • Turner, Catherine - Marketing modernism between the two world wars 070.5T

LANGUAGE

  • Lyons, John - Linguistic semantics: an introduction 401L
  • Steinmetz, Sol - Yiddish and English: a century of Yiddish in America (19986) 492.4S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Cambridge companion to Pascal 194C
  • Fisherr Philip - The vehement passions 128F
  • Pasnau, Robert - Thomas Aquinas on human nature 208P

EDUCATION

  • Freeman, Jo - At Berkeley in the sixties: the education of an activitist, 1961-1965 378U
  • Kohl, Herbert R. - Stupidity and tears: essays on teaching and learning under pressure 371K
  • Moreau, Joseph - Schoolbook nation: conflicts over American history textbooks from the Civil War to the present 973M

JOURNALISM

  • Bohjalian, Christopher A. - Idyll banter: weekly excursions to a very small town (columns from Burlington, VT Free press) 917.43B
  • Brinkley, David - Brinkley-s beat: people, places, and events that shaped my time 070.1B
  • Goodman, Ellen - Paper trail: common sense in uncommon times 081G
  • Sage, Lorna - Good as her word: selected journalism 820.81S

BIOGRAPHY

  • Aronson, Ronald - Camus & Sartre: the story of a friendship and the quarrel that ended it 194A
  • Bishop, J. Michael - How to win the Nobel Prize: an unexpected life in science 610B
  • Fiennes, Ranulph - Captain Scott 919.9F
  • Mowl, Tim - William Beckford: composing for Mozart (1998) 92 B3966 M
  • Phillips, Kevin P. - American dynasty: aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush 973.928P
  • Weldon, Fay - Auto da Fay 92 W4457 W
  • Wilson, Frances - Literary seductions: compulsive wirters and diverted readers 820.9W

HISTORY

  • Brands, H.W. - Lone star nation: how a ragtag army of volunteers won the battle for Texas independence 976.4B
  • Hirsch, Jerrold - Portrait of America: a cultural history of the Federal Writers- Project 973.917H
  • Keene, Judith - Fighting for Franco: international volunteers in nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 946.081K
  • Raaflaub, Kurt A. - The discovery of freedom in ancient Greece 938R
  • Tinniswood, Adrian - By permission of heaven: the true story of the Great Fire of London 942.1T
  • What ifs- of American history: eminent historians imagine what might have been 973W

CITIES

  • Banville, John - Prague pictures: portraits of a city 914.37B
  • Pasolini, Pier Paolo - Stories from the city of God: sketches and chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966 854P
  • Roth, Joseph - Report from a Parisian paradise, 1925-1939 944.36R

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dantzic, Jerry - Jerry Dantzic-s New York: the 50- in focus 770D
  • Kaplan, Lawrence - Between ocean and city: the transformation of Rockaway, New York 974.71K
  • Lopate, Phillip - Waterfront: a journey around Manhattan 917.471L
  • Neumark, Heidi - Breathing space: a spiritual journey in the south Bronx 284.1N
  • Petit, Philippe - To reach the clouds: my high wire walk between the Twin Towers 790P

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Gimlette, John - At the tomb of the inflatable pig: travels through Paraguay 918.9G
  • Guillermoprieto, Alma - Dancing with Cuba: a memoir of the revolution 917.29G
  • Schultz, Patricia - 1,000 places to see before you die 910.2S
  • Shipman, Pat - To the heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of Central Africa 966S

MIDDLE EAST

  • Chomsky, Noam - Middle East illusions 956.9C
  • Elon, Amos - A blood-dimmed tide: dispatches from the Middle East 956.94E
  • Hanson, Victor Davis - Between war and peace: lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq 973.930H
  • Lippman, Thomas W. - Inside the mirage: America-s fragile partnership with Saudi Arabia 327.73I

IRAQ

  • Blix, Hans - Disarming Iraq 956M
  • Dodge, Toby - Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation-building and a history denied 956D
  • McAllester, Matthew - Blinded by the sunlight: emerging from the prison of Saddam-s Iraq 956M
  • Shawcross, William - Allies: the U.S., Britain, Europe and the war in Iraq 956S

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Adams, Gerry - A farther shore: Ireland-s long road to peace 941.5A
  • The democratic experiment: new directions in American political history 320.9D
  • Greenberg, Stanley H. - The two Americas: our current political deadlock and how to break it 324.273G
  • Morgan, Ted - Reds: McCarthyism in twentieth century America 320.9M

U.S. PRESIDENTS

  • Ferrell, Robert H. - Choosing Truman: the Democratic Convention of 1944 973.918F
  • Fischer, David Hackett - Washington-s crossing 973.33F

ECONOMICS

  • Breen, T.H. - Marketplace of revolution: how consumer politics shaped American independence 973.31B
  • Lowenstein, Roger - Origins of the crash 330.973L
  • Ransom, Roger L. - One kind of freedom: the economic consequences of emancipation 330.973R

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

  • Goodstein, David L. - Out of gas: the end of the age of oil 333.8G
  • Hays, Constance - The real thing: truth and power at the Coca-Cola Company 338.7H
  • Munk, Nina - Fools rush in: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the unmaking of AOL Time Warner 338.7M

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Lindsay-Poland, John - Emperors in the jungle: the hidden history of the U.S. in Panama 327.73L
  • Mowbray, Joel - Dangerous diplomacy: how the State Department threatens America-s security327.73M
  • Newhouse, John - Imperial America: the Bush assault on the world order 327.73N

LAW

  • Barnett, Randy - Restoring the lost constitution: the presumption of liberty 342.73B
  • Fasulo, Linda M. - An insider-s guide to the UN 341.1F
  • Johnston, David C. - Perfectly legal: the covert campaign to rig our tax system to benefit the super rich and cheat everybody else 336.2J
  • Whitman, James Q. - Harsh justice: criminal punishment and the widening divide between America and Europe 364.6W

CRIME

  • Lefkowitz, Bernard - The victims: the Wylie-Hoffert murder case and its strange aftermath 364.1L
  • Levy, M.J. - Love & madness: the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich 364.1L
  • Reppetto, Thomas A. - American Mafia: a history of its rise to power 364.1R

RELIGION

  • Hecht, Jennifer Michael - The end of the soul: scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France 215H
  • Manji, Irshbad - The trouble with Islam: a Muslim-s call for reform in her faith 297M
  • Manseau, Peter - Killing the Buddha: a heretic-s Bible 200M
  • Prose, Francine - Gluttony: the seven deadly sins 178P

ETHICS

  • Callahan, David - The cheating culture: why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead 174C
  • Habermas, J-rgen - The future of human nature 179H
  • President-s Council on Bioethics - Beyond therapy: biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness 179P

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Daniels, Roger - Guarding the golden door: American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882 325.73D
  • Dickerson, Debra J. - The end of Blackness: returning the souls of Black folk to their rightful owners 305.88D
  • Robb, Graham - Strangers: homosexual love in the nineteenth century 306.7S
  • Schoenfeld, Gabriel - The return of anti-Semitism 305.8S
  • Shipler, David - The working poor: invisible in America 331.8S
  • Silverstein, Michael - Trading up: the new American luxury 339.4S

CIVILIZATION

  • Burton, Richard D.E. - Prague: a cultural and literary history 943.71B
  • Eagleton, Terry - After theory 306E
  • Kaplan, Robert D. - Mediterranean winter: the pleasures of history and landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece 939K

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Groopman, Jerome E. - The anatomy of hope: how people prevail in the face of illness 616G
  • Johnson, Steven - Mind wide open: your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life 612.8J
  • Slater, Lauren - Opening Skinner-s box: great psychological experiments of the twentieth century 150S

SCIENCE

  • The Alchemy reader: from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton 540.9A
  • Gingerich, Owen - The book nobody read: chasing the revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus 520G
  • Klerkx, Greg - Lost in space: the fall of NASA and the dream of a new space age 629.4K
  • Krimsky, Sheldon - Science in the private interest: has the lure of profits corrupted biomedical research- 362.1K
  • Rothman, Sheila - The pursuit of perfection: the promise and perils of medical enhancement 362.1R

ANIMALS

  • Brazaitis, Peter - You belong in a zoo!: tales from a lifetime spent with cobras, crocs, and other creatures (curator of Cental Park Zoo) 636B
  • Eisner, Thomas - For love of insects 595.7E
  • Herd on the street: animal stories from the Wall Street journal 590H
  • Rubin, James Henry - Impressionist cats & dogs: pets in the painting of modern life 758R

REFERENCE

  • Mayo Clinic family health book Ref. 613M
  • The Times comprehensive atlas of the world LSR 912T
  • Trager, James - The New York chronology: the ultimate compendium of events, people, and anecdotes from the Dutch to the present Ref. 974.71T

AUDIO

  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Poor people (4 cassettes) AC D
  • Eliot, George - Middlemarch (23 cassettes) AC E
  • Hemingway, Ernest - A farewell to arms (7 cassettes) AC H
  • Marian Seldes as Willa Cather (1 cassette) AC 820.81C


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