NOVEMBER 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY:

• Appelfeld, Aron - The story of a life
• Bogdanovich, Peter - Who the hell's in it : portraits and conversations
• Burroughs, Augusten - Magical thinking : true stories
• Capote, Truman - Too brief a treat : the letters of Truman Capote
• Cohen, Jennifer Beth - Lying together : my Russian affair
• Dearborn, Mary - Mistress of modernism : the life of Peggy Guggenheim
• Dolan, Brian - Wedgwood : the first tycoon
• Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter - Full bloom : the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe
• Dylan, Bob - Chronicles
• Eliot, Marc - Cary Grant : the biography
• Feder, Stuart - Gustav Mahler : a life in crisis
• Goodchild, Peter - Edward Teller, the real Dr. Strangelove
• Greene, Bob - Fraternity : a journey in search of five presidents
• Hack, Richard - Puppetmaster : the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover
• Jager, Lorenz - Adorno : a political biography
• Kerouac, Jack - Windblown world : the journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
• Libeskind, Daniel - Breaking ground : adventures in life and architecture
• Moss, Barbara Robinette - Fierce : a memoir
• Naughtie, James - The accidental American : Tony Blair and the presidency , 327.42 N
• Raphael, Frederic - Rough copy : personal terms 2
• Rhodes, Richard - John James Audubon : the making of an American
• Robertson, David - A passionate pilgrim : a biography of Bishop James A. Pike
• Rubinstein, Julian - Ballad of the whiskey robber : a true story of bank heists, ice hockey, Transylvanian pelt smuggling, moonlighting detectives, and broken hearts
• Salter, James - Gods of tin : the flying years
• Secrest, Meryle - Duveen : a life in art
• Souder, William - Under a wild sky : John James Audubon and the making of the Birds of America
• Tofel, Richard - Vanishing point : the disappearance of Judge Crater and the New York he left behind
• Vanderbilt, Gloria - It seemed important at the time : a romance memoir
• Young, Michael - Malinowski : odyssey of an anthropologist, 1884-1920
• Ziff, Larzer - Mark Twain

FICTION:

• Amidon, Stephen - Human capital
• Bohjalian, Christopher - Before you know kindness : a novel
• Cartwright, Justin - The promise of happiness
• Coe, Jonathan - The closed circle
• Corman, Avery - A perfect divorce
• Doerr, Anthony - About Grace : a novel
• Doyle, Roddy - Oh, play that thing
• Drabble, Margaret - The red queen : a transcultural tragicomedy
• Ellroy, James - Destination: Morgue! : L. A. Tales
• Francisco, Ruth - Good morning, darkness
• Frank, Elizabeth - Cheat and charmer : a novel
• Goldstein, Jan - All that matters
• Isaacs, Susan - Any place I hang my hat
• Jin, Ha - War trash
• Jordan, Neil - Shade : a novel
• Kantner, Seth - Ordinary wolves
• King, Stephen - The dark tower
• Lieberman, Nancy - Admissions
• Nersesian, Arthur - Unlubricated : a novel
• Nguyen, Kien - Le colonial : a novel
• Novakovich, Josip - April Fool's Day : a novel
• Perry, Anne - Shoulder the sky : a novel
• Quinonez, Ernesto - Chango's fire : a novel
• Roberts, Gregory - Shantaram
• Roberts, Nora - Northern lights
• Roth, Philip - The plot against America
• Saramago, Jose - The double
• Shakespeare, Nicholas - Snowleg
• Shreve, Anita - Light on snow : a novel
• Sohn, Amy - My old man : a novel
• Stephenson, Neal - The system of the world
• Vassanji, M. G. - The in-between world of Vikram Lall
• Ward, Liza - Outside Valentine : a novel
• Weiner, Jennifer - Little earthquakes : a novel

MYSTERIES:

• Allbeury, Ted - Hostage *
• Berry, Steve - The Romanov prophecy : a novel
• Billingham, Mark - The burning girl
• Davis, Lindsey - Scandal takes a holiday
• Doss, James - The witch's tongue
• Fusilli, Jim - Hard, hard city
• Herron, Mick - The last voice you hear *
• Hill, Sam - Buzz riff
• Hogan, Chuck - Prince of thieves : a novel *
• Ison, Graham - Whiplash *
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Double homicide : Santa Fe
• Klavan, Andrew - Shotgun Alley
• Krich, Rochelle Majer - Grave endings : a novel of suspense
• Markaris, Petros - Deadline in Athens
• Mayor, Archer - The surrogate thief
• McInerny, Ralph - Requiem for a realtor : a Father Dowling mystery
• Mills, Mark - Amagansett
• Parker, T. Jefferson - California girl
• Rozan, S. J. - Absent friends
• Rucka, Greg - A gentleman's game : a queen & country novel *
• Wesson, Marianne - Chilling effect : a novel
• Wolstencroft, David - Good news, bad news
• Woods, Stuart - The prince of Beverly Hills

SHORT STORIES:

• Capote, Truman - The complete stories of Truman Capote
• LaBute, Neil - Seconds of pleasure : stories
• Shabtai, Yaakov - Uncle Peretz takes off : short stories
• Williams, Joy - Honored guest : stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:

BELLES LETTRES:

• Ashbery, John - John Ashbery in conversation with Mark Ford., 821.09 A
• Ford, Andrew Laughlin - The origins of criticism : literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece , 880.9 F
• Sherbo, Arthur - Samuel Johnson's critical opinions : a reexamination , 828.09 J
• Wood, Ralph - Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South , 823 O

ANTHOLOGIES:

• Glasnost : an anthology of Russian literature under Gorbachev , F G
• The mountain world : a literary celebration , 808.8 M

NEW TRANSLATIONS:

• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich - The complete short novels , F C
• Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary : provincial manners , F F
• Giono, Jean - The serpent of stars , F G

POETRY:

• Burns, Robert - The Canongate Burns , 821 B
• Neruda, Pablo - Twenty love poems and a song of despair , 861 N
• Rilke, Rainer Maria - Sonnets to Orpheus , 831 R
• Streckfus, Peter - The cuckoo , 821 S

PHILOSOPHY:

• Delsol, Chantal - Icarus fallen : the search for meaning in an uncertain world , 121 D
• McGrath, Alister - The twilight of atheism : the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world , 211 M

ART & ARCHITECTURE:

• Delacroix, Eugene - Delacroix in Morocco , 759.4 D
• Denker, Ellen - Byrdcliffe : an American arts and crafts colony , 747 B
• Huyssen, Andreas - After the great divide : modernism, mass culture, postmodernism , 709.04 H
• Little, Nina Fletcher - American decorative wall painting, 1700-1850 , 751.1 L
• Victorian Boston today : twelve walking tours , 917.446 V

MUSIC:

• Harries, Meirion - A pilgrim soul : the life and work of Elisabeth Lutyens , 92 L9746H
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest - First nights at the opera , 782.1 K

HISTORY:

• Achenbach, Joel - The grand idea : George Washington's Potomac and the race to the west , 975 A
• Buettner, Elizabeth - Empire families : Britons and late imperial India , 954 B
• Deadly medicine : creating the master race , 575.1 D
• LaCapra, Dominick - History in transit : experience, identity, critical theory , 901 L
• Liebreich, Karen - Fallen order : intrigue, heresy, and scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio , 271.1 L
• Pennell, C. R. - Morocco : from empire to independence , 964 P

WESTERN FRONTIER:

• Kastor, Peter - The nation's crucible : the Louisiana Purchase and the creation of America , 973.4 K
• Paul, Rodman - Mining frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880 , 978 P
• Yellowstone and the Great West : journals, letters, and images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition , 978.7 Y

JOURNALISM:

• Liebling, A. J. - Just enough Liebling : classic work by the legendary New Yorker writer , 824 L
• Plimpton, George - The man in the flying lawn chair : and other excursions and adventures , 824 P

BIOGRAPHY & INTERVIEWS:

• Barrett, Anthony - Agrippina : sex, power, and politics in the early Empire , 92 A2795 B
• Barsamian, David - Louder than bombs : interviews from The progressive magazine , 303.4 B
• Gross, Terry - All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists , 791.42 G
• Russell, Mary - The blessings of a good thick skirt : women travellers and their world , 920 R967 B
• Sillitoe, Alan - Life without armour , 92 S5848 S

SOCIOLOGY:

• Fuller, Robert - Somebodies and nobodies : overcoming the abuse of rank , 305.5 F
• Rhoads, Steven - Taking sex differences seriously , 306.7 R
• Schauer, Frederick - Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes , 303.3 S

RELIGION:

• Boyarin, Daniel - Border lines : the partition of Judaeo-Christianity , 296.1 B
• Ruthven, Malise - Fundamentalism : the search for meaning , 200 R
• Williams, Rowan - Anglican identities , 283 W
• Wuthnow, Robert - Saving America? : faith-based services and the future of civil society , 361 W

EDUCATION:

• Edmundson, Mark - Why read? , 807 E
• Shaywitz, Sally - Overcoming dyslexia : a new and complete science-based program for reading problems at any level , 372.4 S
• Sizer, Theodore - The red pencil : convictions from experience in education , 373 S

NATURAL HISTORY:

• Coleman, Jon - Vicious : wolves and men in America , 599 C
• Ellis, Richard - No turning back : the life and death of animal species , 575.7 E
• Ferguson, Gary - The great divide : the Rocky Mountains in the American mind , 978 F

ASTRONOMY:

• Dick, Steven - The living universe : NASA and the development of astrobiology , 576 D
• Gilder, Joshua - Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries , 520.9 G
• Zirker, Jack - Sunquakes : probing the interior of the sun , 523.7 Z

MATHEMATICS:

• Nagel, Ernest - Godel's proof , 510 N
• Pesic, Peter - Abel's proof : an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability , 512 P

TECHNOLOGY:

• Brock, Gerald - The second information revolution , 384 B
• Owen, David - Copies in seconds : how a lone inventor and an unknown company created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg : Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox machine , 658 O

CIVIL RIGHTS:

• Preston, William - Aliens and dissenters : federal suppression of radicals, 1903-1933 , 322.4 P
• Williams, Juan - My soul looks back in wonder : voices of the civil rights movement , 323.1 W

ECONOMICS & FINANCE:

• Graham, Benjamin - The intelligent investor : a book of practical counsel , 332.6 G
• McDonald, Forrest - We the people : the economic origins of the Constitution , 342.73 M
• Mandelbrot, Benoit - The (mis)behavior of markets : a fractal view of risk, ruin, and reward , 332 M
• Meyer, Laurence - A term at the Fed : an insider's view , 332.1 M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT:

• Alexander, Paul - The candidate : behind John Kerry's remarkable run for the White House , 973.930 A
• Buchanan, Patrick - Where the right went wrong : how neoconservatives subverted the Reagan revolution and hijacked the Bush presidency , 973.930 B
• Gray, John - Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern , 303.4 G
• Richardson, Henry - Democratic autonomy : public reasoning about the ends of policy , 320 R

FOREIGN RELATIONS:

• Hanhimaki, Jussi - The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy , 327.73 H
• Schlesinger, Arthur - War and the American presidency , 973.930 S
• Talbott, Strobe - Engaging India : diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb , 327.73 T

MIDDLE EAST:

• Claire, Rodger William - Raid on the sun : inside Israel's secret campaign that denied Saddam the bomb , 956 C
• Pappe, Ilan - A history of modern Palestine : one land, two peoples , 956.9 P

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION:

• Anderson, Jon Lee - The lion's grave : dispatches from Afghanistan , 958 A
• Mowat, Farley - No man's river , 917.12 M
• Settle, Mary Lee - Spanish recognitions : the roads to the present , 914.6 S
• They came to Japan : an anthology of European reports on Japan, 1543-1640 , 915.2 T

CARTOGRAPHY:

• Buisseret, David - The mapmakers' quest : depicting new worlds in Renaissance Europe , 526.9 B
• Harmon, Katharine - You are here : personal geographies and other maps of the imagination , 912 H

NEW YORK CITY:

• Goldberger, Paul - Up from zero : politics, architecture, and the rebuilding of New York , 720.973 G
• New York minimalism , 720.973 N
• Spiegelman, Art - In the shadow of no towers , 973.9302 S

FOOD & DRINK:

• Adams, Jad - Hideous absinthe : a history of the devil in a bottle , 394.1 A
• Kramer, Matt - Making sense of wine , 641.2 K
• Mallet, Gina - Last chance to eat : the fate of taste in a fast food world , 641 M
• Schott, Ben - Schott's food & drink miscellany , 641 S

DISASTERS:

• Jackson, Joe - A furnace afloat : the wreck of the Hornet and the harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors , 910.4 J
• Kleinberg, Eliot - Black cloud : the great Florida hurricane of 1928 , 551.5 K
• Stilgoe, John - Lifeboat , 910.4 S

AUDIO:

• Jewett, Sarah Orne - The country of the pointed firs [sound recording] , AC J
• Waugh, Evelyn - Decline and fall [sound recording] , AC W
• Wells, H. G. - Kipps [sound recording] , AC W
• Wilde, Oscar - Lord Arthur Savile's crime and other stories [sound recording] , AC W

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