OCTOBER 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY:

• Barber, Michael - Anthony Powell : a life
• Bartholomew, Michael - In search of H.V. Morton
• Bunting, Josiah - Ulysses S. Grant
• Calhoun, Charles C. - Longfellow : a rediscovered life
• Davidson, Ian - Voltaire in exile : the last year, 1753-78
• Fort, Adrian - Prof : the life of Frederick Lindemann
• Gill, Gillian - Nightingales : the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale
• Greenblatt, Stephen - Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare
• Kaufmann, Dorothy - Edith Thomas : a passion for resistance
• Kelley, Kitty - The family : the real story of the Bush dynasty
• Kent, F. W. - Lorenzo de' Medici and the art of magnificence
• Malcolmson, Cristina - George Herbert : a literary life
• McDonald, Forrest - Recovering the past : a historian's memoir
• Mehta, Ved - The red letters : my father's enchanted period
• Murray, Nicholas - Kafka
• Murray, Paul - From the shadow of Dracula : a life of Bram Stoker
• Nathan, Jean - The secret life of The lonely doll : the search for Dare Wright
• O'Brien, Sharon - The family silver : a memoir of depression and inheritance
• Pauley, Jane - Skywriting : a life out of the blue
• Randal, Jonathan C. - Osama : the making of a terrorist
• Santiago, Esmeralda - The Turkish lover
• Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis 2 : the story of a return

FICTION

• Ackroyd, Peter - The lambs of London
• Adams, Lorraine - Harbor
• Bennett, Ronan - Havoc, in its third year : a novel
• Binchy, Maeve - Nights of rain and stars
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The inner circle
• Buckley, Christopher - Florence of Arabia : a novel
• Chang, Lan Samantha - Inheritance
• Charyn, Jerome - The green lantern : a romance of Stalinist Russia
• Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• Crumey, Andrew - Mobius Dick
• Davey, Janet - First aid
• De Bernieres, Louis - Birds without wings
• Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Queen of dreams : a novel
• Donoghue, Emma - Life mask
• Evanovich, Janet - The rocky road to romance
• Feiffer, Judy - My passionate mother : a novel
• Fesperman, Dan - The warlord's son
• Gee, Sue - The mysteries of glass
• Higgins, Jack - Dark justice
• Hyland, M. J. - How the light gets in
• Jen, Gish - The love wife
• Jha, Raj Kamal - If you are afraid of heights
• Ma, Jian - The noodle maker
• Matsuoka, Takashi - Autumn bridge
• Mitchell, Judith Claire - The last day of the war
• Mukherjee, Bharati - The tree bride : a novel
• Oates, Joyce Carol - The falls : a novel
• Ong, Han - The disinherited
• Ozick, Cynthia - Heir to the glimmering world
• Phillips, Arthur - The Egyptologist : a novel
• Reisman, Nancy - The first desire
• Robbins, Harold - The betrayers
• Rosen, Jonathan - Joy comes in the morning
• Rufin, Jean-Christophe - Brazil red
• Spragg, Mark - An unfinished life : a novel
• Stahl, Jerry - I, Fatty : a novel

MYSTERIES

• Andrews, Robert - A murder of justice
• Bell, Ted - Assassin : a novel
• Benjamin, Carol Lea - Fall guy : a Rachel Alexander mystery
• Berenson, Laurien - Jingle bell bark : a Melanie Travis mystery
• Blaine, Michael - The midnight band of mercy
• Bradby, Tom - The White Russian : a novel
• Brett, Simon - The hanging in the hotel : a Fethering mystery *
• Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Paradise City
• Coel, Margaret - Wife of moon
• Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Trace
• Daheim, Mary - This old souse
• Edric, Robert - Siren song *
• Folsom, Allan - The exile
• Fossum, Karin - When the devil holds the candle
• Garwood, Julie - Murder list
• Grimes, Martha - The winds of change : a Richard Jury mystery *
• Grippando, James - Hear no evil
• Hambly, Barbara - Dead water
• Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - The program : a novel
• Jance, Judith A. - Day of the Dead
• Jaskunas, Paul Richard - Hidden : a novel
• Johansen, Iris - Blind alley
• Kahn, Sharon - Which big giver stole the chopped liver? : a Ruby, the rabbi's wife mystery
• Koryta, Michael - Tonight I said goodbye
• Maron, Margaret - High country fall
• Marston, Edward - The counterfeit crank *
• McBain, Ed - Hark! : a novel of the 87th Precinct
• McCall Smith, Alexander - In the company of cheerful ladies
• McCall Smith, Alexander - The Sunday philosophy club
• Michaels, Kasey - Maggie without a clue
• Mina, Denise - Deception : a novel
• Palmer, Michael - The society
• Parker, Robert B. - Melancholy baby
• Rankin, Ian - Witch hunt *
• Robb, J. D. - Visions in death
• Sampson, Catherine - Falling off air *
• Schickler, David - Sweet and vicious : a novel
• Sheldon, Sidney - Are you afraid of the dark?
• Siegel, Sheldon - The confession
• Simon, Michael - Dirty Sally : a novel
• Smolens, John - Fire point : a novel of suspense
• Stabenow, Dana - A taint in the blood
• Tapply, William G. - Bitch Creek : a novel
• Thomas-Graham, Pamela - Orange crushed : an Ivy League mystery
• Wait, Lea - Shadows on the ivy : an antique print mystery

SHORT STORIES:

• The Anchor book of new American short stories
• Frame, Ronald - Time in Carnbeg : short stories
• Gardiner, John Rolfe - The Magellan House stories
• Harris, Joanne - Jigs & reels : stories
• Labor days : an anthology of fiction about work
• Means, David - The secret goldfish : stories
• Shields, Carol - Collected stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

• Kermode, Frank - Pleasure and change : the aesthetics of canon , 809 K
• Logan, William - Desperate measures , 821.09 L
• The Oxford companion to African American literature , 808.89 O
• Understanding The lord of the rings : the best of Tolkien criticism , 823 T
• Vendler, Helen - Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats , 821.09 V
• Whaley, Preston - Blows like a horn : beat writing, jazz, style, and markets in the transformation of U.S. culture , 820.9 W

ANTHOLOGIES

• Altogether elsewhere : writers on exile , 808.8 A
• Americans in Paris : a literary anthology , 808.8 A
• The Dedalus book of Austrian fantasy, 1890-2000 , F D
• The Penguin book of First World War prose , 828.08 P

POETRY

• Achebe, Chinua - Collected poems , 821 A
• Propertius, Sextus - The complete elegies of Sextus Propertius , 874.4 P
• The Yale anthology of twentieth-century French poetry , 841.08 Y

MYTHOLOGY & LEGEND

• Barber, Richard - The Holy Grail : imagination and belief , 398.2 B
• Bierhorst, John - The mythology of North America : with a new afterword , 299.7 B
• Gilmore, David - Monsters : evil beings, mythical beasts, and all manner of imaginary terrors , 398.4 G

PHILOSOPHY

• Himmelfarb, Gertrude - The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American enlightenments , 190 H
• Kierkegaard, Soren - The humor of Kierkegaard : an anthology , 198 K

ART

• The age of Caravaggio , 759.5 C
• Brewer's curious titles , 703 B
• Kimball, Roger - The rape of the masters : how political correctness sabotages art , 750.1 K
• Levy, Adrian - The Amber Room : the fate of the world's greatest lost treasure , 709.47 L
• Picasso, Pablo - Picasso linocuts, 1958-1963 , 769 P

ARCHITECTURE

• Donnelly, Marian C. - Architecture in colonial America , 720.973 D
• Hardwick, M. Jeffrey - Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream , 92 G8867H
• Scott, Robert A. - The Gothic enterprise : a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral , 726.6 S

HISTORY

• Brumwell, Stephen - White devil : an epic story of revenge from the savage war that inspired The last of the Mohicans , 973.2 B
• Lindaman, Dana - History lessons : how textbooks from around the world portray U.S. history , 973 L
• Matlock, Jack F. - Reagan and Gorbachev : how the Cold War ended , 973.927 M
• Miller, Donald E. - Armenia : portraits of survival and hope , 956.6 M
• The most fearful ordeal : original coverage of the Civil War , 973.7 M
• Naim, Asher - Saving the lost tribe : the rescue and redemption of the Ethiopian Jews , 963 N
• Sayer, Derek - The coasts of Bohemia : a Czech history , 943.71 S

CIVILIZATION

• The Cambridge companion to modern Latin American culture , 980 C
• Conn, Steven - History's shadow : Native Americans and historical consciousness in the nineteenth century , 970.1 C

BIOGRAPHY

• Morris, Dick - Rewriting history , 973.929 M
• Morris, Larry E. - The fate of the corps : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition , 917.8 M
• Skidelsky, Robert - John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 : economist, philosopher, statesman , 92 K446 S

SOCIOLOGY

• Dow, Mark - American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons , 365 D
• Rifkin, Jeremy - The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream , 306.3 R
• Rotskoff, Lori - Love on the rocks : men, women, and alcohol in post-World War II America , 362.292 R
• Setright, L.J.K. - Drive on! : a social history of the motor car , 629.2 S

ECONOMICS

• Altman, Daniel - Neoconomy : George Bush's revolutionary gamble with America's future , 330.973 A
• DiLorenzo, Thomas J. - How capitalism saved America : the untold history of our country, from the Pilgrims to the present , 330.973 D

ADVERTISING & MARKETING

• Friedman, Walter A. - Birth of a salesman : the transformation of selling in America , 381 F
• Tedlow, Richard S. - New and improved : the story of mass marketing in America , 381 T
• Twitchell, James B. - Branded nation : the marketing of megachurch, college, inc., and museumworld , 658.8 T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Baker, Raymond William - Islam without fear : Egypt and the new Islamists , 962 B
• Fukuyama, Francis - State-building : governance and world order in the 21st century , 320.1 F
• Hardt, Michael - Multitude : war and democracy in the Age of Empire , 325 H
• McGovern, George S. - The essential America : our founders and the liberal tradition , 320.9 M
• Presidential leadership : rating the best and worst in the White House , 973 P

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Cumings, Bruce - Inventing the axis of evil : the truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria , 327.73 C
• Dozer, Donald Marquand - Are we good neighbors? : three decades of inter-American relations, 1930-1960 , 327.73 D
• Halper, Stefan - America alone : the neo-conservatives and the global order , 327.73 H
• Said, Edward - From Oslo to Iraq and the road map , 327.73 S

TERRORISM

• Flynn, Stephen - America the vulnerable : how our government is failing to protect us from terrorism , 303.6 F
• Goldstein, Joshua S. - The real price of war : how you pay for the war on terror , 973.930 G
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States - The 9/11 Commission report, 973.9302 N

MIDDLE EAST

• Rabinovich, Abraham - The Yom Kippur War : the epic encounter that transformed the Middle East , 956.94 R
• Robins, Philip - A history of Jordan , 956.9 R
• Ross, Dennis - The missing peace : the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace , 956.9 R

MILITARY

• Butler, Smedley - War is a racket : the antiwar classic by America's most decorated General, two other anti-interventionist tracts, and photographs from The horror of it , 172.4 B
• Dando-Collins, Stephen - Caesar's legion : the epic saga of Julius Caesar's elite Tenth Legion and the armies of Rome , 937.02 D
• Mackey, Chris - The interrogators : inside the secret war against al Qaeda , 958 M
• Windrow, Martin - The last valley : Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam , 959 W

MEDICINE & HEALTH

• Angell, Marcia - The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it , 338.4 A
• Marmot, M. G. - The status syndrome : how social standing affects our health and longevity , 612.67 M
• Pena, Carolyn Thomas de la - The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American , 615.8 P

CRIMINOLOGY

• Blumenthal, Ralph - Miracle at Sing Sing : how one man transformed the lives of America's most dangerous prisoners , 365 B
• Burrough, Bryan - Public enemies : America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34 , 364.1 B

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Hare, John - Shadows across the Sahara : travels with camels from Lake Chad to Tripoli , 916.6 H
• Rajtar, Steve - Historic hiking trails : a directory of over 900 routes with awards available to hikers , 796.51 R
• Stewart, Rory - The places in between , 915.8 S
• Svevo, Italo - This England is so different-- : Italo Svevo's London writings , 92 S9686 S
• Yeadon, David - Seasons in Basilicata : a year in a southern Italian hill village , 914.57 Y

NATURE

• Friend, Tim - Animal talk : breaking the codes of animal language , 591.5 F
• McCarthy, Susan - Becoming a tiger : how baby animals learn to live in the wild , 591.5 M
• Russell, Sharman - An obsession with butterflies : our long love affair with a singular insect , 595.78 R

MISCELLANEOUS

• All there is to know : readings from the illustrious eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica , 030 A
• Famous last words : fond farewells, deathbed diatribes, and exclamations upon expiration , 808.8 F
• Rogers, Nicholas - Halloween : from pagan ritual to party night , 394.26 R
• Schott, Ben - Schott's original miscellany , 031.02 S

AUDIO

• Hartley, L. P. - The go-between [sound recording] , AC H
• James, Henry - The other house [sound recording] , AC J
• Stevens, Wallace - Wallace Stevens [sound recording]., Audio-CD 821 S
• Toibin, Colm - The master [sound recording] , AC T

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