JUNE 2006 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Angell, Roger. - Let me finish
• Bigsby, Christopher - Remembering Arthur Miller
• Brynner, Rock, - Empire & odyssey: the Brynners in Far East Russia and beyond
• Burroughs, Augusten. - Possible side effects
• Carr, Howie. - The brothers Bulger: how they terrorized and corrupted Boston for a quarter century
• Cesarani, David. - Becoming Eichmann: rethinking the life, crimes, and trial of a "desk murderer"
• Dornstein, Ken. - The boy who fell out of the sky: a true story
• Gallman, J. Matthew - America's Joan of Arc: the life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
• Hughes, Kathryn, - The short life and long times of Mrs. Beeton
• Kelly, Ian, - Beau Brummell: the ultimate man of style
• Knight, Louise W. - Citizen: Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy
• Man, John, - Kublai Khan: from Xanadu to superpower
• Maraniss, David. - Clemente: the passion and grace of baseball's last hero
• Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. - Art czar: the rise and fall of Clement Greenberg : a biography
• Pais, Abraham, - J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life
• Palmer, Pauline Kohlsaat, - The letters of Pauline Palmer: a great lady of Chicago's first family
• Roberts, Gary L., - Doc Holliday: the life and legend
• Sigal, Clancy. - A woman of uncertain character: the amorous and radical adventures of my mother Jennie (who always wanted to be a respectable Jewish mom) by her bastard son
• Timms, Edward. - Karl Kraus: apocalyptic satirist
• Volpe, Joseph. - The toughest show on earth: my rise and reign at the Metropolitan Opera

FICTION

• Ansay, A. Manette. - Blue water
• Barnes, John, - The armies of memory
• Brown, Sandra, - A secret splendor
• Carey, Peter, - Theft: a love story
• Carriere, Jean-Claude, - Please, Mr Einstein
• Delibes, Miguel. - The heretic
• Esquivel, Laura - Malinche
• Finder, Joseph. - Killer instinct
• Forster, Margaret, - Keeping the world away
• Fuentes, Carlos. - The eagle's throne: a novel
• Grenville, Kate, - The secret river
• Harris, E. Lynn. - I say a little prayer: a novel
• Hayashi, Fumiko - Floating clouds
• Homes, A. M. - This book will save your life
• Keenan, Joe. - My lucky star: a novel
• Lansens, Lori. - The girls: a novel
• MacFarquhar, Neil. - The sand cafe: a novel
• Macomber, Debbie. - Susannah's garden
• Mankell, Henning, - Chronicler of the winds
• Martin, Valerie, - The unfinished novel: and other stories
• McCarry, Charles. - The last supper
• Mitchard, Jacquelyn. - Cage of stars
• Orner, Peter. - The second coming of Mavala Shikongo: a novel
• Pierre, D. B. C. - Ludmila's broken English
• Porter, Joseph Ashby, - The near future
• Quick, Amanda. - Second sight
• Rice, Eva, - The lost art of keeping secrets: a novel
• Rosner, Elizabeth. - Blue nude: a novel
• Roth, Philip. - Everyman
• Schoeneman, Deborah, - 4% famous: a novel
• Schrefer, Eliot, - Glamorous disasters: a novel
• See, Carolyn. - There will never be another you: a novel
• Shapiro, Anna. - Living on air: a novel
• Shreve, Susan Richards. - A student of living things
• Shteyngart, Gary, - Absurdistan: a novel
• Sittenfeld, Curtis. - The man of my dreams: a novel
• Sykes, Plum. - The debutante divorcee: a novel
• Tiffany, Carrie, - Everyman's rules for scientific living: a novel
• Tyler, Anne. - Digging to America: a novel
• Vickers, Salley. - The other side of you

MYSTERIES

• Akunin, B. - The death of Achilles: a novel
• Bannister, Jo. - The fifth cataract
• Barnes, Linda - Heart of the world
• Berenson, Alex. - The faithful spy: a novel
• Berkowitz, Ira. - Family matters: a novel
• Bonner, Hilary. - A moment of madness
• Box, C. J. - In plain sight
• Child, Lee. - The hard way: a Jack Reacher novel
• Coleman, Reed Farrel, - The James Deans: a Moe Prager mystery
• Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. - At risk
• The detection collection
• Dunning, John, - The bookwoman's last fling: a Cliff Janeway novel
• Emerson, Kathy Lynn. - Face down beside St. Anne's well: a mystery featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth
• Fowler, Earlene. - The saddlemaker's wife
• Freemantle, Brian. - To save a son
• Goodwin, Jason, - The janissary tree: a novel
• Haddam, Jane, - Hardscrabble road
• Hart, John M., - The king of lies
• Hewson, David. - The lizard's bite
• Hirahara, Naomi, - Snakeskin shamisen
• Patterson, James, - Beach road: a novel
• Quinlan, Patrick. - Smoked
• Read, Cornelia. - A field of darkness: a novel
• Rigosi, Giampiero, - Night bus
• Robards, Karen. - Vanished
• Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. - Sullivan's evidence
• Rosenfelt, David. - Dead center
• Sandford, John, - Dead watch
• Shuman, George D. - 18 seconds
• Viets, Elaine, - Murder unleashed: a dead-end job mystery
• Wilson, Laura, - A thousand lies

SHORT STORIES

• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, - The complete stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Hempel, Amy. - The collected stories of Amy Hempel

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:

LITERATURE

• Beckett, Samuel, - Samuel Beckett: the Grove centenary edition, 848 B
• Ford Madox Ford and the city, 828.09 F
• Paulin, Tom. - Writing to the moment: selected critical essays : 1980-1996, 824 P
• Siegel, Jonah, - Haunted museum: longing, travel, and the art-romance tradition, 809.9 S
• Warren, James Perrin. - John Burroughs and the place of nature, 824.09 B
• Woolf, Virginia, - Hyde Park Gate News: the Stephen family newspaper, 828.08 W
• Yaffe, David, - Fascinating rhythm: reading jazz in American writing, 820.9 Y

POETRY

• American war poetry: an anthology, 821.08 A
• Ammons, A. R., - Selected poems, 821 A
• Cavafy, Constantine, - The collected poems of C.P. Cavafy: a new translation, 889 C
• Creeley, Robert, - On earth: last poems and an essay, 821 C
• Hall, Donald, - White apples and the taste of stone: selected poems, 1946-2006, 821 H
• Zukofsky, Louis, - Selected poems, 821 Z

DRAMA

• Dryden, John, - Plays ; Albion and Albanius ; Don Sebastian ; Amphitryon, 822 D
• Dunning, Chester S. L., - The uncensored Boris Godunov: the case for Pushkin's original Comedy, with annotated text and translation, 891.7 P
• Miller, Arthur, - Collected plays, 1944-1961, 822 M
• Ragen, Naomi. - Women's Minyan, 822 R

LANGUAGE

• Lakoff, George. - Metaphors we live by, 401 L
• New Oxford dictionary for writers and editors, LSR 423 H

ART

• Adler, Kathleen. - Americans in Paris, 1860-1900, 759.1 A
• Ankori, Gannit. - Palestinian art, 759.956 A
• Carlin, John, - Imagining America: icons of 20th-century American art, 709.73 C
• Metzger, Rainer. - Gustav Klimt: drawings and watercolours, 759.36 K
• O'Toole, Judith Hanson. - Different views in Hudson River School painting, 759.1 O
• Rothko, Mark, - Writings on art, 759.1 R
• Sullivan, Michael, - Art and artists of twentieth-century China, 709.51 S OVERSIZE

DESIGN

• Antonelli, Paola. - Safe: design takes on risk, 745.2 A
• Gorman, Michael John. - Buckminster Fuller: designing for mobility, 620 G OVERSIZE
• Petroski, Henry. - Success through failure: the paradox of design, 620 P

MUSIC

• Cairns, David. - Mozart and his operas, 780.92 M
• Malone, Bill C. - Country music, U.S.A., 780.973 M
• Porter, Cole, - Selected lyrics, 784.6 P
• Ramey, Phillip. - Irving Fine: an American composer in his time, 780.92 F
• Shostakovich and his world, 780.92 S

ARCHAEOLOGY

• Fagan, Brian M. - Chaco Canyon: archeologists explore the lives of an ancient society, 978.9 F
• Gere, Cathy, - The tomb of Agamemnon, 913.38 G

BIOGRAPHY & LETTERS

• Anton Chekhov and his times, 92 C5157 C
• Audubon, John James, - The Audubon reader, 92 A916 A
• Osborne, Dorothy, - The letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple, 92 O814 O
• Rosensaft, Hadassah, - Yesterday: my story, 92 R8145 R

PHILOSOPHY

• Frankfurt, Harry G., - The reasons of love, 177 F
• Himmelfarb, Gertrude. - The moral imagination: from Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, 190 H
• Rorty, Richard. - Take care of freedom and truth will take care of itself: interviews with Richard Rorty, 191 R
• Small, Robin, - Nietzsche and Ree: a star friendship, 193 S

EDUCATION

• Fleming, Bruce E. - Annapolis autumn: life, death, and literature at the U.S. Naval Academy, 359.07 F
• Graham, Patricia Albjerg. - Schooling America: how the public schools meet the nation's changing needs, 370.973 G
• Mortenson, Greg. - Three cups of tea: one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time, 370.19 M

RELIGION

• Brown, Charles C. - Niebuhr and his age: Reinhold Niebuhr's prophetic role and legacy, 322.1 B
• Krosney, Herbert. - The lost gospel: the quest for the gospel of Judas Iscariot, 299.9 K
• Matt, Daniel C. (commentary) - Zohar, 296.1 Z
• Meacham, Jon. - American gospel: God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation, 322.1 M
• Rosenberg, David, - Abraham: the first historical biography, 221.92 A

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Jones, Ann, - Kabul in winter: life without peace in Afghanistan, 915.8 J
• Liebersohn, Harry. - The travelers' world: Europe to the Pacific, 910.9 L
• Livingstone, David, - The life and African explorations of Dr. David Livingstone: comprising all his extensive travels and discoveries as detailed in his diary, reports, and letters, including his famous last journals : with maps and numerous illustrations., 916.7 L
• Scott, Robert Falcon, - Journals: Captain Scott's last expedition, 919.9 S
• Shah, Tahir. - The Caliph's house, 916.4 S

NEW YORK

• Balliett, Whitney. - New York voices: fourteen portraits, 974.71 B
• Garcia, Bobbito. - Where'd you get those?, 391.4 G
• Levy, Bob. - Club George: the diary of a Central Park birdwatcher, 598.2 L
• Shapiro, Edward S. - Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn riot, 305.8 S

JOURNALISM

• Freedman, Samuel G. - Letters to a young journalist, 070 F
• Weber, Ronald, - News of Paris: American journalists in the City of Light between the wars, 070 W

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Chang, Gordon G. - Nuclear showdown: North Korea takes on the world, 951.9 C
• Kinzer, Stephen. - Overthrow: America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq, 327.73 K
• Mandelbaum, Michael. - The case for Goliath: how America acts as the world's government in the twenty-first century, 327.73 M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Allgor, Catherine, - Parlor politics: in which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government, 305.4 A
• Politkovskaia, Anna. - Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy, 947.086 P
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. - My dear Mr. Stalin: the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, 940.532 R
• Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen. - In the beginning was the deed: realism and moralism in political argument, 320.1 W

HISTORY

• Bender, Thomas. - A nation among nations: America's place in world history, 973 B
• Chamberlain, Lesley. - The philosophy steamer: Lenin and the exile of the intelligentsia, 947.084 C
• Cooke, Alistair, - The American home front, 1941-1942, 940.5373 C
• Davis, Natalie Zemon, - Trickster travels: a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds, 909.4 D
• Elliott, John Huxtable. - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830, 970 E
• Harris, Tim, - Revolution: the great crisis of the British monarchy, 1685-1720, 942.06 H
• Martines, Lauro. - Fire in the city: Savonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence, 945.5 M
• Rabb, Theodore K. - The last days of the Renaissance & the march to modernity, 940.21 R
• Rosen, Robert N., - Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, 973.917 R
• Smith, Julia M. H. - Europe after Rome: a new cultural history 500-1000, 940.1 S

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Biggs, Barton, - Hedge hogging, 332.6 B
• Bogle, John C. - The battle for the soul of capitalism, 330.973 B
• Jones, E. L. - Cultures merging: a historical and economic critique of culture, 306.3 J

CRIME

• Davies, Owen, - Murder, magic, madness: the Victorian trials of Dove and the Wizard, 364.1 D
• Duncombe, Stephen. - The bobbed haired bandit: a true story of crime and celebrity in 1920s New York, 364.1 D
• Junger, Sebastian. - A death in Belmont, 364.1 J
• Smith, David James, - Supper with the Crippens, 364.1 S

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Brendon, Vyvyen. - Children of the Raj, 305.23 B
• Bruinius, Harry. - Better for all the world: the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity, 363.9 B
• Dublin, Thomas, - The face of decline: the Pennsylvania anthracite region in the twentieth century, 331.7 D
• Mansfield, Harvey Claflin, - Manliness, 305.3 M
• Nash, Gary B. - The forgotten fifth: African Americans in the age of revolution, 326 N

SCIENCE

• America's curious botanist: a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777, 580 A
• Erwin, Douglas H., - Extinction: how life on earth nearly ended 250 million years ago, 576 E
• Finkbeiner, Ann K., - The Jasons: the secret history of science's postwar elite, 509 F
• Wade, Nicholas. - Before the dawn: recovering the lost history of our ancestors, 573 W

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