DECEMBER 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY:

• Barbero, Alessandro - Charlemagne : father of a continent
• Beaton, Cecil - Beaton in the sixties : the Cecil Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1965-1969
• Breslin, Herbert H. - The king and I : the uncensored tale of Luciano Pavarotti's rise to fame by his manager, friend, and sometime adversary
• Buckley, Veronica - Christina, Queen of Sweden : the restless life of a European eccentric
• Carr, Virginia Spencer - Paul Bowles : a life
• Cassidy, David C. - J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century
• Cesarani, David - Eichmann : his life and crimes
• Cornwell, John - The pontiff in winter : triumph and conflict in the reign of John Paul II
• Cottle, Thomas J. - When the music stopped : discovering my mother
• Crowe, David - Oskar Schindler : the untold account of his life, wartime activities, and the true story behind the list
• Daneman, Meredith - Margot Fonteyn
• Dregni, Michael - Django : the life and music of a Gypsy legend
• Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency : George Washington
• Fleming, Renee - The inner voice : the making of a singer
• Frost, Mark - The grand slam : Bobby Jones, America, and the story of golf
• Gribbin, John R. - FitzRoy : the remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast
• Hartfield, Ronne - Another way home : the tangled roots of race in one Chicago family
• Hemingway, Valerie - Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways
• Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette - Ten green bottles : the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai
• Kleinzahler, August - Cutty, One Rock : low characters and strange places, gently explained
• Korda, Michael - Ulysses S. Grant : the unlikely hero
• Kunhardt, Philip B. - The dreaming game : a portrait of a passionate life
• Kureishi, Hanif - My ear at his heart : reading my father
• Lees, Gene - Portrait of Johnny : the life of John Herndon Mercer
• Matthews, Marty D. - Forgotten founder : the life and times of Charles Pinckney
• McCrum, Robert - Wodehouse : a life
• McIntire, C. T. - Herbert Butterfield : historian as dissenter
• Mitford, Nancy - The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
• Moffat, Ivan - The Ivan Moffat file : life among the beautiful and damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood
• Oz, Amos - A tale of love and darkness
• Parini, Jay - One matchless time : a life of William Faulkner
• Reardon, Joan - Poet of the appetites : the lives and loves of M.F.K. Fisher
• Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher - E.E. Cummings : a biography
• Smith, Tara Bray - West of then : a mother, a daughter, and a journey past paradise
• Sugden, John - Nelson : a dream of glory, 1758-1797
• Teachout, Terry - All in the dances : a brief life of George Balanchine
• Tharoor, Shashe - Nehru : the invention of India , 92 N396T
• Urrutia, Matilde - My life with Pablo Neruda
• Ward, Geoffrey C. - Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson
• Waugh, Alexander - Fathers and sons : the autobiography of a family
• Ybarra, Michael J. - Washington gone crazy : senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt

FICTION

• Adler, Elizabeth - Invitation to Provence
• Anthony, Piers - Currant events
• Atkinson, Kate - Case histories : a novel
• Banks, Russell - The darling
• Bell, Madison Smartt - The stone that the builder refused
• Benaissa, Slimane - The last night of a damned soul : a novel
• Berry, Wendell - Hannah Coulter : a novel
• Brink, Andre Philippus - Before I forget
• Burke, Shannon - Safelight : a novel
• Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien - Madeleine is sleeping
• Calisher, Hortense - Tattoo for a slave
• Charlesworth, Monique - The children's war
• Chessman, Harriet Scott - Someone not really her mother
• Dangor, Achmat - Bitter fruit
• Delbanco, Nicholas - The vagabonds : a novel
• Desai, Anita - The zigzag way
• Donaldson, Stephen R. - The runes of the earth
• Duberman, Martin B. - Haymarket : a novel
• Faber, Michel - The courage consort : three novellas
• Flagg, Fannie - A redbird Christmas : a novel
• Flook, Maria - Lux
• Gilbert, David - The normals : a novel
• Gould, Judith - The Parisian affair
• Jakes, John - Savannah, or, A gift for Mr. Lincoln : a novel
• Kertesz, Imre - Liquidation
• Kinsella, Sophie - Shopaholic & sister
• Livesey, Margot - Banishing Verona
• Lodge, David - Author, author
• Marai, Sandor - Casanova in Bolzano
• Michaels, Fern - Family blessings
• Mount, Ferdinand - Heads you win
• Naipaul, V. S. - Magic seeds
• Nye, Joseph S. - The power game : a Washington novel
• O'Brian, Patrick - 21 : the final unfinished voyage of Jack Aubrey : including facsimile of the manuscript
• Pfarrer, Donald - The fearless man : a novel of Vietnam
• Poniatowska, Elena - The skin of the sky
• Pressfield, Steven - The virtues of war : a novel of Alexander the Great
• Rhodes, Danuta de - The little white car : a novel
• Slaughter, Carolyn - A Black Englishman
• Updike, John - Villages
• Wolfe, Tom - I am Charlotte Simmons

MYSTERIES

• Baldacci, David - Hour game : a novel
• Beaton, M. C. - The deadly dance *
• Cameron, Stella - Now you see him
• Case, John - The murder artist : a novel
• Childs, Laura - The jasmine moon murder
• Clark, Mary Higgins - The Christmas thief
• Conant, Susan - Bride & groom : a dog lover's mystery
• Crider, Bill - A bond with death
• Crombie, Deborah - In a dark house *
• Davidson, Diane Mott - Double shot
• Edwards, Martin - The coffin trail *
• Egleton, Clive - A dying fall *
• Evanovich, Janet - Metro girl
• Fluke, Joanne - Sugar cookie murder
• Handler, David - The burnt orange sunrise
• Hart, Erin - Lake of sorrows
• Hathaway, Robin - Satan's pony
• Hayes, J. M. - Plains crazy : a Mad Dog & Englishman mystery
• Hime, James L. - Scared money
• Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Now you see it : a Toby Peters mystery
• Mortimer, John Clifford - Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders *
• O'Connell, Carol - Winter house
• Patterson, James - London bridges : a novel
• Pearce, Michael - A dead man in Trieste
• Perry, Anne - A Christmas visitor *
• Rehder, Ben - Flat crazy : a Blanco County mystery
• Rendell, Ruth - Thirteen steps down *
• Schutz, Benjamin M. - The Mongol reply
• Smith, Carol - Hidden agenda *
• Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- - Wolves eat dogs : a novel
• Stansberry, Domenic - Chasing the dragon
• Straub, Peter - In the night room : a novel
• Truman, Margaret - Murder at Union Station : a capital crimes novel

SHORT STORIES

• Freed, Lynn - The curse of the appropriate man
• Gombrowicz, Witold - Bacacay
• Helprin, Mark - The Pacific and other stories
• Lethem, Jonathan - Men and cartoons : stories
• Munro, Alice - Runaway : stories
• Teaching stories : an anthology on the power of learning and literature

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

• Allen, Brooke - Artistic license : three centuries of good writing and bad behavior , 820.9 A
• Bloom, Harold - Where shall wisdom be found? , 809 B
• Castronovo, David - Beyond the gray flannel suit : books from the 1950s that made American culture , 820.9 C
• Howard, Richard - Paper trail : selected prose, 1965-2003 , 824 H
• Longenbach, James - The resistance to poetry , 821.09 L
• Zagajewski, Adam - A defense of ardor , 891.85 Z

NEW TRANSLATIONS

• Gilgamesh. English.;Gilgamesh a new English version [by] Stephen Mitchell.
• Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, Lives of Homer , 883.1 H
• Vegio, Maffeo - Short epics , 879.1 V

POETRY

• Akhmatova, Anna - The word that causes death's defeat : poems of memory , 891.71 A
• Milosz, Czeslaw - Second space : new poems , 891.85 M
• Olds, Sharon - Strike sparks : selected poems, 1980-2002 , 821 O
• Sebald, Winfried Georg - Unrecounted : 33 texts and 33 etchings , 831 S
• Words brushed by music : twenty-five years of the Johns Hopkins poetry series , 821.08 W

DRAMA

• James, Henry - Guy Domville : play in three acts
• Kaufman, George S. - Kaufman & Co. : Broadway comedies , 822 K

BOOKS & READING

• Blom, Philipp - Encyclopedie : the triumph of reason in an unreasonable age , 034 B
• Jones, Gerard - Men of tomorrow : geeks, gangsters and the birth of the comic book , 741.5 J
• Manguel, Alberto - A reading diary , 028 M

LANGUAGE

• Bragg, Melvyn - The adventure of English : the biography of a language , 420.9 B
• Quinion, Michael - Port out, starboard home : and other language myths , 422 Q

PHILOSOPHY

• Kenny, Anthony - A new history of Western philosophy. Vol. I, Ancient philosophy , 180 K
• Sedgwick, Mark J. - Against the modern world : traditionalism and the secret intellectual history of the twentieth century , 194 S

EDUCATION

• Glazer-Raymo, Judith - Shattering the myths : women in academe , 378 G
• Goodnough, Abby - Ms. Moffett's first year : becoming a teacher in America , 372 G
• Segal, Lydia G. - Battling corruption in America's public schools , 379 S

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Cuyp, Aelbert - Aelbert Cuyp , 759.9 C
• Gifford, Sanford R. - Hudson River School visions : the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford , 759.1 G
• Gordon, Alastair - Naked airport : a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure , 387.7 G
• Toker, Franklin - Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house , 728.3 T
• Van Hensbergen, Gijs - Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-century icon , 759.6 P

FILM

• Hayes, Dade - Open wide : how Hollywood box office became a national obsession , 791.4 H
• Rosenbaum, Jonathan - Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons , 791.4 R

HISTORY

• Bartlett, Robert - England under the Norman and Angevin kings, 1075-1225 , 942.02 B
• Borneman, Walter R. - 1812 : the war that forged a nation , 973.52 B
• Ferling, John E. - Adams vs. Jefferson : the tumultuous election of 1800 , 973.4 F
• Harrison, Thomas - Divinity and history : the religion of Herodotus , 938 H
• Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory , 326 P
• Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz - The emperor's beard : Dom Pedro II and the tropical monarchy of Brazil , 981 S
• Sunderland, Willard - Taming the wild field : colonization and empire on the Russian steppe , 947 S

JOURNALISM

• Bowen, James - The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage , 551.96 B
• Goltz, Thomas - Chechnya diary : a war correspondent's story of surviving the war in Chechnya , 947.086 G
• Rowan, Roy - Chasing the dragon : a veteran journalist's firsthand account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution , 951 R

BIOGRAPHY

• Shea, William R. - Galileo in Rome : the rise and fall of a troublesome genius , 92 G158 S
• Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000 , Ref. 920 O986 O
• Roosevelt, Theodore - Letters and speeches , 92 R7816 R

MEDICINE & HEALTH

• Abramson, John - Overdo$ed America : the broken promise of American medicine , 610 A
• Jeffreys, Diarmuid - Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug , 615.7 J
• Willett, Walter - Eat, drink, and be healthy : the Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating , 613.2 W

PSYCHOLOGY

• Jamison, Kay R - Exuberance : the passion for life , 157 J
• Lazare, Aaron - On apology , 155.9 L
• Melechi, Antonio - Fugitive minds : on madness, sleep, and other twilight afflictions , 616.8 M

SCIENCE

• Dawkins, Richard - The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution , 575 D
• Huler, Scott - Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry , 551.5 H
• Wynne, Clive - Do animals think? , 591.5 W

SOCIAL STUDIES

• DeParle, Jason - American dream : three women, ten kids, and a nation's drive to end welfare , 362.5 D
• Furedi, Frank - Where have all the intellectuals gone? : confronting 21st century philistinism , 305.5 F
• Koven, Seth - Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London , 339.1 K
• Roberts, Sam - Who we are now : the changing face of America in the 21st century
• Winder, Robert - Bloody foreigners : the story of immigration to Britain , 325.2 W

LAW

• Chauncey, George - Why marriage? : the history shaping today's debate over gay equality , 306.7 C
• Seidemann, Joel - In the interest of justice : great opening and closing arguments from the last 100 years , 340 S

MILITARY HISTORY

• Barham, Peter - Forgotten lunatics of the Great War , 940.476 B
• The Civil War soldier : a historical reader , 973.74 C
• Hanson, Victor Davis - Wars of the ancient Greeks , 938 H
• Pocock, Tom - Stopping Napoleon : war and intrigue in the Mediterranean , 940.27 P

RELIGION

• The five books of Moses : a translation with commentary Robert Alter.
• Hamer, Dean H. - The God gene : how faith is hardwired into our genes , 201 H
• Harris, Sam - The end of faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason , 200 H
• Polkinghorne, J. C. - Science and the Trinity : the Christian encounter with reality , 215 P

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Gordon, John Steele - An empire of wealth : the epic history of American economic power , 330.973 G
• Mallaby, Sebastian - The world's banker : a story of failed states, financial crises, and the wealth and poverty of nations , 332.1 M
• Prins, Nomi - Other people's money : the corporate mugging of America , 330.973 P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Alterman, Eric - When Presidents lie : a history of official deception and its consequences , 327.73 A
• The American Congress : the building of democracy , 328.73 A
• Hatchet jobs and hardball : the Oxford dictionary of American political slang , 427 H
• Robin, Corey - Fear : the history of a political idea , 320 R

THE IRAQ WAR

• Anderson, Jon Lee - The fall of Baghdad , 956 A
• Hersh, Seymour M - Chain of command : the road from 9

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Barnett, Thomas - The Pentagon's new map : war and peace in the twenty-first century , 355.03 B
• Naughtie, James - The accidental American : Tony Blair and the presidency , 327.42 N
• Understanding anti-Americanism : its origins and impact at home and abroad , 327.73 U

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Irwin, Robert - The Alhambra , 914.6 I
• Levi, Carlo - Fleeting Rome : in search of la dolce vita , 914.56 L
• Mehta, Suketu - Maximum city : Bombay lost and found , 915.4 M
• Orlean, Susan - My kind of place : travel stories from a woman who's been everywhere , 910.4 O

NEW YORK CITY

• Berman, Eleanor - New York neighborhoods , 917.471 B
• Dunlap, David W - From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship , 277.471 D
• Only in New York : 400 surprising answers to fascinating questions about New York City , 974.71 O
• Subway style : 100 years of architecture & design in the New York City subway , 725 S

GARDENS

• Hobhouse, Penelope - The gardens of Persia , 712 H
• Otis, Denise - Grounds for pleasure : four centuries of the American garden , 712 O
• Uglow, Jennifer S - A little history of British gardening , 712 U

HUMOR

• The complete cartoons of the New Yorker , 741.5 C
• Created in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's humor category , 827.08 C
• Stewart, Jon - America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction , 827 S

AUDIO

• Twain, Mark - The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson [sound recording] , AUDIO-CD T
• Zola, Emile - The Gin Palace [sound recording] , AC Z

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