New York Society Library

MAY 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bazzana, Kevin - Wondrous strange: the life and art of Glenn Gould
  • Blair, Jayson - Burning down my masters' house: my life at the New York Times
  • Califano, Joseph A. - Inside: a public and private life
  • Chernow, Ron - Alexander Hamilton
  • Connor, James A. - Kepler's witch
  • Cooper, Edward S. - Vinnie Ream: an American sculptor
  • Dracos, Ted - Ungodly: the passions, torments, and murder of atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Farah, Consort of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran - An enduring love
  • Freeman, Philip - St. Patrick of Ireland : a biography
  • Gielgud, John - Sir John Gielgud: a life in letters
  • Guy, J. A. - Queen of Scots: the true life of Mary Stuart
  • Inwood, Stephen - The forgotten genius: the biography of Robert Hooke, 1635 - 1703
  • Johnson, Joyce - Missing men: a memoir
  • Jovanovich, William - The temper of the West
  • Kabaservice, Geoffrey M. - The guardians: Kingman Brewster, his circle, and the rise of the liberal establishment
  • Lauck, Jennifer - Show me the way: a memoir in stories
  • LeBor, Adam - Milosevic: a biography
  • Levi, Anthony - Louis XIV
  • Li, Cunxin - Mao's last dancer
  • McInerny, Ralph M. - The very rich hours of Jacques Maritain: a spiritual life
  • Miller, Jane Eldridge - Relations Nasdijj - Geronimo's bones: a memoir of my brother and me
  • O'Hara, Maureen - 'Tis herself: a memoir
  • Owen, Roger - Lord Cromer: Victorian imperialist, Edwardian proconsul
  • Preston, Diana - A pirate of exquisite mind: explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer (William Dampier)
  • Roberts, Cokie - Founding mothers: the women who raised our nation
  • Sandbrook, Dominic - Eugene McCarthy: the rise and fall of postwar American liberalism
  • Schweizer, Peter - The Bushes: portrait of a dynasty
  • Shapiro, Susan - Five men who broke my heart: a memoir
  • Shen, Fan - Gang of one: memoirs of a Red Guard
  • Simon, William E. - A time for reflection: an autobiography
  • Stuart, Andrea - The rose of Martinique: a life of Napoleon's Josephine
  • Weisberg, Barbara - Talking to the dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the rise of spiritualism
  • Zsolt, Bela - Nine suitcases

FICTION

  • Abani, Christopher - GraceLand
  • Ali, Samina - Madras on rainy days
  • Azzopardi, Trezza - Remember me
  • Berg, Elizabeth - The art of mending
  • Blake, James Carlos - Handsome Harry, or The gangster's true confessions
  • Brockmann, Suzanne - Flashpoint
  • Christensen, Kate - The Epicure's lament
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810
  • Danticat, Edwidge - The dew breaker
  • Dietrich, William - Hadrian's Wall
  • Echenoz, Jean - Piano
  • Evanovich, Janet - Full blast
  • Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen book club
  • Freeman, David - It's all true: a novel of Hollywood
  • Greeley, Andrew M. - The priestly sins
  • Hallowell, Janis - The annunciation of Francesca Dunn
  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The dream kingdom
  • Heller, Jane - Best enemies
  • Johansen, Iris - Firestorm
  • Keneally, Thomas - The tyrant's novel
  • Klass, Perri - The mystery of breathing
  • Laurens, Stephanie - The ideal bride
  • Lee, Chang-rae - Aloft
  • Lindgren, Torgny - Hash
  • Lindsey, Johanna - A loving scoundrel: a Malory novel
  • McMahon, Thomas A. - Ira Foxglove
  • Mestre-Reed, Ernesto - The second death of Unica Aveyano
  • Parsons, Tony - One for my baby Phillips, Susan Elizabeth - Ain't she sweet?
  • Picoult, Jodi - My sister's keeper
  • Roberts, Nora - Rafe and Jared
  • Rowland, Laura Joh - The perfumed sleeve
  • Saul, John - Black Creek Crossing
  • Sherwood, Ben - The death and life of Charlie St. Cloud
  • Siddons, Anne Rivers - Islands
  • Stephenson, Neal - The confusion
  • Storey, David - Thin-ice skater
  • Sussman, Ellen - On a night like this
  • Swerling, Beverly - Shadowbrook: a novel of love, war and the birth of America
  • Sykes, Plum - Bergdorf blondes
  • Toibin, Colm - The master
  • Trollope, Joanna - Brother & sister
  • Van Niekerk, Marlene - Triomf
  • Walbert, Kate - Our kind
  • Wallace, Melanie - Blue horse dreaming: a novel
  • Wilson, A. N. - My name is Legion
  • Wouk, Herman - A hole in Texas
  • Ye, Zhaoyan - Nanjing 1937: a love story

MYSTERIES

  • Akunin, B. - Murder on the Leviathan
  • Block, Lawrence - The burglar on the prowl
  • Bowen, Peter - The tumbler
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Whisker of evil
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - Nightime is my time
  • Coleman, Reed Farrel - Redemption Street: a Moe Prager mystery
  • Conlon, Edward - Blue blood
  • Daheim, Mary - The Alpine pursuit
  • Davis, Lindsey - The accusers
  • Hirahara, Naomi - Summer of the big bachi
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Therapy
  • Kelly, Susan B. - Cold blood *
  • King, Jonathon - Shadow men
  • Lansdale, Joe R. - Sunset and sawdust
  • Leon, Donna - Doctored evidence
  • Lindsey, David - The face of the assassin
  • Margolin, Phillip - Sleeping beauty
  • McCall Smith, Alexander - The full cupboard of life
  • Patterson, James - 3rd degree
  • Pattison, Eliot - Beautiful ghosts
  • Pearce, Michael - The last cut: a Mamur Zapt mystery
  • Pearson, Ridley - The body of David Hayes
  • Peters, Elizabeth - Guardian of the horizon *
  • Silbert, Leslie - The intelligencer *
  • Spencer-Fleming, Julia - Out of the deep I cry
  • Thurlo, Aimee - Wind spirit: an Ella Clah novel
  • Vachss, Andrew H. - Down here
  • White, Kate - 'Til death do us part
  • Woods, Stuart - Reckless abandon
* indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

  • Barnes, Julian - The lemon table
  • Barth, John - The book of ten nights and a night: eleven stories
  • Hamburger, Aaron - The view from Stalin's Head
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - I am no one you know
  • Redhill, Michael - Fidelity
  • Silber, Joan - Ideas of heaven: a ring of stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

ARTS

  • Hutcheon, Linda - Opera: the art of dying, 782.1H
  • Paris, city of art, 709.44P
  • Schenker, Alexander - The Bronze Horseman: Falconet's monument to Peter the Great, 730.92F
  • Steinberg, Saul - The new world (1965), 741.5S
  • Teachout, Terry - A Terry Teachout reader, 704T Whose muse?: art museums and the public trust, 708W
  • White, Randall - Prehistoric art: the symbolic journey of mankind, 709.011W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Auster, Paul - Collected prose, 820.81A
  • Cambridge companion to Australian literature (2000), 820.9C
  • Churchill, Winston - Never give in! the best of Winston Churhill's speeches, 825C
  • Criticism: the foundations of modern literary judgment (1948), 801C
  • Erasmus, Desiderius - The adages of Erasmus, 879.8E
  • Orwell, George - Orwell: the Observer years, 828 O
  • Rubin, Harriet - Dante in love: the world's greatest poem and how it made history, 851.09R

FILM

  • The hidden God: film and faith, 791.4H
  • Lewis, Jon - Hollywood v. hard core: how the struggle over censorship saved the modern film industry, 791.4L

POETRY

  • The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Robert Frost (selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom), 821.08B
  • Fearing, Kenneth - Selected poems, 821F
  • Ruskeyser, Muriel - Selected poems, 821R
  • St. John, David - The face: a novella in verse, 821S

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The sorrows of young Werther (Burton Pike, translator), F G
  • Petrarca, Francesco - Invectives (I Tatti Renaissance Library; David Marsh, translator), 879P
  • Proust, Marcel - In the shadow of young girls in flower (James Grieve, translator), F P

JOURNALISM

  • Bohjalian, Christopher - Idyll banter: weekly excursions to a very small town (Boston Globe & Burlington Free Press), 917.43B
  • Hess, John - My times: a memoir of dissent, 070H
  • Kelly, Michael - Things worth fighting for: collected writings, 824K

PHILOSOPHY

  • Garber, Daniel - Descartes' metaphysical physics (1992), 530.1G
  • Perrin, Joseph Marie - Simone Weil as we knew her, 194P
  • Plato - Protagoras; and, Meno, 888.4P
  • Solomon, Robert C. -
  • Living with Nietzsche: what the great “immoralist” has to teach us, 193S

ETHICS

  • Hurley, S. L. - Justice, luck, and knowledge, 172H
  • Murphy, Jeffrie G. - Getting even: forgiveness and its limits, 155.9M

HISTORY

  • Bondeson, Jan - The great pretenders: the true stories behind famous historical mysteries, 909B
  • Booknotes: on American character, 973B
  • Dubois, Laurent - Avengers of the New World: the story of the Haitian Revolution, 972.94D
  • Hayward, Joel S. - For God and glory: Lord Nelson and his way of war, 359.0942H
  • Holland, Tom - Rubicon: the last years of the Roman Republic, 937.02H
  • Loewen, James W. - Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong, 973L
  • Maynard, W. Barksdale - Walden Pond: a history, 974.4M
  • Ozment, Steven E. - A mighty fortress: a new history of the German people, 943 O
  • Wheen, Francis - How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world, 909.82W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dolkart, Andrew - Guide to New York City landmarks, REF 917.471D
  • Kennedy, Randy - Subwayland: adventures in the world beneath New York, 917.471K
  • Shorto, Russell - The island at the center of the world: the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America, 974.71S

EDUCATION

  • DelFattore, Joan - The fourth R: conflicts over religion in America's public schools, 379D
  • Hemphill, Clara - New York City's best public elementary schools: a parent's guide, REF. 373H
  • Thomas, George - Building America's first university: an historical and architectural guide to the University of Pennsylvania, 378U

CIVILIZATION

  • Buruma, Ian - Occidentalism: the West in the eyes of its enemies, 303.4B
  • Harris, Lee - Civilization and its enemies: the next stage of history, 303.4H
  • Nathan, John - Japan unbound: a volatile nation's quest for pride and purpose, 952N

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Conley, Dalton - The pecking order: which siblings succeed and why, 306.8C
  • Gonnerman, Jennifer - Life on the outside: the prison odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, 365G
  • Lubrano, Alfred - Limbo: blue-collar roots, white-collar dreams, 305.5L Reinventing the melting pot: the new immigrants and what it means to be American, 325.73R
  • Rosenthal, Donna - The Israelis: ordinary people in an extraordinary land, 956.94R

RACE RELATIONS

  • Burns, Stewart - To the mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955 - 1968, 323.4B
  • George, Nelson - Post-soul nation: the explosive, contradictory, triumphant, and tragic 1980s as experienced by African-Americans, 305.88G
  • Robinson, Randall - Quitting America: the departure of a Black man from his native land, 973.930R
  • Rustin, Bayard - Time on two crosses: the collected writings, 305.88R

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Allen, Charles - Duel in the snows: the true story of the Younghusband mission to Lhasa, 951.5A
  • Goytisolo - Cinema eden: essays from the Muslim Mediterranean, 916.1G
  • Iyer, Pico - Sun after dark: flights into the foreign, 910.4 I
  • Kennan, George - Vagabond life: the Caucasus journals, 914.7K
  • Marrakech: the red city, 916.4M

CARTOGRAPHY

  • Binding, Paul - Imagined corners: exploring the world's first atlas, 912B
  • Black, Jeremy - Visions of the world: a history of maps, OVERSIZE 912B
  • Whitfield, Peter - The charting of the oceans: ten centuries of maritime maps (1996), 910.9W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Clarke, Richard A. - Against all enemies: inside America's war on terror, 303.6C
  • Goodman, Amy L. - The exception to the rulers: exposing oily politicians, war profiteers, and the media that love them, 973.930G
  • Paxton, Robert - The anatomy of fascism, 335P
  • Preston, Julia - Opening Mexico: the making of a democracy, 972P
  • Tismaneanu, Vladimir - Stalinism for all seasons: a political history of Romanian communism, 949.8T

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew - The choice: global domination or global leadership, 327.73B
  • Chomsky, Noam - Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance, 327.73C
  • Gaddis, John Lewis - Surprise, security, and the American experience, 327.73G
  • Mann, Jim - Rise of the vulcans: the history of Bush's war cabinet, 327.73M

PRESIDENTS

  • Ferrell, Robert H. - Choosing Truman: the Democratic convention of 1944 (1994), 973.918F
  • Fischer, David Hackett - Washington's crossing, 973.33F
  • Guelzo, Allen C. - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: the end of slavery in America, 973.71G
  • Higham, Charles - Murdering Mr. Lincoln: a new detection of the 19th century's most famous crime, 973.7H

BIOGRAPHY

  • Beames, John - Memoirs of a Bengal civilian, 92 B366B
  • Carey, Alice - A daughter's search for home in Ireland, 92 C2743 C
  • Di Giovanni, Janine - Madness visible: a memoir of war (Kosovo), 949.7D
  • The Dostoevsky archive (firsthand accounts, most translated into English for the first time) (1997), 92 D725YD
  • Hamilton, Neil - American social leaders and activists, 920 H2194A
  • Knapp, Caroline - The merry recluse: a life in essays, 824K
  • Lownie, Andrew - John Buchan: the Presbyterian cavalier, 92 B918L

ECONOMICS

  • Beyond the ruins: the meanings of deindustrialization, 338.6B
  • Bhagwati, Jagdish - In defense of globalization, 337B
  • Horowitz, Daniel - The anxieties of affluence: critiques of American consumer culture, 1939 - 1979, 339.4H
  • Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - The coming generational storm: what you need to know about America's economic future, 332.6K
  • Legrain, Philippe - Open world: the truth about globalization, 337L

LAW

  • Epstein, Richard Allen - Skepticism and freedom: a modern case for classical liberalism, 323.4E
  • Ogletree, Charles J. - All deliberate speed: reflections on the first half century of Brown v. Board of Education, 344 O
  • Vine, Phyllis - One man's castle: Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream, 305.88V
  • The war on our freedoms: civil liberties in an age of terrorism, 323.4W

LEADERSHIP

  • Bennis, Warren G. - On becoming a leader, 658.3B
  • Gardner, Howard - Changing minds: the art and science of changing our own and other people's minds, 153.8G

RELIGION

  • Blackburn, Simon - Lust, 176B
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The complete sermons, 252E
  • Fox, Richard Wightman - Jesus in America: personal savior, cultural hero, national obsession, 232F
  • Jacoby, Susan - Freethinkers: a history of American secularism, 211 J
  • King, Karen L. - The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the first woman apostle, 229K
  • Kirsch, Jonathan - God against the gods: the history of the war between monotheism and polytheism, 291G

SCIENCE

  • Greene, Brian - The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality, 523.1G
  • Hawking, Stephen W. - The illustrated theory of everything: the origin and fate of the universe, 523.1H
  • Merton, Robert King - The travels and adventures of serendipity, 501M
  • Schiffer, Michael - Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment, 621.3S
  • Shreeve, James - The genome war: how Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world, 660S

MEDICINE

  • Barry, John - The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest plague in history, 614.4B
  • Goozner, Merrill - The $800 million pill: the truth behind the cost of new drugs, 338.4G
  • Lax, Eric - The mold in Dr. Florey's coat: the story of the penicillin miracle, 615.3L
  • Schwartz, Maxime - How the cows turned mad, 616.8S

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Bauman, Zygmunt - Liquid love: on the frailty of human bonds, 302B
  • Fisher, Helen - Why we love: the nature and chemistry of romantic love, 157F
  • Schwartz, Barry - The paradox of choice: why more is less, 153.8S
  • Zimmer, Carl - Soul made flesh: the discovery of the brain—and how it changed the world, 612.8Z

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Obmascik, Mark - The big year: a tale of man, nature, and fowl obsession, 598.2 O
  • Scigliano, Eric - Love, war, and circuses: the age-old relationship between elephants and humans, 599S
  • Sullivan, Robert - Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants, 599S

ENVIRONMENT

  • Ellis, Richard - The empty ocean: plundering the world's marine life, 591.92E
  • Hunter, Robert - 2030: confronting thermageddon in our lifetime, 363.7H
  • Speth, James Gustave - Red sky at morning: America and the crisis of the global environment, 363.7S

COOKERY

  • Barnes, Julian - The pedant in the kitchen, 641B
  • Bourdain, Anthony - A cook's tour: in search of the perfect meal, 641B

AUDIO

  • DeLillo, Don - White noise (9 cassettes), LOBBY AC D
  • Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental education (12 cassettes), AC F
  • Graves, Robert - Claudius, the god (14 cassettes), LOBBY AC G
  • Hazzard, Shirley - The great fire (8 cassettes), LOBBY AC H
  • Milosz, Czeslaw - Czeslaw Milosz (1974 readings by Milosz), AC 821M


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