AUGUST 2005 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Addison, Paul - Churchill : the unexpected hero
• Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna - Moura : the dangerous life of the Baroness Budberg
• Chang, Jung - MAO : the unknown story
• Duus, Masayo - The life of Isamu Noguchi : journey without borders
• Eig, Jonathan - Luckiest man : the life and death of Lou Gehrig
• Ellerbee, Linda - Take big bites : adventures around the world and across the table
• Eyman, Scott - Lion of Hollywood ; the life and legend of Louis B. Mayer
• Frey, James - My friend Leonard
• Gombrowicz, Witold - Polish memories
• Guest, Tim - My life in orange : growing up with the guru
• Harman, Oren Solomon - The man who invented the chromosome : the life of Cyril Darlington
• Howard, Johnette - The rivals : Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova : their epic duels and extraordinary friendship
• Johnson, George - Miss Leavitt's stars : the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe
• Klein, Edward - The truth about Hillary : what she knew, when she knew it, and how far she'll go to become president
• Krall, Hanna - The woman from Hamburg and other true stories
• McKinstry, Leo - Rosebery : statesman in turmoil
• Morton, Frederic - Runaway waltz : a memoir from Vienna to New York
• O'Connor, Garry - Universal Father : a life of John Paul II
• Parker, Douglas M - Ogden Nash : the life and work of America's laureate of light verse
• Renehan, Edward - Dark genius of Wall Street : the misunderstood life of Jay Gould, king of the robber barons
• Roberts, Steven V - My fathers' houses : memoir of a family
• Sadger, J - Recollecting Freud
• Segre, Dan Vittorio - Memoirs of a failed diplomat
• Siegel, Frederick F - The prince of the city : Giuliani, New York, and the genius of American life
• Spurling, Hilary - Matisse the master : a life of Henri Matisse : the conquest of colour, 1909-1954
• Tindall, Blair - Mozart in the jungle : sex, drugs, and classical music
• Wranovics, John - Chaplin and Agee : the untold story of the tramp, the writer, and the lost screenplay

FICTION

• Agnello Hornby, Simonetta - The almond picker
• Aslam, Nadeem - Maps for lost lovers
• Benedict, Elizabeth - The practice of deceit
• Bogosian, Eric - Wasted beauty : a novel
• Buchan, Elizabeth - Everything she thought she wanted
• Burn, Michael - Childhood at Oriol
• Chadwick, Charles - It's all right now : a novel
• Chidgey, Catherine - The transformation : a novel
• Clark, Nancy - A way from home
• Crowley, John - Lord Byron's novel : the evening land
• Dai, Sijie - Mr. Muo's traveling couch
• Dean, Louise - This human season
• Delinsky, Barbara - Looking for Peyton Place : a novel
• Doyon, Stephanie - The greatest man in Cedar Hole
• Edwards, Kim - The memory keeper's daughter
• Farrington, Tim - Lizzie's war : a novel
• Fasman, Jon - The geographer's library
• Gordon, Mary - Pearl
• Grunwald, Lisa - Whatever makes you happy : a novel
• Kostova, Elizabeth - The historian : a novel
• Lee, Tonya Lewis - Gotham diaries
• Lindsey, Johanna - Marriage most scandalous
• Lowell, Elizabeth - Always time to die
• Marche, Stephen - Raymond and Hannah
• Marias, Javier - Your face tomorrow
• McCarthy, Cormac - No country for old men
• McConnell, Melissa - Evidence of love
• Mosby, Katherine - Twilight : a novel
• Nadolny, Sten - The discovery of slowness : a novel
• Nedjma - The almond
• Ohlin, Alix - The missing person : a novel
• Olson, Neil - The icon : a novel
• Owens, Sharon - The ballroom on Magnolia Street
• Oyeyemi, Helen - The Icarus girl
• Paretsky, Sara - Fire sale
• Pine, Rachel - The twins of TriBeCa
• Rice, Luanne - Summer of roses
• Rogers, Thomas - Jerry Engels : a novel
• Rollins, James - Map of bones : a Sigma Force novel
• Roosevelt, Kermit - In the shadow of the law
• Rose, Isabel - The J.A.P. chronicles : a novel
• Saul, Jamie M - Light of day
• See, Lisa - Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel
• Slovo, Gillian - Ice road
• Smith, Ali - The accidental
• Steel, Danielle - Miracle
• Trevanian - The crazyladies of Pearl Street : a novel
• Vachss, Andrew H. - Two trains running
• Waller, Robert James - High plains tango : a novel
• Weinberger, Caspar W. - Chain of command

MYSTERIES

• Andrews, Russell - Midas
• Arvin, Reed - Blood of angels : a novel
• Blake, Victoria - Bloodless shadow *
• Blunt, Giles - Black fly season
• Buchanan, Edna - Shadows : a novel
• Burke, James Lee - Crusader's cross : a Dave Robicheaux novel
• Card, Orson Scott - Shadow of the giant
• Child, Lee - One shot : a Jack Reacher novel
• Cleverly, Barbara - The palace tiger *
• Connolly, John - The black angel
• Connors, Rose - False testimony
• Craig, Philip R - Vineyard prey : a Martha's Vineyard mystery
• Disher, Garry - Kittyhawk down
• Edwardson, Ake - Sun and shadow : an Erik Winter novel
• Evanovich, Janet - Eleven on top
• Fowler, Christopher - The water room *
• Hitchcock, Jane Stanton - One dangerous lady : a novel
• Hosp, David - Dark harbor
• James, Bill - Easy streets *
• Jones, Merry Bloch - The nanny murders
• Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Denial : a Lew Fonesca mystery
• King, Laurie R - Locked rooms : a Mary Russell novel
• Konrath, Joe - Bloody mary
• Lawton, John - Blue rondo *
• Lindsay, Jeffry P - Dearly devoted Dexter : a novel
• Lippman, Laura - To the power of three
• Logan, Chuck - Homefront
• Lovesey, Peter - The circle *
• MacBride, Stuart - Cold granite
• Mina, Denise - Field of blood : a novel
• Moore, Harker - A mourning in autumn
• Muller, Marcia - Cape Perdido
• Murphy, Margaret - Weaving shadows *
• O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Case of lies
• Patterson, James - Lifeguard : a novel
• Prado, Benjamin - Snow is silent *
• Reichs, Kathy - Cross bones
• Riordan, Rick - Mission road
• Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor - Sullivan's justice
• Scoppettone, Sandra - This dame for hire : a novel
• Shannon, John - Dangerous games: a Jack Liffey mystery
• Tallman, Shirley - The Russian Hill murders
• Todd, Charles - A cold treachery

SHORT STORIES

• Hasak-Lowy, Todd - The task of this translator : stories
• Schutt, Christine - A day, a night, another day, summer
• Stern, Richard G - Almonds to zhoof : collected stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

LITERATURE

• Auchincloss, Louis - Writers and personality
• Belknap, Robert E - The list : the uses and pleasures of cataloguing
• Brooks, Peter - Realist vision
• Dickstein, Morris - A mirror in the roadway : literature and the real world
• Jenkyns, Richard - A fine brush on ivory : an appreciation of Jane Austen
• Kirsch, Adam - The wounded surgeon : confession and transformation in six American poets : Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, Sylvia Plath
• - A new history of German literature

POETRY

• Bly, Robert - My sentence was a thousand years of joy : poems
• Lezama Lima, Jose - Jose Lezama Lima : selections
• Merwin, W. S. - Migration : new & selected poems
• Paulin, Tom - The road to Inver : translations, versions, imitations 1975-2003
• Valentine, Jean - Door in the mountain : new and collected poems, 1965-2003

NEW TRANSLATIONS

• Altenberg, Peter - Telegrams of the soul : selected prose of Peter Altenberg
• Virgil - Virgil's Georgics : a new verse translation

LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES

• - The outlaw bible of American literature
• - The Vintage book of modern Indian literature

ART

• Bull, Malcolm - The mirror of the Gods
• - China : dawn of a golden age, 200-750 AD
• Evans, John - John Evans : collages
• Kaplan, Wendy - The arts & crafts movement in Europe & America : design for the modern world
• Langa, Helen - Radical art : printmaking and the left in 1930s New York
• - Little boy : the arts of Japan's exploding subculture
• Newhouse, Victoria - Art and the power of placement
• - Reading abstract expressionism : context and critique

PHILOSOPHY

• Hampsey, John C - Paranoia & contentment : a personal essay on Western thought
• Reeve, C. D. C. - Love's confusions
• Riedweg, Christoph - Pythagoras : his life, teaching, and influence

THEATER

• Appignanesi, Lisa - The cabaret
• - Arthur Miller's America : theater & culture in a time of change
• Darby, Eileen - Stars on stage : Eileen Darby & Broadway's golden age : photographs 1940-1964

MUSIC

• Heartz, Daniel - Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780
• Steen, Michael - The lives and times of the great composers
• Von Eschen, Penny M - Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War

MYTHOLOGY

• Barber, E.J.W. - When they severed earth from sky : how the human mind shapes myth
• King, David - Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world

HUMOR

• O'Rourke, P. J - Holidays in hell
• Topliss, Iain - The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg

JOURNALISM

• Johnson, Malcolm M - On the waterfront : the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that inspired the classic movie and transformed the New York Harbor
• Singer, Daniel - Deserter from death : dispatches from western Europe, 1950-2000

LANGUAGE

• Ostler, Nicholas - Empires of the word : a language history of the world
• Peters, Pam - The Cambridge guide to English usage

LEXICOGRAPHY

• Johnson, Samuel - Samuel Johnson's dictionary : selections from the 1755 work that defined the English language
• Stavans, Ilan - Dictionary days : a defining passion

EDUCATION

• Douthat, Ross Gregory - Privilege : Harvard and the education of the ruling class
• Freedman, James O - Liberal education and the public interest

HISTORY

• Andress, David - The French Revolution and the people
• Ayers, Edward L - What caused the Civil War? : reflections on the South and Southern history
• Baldwin, Neil - The American revelation : ten ideals that shaped our country from the Puritans to the Cold War
• Earle, Peter - The pirate wars
• Le Goff, Jacques - The birth of Europe
• Pope, Hugh - Sons of the conquerors : the rise of the Turkic world
• Porter, Gareth - Perils of dominance : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam
• Sandbrook, Dominic - Never had it so good : a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

WAR

• Brady, James - The scariest place in the world : a Marine returns to north Korea
• Holt, Frank Lee - Into the land of bones : Alexander the Great in Afghanistan
• Mann, Jessica - Out of harm's way : the wartime evacuation of children from Britain
• O'Donnell, Joe - Japan 1945 : a U.S. Marine's photographs from Ground Zero
• Zacks, Richard - The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first marines, and the secret mission of 1805

INTELLIGENCE

• Arkin, William M - Code names : deciphering US military plans, programs, and operations in the 9/11 world
• Posner, Richard A - Preventing surprise attacks : intelligence reform in the wake of 9/11

IRAQ

• Glantz, Aaron - How America lost Iraq
• Gordon, Philip H - Allies at war : America, Europe, and the crisis over Iraq

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Dalrymple, Theodore - Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses
• Ekirch, A. Roger - At day's close : night in times past
• Norrell, Robert J - The house I live in : race in the American century
• Wolfe, Alan - Return to greatness : how America lost its sense of purpose and what it needs to do to recover it
• Worsthorne, Peregrine - In defence of aristocracy

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

• Markoff, John - What the dormouse said : how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
• Standiford, Les - Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America
• Welch, Jack - Winning

NEW YORK CITY

• Kaufman, Robert Jay - Blockology : an offbeat walking guide to lower Manhattan
• Martindale, Wight - Inside the cage : a season at West 4th Street's legendary tournament

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Eames, Andrew - The 8:55 to Baghdad
• Kincaid, Jamaica - Among flowers : a walk in the Himalaya
• Larkin, Emma - Finding George Orwell in Burma
• Mackintosh-Smith, Tim - The hall of a thousand columns : Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah

RELIGION

• Hedges, Chris - Losing Moses on the freeway : the 10 commandments in America
• Noonan, John Thomas - A church that can and cannot change : the development of Catholic moral teaching
• - The Princeton companion to Jonathan Edwards

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Hiltzik, Michael A - The plot against Social Security : how the Bush Administration is endangering our financial future
• Meredith, Martin - The fate of Africa : from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair : a history of fifty years of independence
• Parry, Richard Lloyd - In the time of madness

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Haass, Richard - The opportunity : America's moment to alter history's course
• Merry, Robert W - Sands of empire : missionary zeal, American foreign policy, and the hazards of global ambition
• Rieff, David - At the point of a gun : democratic dreams and armed intervention

LAW

• MacKinnon, Catharine A - Women's lives, men's laws
• Roht-Arriaza, Naomi - The Pinochet effect : transnational justice in the age of human rights

CRIME

• Emsley, John - The elements of murder
• May, Gary - The informant : the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo
• Vowell, Sarah - Assassination vacation

SCIENCE

• Bell, Madison Smartt - Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
• Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon - The worlds of Herman Kahn : the intuitive science of thermonuclear war
• Gribbin, John R - Deep simplicity : bringing order to chaos and complexity
• Woolfson, Adrian - An intelligent person's guide to genetics

MEDICAL HISTORY

• Halioua, Bruno - Medicine in the days of the pharaohs
• Pierce, John R - Yellow jack : how yellow fever ravaged America and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets

BIRDS

• Baicich, Paul J - Nests, eggs, and nestlings of North American birds
• Kroodsma, Donald E - The singing life of birds : the art and science of listening to birdsong
• Oggins, Robin S - The kings and their hawks : falconry in medieval England

FOOD & WINE

• Appel, Jennifer - The Magnolia Bakery cookbook : old-fashioned recipes from New York's sweetest bakery
• - Dining at Monticello : in good taste and abundance
• Machlin, Edda Servi - Classic Italian Jewish cooking : traditional recipes and menus
• Pinney, Thomas - A history of wine in America : from prohibition to the present

AUDIO

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The beautiful and damned [sound recording]
• Hurston, Zora Neale - Their eyes were watching God [sound recording]
• Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice [sound recording]
• Wharton, Edith - False dawn [sound recording]

MISCELLANEOUS

• Greenfield, Amy Butler - A perfect red : empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire
• Plotz, David - The genius factory : the curious history of the Nobel Prize sperm bank
• Prerau, David S - Seize the daylight : the curious and contentious story of daylight saving time

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