JANUARY 2005 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY:

• Assouline, Pierre - Discovering Impressionism : the life of Paul Durand-Ruel
• Augustine, Saint - Saint Augustine's conversion
• Bradford, Sarah - Lucrezia Borgia : life, love and death in Renaissance Italy
• Brookes, Martin - Extreme measures : the dark visions and bright ideas of Francis Galton
• Colacello, Bob - Ronnie & Nancy : their path to the White House, 1911 to 1980
• Davis, Patti - The long goodbye
• Epstein, Daniel Mark - Lincoln and Whitman : parallel lives in Civil War Washington
• Feferman, Anita Burdman - Alfred Tarski : life and logic
• Fell, Derek - Van Gogh's women : his love affairs and journey into madness
• Fraser, Flora - Princesses : the six daughters of George III
• Gazzara, Ben - In the moment : my life as an actor
• Hill, Gregg - On the run : a Mafia childhood
• Huxtable, Ada Louise - Frank Lloyd Wright
• Lambert, Andrew D. - Nelson : Britannia's god of war
• Mahler, Gustav - Gustav Mahler : letters to his wife
• Marowitz, Charles - The other Chekhov : a biography of Michael Chekhov, the legendary actor, director & theorist
• Morris, Dick - Because he could
• Nicholl, Charles - Leonardo da Vinci : flights of the mind
• O'Neal, Tatum - A paper life
• Osborne, Frances - Lilla's feast : a true story of food, love, and war in the Orient
• Richie, Donald - The Japan journals, 1947-2004
• Stevens, Mark - De Kooning : an American master
• Tamm, Eric Enno - Beyond the outer shores : the untold odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell

FICTION:

• Auchincloss, Louis - East Side story : a novel
• Barker, Nicola - Clear : a transparent novel
• Bielski, Nella - The year is '42
• Buffett, Jimmy - A salty piece of land
• Chabon, Michael - The final solution : a story of detection
• Crichton, Michael - State of fear : a novel
• Cussler, Clive - Black wind
• Dubris, Maggie - Skels
• Follett, Ken - Whiteout
• Gardam, Jane - Old filth
• Golding, Paul - Senseless : a novel
• Goldman, Francisco - The divine husband : a novel
• Gregory, Philippa - The virgin's lover
• Hough, Robert - The stowaway
• Krentz, Jayne Ann - Falling awake
• Martel, Yann - The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
• McLaughlin, Emma - Citizen girl : a novel
• McMurtry, Larry - Loop group
• Mitcham, Judson - Sabbath Creek : a novel
• Pezzelli, Peter - Home to Italy
• Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
• Sallis, James - A city equal to my desire
• Schutt, Christine - Florida
• Shaara, Jeff - To the last man : a novel of the First World War
• Shepard, Lucius - A handbook of American prayer : a novel
• Thayer, Nancy - The Hot Flash Club strikes again : a novel
• Vincenzi, Penny - Something dangerous
• Weldon, Fay - Mantrapped
• Winegardner, Mark - The godfather returns

MYSTERIES:

• Airth, Rennie - The blood-dimmed tide *
• Albert, Susan Wittig - The tale of Hill Top Farm : the cottage tales of Beatrix Potter *
• Allyn, Douglas - The burning of Rachel Hayes
• Balzo, Sandra - Uncommon grounds
• Beinhart, Larry - The librarian
• Blevins, Meredith - The vanished priestess : an Annie Szabo mystery
• Bonfiglioli, Kyril - Don't point that thing at me *
• Buckley, Fiona - The siren queen : an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court *
• Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. - Murder at the B-School
• Dams, Jeanne M. - Winter of discontent : a Dorothy Martin mystery
• DeMille, Nelson - Night fall : a novel *
• Druett, Joan - A watery grave
• Edwards, Ruth Dudley - Carnage on the committee *
• Eglin, Anthony - The blue rose
• Garber, Joseph R. - Whirlwind : a novel
• Glauser, Friedrich - Thumbprint
• Gregson, J. M. - Just desserts *
• Gur, Batya - Bethlehem Road murder : a Michael Ohayon mystery
• Hillerman, Tony - Skeleton man
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Twisted : a novel
• Kelly, Jim - The fire baby *
• Lescroart, John T. - The motive
• Lucarelli, Carlo - Day after day
• Mankell, Henning - Before the frost
• Martin, Andrew - The Blackpool highflyer *
• Matturro, Claire Hamner - Skinny-dipping
• McInerny, Ralph M. - Green thumb
• Mitchell, Kirk - Dance of the thunder dogs
• Rankin, Ian - Fleshmarket Close *
• Reardon, Lisa - The mercy killers : a novel
• Rendell, Ruth - The rottweiler : a novel
• Richter, Thomas - Self's punishment
• Roberts, Gillian - Till the end of Tom : an Amanda Pepper mystery
• Smiley, Patricia - False profits
• Spencer, Sally - The butcher beyond *
• Staincliffe, Cath - Blue murder *
• Stark, Richard - Nobody runs forever

SHORT STORIES:

• Hospital, Janette Turner - North of nowhere, south of loss
• Proulx, Annie - Bad dirt : Wyoming stories 2
• Purdy, James - Moe's villa & other stories

SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES:

• Eco, Umberto - On literature , 809 E
• Gioia, Dana - Disappearing ink : poetry at the end of print culture , 809.1 G
• Kay, Sarah - A short history of French literature , 840.9 K
• Lessing, Doris May - Time bites : views and reviews , 824 L
• Merrill, James Ingram - Collected prose , 820.81 M
• Tew, Philip - The contemporary British novel , 823.09 T

POETRY:

• After every war : twentieth-century women poets , 831.08 A
• Plath, Sylvia - Ariel : the restored edition : a facsimile of Plath's manuscript reinstating her original selection and arrangement , 821 P
• Tate, James - Return to the city of white donkeys : poems , 821 T
• Wilbur, Richard - Collected poems, 1943-2004 , 821 W

LANGUAGE:

• Crystal, David - The stories of English , 420.9 C
• Katz, Dovid - Words on fire : the unfinished story of Yiddish , 492.4 K

PHILOSOPHY:

• Berlin, Isaiah - Three critics of the Enlightenment : Vico, Hamann, Herder : incorporating Vico and Herder and The magus of the north , 190 B
• McInerny, D. Q. - Being logical : a guide to good thinking , 160 M
• Moggach, Douglas - The philosophy and politics of Bruno Bauer , 321.8 M

ART:

• Bell, Adrienne Baxter - George Inness and the visionary landscape , 759.1 I
• Brenson, Michael - Visionaries and outcasts : the NEA, Congress, and the place of the visual artist in America , 709.73 B
• Ormond, Richard - John Singer Sargent : complete paintings , 759.1 S OVERSIZE
• Schama, Simon - Hang-ups : essays on painting (mostly) , 709 S
• Schwartz, Sanford - William Nicholson , 759.2 N

MUSIC:

• Faber, Toby - Stradivarius : one cello, five violins, and a genius , 787.1 F
• Morgenstern, Dan - Living with jazz : a reader , 780.973 M
• The rose & the briar : death, love and liberty in the American ballad , 784.4 R

PLAYS:

• Bennett, Alan - The history boys , 822 B
• Chekhov, Anton - The essential plays , 891.7 C
• Heaney, Seamus - The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone , 882.2 S

THEATER:

• Bordman, Gerald Martin - The Oxford companion to American theatre , Ref 792.03 B
• Maslon, Laurence - Broadway : the American musical , 782.6 M OVERSIZE

HISTORY:

• David, Saul - Zulu : the heroism and tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 , 968 D
• Fischer, David Hackett - Liberty and freedom , 973 F
• Kertzer, David - Prisoner of the Vatican : the popes' secret plot to capture Rome from the new Italian state , 945.6 K
• Khlevniuk, O. V. - The history of the Gulag : from collectivization to the great terror , 365 K
• Kyvig, David E. - Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression , 973.91 K
• Wilcken, Patrick - Empire adrift : the Portuguese court in Rio De Janeiro, 1808-1821 , 981 W

CIVILIZATION:

• Goldhill, Simon - Love, sex & tragedy : how the ancient world shapes our lives , 909 G
• Shorris, Earl - The life and times of Mexico , 972 S

WORLD WAR II:

• Kershaw, Ian - Making friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's road to war , 940.531 K
• Moore, Deborah Dash - GI Jews : how World War II changed a generation , 940.54 M
• Peek, Ian Denys - One fourteenth of an elephant : a memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand Railway , 940.5472 P
• The voice of war : the second world war told by those who fought it , 940.548 V

BIOGRAPHY:

• Bethge, Eberhard - Dietrich Bonhoeffer : theologian, Christian, man for his times : a biography , 92 B7147B
• Hazlewood, Nick - The queen's slave trader : Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the trafficking in human souls
• Mahon, Basil - The man who changed everything : the life of James Clerk Maxwell , 92 M4655 M
• Tharoor, Shashi - Nehru : the invention of India , 92 N396 T

NEW YORK CITY:

• Foote, Thelma Wills - Black and white Manhattan : the history of racial formation in New York City, 1624-1783 , 305.8 F
• New York : the photo atlas : an aerial tour of all five boroughs and more , 917.471 N OVERSIZE
• Vergara, Camilo J. - Subway memories , 388 V
• Winpenny, Thomas R. - Manhattan Bridge : the troubled story of a New York monument , 624 W

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Hanson, Victor Davis - Mexifornia : a state of becoming , 305.85 H
• Isenberg, Alison - Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it , 307.76 I
• Mintz, Steven - Huck's raft : a history of American childhood , 305.23 M
• Nadell, Martha Jane - Enter the new Negroes : images of race in American culture , 305.88 N
• Where we stand : voices of Southern dissent , 975 W

RELIGION:

• Ault, James M. - Spirit and flesh : life in a fundamentalist Baptist church , 286 A
• Kepel, Gilles - The war for Muslim minds : Islam and the West , 297 K
• Puritans in the New World : a critical anthology , 285.9 P
• Spoto, Donald - In silence : why we pray , 264.1 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT:

• Cornog, Evan - The power and the story : how the crafted presidential narrative has determined political success from George Washington to George W. Bush , 973 C
• Garton Ash, Timothy - Free world : America, Europe, and the surprising future of the West , 909.83 F
• Pols : great writers on American politicians from Bryan to Reagan , 973 P
• Sunstein, Cass R. - The second bill of rights : FDR's unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever , 342.73 S

FOREIGN RELATIONS:

• Farber, David R. - Taken hostage : the Iran hostage crisis and America's first encounter with radical Islam , 955 F
• Hart, Gary - The fourth power : a grand strategy for the United States in the twenty-first century , 327.73 H
• Miller, John J. - Our oldest enemy : a history of America's disastrous relationship with France , 327.73 M
• Reid, T. R. - The United States of Europe : the new superpower and the end of American supremacy , 327 R

IRAQ:

• Black, Edwin - Banking on Baghdad : inside Iraq's 7,000-year history of war, profit and conflict , 956 B
• Feldman, Noah - What we owe Iraq : war and the ethics of nation building , 956 F
• Parenti, Christian - The freedom : shadows and hallucinations in occupied Iraq , 956 P

MIDDLE EAST:

• Cramer, Richard Ben - How Israel lost : the four questions , 956.94 C
• Rees, Matt - Cain's field : faith, fratricide, and fear in the Middle East , 956.94 R

SCIENCE:

• Morris, Desmond - The naked woman : a study of the female body , 612 M
• Page, Jake - The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science , 551.2 P
• Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution , 523.1 T

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

• Avorn, Jerry - Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs , 338.4 A
• McDonald, Peter - Oxford dictionary of medical quotations , 610.3 M
• Parson, Ann B. - The Proteus effect : stem cells and their promise for medicine , 616 P

PSYCHOLOGY:

• Greenspan, Stanley I. - The first idea : how symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our early primate ancestors to modern humans , 153 G
• Wilson, Timothy D. - Strangers to ourselves : discovering the adaptive unconscious , 153.8 W

LAW:

• Dershowitz, Alan M. - Rights from wrongs : a secular theory of the origins of rights , 323.4 D
• Weiner, Mark Stuart - Black trials : citizenship from the beginnings of slavery to the end of caste , 305.88 W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION:

• Burnaby, Fred - On horseback through Asia Minor , 915.6 B
• Ehrlich, Gretel - The future of ice : a journey into cold , 910.4 E
• In the lands of the Christians : Arabic travel writing in the seventeenth century , 910 I
• Riffenburgh, Beau - Shackleton's forgotten expedition : the voyage of the Nimrod , 919.9 R

ENVIRONMENT:

• Gelbspan, Ross - Boiling point : how politicians, big oil and coal, journalists and activists are fueling the climate crisis--and what we can do to avert disaster , 363.7 G
• Weyler, Rex - Greenpeace : how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed the world , 363.7 W

CITIES:

• Haag, Michael - Alexandria : city of memory , 962 H
• Hughes, Robert - Barcelona the Great Enchantress , 946 H
• Quindlen, Anna - Imagined London : a tour of the world's greatest fictional city , 820.9 Q

ANIMALS:

• Boehrer, Bruce Thomas - Parrot culture : our 2,500-year-long fascination with the world's most talkative bird , 636.6 B
• Ridley, Glynis - Clara's Grand Tour : travels with a rhinoceros in eighteenth-century Europe , 599 R
• Tennant, Alan - On the wing : to the edge of the earth with the peregrine falcon , 598.2 T

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Herlihy, David V. - Bicycle : the history , 796.6 H
• Taylor, Timothy - The buried soul : how humans invented death , 393 T
• Vainker, S. J. - Chinese silk : a cultural history , 677.4 V

AUDIO:

• Cheever, John - The stories of John Cheever [sound recording] , AC C
• Cherry-Garrard, Apsley - The worst journey in the world [sound recording] , AC 919.9 C
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected essays [sound recording] , AC 824 E

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