MAY 2005 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY:

• Abu-Jaber, Diana - The language of Baklava
• Adams, Henry - Eakins revealed : the secret life of an American artist
• Afterwords : letters on the death of Virginia Woolf
• Aram, Bethany - Juana the Mad : sovereignty and dynasty in Renaissance Europe
• Bundy, Carol - The nature of sacrifice : a biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64
• Byrne, Paula - Perdita : the literary, theatrical, scandalous life of Mary Robinson
• Caine, Barbara - Bombay to Bloomsbury : a biography of the Strachey family
• Catherine II, Empress of Russia - Love and conquest : personal correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
• Cohodas, Nadine - Queen : the life and music of Dinah Washington
• Conradi, Peter - Hitler's piano player : the rise and fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, confidant of Hitler, ally of FDR
• Cook, Andrew - M : MI5's first spymaster
• Cote, Richard N. - Strength and honor : the life of Dolley Madison
• Cox, Stephen D. - The woman and the dynamo : Isabel Paterson and the idea of America
• Dole, Robert J. - One soldier's story : a memoir
• Feynman, Richard Phillips - Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman
• Fleischer, Ari - Taking heat : the president, the press, and my years in the White House
• Fletcher, Joel L. - Ken & Thelma : the story of A confederacy of dunces
• Foskett, Ken - Judging Thomas : the life and times of Clarence Thomas
• Freedman, Samuel G - Who she was : my search for my mother's life
• Gelardi, Julia - Born to rule : five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria
• Gordon, Charlotte - Mistress Bradstreet : the untold life of America's first poet
• Grant, James - John Adams : party of one
• Heinemann, Larry - Black Virgin Mountain : a return to Vietnam
• Holland, Barbara - When all the world was young : a memoir
• Kennedy, Michelle - Without a net : middle class and homeless (with kids) in America : my story
• Lamb, Christina - The Africa house : the true story of an English gentleman and his African dream
• Latifi, Afschineh - Even after all this time : a story of love, revolution, and leaving Iran
• Lelyveld, Arthur J. - Omaha blues : a memory loop
• Marshall, Megan - The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism
• Martin, George Whitney - CCB : the life and century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York's first citizen, 1858-1959
• Moaveni, Azadeh - Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
• Moran, Lindsay - Blowing my cover : my life as a CIA spy
• Norman, Howard A - In fond remembrance of me
• Reynolds, David S. - John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
• Rips, Michael - The face of a naked lady : an Omaha family mystery
• Service, Robert - Stalin : a biography
• Stahr, Walter - John Jay : Founding Father
• Sturgis, Matthew - Walter Sickert : a life
• Todd, Olivier - Malraux : a life
• Wilder, Gene - Kiss me like a stranger : my search for love and art
• Worthen, John - D.H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider
• Zailckas, Koren - Smashed : story of a drunken girlhood
• Zuckoff, Mitchell - Ponzi's scheme : the true story of a financial legend
• Zug, James - American traveler : the life and adventures of John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of walking the world

FICTION:

• Arkin, Frieda - Hedwig and Berti
• Arvin, Nick - Articles of war : a novel
• Aw, Tash - The Harmony Silk Factory
• Beigbeder, Frederic - Windows on the world : a novel
• Canty, Kevin - Winslow in love
• Cullin, Mitch - A slight trick of the mind : a novel
• Erian, Alicia - Towelhead : a novel
• Feldman, Ellen- - The boy who loved Anne Frank : a novel
• Ferri, Linda - Enchantments
• Foer, Jonathan Safran - Extremely loud and incredibly close
• Friedman, Peter - Ideal marriage : a novel
• Gordon, Bill - Mary, after all : a novel
• Gutierrez, Pedro Juan - Tropical animal
• Hayder, Mo - The devil of Nanking
• Hoffman, Alice - The ice queen : a novel
• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never let me go
• Kanon, Joseph - Alibi : a novel
• Kidd, Sue Monk - The mermaid chair
• King, Cassandra - The same sweet girls
• Krauss, Nicole - The history of love
• Kurlansky, Mark - Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue : a novel of pastry, guilt, and music
• Laurens, Stephanie - The truth about love
• McKenzie, Elizabeth - Stop that girl : a novel in stories
• Miller, Andrew - The optimists
• Miller, Sue - Lost in the forest
• Mortman, Doris - Shades of red
• O'Nan, Stewart - The good wife
• Rushforth, Peter - Pinkerton's sister
• Salter, James - Last night
• Shreve, Porter - Drives like a dream
• Smith, B. J. (Brad J.) - Busted flush : a novel
• Sparks, Nicholas - True believer
• Stace, Wesley - Misfortune : a novel
• Steinke, Darcey - Milk : a novel
• Stern, Steve - The angel of forgetfulness
• Vila-Matas, Enrique - Bartleby & Co.
• Wells, Rebecca - Ya-Yas in bloom : a novel
• Williams, Niall - Only say the word
• Wolff, Maritta - Sudden rain
• Yom, Sang-sop - Three generations
• Zuravleff, Mary Kay - The bowl is already broken

MYSTERIES:

• Alexander, Bruce - Rules of engagement *
• Barr, Nevada - Hard truth
• Barron, Stephanie - Jane and his lordship's legacy *
• Bebris, Carrie - Suspense and sensibility, or, First impressions, revisited : a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery *
• Bowen, Peter, - Stewball : a Gabriel du Pre mystery
• Carlson, P. M - Deathwind
• Clark, Carol Higgins - Burned : a Regan Reilly mystery
• Clark, Mary Higgins - No place like home
• Coben, Harlan - The innocent
• Donohue, John J. - Deshi
• Egleton, Clive - The renegades
• Elkins, Aaron J - Where there's a will
• Geagley, Brad - Year of the hyenas
• George, Elizabeth - With no one as witness
• Gooden, Philip - An honorable murderer
• Grant, Whitfield - Railroaded! : a novel
• Guilfoile, Kevin - Cast of shadows
• Haddam, Jane - The headmaster's wife
• Hall, Oakley M - Ambrose Bierce and the ace of shoots
• Hamilton, Lyn - The Moai murders
• Hart, Carolyn G - Death of the party : a death on demand mystery
• Henry, Sue - Murder at Five Finger Light : a Jessie Arnold mystery
• Hess, Joan - The goodbye body
• Hirahara, Naomi - Gasa-gasa girl
• Jeffries, Roderic - A sunny disappearance
• Khadra, Yasmina - Double blank
• Kozak, Harley Jane - Dating is murder
• Leon, Donna - Blood from a stone
• Martin, Nancy - Cross your heart and hope to die : a Blackbird sisters mystery
• Martinez, Michele - Most wanted
• Meyers, Annette - Hedging : a Smith and Wetzon mystery
• Michaels, Fern - Vendetta
• Parker, Barbara - Suspicion of rage
• Parry, Owen - Rebels of Babylon
• Pears, Iain - The portrait
• Pearson, Ridley - Cut and run
• Penman, Sharon Kay - Prince of darkness : a medieval mystery
• Perry, Anne - Long Spoon Lane : a novel *
• Peters, Elizabeth - The serpent on the crown
• Purser, Ann - Theft on Thursday *
• Rowlands, Betty - Deadly obsession
• Savarin, Julian Jay - Hunter's rain
• Siegel, James - Detour
• Strohmeyer, Sarah - Bubbles betrothed
• Thurlo, Aimee - White thunder : an Ella Clah novel
• Tracy, P. J. - Dead run
• Walsh, Marcie - The killing club
• White, Randy Wayne - Dead of night
• White, Stephen - Missing persons
• Wildwind, Sharon Grant - Some welcome home
• Woods, Stuart - Two-dollar bill

SHORT STORIES:

• Cozarinsky, Edgardo - The bride from Odessa
• Hempel, Amy - The dog of the marriage : stories
• Lennon, J. Robert, 1970- - Pieces for the left hand : 100 anecdotes
• Story-Wallah : a celebration of South Asian fiction

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

LITERATURE:

• Auster, Paul - Collected prose : autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces and collaborations with artists , 828 A
• Boyd, Anne E. - Writing for immortality : women and the emergence of high literary culture in America , 820.9 B
• Grass, Gunter - The Gunter Grass reader , 838 G
• Lee, Hermione - Virginia Woolf's nose : essays on biography , 820.9 L
• Lethem, Jonathan - The disappointment artist and other essays , 824 L
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Uncensored : views & (re)views , 824 O
• The Oxford chronology of English literature , Ref. 016.82 O

POETRY:

• Ashbery, John - Where shall I wander : new poems , 821 A
• Berryman, John - Selected poems , 821 B
• Bialik, Hayyim Nahman - Selected poems , 892.4 B
• Graham, Jorie - Overlord : poems , 821 G
• Indian love poems , 808.81 I
• Kooser, Ted - The poetry home repair manual : practical advice for beginning poets , 808.1 K

NEW TRANSLATIONS:

• Babel, I. (Isaak) - Red Cavalry , F B
• Halldor Laxness - Under the glacier , F H
• Mann, Thomas - Joseph and his brothers , F M

LANGUAGE:

• Gray, John - Long live Latin: a Latin miscellany , 473 G
• MacNeil, Robert - Do you speak American? : a companion to the PBS television series , 427 M

FAIRY TALES:

• Paradiz, Valerie - Clever maids : the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales , 398 P
• Tatar, Maria - Secrets beyond the door : the story of Bluebeard and his wives , 809 T

ART:

• Barney, Matthew - Matthew Barney : the Cremaster cycle , 709.73 B OVERSIZE
• From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca : Fra Carnevale and the making of a Renaissance master edited by Keith Christiansen., 759.5 C
• Jones, Amelia - Irrational modernism : a neurasthenic history of New York Dada , 709.7471 J
• Mack, Rosamond E. - Bazaar to piazza : Islamic trade and Italian art, 1300-1600 , 745 M
• Nuttall, Paula - From Flanders to Florence : the impact of Netherlandish painting, 1400-1500 , 759.5 N
• Rowland, Ingrid D. - From heaven to Arcadia : the sacred and the profane in the Renaissance , 709.45 R
• Wheelock, Arthur K - Rembrandt's late religious portraits , 759.9 R

MUSIC:

• Davis, Francis - Jazz and its discontents : a Francis Davis reader , 780.973 D
• The Harvard dictionary of music , Ref. 780.3 H
• Kahan, Sylvia - Music's modern muse : a life of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac , 780.921 P
• Williams, Simon - Wagner and the Romantic hero , 782.2 W

PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Levere, Douglas - New York changing : revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York , 770 L
• Lopate, Phillip - Rudy Burckhardt , 770 B
• Photography speaks : 150 photographers on their art , 770 P

PHILOSOPHY:

• Allen, Anita L - The new ethics : a tour of the 21st-century moral landscape , 170 A
• Cooper, John M. - Knowledge, nature, and the good : essays on ancient philosophy , 180 C

HISTORY:

• Coote, Stephen - Napoleon and the Hundred Days , 944.05 C
• Ehrman, John - The eighties : America in the age of Reagan , 973.927 E
• Fowler, William M. - Empires at war : the French and Indian War and the struggle for North America, 1754-1763 , 973.2 F
• Frankel, Max - High noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis , 327.73 F
• Kelly, John - The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time , 940.1 K
• Tvedt, Terje - The River Nile in the age of the British : political ecology and the quest for economic power , 962 T
• Weyr, Thomas - The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler , 943.6 W
• Wilson, Derek A - The uncrowned kings of England : the black history of the Dudleys and the Tudor throne , 942.05 W

ANTIQUITY:

• Antiquities , 938 A
• Atwood, Roger - Stealing history : tomb raiders, smugglers, and the looting of the ancient world , 708 A
• Habicht, Christian - Pausanias' Guide to ancient Greece , 913.38 H

WAR:

• Herman, Arthur - To rule the waves : how the British Navy shaped the modern world , 359.0942 H
• Junger, Ernst - Storm of steel , 940.48 J
• Perret, Geoffrey - Lincoln's war : the untold story of America's greatest president as commander in chief , 973.7 P
• Ungvary, Krisztian - The siege of Budapest : one hundred days in World War II , 940.53439 U

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Marsh, Charles - The beloved community : how faith shapes social justice, from the civil rights movement to today , 323.4 M
• Pfaff, William - The bullet's song : romantic violence and utopia , 303.6 P
• Webb, James H. - Born fighting : how the Scots-Irish shaped America , 305.81 W

NEW YORK CITY:

• Diehl, Lorraine B. - Subways : the tracks that built New York City , 388 D
• Maffi, Mario - New York City : an outsider's inside view , 917.471 M
• Sharland, Elizabeth - A theatrical feast in New York , 974.71 S
• Stonehill, Judith - Brooklyn : a journey through the city of dreams , 917.471 S

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION:

• Duncan, Dayton - Horatio's drive : America's first road trip , 917.3 D
• Howgego, Raymond John - Encyclopedia of exploration to 1800 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel, and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800 , Ref. 910.9 H
• Tayler, Jeffrey - Angry wind : through Muslim black Africa by truck, bus, boat, and camel , 916.6 T

BIOGRAPHY:

• Chernoff, John Miller - Hustling is not stealing : stories of an African bar girl , 305.4 C
• Garibaldi, Giuseppe - My life , 92 G232 G
• Schmidt, Michael - The first poets : lives of the ancient Greek poets , 881.09 S

RELIGION:

• Chang, Maria Hsia - Falun gong : the end of days , 322.1 C
• Marcus, Ivan G - The Jewish life cycle : rites of passage from biblical to modern times , 296.4 M
• Perez, Joseph - The Spanish Inquisition : a history , 274.6 P
• Wink, Walter - The human being : Jesus and the enigma of the Son of the Man , 233 W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT:

• Dunn, Susan - Jefferson's second revolution : the election crisis of 1800 and the triumph of republicanism , 973.4 D
• Katznelson, Ira - Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust , 320.1 K
• Moorehead, Caroline - Human cargo : a journey among refugees , 325.2 M

LAW:

• Greenawalt, Kent - Does God belong in public schools? , 379 G
• Ishay, Micheline - The history of human rights : from ancient times to the globalization era , 323.4 I
• Lipstadt, Deborah E - History on trial : my day in court with David Irving , 940.5318 L

BUSINESS & FINANCE:

• Bernstein, Peter L - Capital ideas : the improbable origins of modern Wall Street , 332.6 B
• Eichenwald, Kurt - Conspiracy of fools : a true story , 338.7 E

NATURAL HISTORY:

• Dobbs, David - Reef madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral , 551.96 D
• Shugart, H. H. - How the earthquake bird got its name and other tales of an unbalanced nature , 590 S
• Stap, Don - Birdsong : [a natural history] , 598.2 S

SCIENCE:

• Hamilton, James - A life of discovery : Michael Faraday, giant of the scientific revolution , 92 F219 H
• Kaku, Michio -
• Schutz, Bernard F - Gravity from the ground up : [an introductory guide to gravity and general relativity] , 530.1 S

PSYCHOLOGY:

• Epstein, Mark - Open to desire : embracing a lust for life : insights from Buddhism and psychotherapy , 294 E
• Hayden, Torey L. - Twilight children : three voices no one heard until a therapist listened , 618.9 H
• Layard, P.R.G. - Happiness : lessons from a new science , 171 L

FOOD:

• Remembrance of things Paris : sixty years of writing from Gourmet , 641.5 R
• Roden, Claudia - The book of Jewish food : an odyssey from Samarkand to New York , 641.5 R

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Boxsel, Matthijs van, - The encyclopaedia of stupidity , 151 E
• Riordan, Teresa - Inventing beauty : a history of the innovations that have made us beautiful , 646.7 R
• Soar, Hugh D. H. - The crooked stick : a history of the longbow , 623.4 S

CITIES:

• Buck, Paul - Lisbon : a cultural and literary companion , 946.9 B
• Peterson, Jon A - The birth of city planning in the United States, 1840-1917 , 711 P
• Sarrinikolaou, George, - Facing Athens : encounters with the modern city , 914.95 S

AUDIO:

• Faulkner, William - Light in August [sound recording] , Audio-CD F
• Gilgamesh. English.Gilgamesh [sound recording] : [a new English version] by Stephen Mitchell., Audio-CD 892.19 G
• Naipaul, V. S. - A bend in the river [sound recording] , Audio-CD N
• Wodehouse, P. G. - Jeeves in the morning [sound recording] , Audio-CD W

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