NOVEMBER 2005 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Ackroyd, Peter - Shakespeare: the biography
• Barber, Charles - Songs from the black chair: a memoir of mental interiors
• Beauclerk, Charles - Nell Gwyn: mistress to a king
• Brands, H W - Andrew Jackson, his life and times
• Buckley, Priscilla L - Living it up with National Review: a memoir
• Charmley, John - The princess and the politicians: sex, intrigue and diplomacy, 1812-40
• Clemens, Paul - Made in Detroit: a south of 8-Mile memoir
• Collins, Paul - The trouble with Tom: the strange afterlife and times of Thomas Paine
• Delbanco, Andrew - Melville: his world and work
• Didion, Joan - The year of magical thinking
• Feinstein, Elaine - Anna of all the Russias: the life of Anna Akhmatova
• Finstad, Suzanne - Warren Beatty: a private man
• Franklin, John Hope - In search of the promised land: a slave family in the Old South
• Helms, Jesse - Here's where I stand: a memoir
• Herman, Michelle - The middle of everything: memoirs of motherhood
• Hutchinson, Robert - The last days of Henry VIII: conspiracies, treason, and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant
• Junor, Penny - The Firm: the troubled life of the House of Windsor
• Kamen, Henry - The Duke of Alba
• Konigsberg, Eric - Blood relation
• Larsen, Deborah - The tulip and the Pope
• Lawford, Christopher Kennedy - Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption
• Levy, Shawn - The last playboy: the high life of Porfirio Rubirosa
• Lovell, Mary S - Bess of Hardwick: first lady of Chatsworth 1527-1608
• May, Gita - Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution
• Merwin, W S - Summer doorways: a memoir
• Mitchell, Andrea - Talking back-- to presidents, dictators, and assorted scoundrels
• Mitton, Simon - Conflict in the cosmos: Fred Hoyle's life in science
• Morris, Douglas G - Justice imperiled: the anti-Nazi lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany
• Munch, Edvard - The private journals of Edvard Munch: we are flames which pour out of the earth
• Nuland, Sherwin B - Maimonides
• O'Faolain, Nuala - The story of Chicago May
• O'Toole, Fintan - White savage: William Johnson and the invention of America
• Pinsky, Robert - The life of David
• Powell, Julie - Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job and her sanity to master the art of living
• Prose, Francine - Caravaggio: painter of miracles
• Radziwill, Carole - What remains: a memoir of fate, friendship and love
• Richardson, John H - My father the spy: an investigative memoir
• Rodgers, Nigel - Philosophers behaving badly
• Rosenthal, Amy Krouse - Encyclopedia of an ordinary life: volume one
• Rowley, Hazel - Tete-a-tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
• Stourton, Edward - Paul of Tarsus: a visionary life
• Williams, Stephanie - Olga's story: three continents, two world wars and revolution - one woman's epic journey through the twentieth century

FICTION

• Anthony, Piers - Pet peeve
• Bausch, Robert - Out of season
• Briscoe, Joanna - Sleep with me
• Chapman, Myriam - Why she married him
• Clark, Clare - The great stink
• Coetzee, J M - Slow man
• Deveraux, Jude - First impressions
• Doctorow, E L - The march: a novel
• Edgerton, Clyde - Solo: my adventures in the air
• Elliott, Chris - The shroud of the thwacker: a novel
• Evans, Diana - 26a
• Evans, Nicholas - The divide
• Everett, Percival L - Wounded: a novel
• Faulks, Sebastian - Human traces
• Ferrante, Elena - The days of abandonment
• Fisher, Karen - A sudden country: a novel
• Freund, Harry - Love with noodles: an amorous widower's tale
• Gabaldon, Diana - A breath of snow and ashes
• Gaitskill, Mary - Veronica
• Goldberg, Myla - Wickett's remedy: a novel
• Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Desertion
• Hicks, Robert - The widow of the south
• Jacobson, Dan - All for love: a novel
• Johnston, Dorothy - The Trojan dog
• Lurie, Alison - Truth and consequences: a novel
• Maine, David - Fallen
• Mazzucco, Melania G - Vita: a novel
• McCall Smith, Alexander - Friends, lovers, chocolate
• McGregor, Elizabeth - The girl in the green glass mirror
• Mendelson, Cheryl - Love, work, children: a novel
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Missing mom: a novel
• Roberts, Nora - Blue smoke
• Shreve, Anita - A wedding in December: a novel
• Strohmeyer, Sarah - The secret lives of fortunate wives: a novel
• Tan, Amy - Saving fish from drowning
• Trobaugh, Augusta - The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society: a novel
• Wall, William - This is the country
• Weiner, Jennifer - Goodnight nobody: a novel
• Weisberger, Lauren - Everyone worth knowing

MYSTERIES

• Arnaldur Indridason - Jar city: a Reykjavik thriller
• Aubert, Rosemary - Red mass: an Ellis Portal mystery
• Baldacci, David - The camel club
• Connelly, Michael - The Lincoln lawyer: a novel
• Dibdin, Michael - Back to Bologna
• Edric, Robert - Swan song*
• Ford, Jeffrey - The girl in the glass
• Freeman, Brian - Immoral
• Freemantle, Brian - The Holmes factor*
• Grabenstein, Chris - Tilt a whirl
• Hart, Ellen - The iron girl
• Hill, Reginald - The stranger house*
• Joss, Morag - Half broken things*
• Ludlum, Robert - The Ambler warning
• Massey, Sujata - The typhoon lover
• Mayor, Archer - St. Albans fire
• Mosley, Walter - Cinnamon kiss
• Nabb, Magdalen - The innocent
• Olson, Karen E - Sacred cows
• Parker, Robert B - School days
• Quinn, Peter - Hour of the cat
• Saul, John - Perfect nightmare: a novel
• Sharp, Zoe - First drop
• Sheehan, James - The mayor of Lexington Avenue
• Woods, Stuart - Iron orchid

SHORT STORIES

• Novakovich, Josip - Infidelities: stories of war and lust
• Rabe, David - A primitive heart: stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

LITERATURE

• Agee, James - James Agee rediscovered: the journals of Let us now praise famous men and other new manuscripts, 828 A
• Carson, Anne - Decreation: poetry, essays, opera, 828 C
• Marler, Regina - Bloomsbury pie: the making of the Bloomsbury boom, 820.9 M
• Rutherford, R B - Classical literature: a concise history, 880 R
• Smiley, Jane - Thirteen ways of looking at the novel, 809.3 S
• Theory's empire: an anthology of dissent, 801 T
• Wallace, Robert K - Douglass & Melville: anchored together in neighborly style, 823.08 W

POETRY

• Bidart, Frank - Star dust, 821 B
• Greenlaw, Lavinia - Minsk: poems 821 G
• Maxwell, Glyn - The sugar mile, 821 M
• Price, Kenneth M - To Walt Whitman, America, 821.09 W
• Revell, Donald - Pennyweight windows: new & selected poems, 821 R
• Vendler, Helen Hennessy - Invisible listeners: lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery, 821.09 V

BOOKS & READING

• Corrigan, Maureen - Leave me alone, I'm reading: finding and losing myself in books, 028 C
• Rereadings, 028 R

ART

• Alpers, Svetlana - The vexations of art: Velazquez and others, 759 A
• Barry, Michael A - Figurative art in medieval Islam and the riddle of Bihzad of Herat (1465-1535), 759.956 B
• Basquiat, Jean Michel - Basquiat, 759.1 B
• Bridgeford, Andrew - 1066: the hidden history of the Bayeux Tapestry, 942.02 B
• Griswold, William - Pierre Matisse and his artists , 708.1 G
• Henri, Robert - American women modernists: the legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945, 709.73 A
• Hustvedt, Siri - Mysteries of the rectangle: essays on painting, 759 H
• Kimmelman, Michael - The accidental masterpiece: on the art of life, and vice versa, 701 K
• Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo - Fourth-century styles in Greek sculpture, 733 R

PHILOSOPHY

• Barthes, Roland - The neutral: lecture course at the College de France (1977-1978), 194 B
• Frankfurt, Harry G - The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays, 104 F
• Kenny, Anthony John Patrick - A new history of Western philosophy, 109 K
• The shorter Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Ref. 103 S

ETHICS

• Gazzaniga, Michael S - The ethical brain, 612.8 G
• The moral of the story: an anthology of ethics through literature, 808.8 M

EDUCATION

• Distinctively American: the residential liberal arts colleges, 378 D
• Monaghan, E Jennifer - Learning to read and write in Colonial America, 302 M
• Nathan, Rebekah - My freshman year: what a professor learned by becoming a student, 378 N

MUSIC

• Driggs, Frank - Kansas City jazz: from ragtime to bebop : a history, 780.973 D
• Murray, William - Fortissimo: backstage at the opera with sacred monsters and young singers, 782.1 M
• Steinberg, Michael P - Listening to reason: culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music, 780.9 S
• Taruskin, Richard - The Oxford history of western music, LSR 780.9 T

CIVILIZATION

• Watson, Peter - Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud, 901 W
• Yoffee, Norman - Myths of the archaic state: evolution of the earliest cities, states and civilizations, 320.1 Y

HISTORY

• Clarke, Erskine - Dwelling place: a plantation epic, 975.8 C
• Frugoni, Chiara - A day in a medieval city, 940.1 F
• Gannon, Kathy - I is for infidel: from holy war to holy terror : 18 years inside Afghanistan, 958 G
• Gombrich, E H - A little history of the world, 909 G
• Harvey, L P - Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 946.03 H
• Jasanoff, Maya - Edge of empire: lives, culture, and conquest in the East, 1750-1850, 942.07 J
• Latacz, Joachim - Troy and Homer: towards a solution of an old mystery, 939.2 L
• Lytle, Mark H - America's uncivil wars: the Sixties era from Elvis to the fall of Richard Nixon, 973.92 L
• Silbey, Joel H - Storm over Texas: the annexation controversy and the road to Civil War, 976.4 S
• Steinbacher, Sybille - Auschwitz: a history, 940.5472 S
• Winchester, Simon - A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906, 979.46 W

MILITARY HISTORY

• De Courcy, Anne - Debs at war, 1939-1945: how wartime changed their lives, 305.4 D
• Hanson, Victor Davis - A War like no other: how the Athenians and Spartans fought the Peloponnesian War, 938 H
• Holland, James - Together we stand: turning the tide in the west : North Africa 1942-1943, 940.542 H
• Kaplan, Robert D - Imperial grunts: the American military on the ground, 355.0973 K
• Kidder, Tracy - My detachment: a memoir, 959 K
• Nicolson, Adam - Seize the fire: heroism, duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar, 940.27 N
• Ward, Andrew - River run red: the Fort Pillow massacre in the American Civil War, 973.73 W

IRAQ WAR

• Crawford, John - The last true story I'll ever tell: an accidental soldier's account of the War in Iraq, 956 C
• Phillips, Michael M - The gift of valor: a war story Michael M. Phillips., 956 P
• Shadid, Anthony - Night draws near: Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war, 956 S

SEPTEMBER 11

• Dwyer, Jim - 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers, 973.9302 D
• Fontana, Marian - A widow's walk, 973.9302 F

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Agnew, Eleanor - Back from the land: how young Americans went to nature in the 1970s, and why they came back, 630.1 A
• Cobb, James C - Away down South: a history of Southern identity, 975 C
• Lynch, Thomas - Booking passage: we Irish & Americans, 325.2 L
• Russell, Sharman Apt - Hunger: an unnatural history, 394.1 R
• Sowell, Thomas - Black rednecks and white liberals, 305.8 S

LAW

• Amar, Akhil Reed - America's constitution: a biography, 342.73 A
• Goldstein, Brandt - Storming the court: how a band of Yale law students sued the President-- and won, 342.73 G
• Wilson, Ben - The laughter of triumph: William Hone and the fight for the free press, 323.4 W

NEW YORK CITY

• Aleandri, Emelise - The Italian-American immigrant theatre of New York City, 792.0973 A
• Caldwell, Mark - New York night: the mystique and its history, 974.71 C
• Lyon, Danny - The destruction of lower Manhattan, 770 L
• New York stories: the best of the city section of the New York times, 974.71 N

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Belleville, Bill - Sunken cities, sacred cenotes & golden sharks: travels of a water-bound adventurer, 910.4 B
• Benedict - Salt of the earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the millennium, 282 B
• Boatswain, Tim - A traveller's history of Cyprus, 956 B
• Booth, Michael - Just as well I'm leaving: to the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen, 914 B
• Collas, Philippe - Edith Wharton's French Riviera, 914.4 C OVERSIZE
• Jamie, Kathleen - Findings, 914.1 J
• Wren, Christopher S - Walking to Vermont: from Times Square into the Green Mountains-- a homeward adventure, 974 W

RELIGION

• Feiler, Bruce S - Where God was born: a journey by land to the roots of religion, 915.69 F
• Kenny, Anthony John Patrick - The unknown God: agnostic essays, 211 K
• Schmidt, Leigh Eric - Restless souls: the making of American spirituality, 291 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Arendt, Hannah - The promise of politics, 320.1 A
• Ober, Josiah - Athenian legacies: essays on the politics of going on together, 321.4 O
• Siani-Davies, Peter - The Romanian revolution of December 1989, 949.8 S
• Weigel, George - The cube and the cathedral: Europe, America, and politics without God, 322.1 W

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Friedman, George - America's secret war: inside the hidden worldwide struggle between America and its enemies, 327.73 F
• Gilbert, Martin - Churchill and America, 942.082 G

MIDDLE EAST

• Bradley, John R - Saudi Arabia exposed: inside a kingdom in crisis, 953 B
• Bucaille, Laetitia - Growing up Palestinian: Israeli occupation and the Intifada generation, 956.9 B

ISLAM

• Cook, David - Understanding Jihad, 297 C
• Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza - Islamic leviathan: Islam and the making of state power, 320.9 N
• Trofimov, Yaroslav - Faith at war: a journey on the frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu, 910.4 T

NATURAL HISTORY

• Carey, Richard Adams - The philosopher fish: sturgeon, caviar, and the geography of desire, 641.3 C
• Mittelbach, Margaret - Carnivorous nights: on the trail of the Tasmanian tiger, 508 M

SCIENCE

• Hawking, S W - A briefer history of time, 523.1 H
• Kurzweil, Ray - The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology, 153 K
• Randall, Lisa - Warped passages: unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden dimensions, 530.1 R
• Sobel, Dava - The Planets, 523.2 S
• Waal, F B M de - Our inner ape: a leading primatologist explains why we are who we are, 151.3 W

SPORTS & LEISURE

• Barnes, Simon - How to be a bad birdwatcher, 598.2 B
• Guttmann, Allen - Sports: the first five millennia, 796 G
• Povich, Shirley - All those mornings-- at the Post: the twentieth century in sports from famed Washington post columnist Shirley Povich, 796 P
• Romano, Marc - Crossworld: one man's journey into America's crossword obsession, 793.7 R
• Yalom, Marilyn - Birth of the chess queen: a history, 794 Y

HUMOR

• Cook, Peter - Tragically I was an only twin: the complete Peter Cook, 827 C
• Hodgson, Barbara - Italy out of hand: a capricious tour, 914.5 H

JOURNALISM

• Choice: the best of Reason, 309 C
• The weekly standard: a reader: 1995-2005, 973.9 W

AUDIO

• James, Henry - The Aspern papers, AC J
• Kors, Alan Charles - The birth of the modern mind;an intellectual history of the 17th and 18th century, AC 940.25 K
• More, Thomas - Utopia, AC 321.07 M

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