JULY 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Baker, Jean H. - James Buchanan
• Beevor, Antony - The mystery of Olga Chekhova
• Bernstein, Jeremy - Oppenheimer : portrait of an enigma
• Bourke, Angela - Maeve Brennan : homesick at The New Yorker
• Brazile, Donna - Cooking with grease : stirring the pots in American politics
• Campbell, James - The final frontiersman : Heimo Korth and his family, alone in Alaska's arctic wilderness
• Cantor, Norman F. - The last knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era
• Clinton, Bill - My life
• Flanders, Laura - Bushwomen : tales of a cynical species
• Harrison, Kathryn - The mother knot : a memoir
• Hendra, Tony - Father Joe : the man who saved my soul
• Karabell, Zachary - Chester Alan Arthur
• Kelly, Ian - Cooking for kings : the life of Antonin Careme, the first celebrity chef
• Kristeva, Julia - Colette
• Lanyon, Anna - The new world of Martin Cortes
• Le Guyader, Herve - Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1772-1844 : a visionary naturalist
• Lord, James - Mythic Giacometti
• Lystra, Karen - Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years
• McFarland, Philip James - Hawthorne in Concord
• Meade, Marion - Bobbed hair and bathtub gin : writers running wild in the Twenties
• Pearce, Joseph - Unafraid of Virginia Woolf : the friends and enemies of Roy Campbell
• Perloff, Marjorie - The Vienna paradox : a memoir
• Segrest, James - Moanin' at midnight : the life and times of Howlin' Wolf
• Stringer, Lee - Sleepaway school : stories from a boy's life
• Sutherland, John - Stephen Spender : the authorized biography
• Treaster, Joseph B. - Paul Volcker : the making of a financial legend
• Wilson, Colin - Dreaming to some purpose
• Wood, Gordon S. - The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

FICTION

• Allende, Isabel - Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
• Anonymous - The bride stripped bare : a novel
• Benabou, Marcel - To write on Tamara = Ecrire sur Tamara
• Berger, Thomas - Adventures of the artificial woman : a novel
• Chaon, Dan - You remind me of me
• DeVido, Brian - Every time I talk to Liston : a novel
• Donovan, Anne - Buddha Da
• Egan, Timothy - The winemaker's daughter : a novel
• Garcia, Eric - Cassandra French's finishing school for boys
• Garland, Alex - The coma
• Gingrich, Newt - Grant comes east : a novel of the Civil War
• Glatt, Lisa - A girl becomes a comma like that : a novel
• Green, Jane - To have and to hold
• Hagen, George - The laments : a novel
• Haythe, Justin - The honeymoon
• Hearn, Lian - Brilliance of the moon
• Highsmith, Patricia - Small g : a summer idyll
• Just, Ward S. - An unfinished season
• Kelly, Lauren - Take me, take me with you : a novel of suspense
• King, Stephen - Song of Susannah
• Koontz, Dean R. - The taking
• Kunzru, Hari - Transmission
• Langer, Adam - Crossing California
• Leavitt, David - The body of Jonah Boyd : a novel
• Lopez, Barry Holstun - Resistance
• Lowell, Elizabeth - The color of death
• Macomber, Debbie - The shop on Blossom Street
• Mayle, Peter - A good year
• McGrath, Patrick - Port Mungo : a novel
• McMurtry, Larry - Folly and glory : a novel
• McPhee, Jenny - No ordinary matter : a novel
• Minot, George - The blue bowl : a novel
• Mirvis, Tova - The outside world
• Neate, Patrick - The London pigeon wars
• Nicholson, Geoff - The Hollywood dodo : a novel
• Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The queen of the South
• Phillips, Carly - Under the boardwalk
• Saylor, Steven - The judgment of Caesar : a novel of Ancient Rome
• Stroud, Carsten - Cobraville : a novel
• Weisman, John - Jack in the box : a shadow war thriller
• Wenner, Kate - Dancing with Einstein : a novel
• Whitcomb, Christopher - Black : a novel
• Willis, Sarah - A good distance
• Wilson, James - The bastard boy
• Winterson, Jeanette - Lighthousekeeping
• Woronov, Mary - Blind love

MYSTERIES

• Brandon, Jay - Grudge match : a Chris Sinclair thriller
• Buchan, Elizabeth - The good wife strikes back
• Buffa, Dudley W. - Breach of trust
• Burke, Alafair - Missing justice : a Samantha Kincaid mystery
• Burke, James Lee - In the moon of red ponies : a novel
• Coulter, Catherine - Blowout : an FBI thriller
• Craig, Philip R. - Murder at a vineyard mansion : a Martha's Vineyard mystery
• D'Amato, Barbara - Death of a thousand cuts
• Doherty, P. C. - The gates of hell : a mystery of Alexander the Great
• Evanovich, Janet - Ten big ones
• Fowler, Christopher - Full dark house *
• Fowler, Earlene - Broken dishes
• French, Nicci - Secret smile
• Green, Norman - Way past legal : a novel
• Greenwood, Kerry - Murder in Montparnasse : a Phryne Fisher mystery
• Guest, Judith - The tarnished eye
• Hamilton, Steve - Ice run : an Alex McKnight mystery
• Hill, Susan - The various haunts of men : a Simon Serrailler crime novel
• Housewright, David - A hard ticket home
• Huston, Charlie - Caught stealing
• Katzenbach, John - The madman's tale : a novel
• Kerley, Jack - The hundredth man
• Konrath, Joe - Whiskey sour : a Jack Daniels mystery
• McCarry, Charles - Old boys
• Mosley, Walter - Little Scarlet
• Murray, Edmund P. - The peregrine spy
• Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the attic
• Reichs, Kathy - Monday mourning
• Reuland, Rob - Semiautomatic : a novel
• Sansom, C. J. - Dissolution *
• Scottoline, Lisa - Killer smile
• Shannon, John - Terminal Island : a Jack Liffey mystery
• Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone - She smiled sweetly : a Poppy Rice mystery
• Strohmeyer, Sarah - Bubbles a broad
• Swain, James - Loaded dice : a Tony Valentine novel
• Taylor, Andrew - An unpardonable crime
• Thomas, Will - Some danger involved : a novel
• Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.) - Murder on Marble Row : a gaslight mystery *
• Weiner, Ellis - Drop dead, my lovely
• Winspear, Jacqueline - Birds of a feather : a novel *
• Wright, Edward - While I disappear

SHORT STORIES

• Bezmozgis, David - Natasha and other stories
• Bukiet, Melvin Jules - A faker's dozen : stories
• Drummond, Laurie Lynn - Anything you say can and will be used against you : stories
• Like a charm : a novel in voices (edited by Karin Slaughter; contributors include: John Harvey, Mark Bilingham, John Connolly, Peter Robinson, et al.)
• Trevor, William - A bit on the side
• Wallace, David Foster - Oblivion : stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

ART

• Brown, Ann Eckert - American wall stenciling, 1790-1840 , 745.5 B
• Hollander, Anne - Fabric of vision : dress and drapery in painting, 704.942 H
• Mason, Christopher - The art of the steal : inside the Sotheby's-Christie's auction house scandal , 364.1 M
• Riley, Noel - Tile art : a history of decorative ceramic tiles , 729 R
• Shackelford, George - Gauguin Tahiti , 759.4 G
• Sylvester, David - London recordings , 709.04 S
• Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856 : the unknown romantic, 759.4 C

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Frank, Robert - Robert Frank : London/Wales , 779 F
• Sternfeld, Joel - American prospects , 770 S
• Unclassified : a Walker Evans anthology (from the Walker Evans Archive), 778 E

MUSIC & DANCE

• Newman, Barbara - Grace under pressure : passing dance through time , 792.8 N
• Rischin, Rebecca - For the end of time : the story of the Messiaen quartet , 785 R
• Steinitz, Richard - Gyorgy Ligeti: music of the imagination, 780.92 L
• Stravinsky, Igor - Memories and commentaries , 780.92 S
• Watkins, Glenn - Proof through the night : music and the Great War, 780.9 W

BELLES LETTRES

• Allen, Brooke - Twentieth-century attitudes : literary powers in uncertain times, 820.9 A
• The body in the library : a literary anthology of modern medicine , 808.8 B
• Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught - The violence within/the violence without : Wallace Stevens and the emergence of a revolutionary poetics, 821.09 S
• Carpenter, Humphrey - A great, silly grin : the British satire boom of the 1960s , 827 C
• Farr, Judith - The gardens of Emily Dickinson , 821.09 D
• Merwin, W. S. - The ends of the Earth : essays , 824 M
• Thomas Hardy : texts and contexts , 823 H

SHAKESPEARE

• Bernthal, Craig - The trial of man : Christianity and judgment in the world of Shakespeare, 822.33 C
• Duffin, Ross W. - Shakespeare's songbook , 822.33 K
• Nolen, Stephanie - Shakespeare's face : unraveling the legend and history of Shakespeare's mysterious portrait , 822.33 K
• Poole, Adrian - Shakespeare and the Victorians , 822.33 C

PHILOSOPHY

• Clowes, Edith - Fiction's overcoat : Russian literary culture and the question of philosophy , 197 C
• Quine, W. V. - Quintessence : basic readings from the philosophy of W.V. Quine , 191 Q
• Said, Edward - Humanism and democratic criticism , 140 S

BIOGRAPHY

• Goya, Francisco - Goya : a life in letters , 759.6 G
• The Guardian book of obituaries , 920 G914 G
• Sheraton, Mimi - Eating my words : an appetite for life , 641 S
• Sinclair, David - The land that never was : Sir Gregor MacGregor and the most audacious fraud in history , 364 S
• Yancey, Richard - Confessions of a tax collector : one man's tour of duty inside the IRS , 353 Y

HISTORY

• Bartlett, Robert - The hanged man : a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the Middle Ages , 942.03 B
• Chace, James - 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the election that changed the country , 973.91 C
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - Humankind : a brief history , 901 F
• King, Charles - The Black Sea : a history , 909 K
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid - The Reformation , 270.6 M
• Payne, Stanley - The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and communism , 946.081 P
• Redworth, Glyn - The prince and the Infanta : the cultural politics of the Spanish match , 327.42 R
• Robson, Roy - Solovki : the story of Russia told through its most remarkable islands , 947 R
• Waller, Maureen - London 1945 : life in the debris of war , 942.1 W

ANTIQUITY

• Miller, Stephen - Ancient Greek athletics , 796 M
• Runnels, Curtis Neil, 1950- - Greece before history : an archaeological companion and guide, 938 R

MILITARY

• Hillman, James - A terrible love of war , 303.6 H
• Hobbes, Nicholas - Essential militaria : facts, legends, and curiosities about warfare through the ages , 355 H
• James, Lawrence - Warrior race : a history of the British at war , 942 J
• Levy, Bernard Henri - War, evil, and the end of history , 303.6 L
• Mosier, John - The blitzkrieg myth : how Hitler and the Allies misread the strategic realities of World War II , 940.54 M
• Zamoyski, Adam - 1812 : Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow , 940.27 Z

ESPIONAGE

• Glees, Anthony - The Stasi files : East Germany's secret operations against Britain, 327.12 G
• Hitz, Frederick Porter - The great game : the myth and reality of espionage , 327.12 H
• Stafford, David - Spies beneath Berlin , 327.12 S

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Ferguson, Niall - Colossus : the price of America's empire , 327.73 F
• Harper, John Lamberton - American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the origins of U.S. foreign policy , 327.73 H
• Mead, Walter Russell - Power, terror, peace, and war : America's grand strategy in a world at risk , 327.73 M
• Nye, Joseph S. - Soft power : the means to success in world politics , 327.73 N
• Suettinger, Robert - Beyond Tiananmen : the politics of U.S.-China relations, 1989-2000 , 327.73 S

MIDDLE EAST

• Khalidi, Rashid - Resurrecting empire : western footprints and America's perilous path in the Middle East , 327.73 K
• Lewis, Bernard - From Babel to dragomans : interpreting the Middle East , 956 L

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Dean, John W. - Worse than Watergate : the secret presidency of George W. Bush , 973.930 D
• Kaplan, Roger - Conservative socialism : the decline of radicalism and the triumph of the Left in France , 320 K
• Kerry, John - A call to service , 973.930 K
• Micklethwait, John - The right nation : conservative power in America , 320.9 M
• Podhoretz, John - Bush country : how Dubya became a great president while driving liberals insane , 973.930 P
• Reich, Robert B. - Reason : why liberals will win the battle for America , 320.9 R

ECONOMICS

• Bernstein, William J. - The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created , 339.2 B
• Galbraith, John Kenneth - The economics of innocent fraud : truth for our time , 364.13 G
• Lindert, Peter H. - Growing public : social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century , 339 L
• Seabright, Paul - The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life , 301 S

LAW

• Dershowitz, Alan M. - America on trial : inside the legal battles that transformed our nation , 343 D
• Edling, Max - A revolution in favor of government : origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state , 342.73 E

NEW YORK CITY

• Christo - The gates : project for Central Park, New York City : a work in progress , 709.73 C
• Lankevich, George - Postcards from Manhattan, 974.71 L
• Lopate, Phillip - Seaport : New York's vanished waterfront : photographs from the Edwin Levick Collection , 974.71 L
• Richman, Jeffrey - Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery : New York's buried treasure, 974.71 R

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Agosin, Marjorie - Cartographies : meditations on travel , 910.4 A
• Durrell, Lawrence - The Lawrence Durrell travel reader , 914 D
• Gorra, Michael Edward - The bells in their silence : travels through Germany , 914.3 G
• Moss, Robert Tewdwr - Cleopatra's wedding present : travels through Syria , 915.69 M
• Randell, Nigel - The white headhunter, 993 R
• Waugh, Louisa - Hearing birds fly: a nomadic year in Mongolia, 915.17 W

AFRICA

• French, Howard - A continent for the taking : the tragedy and hope of Africa , 967 F
• Fuller, Alexandra - Scribbling the cat : travels with an African soldier , 967 F
• Guest, Robert - The shackled continent : Africa's past, present and future , 330.96 G

CIVILIZATION

• Goldhill, Simon - Who needs Greek? : contests in the cultural history of Hellenism, 913.38 G
• Harvey, David - Paris, capital of modernity , 944.36 H
• Jacobs, Jane - Dark age ahead , 901 J
• Sampson, Anthony - Who runs this place? : the anatomy of Britain in the 21st century , 914.2 S

RELIGION

• Donne, John - John Donne's sermons on the Psalms and Gospels : with a selection of prayers and meditations , 252 D
• Goldman, Ari - Living a year of Kaddish , 296 G
• Ruthven, Malise - Historical atlas of Islam , 911 R
• Scholem, Gershom - The Messianic idea in Judaism, 296.2 S
• Smith, Huston - Buddhism : a concise introduction , 294 S

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Ball, Philip - Critical mass : how one thing leads to another , 301 B
• Barone, Michael - Hard America, soft America : competition vs. coddling and the battle for the nation's future , 361.6 B
• Brooks, David - On paradise drive : how we live now (and always have) in the future tense , 305.8 B
• Fels, Anna - Necessary dreams : ambition in women's changing lives , 396 F
• Surowiecki, James - The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations , 302.3 S

SCIENCE

• Eldredge, Niles - Why we do it : rethinking sex and the selfish gene , 155.3 E
• Kaku, Michio - Einstein's cosmos : how Albert Einstein's vision transformed our understanding of space and time , 530.1 K
• Larson, Edward J. - Evolution : the remarkable history of a scientific theory , 576 L

ENVIRONMENT

• Black, George - The trout pool paradox : the American lives of three rivers , 333.9 B
• Heinrich, Bernd - The geese of Beaver Bog , 598.2 H
• Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan - Locust : the devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier , 632 L
• Weart, Spencer - The discovery of global warming , 363.7 W

PSYCHOLOGY

• Prince-Hughes, Dawn - Songs of the gorilla nation : my journey through autism , 616.8 P
• Shay, Jonathan - Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming , 616.8 S

MEDICINE

• Levenson, Jacob - The secret epidemic : the story of AIDS and Black America , 362.1 L
• Markel, Howard - When germs travel : six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed , 614.4 M
• Orent, Wendy - Plague : the mysterious past and terrifying future of the world's most dangerous disease , 614.4 O

MISCELLANEOUS

• Holland, Barbara - Gentlemen's blood : a history of dueling from swords at dawn to pistols at dusk, 394.8 H
• Lamont, Peter - The rise of the Indian rope trick : the official biography of a legend , 793.8 L
• Olson, Steve - Count down : six kids vie for glory at the world's toughest math competition , 510 O
• Richardson, Judith - Possessions: the history & uses of haunting in the Hudson Valley, 133.1 R

AUDIO

• Conrad, Joseph - The shadow-line (4 cassettes), AC C
• Five American women (Louise Bogan -- H.D. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Gertrude Stein -- Muriel Rukeyser), AC 821.08 F
• Proust, Marcel - Within a budding grove (16 cassettes), AC P

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