APRIL 2006 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Ackroyd, Peter - J.M.W. Turner
• Boyd, Julia - The excellent doctor Blackwell: the life of the first female physician
• Buchman, Dana - A special education: one family's journey through the maze of learning disabilities
• Child, Julia - My life in France
• Critchlow, Donald T - Phyllis Schlafly and grassroots conservatism: a woman's crusade
• Davis, Deborah - Party of the century: the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball
• Gordon, Emily Fox - Are you happy?: a childhood remembered
• Gray, Simon - The year of the jouncer
• Hamilton, Hugo - The sailor in the wardrobe
• Hart, Peter - Mick: the real Michael Collins
• Hirshfeld, Alan - The electric life of Michael Faraday
• Howard, Brian - Brian Howard: portrait of a failure
• Jong, Erica - Seducing the demon: writing for my life
• Kirkpatrick, Sidney D - The revenge of Thomas Eakins
• Lahr, John - Honky tonk parade: New Yorker profiles of show people
• Maitland, Alexander - Wilfred Thesiger: the life of the great explorer
• Pauly, Thomas H - Zane Grey: his life, his adventures, his women
• Rusesabagina, Paul - An ordinary man: an autobiography
• Schiff, Karenna Gore - Lighting the way: nine women who changed modern America
• Smith, Janna Malamud - My father is a book: a memoir of Bernard Malamud
• Thompson, Brian - Keeping Mum: a wartime childhood
• Trussoni, Danielle - Falling through the Earth: a memoir
• White, G. Edward - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

FICTION

• Abani, Christopher - Becoming Abigail: a novella
• Abdolah, Kader - My father's notebook: a novel
• Ahern, Cecelia - If you could see me now
• Archer, Jeffrey - False impression
• Atwood, Margaret Eleanor - The tent
• Barfoot, Joan - Luck
• Barton, Emily - Brookland
• Brown, Peter C - The fugitive wife: a novel
• Browne, Liam - The emigrant's farewell
• Bruen, Ken - The dramatist
• Conrad, Christine - Mademoiselle Benoir
• Cornwell, Bernard - The pale horseman
• Davis, Kathryn - The thin place: a novel
• Dean, Debra - The madonnas of Leningrad
• Dean, Louise - Becoming strangers
• Eisenberg, Deborah - Twilight of the superheroes
• Ellmann, Lucy - Doctors & nurses
• Gibb, Camilla - Sweetness in the belly
• Gutierrez, Pedro Juan - The insatiable spider man
• Heighton, Steven - Afterlands: a novel
• Hellenga, Robert - Philosophy made simple: a novel
• Khuri, Ilyas - Gate of the sun = Bab al-Shams
• Khuri, Ilyas - Gate of the sun = Bab al-Shams
• Liss, David - The ethical assassin: a novel
• Makine, Andrei - The woman who waited: a novel
• McPhee, Martha - L'America
• Medwed, Mameve - How Elizabeth Barrett Browning saved my life
• Mills, Magnus - Explorers of the new century
• Morrow, James - The last witchfinder
• Mullins, Meg - The rug merchant: a novel
• Nunez, Elizabeth - Prospero's daughter: a novel
• O'Keeffe, Patrick - The hill road
• Parks, Tim - Cleaver
• Picoult, Jodi - The tenth circle
• Roiphe, Anne Richardson - An imperfect lens: a novel
• Sansom, C. J - Winter in Madrid
• Sherrill, Martha - The ruins of California
• Steel, Danielle - The house
• Stockley, Philippa - The edge of pleasure
• Straight, Susan - A million nightingales
• Strout, Elizabeth - Abide with me: a novel
• Tea, Michelle - Rose of no man's land: a novel
• Ugresic, Dubravka - The ministry of pain
• Unt, Mati - Things in the night
• Urquhart, Jane - A map of glass
• Vapnyar, Lara - Memoirs of a muse
• Wolitzer, Hilma - The doctor's daughter: a novel

MYSTERIES

• Atkins, Meg Elizabeth - Suburban death*
• Bernhardt, William - Capitol murder: a novel
• Black, Cara - Murder in Montmartre
• Blauner, Peter - Slipping into darkness: a novel
• Bowen, Rhys - Oh Danny boy
• Brown, Rita Mae - Sour puss
• Conant-Park, Jessica - Steamed
• Doolittle, Sean - Rain dogs
• Estleman, Loren D - Nicotine kiss: an Amos Walker novel
• Ferrigno, Robert - Prayers for the assassin: a novel
• Fluke, Joanne - Cherry cheesecake murder: a Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes
• Gardner, John E - Troubled midnight*
• Gash, Jonathan - Finding Davey*
• Handler, David - The sweet golden parachute
• Hautman, Pete - The prop: a novel
• Hoag, Tami - Prior bad acts
• Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's conspiracy*
• Jardine, Quintin - Lethal intent
• Kava, Alex - A necessary evil
• Lewis, Roy - Grave error
• Martin, Nancy - Have your cake and kill him too: a Blackbird Sisters mystery
• Martinez, Michele - The finishing school
• McKinty, Adrian - The dead yard: a novel
• Miyabe, Miyuki - Crossfire
• Murphy, Margaret - Now you see me*
• Nesser, Hakan - Borkmann's point: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
• Parker, T. Jefferson - The fallen
• Perry, Thomas - Nightlife: a novel
• Rankin, Ian - Blood hunt: a novel
• Scottoline, Lisa - Dirty Blonde
• Spanogle, Joshua - Isolation ward
• Taylor, D. J - Kept: a Victorian mystery*
• Temple, Lou Jane - Death du jour
• Todd, Charles - A long shadow*
• White, Randy Wayne - Dark light
• White, Stephen - Kill me: a novel

SHORT STORIES

• Lewis, William Henry - I got somebody in Staunton: stories
• McLean, Stuart - Home from the Vinyl Cafe: a year of stories
• Nelson, Antonya - Some fun: stories and a novella

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:

LITERATURE

• Beckett remembering, remembering Beckett: a centenary celebration, 848.09 B
• Beyers, Chris - A history of free verse, 821.09 B
• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 863 G
• Gass, William H. - A temple of texts: essays, 804 G
• Hickman, Miranda B. - The geometry of modernism: the vorticist idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats, 820.9 H
• Pascoe, Judith - The hummingbird cabinet: a rare and curious history of romantic collectors, 821.09 P

NEW TRANSLATIONS

• Bassani, Giorgio - The garden of the Finzi-Continis, F B
• Flaubert, Gustave - Bouvard and Pecuchet, F F
• Hamsun, Knut - Victoria, F H

POETRY

• An anthology of Vietnamese poems: from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries, 895.9 A
• Poets of the new century, 821.08 P
• Bishop, Elizabeth - Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box: uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments, 821 B
• Day Lewis, C - Selected poems, 821 D
• Koch, Kenneth - The collected poems of Kenneth Koch., 821 K
• Oswald, Alice - Woods etc, 821 O

ESSAYS

• Ames, Jonathan - I love you more than you know, 824 A
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - My lost city: personal essays, 1920-1940, 824 F
• James, Clive - The meaning of recognition: new essays, 2001-2005, 824 J

DRAMA

• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich - The complete plays, 891.72 C
• Kerouac, Jack - Beat generation: 3-act play, 822 K

WRITING

• Browne, Renni - Self-editing for fiction writers: how to edit yourself into print, 808.3 B
• Bunge, Nancy L - Master class: lessons from leading writers, 808.3 B
• Herman, Jeff - Write the perfect book proposal: 10 that sold and why, 808 H

ART

• Dunkerton, Jill - Beyond the naked eye: details from the National Gallery, 750 D
• Fryberger, Betsy Geraghty - The changing garden: four centuries of European and American art, 704 F
• Jaffe, David - Rubens: a master in the making, 759.9 R
• Perry, Claire - Young America: childhood in 19th-century art and culture, 704.942 P
• Scholes, Robert E - Paradoxy of modernism, 709.04 S
• Spalding, Julian - The art of wonder: a history of seeing, 701 S
• Thomson, Richard - Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, 759.4 T

ARCHITECTURE

• Berenholtz, Richard - New York Deco, 720.973 B
• Gallagher, Winifred - House thinking: a room-by-room look at how we live, 747 G
• Pennoyer, Peter - The architecture of Warren & Wetmore, 720.973 P

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Avedon, Richard - Woman in the mirror, 770 A OVERSIZE
• Disfarmer, Mike - Disfarmer: the vintage prints, 779 D
• Humm, Maggie - Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, 778 H

PHILOSOPHY

• The Columbia history of twentieth-century French thought, 944.08 C
• Fearn, Nicholas - Philosophy: the latest answers to the oldest questions;Philosophy, 190 F
• Grenier, Jean - Islands: lyrical essays, 194 G
• Young, Julian - Schopenhauer, 193 Y

EDUCATION

• Bok, Derek Curtis - Our underachieving colleges: a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more, 378 B
• Douglas, Davison M - Jim Crow moves North: the battle over northern school segregation, 1865-1954, 370.19 D

RELIGION

• Meyer, Marvin W - The Gnostic discoveries: the impact of the Nag Hammadi library, 299.9 M
• Pencak, William - Jews & gentiles in early America: 1654-1800, 305.86 P
• Schloesser, Stephen - Jazz age Catholicism: mystic modernism in postwar Paris, 1919-1933, 282.44 S
• Stewart, Matthew - The courtier and the heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world, 211 S

FOOD

• Collingham, E. M - Curry: a tale of cooks and conquerors, 394.1 C
• Gusto: essential writings in nineteenth-century gastronomy, 641 G
• Slater, Nigel - Nigel Slater: the kitchen diaries, 641.5 S
• Travelers' tales food: a taste of the road, 641 T

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia, 910.4 G
• Hanbury-Tenison, Robin - Worlds within: reflections in the sand, 916.6 H
• Italy: true stories of life on the road, 914.5 I
• Kryza, Frank T - The race for Timbuktu: in search of Africa's city of gold, 966 K

GEOGRAPHY

• Atlas of the medieval world, 911 T OVERSIZE
• De Blij, Harm J - Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism, 909.83 D

HISTORY

• Asher, Michael - Khartoum: the ultimate imperial adventure, 962 A
• Bosworth, R. J. B - Mussolini's Italy: life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945, 945.09 B
• Corsellis, John - Slovenia 1945: memories of death and survival after World War II, 949.7 C
• Dunlop, Nic - The lost executioner: a journey to the heart of the killing fields, 959 D
• Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth - The mind of the master class: history and faith in the Southern slaveholders' worldview, 326 F
• Grier, Katherine C. - Pets in America: a history, 636 G
• Holt, Frank Lee - Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions, 737 H
• Luongo, F. Thomas - The saintly politics of Catherine of Siena, 945.05 L
• Morrow, Lance - Second drafts of history: essays, 973.9 M
• Osborne, Roger - Civilization: a new history of the western world, 901 O
• Strong, Roy C - Coronation: a history of kingship and the British monarchy, 942 S

BIOGRAPHY

• Cheyette, Fredric L - Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours, 92 E719 C
• Chukovskii, Kornei - Diary, 1901-1969, 92 C5599 C
• Hyegyonggung Hong Ssi - The memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: the autobiographical writings of a Crown Princess of eighteenth-century Korea, 92 H9955 H
• Lloyd, Rosemary - Mallarme: the poet and his circle, 92 M252 L
• Wearing propaganda: textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945, 745.5 W

WAR

• Anderson, Fred - The war that made America: a short history of the French and Indian War, 973.2 A
• Hull, Isabel V - Absolute destruction: military culture and the practices of war in Imperial Germany, 355.0943 H
• Le Naour, Jean-Yves - The living unknown soldier: a story of grief and the Great War, 940.48 L
• Stout, Harry S - Upon the altar of the nation: a moral history of the American Civil War, 973.71 S
• Wearing propaganda, 745.5 W

TERRORISM

• Bergen, Peter L. - The Osama bin Laden I know: an oral history of al-Qaeda's leader, 303.6 B
• Habeck, Mary R - Knowing the enemy: jihadist ideology and the War on Terror, 297 H

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Dowd, Maureen - Are men necessary?: when sexes collide, 305.3 D
• Ogata, Sadako N - The turbulent decade: confronting the refugee crises of the 1990s, 325.2 O
• Orfalea, Gregory - The Arab Americans: a history, 305.8 O

INDUSTRY & COMMERCE

• Battelle, John - The search: how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture, 004.678 B
• Turner, Henry Ashby - General Motors and the Nazis: the struggle for control of Opel, Europe's biggest carmaker, 338.7 T

NEW YORK CITY

• A coat of many colors: immigration, globalism, and reform in the New York City garment industry, 331.6 C
• Berman, Marshall - On the town: one hundred years of spectacle in Times Square, 974.71 B
• Harvey, Ellen - New York beautification project, 759.1 H
• Kurlansky, Mark - The big oyster: history on the half shell, 641 K

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Anderson, Perry - Spectrum, 320.1 A
• Raban, Jonathan - My holy war: dispatches from the home front, 973.930 R
• Rosanvallon, Pierre - Democracy past and future, 321.8 R
• Runciman, David - The politics of good intentions: history, fear, and hypocrisy in the new world order, 973.930 R

IRAQ

• Bremer, L. Paul - My year in Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope, 956 B
• Haldane, Aylmer L. - The insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920, 956 H

SCIENCE

• Debating design: from Darwin to DNA, 575 D
• Sapolsky, Robert M - Monkeyluv: and other essays on our lives as animals, 612 S
• Seife, Charles - Decoding the universe: how the new science of information is explaining everything in the cosmos, from our brains to black holes, 001.6 S
• Vollmann, William T - Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres, 520 V

AUDIO BOOKS

• Beckett, Samuel - Malone dies, Audio-CD B
• London, Jack - South Sea tales, Audio-CD L
• Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead, Audio-CD R

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