JANUARY 2006 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Anders, Gigi - Jubana!: the awkwardly true and dazzling adventures of a Jewish Cubana goddess
• Benjamin Franklin: in search of a better world
• Bennett, Alan - Untold stories
• Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney - Philip & Elizabeth: portrait of a royal marriage
• Brater, Enoch - Arthur Miller: a playwright's life and works
• Burke, Carolyn - Lee Miller: a life
• Carter, Robert L. - A matter of law: a memoir of struggle in the cause of equal rights
• Chilton, Bruce - Mary Magdalene: a biography
• Dall, Caroline Wells Healey - Daughter of Boston: the extraordinary diary of a nineteenth-century woman
• Danchev, Alex - Georges Braque: a life
• Drayer, Ruth - Nicholas & Helena Roerich: the spiritual journey of two great artists and peacemakers
• Egremont, Max - Siegfried Sassoon: a life
• Ferguson, Jeffrey B. - The sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance
• Feynman, Richard Phillips - Classic Feynman: all the adventures of a curious character
• Franklin, John Hope - Mirror to America: the autobiography of John Hope Franklin.
• Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan - Half an arch: a memoir
• Goldfarb, Michael - Ahmad's war, Ahmad's peace: surviving under Saddam, dying in the new Iraq
• Grayling, A. C, - Descartes: the life of Rene Descartes and its place in his times
• Guralnick, Peter - Dream boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke
• Honan, Park - Christopher Marlowe: poet & spy
• Jacobs, Alan - The Narnian: the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis
• Lawson-Johnston, Peter Orman - Growing up Guggenheim: a personal history of a family enterprise
• Leavitt, David - The man who knew too much: Alan Turing and the invention of the computer
• Lees-Milne, James - The milk of paradise: diaries, 1993-1997
• Lemay, J. A. Leo - The life of Benjamin Franklin
• Levinson, Peter J. - Tommy Dorsey: livin' in a great big way : a biography
• Marshall, Jack - From Baghdad to Brooklyn: growing up in a Jewish-Arabic family in midcentury America : a memoir
• Maurice, Edward Beauclerk - The last gentleman adventurer: coming of age in the Arctic
• McLaird, James D - Calamity Jane: the woman and the legend
• Parks, Gordon - A hungry heart: a memoir
• Pekelis, Carla - My version of the facts
• Purvis, Alston W. - The vendetta: FBI hero Melvin Purvis's war against crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's war against him
• Sadie, Stanley - Mozart: the early years, 1756-1781
• Scheeres, Julia - Jesus land: a memoir
• Schickel, Richard - Elia Kazan: a biography
• Souhami, Diana - Wild girls: Paris, Sappho, and art : the lives and loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
• Spitz, Bob - The Beatles: the biography
• Stach, Reiner - Kafka: the decisive years
• Stroud, Patricia Tyson - The man who had been King: the American exile of Napoleon's brother Joseph
• Unrue, Darlene Harbour - Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist
• Watkins, Mel - Stepin Fetchit: the life and times of Lincoln Perry
• Watts, Jill - Hattie McDaniel: Black ambition, White Hollywood
• Witcover, Jules - The making of an ink-stained wretch: half a century pounding the political beat

FICTION

• Albahari, David - Gotz and Meyer
• Baker, Sam - Fashion victim: a novel
• Capote, Truman - Summer crossing: a novel
• Cookson, Catherine - The cultured handmaiden
• Cussler, Clive - Dark watch
• Deveraux, Jude - Holly
• Gordimer, Nadine - Get a life
• Gregory, Philippa - The constant princess
• Han, Bangqing - The sing-song girls of Shanghai
• Hedaya, Yael - Accidents: a novel
• Hughes, Robert J. - Late and soon: a novel
• Iweala, Uzodinma - Beasts of no nation: a novel
• Kadare, Ismail - The successor: a novel
• Lesser, Wendy - The pagoda in the garden: a novel in three parts
• Lewis, Jeffrey - The conference of the birds: a novel
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Sexy
• Rice, Anne - Christ the Lord: out of Egypt : a novel
• Schaffert, Timothy - The singing and dancing daughters of God
• Shute, Jenefer - User I.D.
• Winterson, Jeanette - Weight

MYSTERIES

• Ablow, Keith R - The architect
• Andrews, Sarah - Dead dry
• Arnaldur Indridason - Silence of the grave
• Becka, Elizabeth - Trace evidence
• Bland, Eleanor Taylor - A dark and deadly deception
• Brandon, Jay - Running with the dead: a Chris Sinclair novel
• Brett, Simon - The witness at the wedding*
• Browne, Marshall - Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn
• Cameron, Stella - A grave mistake
• Camilleri, Andrea - The smell of the night
• Charles, Kate - Evil intent*
• Churchill, Jill - Who's sorry now?: a Grace & Favor mystery
• Cohen, Nancy J. - Dead roots: a bad hair day mystery
• Davis, Lindsey - See Delphi and die
• Doss, James D - Shadow man
• Edwards, Martin - The cipher garden*
• Engel, Howard - Memory book
• Fraser, Anthea - Person or persons unknown.*
• Frey, Stephen W. - The protege: a novel
• Grafton, Sue - S is for silence
• Greeley, Andrew M. - The bishop in the old neighborhood: a Blackie Ryan story
• Hall, Parnell - Stalking the Puzzle Lady
• Harris, C. S. - What angels fear: a historical mystery*
• Iles, Greg - Turning angel
• Ironside, Elizabeth - Death in the garden*
• Jacobs, Jonnie - The only suspect
• James, P. D. - The lighthouse*
• Johansen, Iris - On the run
• Kelly, Jim - The moon tunnel*
• Kisor, Henry - A venture into murder
• Krieg, Joyce - Riding gain: a talk radio mystery
• Latour, Jose - Comrades in Miami
• Martinez, Guillermo - The Oxford murders
• McInerny, Ralph M. - Irish gilt
• Ripley, Mike - Boudica and the lost Roman*
• Seranella, Barbara - An unacceptable death
• Sprague, Gretchen - Death by thunder
• Taylor, Sarah Stewart - Judgment of the grave
• Walters, Minette - The devil's feather*

SHORT STORIES

• Barth, John - Where three roads meet: novellas
• Burke, Kenneth - Here & elsewhere: the collected fiction of Kenneth Burke
• Hammett, Dashiell - Lost stories: 21 long-lost stories from the best-selling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man
• Perlman, Elliot - The reasons I won't be coming: stories
• Puchner, Eric - Music through the floor: stories
• Rylands, Jane Turner - Across the bridge of sighs: more Venetian stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

LITERATURE

• Alexander, Christine - The Oxford companion to the Brontes, 823.08 A
• The Better of McSweeney's., 820.8 B
• Boyers, Robert - The dictator's dictation: the politics of novels and novelists, 809.3 B
• A historical guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 823 F
• Kaplan, Morris B. - Sodom on the Thames: sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times, 820.9 K
• Saroyan, William - Where the bones go, 828 S
• Shallcross, Bozena - Through the poet's eye: the travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky, 891.71 S
• Wood, Michael - Literature and the taste of knowledge, 809 W

POETRY

• Galvin, Brendan - Habitat: new and selected poems, 1965-2005, 821 G
• Proletpen: America's rebel Yiddish poets, 839.09 P
• Roethke, Theodore - Selected poems, 821 R
• Stern, Gerald - Everything is burning: poems, 821 S
• Szymborska, Wislawa - Monologue of a dog: new poems, 891.85 S
• Thomas, Edward - The poems of Edward Thomas, 821 T

MYTHOLOGY

• Blanshard, Alastair - Hercules: a heroic life, 292 B
• Hughes, Bettany - Helen of Troy: goddess, princess, whore, 292 H

ART

• Artists' estates: reputations in trust, 709.2 A
• Blake, Robin - George Stubbs and the wide creation: animals, people and places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806, 759.2 S
• Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta - Painterly enlightenment: the art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-1796, 759.36 M
• Lippincott, Louise - Fierce friends: artists and animals, 1750-1900, 704 L
• Long, Robert - De Kooning's bicycle: artists and writers in the Hamptons, 709.73 L
• Slive, Seymour - Jacob van Ruisdael: master of landscape, 759.9 R
• Updike, John - Still looking: essays on American art, 709.73 U
• Wright, Alison - The Pollaiuolo brothers: the arts of Florence and Rome, 709.45 W

MUSIC

• Bradley, Ian C - Oh joy! oh rapture!: the enduring phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan, 782.6 B
• Dubal, David - Evenings with Horowitz: a personal portrait, 780.92 H
• Morris, Christopher - Reading opera between the lines: orchestral interludes and cultural meaning from Wagner to Berg, 782.1 M
• Philip, Robert - Performing music in the age of recording, 781 P

THEATRE

• Crystal, David - Pronouncing Shakespeare: the Globe experiment, 822.33 C
• Gilman, Richard - The drama is coming now: the theater criticism of Richard Gilman, 1961-1991, 792.0973 G
• Trav S. D. - No applause, just throw money, or, The book that made vaudeville famous: a high-class, refined entertainment, 792.2 T

PHILOSOPHY

• Afary, Janet - Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: gender and the seductions of Islamism, 955 A
• The many faces of philosophy: reflections from Plato to Arendt, 100 M
• Ricoeur, Paul - The course of recognition, 121 R

ETHICS AND MORALITY

• Butler, Judith - Giving an account of oneself, 170 B
• Sacks, Jonathan - To heal a fractured world: the ethics of responsibility, 296.3 S
• Sandel, Michael J. - Public philosophy: essays on morality in politics, 172 S

RELIGION

• Dan, Joseph - Kabbalah: a very short introduction, 296.1 D
• Ehrman, Bart D. - Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why, 225.1 E
• The founders on religion: a book of quotations, 808.8 F
• Zaleski, Philip - Prayer: a history, 204 Z

BIOGRAPHY

• Bernanos, Georges - Sanctity will out: an essay on St. Joan, 92 J432 B
• Burningham, John - When we were young, 305.23 B
• Lincoln day by day: a chronology, 1809-1865, 973.7 L
• Smith, Andrew - Moondust: in search of the men who fell to Earth, 629.4 S

JOURNALISM

• Agee, James - Let us now praise famous men ;;A death in the family, & shorter fiction, 828 A
• Weingarten, Marc - The gang that wouldn't write straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism revolution, 820.9 W

EDUCATION

• Bowen, William G - Equity and excellence in American higher education, 378 B
• Karabel, Jerome - The Chosen: the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 378 K

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Cox, John D. - Traveling south: travel narratives and the construction of American identity, 917.3 C
• Fox, William L. - Terra Antarctica: looking into the emptiest continent, 919.9 F
• Gill, A. A. - AA Gill is away., 910.4 G
• Muller, Karin - Japanland: a year in search of wa, 306 M
• Ondaatje, Christopher - Woolf in Ceylon: an imperial journey in the shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911, 915.4 O

HISTORY

• Foner, Eric - Forever free: the story of emancipation and Reconstruction, 973.8 F
• Frugoni, Chiara - Books, banks, buttons: and other inventions from the Middle Ages, 940.1 F
• Horn, James P. P - A land as God made it: Jamestown and the birth of America, 975.5 H
• Johnson, Haynes Bonner - The age of anxiety: McCarthyism to terrorism, 973.92 J
• Morse, Michael A. - How the Celts came to Britain: Druids, ancient skulls and the birth of archaeology, 936 M
• Painter, Borden W - Mussolini's Rome: rebuilding the Eternal City, 945.6 P
• The secret histories: hidden truths that challenged the past and changed the world, 909.82 S
• Starr, Kevin - California: a history, 979.4 S
• Whitfield, Susan - Life along the Silk Road, 950 W
• Williams, Hywel - Cassell's chronology of world history: dates, events and ideas that made history, 909 W

WAR

• Adkins, Roy - Nelson's Trafalgar: the battle that changed the world, 940.27 A
• The atlas of the Civil War, 973.79 A OVERSIZE
• Kaplan, Jonathan - Contact wounds: a war surgeon's education, 617 K
• Reese, Willy Peter - A stranger to myself: the inhumanity of war : Russia, 1941-1944, 940.548 R
• Stargardt, Nicholas - Witnesses of war: children's lives under the Nazis, 940.5316 S
• St. Clair, William - Road to St Julien: the letters of a stretcher-bearer from the Great War, 940.548 S

IRAQ

• Bogdanos, Matthew - Thieves of Baghdad: one marine's passion for ancient civilizations and the journey to recover the world's greatest stolen treasures, 956 B
• Etherington, Mark - Revolt on the Tigris: the Al-Sadr uprising and the governing of Iraq, 956 E
• A matter of principle: humanitarian arguments for war in Iraq, 956 M

MIDDLE EAST

• Amiry, Suad - Sharon and my mother-in-law: Ramallah diaries, 956.9 A
• Finkelstein, Norman G. - Beyond chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history, 956.94 F

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Cross, Gary S. - The playful crowd: pleasure places in the twentieth century, 790 C
• A history of old age, 305.26 H
• Schor, Juliet - Born to buy: the commercialized child and the new consumer culture, 658.8 S
• Truss, Lynne - Talk to the hand: the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or, six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door, 395 T
• Winston, Hella - Unchosen: the hidden lives of Hasidic rebels, 305.86 W

SPORTS

• Margolick, David - Beyond glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a world on the brink, 796.8 M
• Schott, Ben - Schott's sporting, gaming & idling miscellany, 796 S

CRIME

• Dickie, John - Cosa Nostra: a history of the Sicilian Mafia, 364.1 D
• Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves: the lives and crimes of fifty American villains, 364 G
• Hunter, Stephen - American gunfight: the plot to kill Harry Truman-and the shoot-out that stopped it, 364.1 H

LAW

• Sunstein, Cass R - Radicals in robes: why extreme right-wing courts are wrong for America, 347.99 S
• Yoo, John - The powers of war and peace: the constitution and foreign affairs after 9/11, 342.73 Y

ECONOMICS

• Friedman, Benjamin M - The moral consequences of economic growth, 174 F
• Harford, Tim - The undercover economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car, 330.9 H

NEW YORK

• Albrecht, Donald - The mythic city: photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940, 779 G
• Bearman, Peter S. - Doormen, 331.7 B
• Burns, Ric - Still New York, 759.1 B
• Frazier, Ian - Gone to New York: adventures in the city, 917.471 F
• Slavery in New York, 974.71 S
• Stern, Ellen Stock - Gracie Mansion: a celebration of New York City's mayoral residence, 974.71 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Friedman, Murray - The neoconservative revolution: Jewish intellectuals and the shaping of public policy, 320.9 F
• Gould, Lewis L - The most exclusive club: a history of the modern United States Senate, 328.73 G
• Harvey, David - A brief history of neoliberalism, 330.1 H
• Solinger, Rickie - Pregnancy and power: a short history of reproductive politics in America, 176 S

SCIENCE

• Conner, Clifford D. - A people's history of science: miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks", 509 C
• Jablonka, Eva - Evolution in four dimensions: genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life, 575 J
• Johnson, George - Miss Leavitt's stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe, 522.2 J
• Lightman, Alan P. - The discoveries: great breakthroughs in 20th century science, 509 L

NATURAL HISTORY

• Carey, Richard Adams - The philosopher fish: sturgeon, caviar, and the geography of desire, 641.3 C
• Gallagher, Tim - The grail bird: hot on the trail of the Ivory-billed woodpecker, 598.2 G
• Mittelbach, Margaret - Carnivorous nights: on the trail of the Tasmanian tiger, 508 M

AUDIOBOOKS

• Faulkner, William - The sound and the fury, Audio-CD F
• Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink, AC 153.8 G
• McCall Smith, Alexander - In the company of cheerful ladies, AC M
• O'Brian, Patrick - The far side of the world, Audio-CD O

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