MAY 2006 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Burnside, John - A lie about my father
• Cash, Arthur H - John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty
• Cooper, Bernard - The bill from my father: a memoir
• DePalma, Anthony - The man who invented Fidel : Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times
• Hardyment, Christina - Malory: the life and times of King Arthur's chronicler
• Hill, Judith - Lady Gregory: an Irish life
• Kindred, Dave - Sound and fury: two powerful lives, one fateful friendship
• Makdisi, Jean Said - Teta, mother, and me: three generations of Arab women
• Server, Lee - Ava Gardner: "love is nothing"
• Talese, Gay - A writer's life
• Walsh, Stephen - Stravinsky : a creative spring, Russia and France, 1882-1934

FICTION

• Andrews, Mary Kay - Savannah Breeze
• Enquist, Per Olov - The book about Blanche and Marie
• Guttfreund, Amir - Our Holocaust
• Harington, Donald - The pitcher shower
• Hayashi, Fumiko - Floating clouds
• Hobbs, Peter - The short day dying
• Hyland, M. J - Carry me down
• James, Caryn - What Caroline knew
• McGowan, Heather - Duchess of nothing: a novel
• Mortimer, John Clifford - Quite honestly
• Mosley, Walter - Fortunate son
• Mosse, Kate - Labyrinth
• Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite francaise
• Niederhoffer, Galt - A taxonomy of Barnacles
• O'Brian, Patrick - Richard Temple
• Rutherfurd, Edward - The rebels of Ireland: the Dublin saga
• Sorrentino, Gilbert. - A strange commonplace
• Terrell, Whitney - The king of Kings County : a novel
• Unger, Lisa - Beautiful lies : a novel
• Wasserstein, Wendy - Elements of style: a novel
• Waters, Sarah - The night watch
• Whitehead, Colson - Apex hides the hurt
• Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley - Fireworks
• Yamanaka, Lois-Ann - Behold the many

MYSTERIES

• Andrews, Donna - Owls well that ends well
• Bannister, Jo - Requiem for a dealer
• Boyne, John - Crippen: a novel of murder
• Clark, Carol Higgins - Hitched: a Regan Reilly mystery
• Clark, Mary Higgins - Two little girls in blue
• Cleeves, Ann - Raven black*
• Coben, Harlan - Promise me
• Daheim, Mary - The Alpine recluse: an Emma Lord mystery
• Eglin, Anthony - The lost gardens : an English garden mystery*
• Eisler, Barry - Killing rain
• Graham, Heather - The island
• Hills, Kathleen - Witch cradle: a mystery
• Jeffries, Roderic - Murder delayed
• Johnson, Craig - Death without company
• Larsson, Asa - Sun storm
• Mankell, Henning - The man who smiled
• McCall Smith, Alexander - Blue shoes and happiness
• O'Neil, Vincent H - Murder in exile
• Oleksiw, Susan - A murderous innocence
• Perry, Anne - Dark assassin: a novel*
• Porter, Henry - Brandenburg Gate
• Sallis, James - Cripple Creek: a novel
• Thurlo, Aimee - Mourning dove: an Ella Clah novel
• Tursten, Helene - The torso
• Waites, Martyn - The mercy seat*
• Woods, Stuart - Dark harbor

SHORT STORIES

• Auchincloss, Louis - The young Apollo: and other stories
• Auslander, Shalom - Beware of God: stories
• Davidson, Craig - Rust and bone: stories

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:

LITERATURE

• - A historical guide to Edith Wharton, 823 W
• Hazlitt, William - The selected writings of William Hazlitt, 824 H
• Kirby, David - What is a book?, 820.9 K
• Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander - Understanding Anita Brookner, 823 B
• Powell, Anthony - Some poets, artists & 'A reference for Mellors', 824 P
• Rexroth, Kenneth - Classics revisited, 809 R
• Weinstein, Arnold L - Recovering your story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison, 809.3 W

BOOKS & READING

• Basbanes, Nicholas A. - Every book its reader: the power of the printed word to stir the world, 028 B
• Mercer, Jeremy - Time was soft there: a Paris sojourn at Shakespeare & Co., 655.5 M
• Zboray, Ronald J - Literary dollars and social sense: a people's history of the mass market book, 655.5 Z

NEW TRANSLATION

• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The double; and, The gambler, F D
• Zola, Emile - The dream, F Z
• Zweig, Stefan - Chess story, F Z

POETRY

• - Classic writings on poetry, 809.1 C
• Hirsch, Edward - Poet's choice, 808.81 H
• Logue, Christopher - Cold calls: war music continued, 821 L
• Spiegelman, Willard - How poets see the world: the art of description in contemporary poetry, 821.09 S
• Stevenson, Anne - Poems 1955-2005, 821 S

DRAMA

• DeLillo, Don - Love-lies-bleeding: a play, 822 D
• Griffiths, Trevor - These are the times: a life of Thomas Paine : an original screen play, 822 G
• Simon, John Ivan - John Simon on theater: criticism, 1974-2003, 792.0973 S

LEGENDS & FOLKTALES

• - Politicizing magic: an anthology of Russian and Soviet fairy tales, 398 P
• - The secret of laughter: magical tales from classical Persia, 398.2 S
• Westwood, Jennifer - The lore of the land: a guide to England's legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys, 398.2 W

LANGUAGE

• Heller-Roazen, Daniel - Echolalias: on the forgetting of language, 401 H
• Rosen, Alan - Sounds of defiance: the Holocaust, multilingualism, and the problem of English, 820.9 R

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• - New worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940, 709.43 N
• - The Cloisters: medieval art and architecture, 709.395 C
• Atalay, Bulent - Math and the Mona Lisa: the art and science of Leonardo da Vinci, 759.5 L
• Haworth-Booth, Mark - E. McKnight Kauffer: a designer and his public, 741.7 H
• Jencks, Charles - The iconic building, 724 J
• Todd, Pamela - The Impressionists at home, 759.4 T
• Weschler, Lawrence - Everything that rises: a book of convergences, 709.04 W

FILM

• - American movie critics: an anthology from the silents until now, 791.4 A
• - Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood's golden age at the American Film Institute, 791.4 C
• McGinn, Colin - The power of movies: how screen and mind interact, 791.4 M

CREATIVITY

• Galenson, David W - Old masters and young geniuses: the two life cycles of artistic creativity, 701 G
• Johnson, Paul - Creators: from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney, 824 J
• Said, Edward W - On late style: music and literature against the grain, 701 S

BIOGRAPHY

• Barbou, Alfred - Victor Hugo and his time, 92 H8954 B
• Evelyn, John - The diary of John Evelyn, 942.06 E
• Johnson, James William - A profane wit: the life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 92 R6765 J
• Woodruff, William - The road to Nab End: an extraordinary Northern childhood, 92 W8935 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Blackburn, Simon - The Oxford dictionary of philosophy, LSR 103 O
• Edmonds, David - Rousseau's dog: two great thinkers at war in the Age of Enlightenment, 190 E
• Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen - The sense of the past: essays in the history of philosophy, 190 W

RELIGION

• Armstrong, Karen - The great transformation: the beginning of our religious traditions, 200 A
• Maguire, Nancy Klein - An infinity of little hours: five young men and their trial of faith in the western world's most austere monastic order, 271.1 M
• Telushkin, Joseph - A code of Jewish ethics, 296.3 T
• Tweed, Thomas A - Crossing and dwelling: a theory of religion, 201 T
• Wills, Garry - What Jesus meant, 232.9 W

DEATH & DYING

• Gilbert, Sandra M - Death's door: modern dying and the ways we grieve, 155.9 G
• Johnson, Marilyn - The dead beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries, 070.4 J
• Joiner, Thomas E - Why people die by suicide, 362.2 J

PSYCHOLOGY

• Blackmore, Susan J. - Conversations on consciousness: what the best minds think about the brain, free will, and what it means to be human, 153.7 B
• Harris, Judith Rich - No two alike: human nature and human individuality, 155.2 H
• Walton, Stuart - A natural history of human emotions, 157 W

EDUCATION

• - Declining by degrees: higher education at risk, 378 D
• - The public schools, 379 P

FOOD

• Ferrieres, Madeleine - Sacred cow, mad cow: a history of food fears, 613.2 F
• Grescoe, Taras - The devil's picnic: around the world in pursuit of forbidden fruit, 641.3 G
• Seymour, Miranda - A brief history of thyme and other herbs, 635 S

HEALTH & MORE

• Barber, Marianne S - The parent's guide to food allergies: clear and complete advice from the experts on raising your food-allergic child, 618.9 B
• Houppert, Karen - Home fires burning: married to the military, for better or worse, 306.8 H
• McManus, James - Physical: an American checkup, 614 M
• Shorter, Edward - The making of the modern family, 306.8 S
• Tannen, Deborah - You're wearing that?: understanding mothers and daughters in conversation, 306.8 T

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Benanav, Michael - Men of salt: crossing the Sahara on the caravan of white gold, 916.6 B
• Foreman, Lewis - London: a musical gazetteer, 780.942 F
• Marsden, Philip - The chains of heaven: an Ethiopian romance, 916.3 M
• Mayes, Frances - A year in the world: journeys of a passionate traveller, 914 M
• Power, Brian - The ford of heaven: a childhood in Tianjin, China, 915.1 P
• Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley - In relief of Gordon: Lord Wolseley's campaign journal of the Khartoum Relief Expedition, 1884-1885, 962 W

THE MIDDLE EAST

• Dershowitz, Alan M - The case for peace: how the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved, 956.94 D
• Oz, Amos - How to cure a fanatic, 956.94 O
• Sartre, Maurice - The Middle East under Rome, 956.9 S

HISTORY

• Bobrick, Benson - The fated sky, 133.5 B
• Brundage, W. Fitzhugh - The Southern past: a clash of race and memory, 975 B
• Crouch, David - Tournament, 394.7 C
• Gardner, Richard N - Mission Italy: on the front lines of the Cold War, 327.73 G
• Jenkins, Philip - Decade of nightmares: the end of the sixties and the making of eighties America, 973.923 J
• Popkin, Jeremy D. - History, historians, & autobiography, 907 P
• Vallance, Edward - The glorious revolution: 1688 and Britain's fight for liberty, 942.06 V
• Yenne, Bill - Indian wars: the campaign for the American West, 978 Y

WAR

• - Women's writing on the First World War, 808.89 W
• Gordon, Michael R. - Cobra II: the inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Grayling, A. C - Among the dead cities: the history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan, 940.54 G
• Spilsbury, Julian - The thin red line : an eyewitness history of the Crimean War , 947.07 S
• Washington, George - George Washington remembers: reflections on the French and Indian War, 973.2 W OVERSIZE

ECONOMICS

• English, James F. - The economy of prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value, 709.04 E
• Sennett, Richard - The culture of the new capitalism, 330.1 S
• Wright, Robert E - The first Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance, 332.6 W

ENGLISH

• Eberstadt, Fernanda - Little money street: in search of Gypsies and their music in the south of France, 397 E
• Fogelson, Robert M - Bourgeois nightmares: suburbia, 1870-1930, 307.74 F
• Miller, Stephen - Conversation: a history of a declining art, 395 M
• Press, Eyal - Absolute convictions: my father, a city, and the conflict that divided America, 363.4 P
• Sunstein, Cass R - Laws of fear: beyond the precautionary principle, 303.6 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Berlinski, Claire - Menace in Europe: why the continent's crisis is America's, too, 909.83 B
• Burleigh, Michael - Earthly powers: the clash of religion and politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War, 322.1 B
• Derrida, Jacques - Rogues: two essays on reason, 320.1 D
• Fukuyama, Francis - America at the crossroads: democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy, 327.73 F
• Patten, Chris - Cousins and strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a new century, 327.2 P
• Wilson, Andrew - Ukraine's orange revolution, 947.7 W

NATURAL HISTORY

• Chu, Miyoko Coco - Songbird journeys: four seasons in the lives of migratory birds, 598.2 C
• Fisher-Smith, Jordan - Nature noir: a park ranger's patrol in the Sierra, 917.9 F
• Pavord, Anna - The naming of names: the search for order in the world of plants, 581 P
• Wilson, Edward O - Nature revealed: selected writings, 1949-2006, 570 W

METEOROLOGY

• Emanuel, Kerry A. - Divine wind: the history and science of hurricanes, 551.5 E OVERSIZE
• Flannery, Tim F - The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth, 363.7 F
• Kolbert, Elizabeth - Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change, 363.7 K

AUDIOBOOKS

• Galsworthy, John - The silver spoon;and, Passers by, AC G
• Smith, Zadie - White teeth, AC S
• Weinstein, Arnold - Understanding literature and life;drama, poetry and narrative, AC 809 W

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