NEW BOOK LIST APRIL 2003

NEW BOOKS Feuer, Cy – I got the show right here: the amazing, true story BIOGRAPHY of how an obscure Brooklyn Allen, Bruce – Wild Bill: horn player became the last the legend and life of William great Broadway showman O. Douglas Gao, Anhua – To the edge of Alonso, Harriet – Growing up the sky abolitionist: the story of the Gristwood, Sarah – Arbella: Garrison children England’s lost queen Benardete, Seth – Encounters Gross, Michael – Genuine & reflections: conversations authentic: the real life of with Seth Benardete Ralph Lauren Calvino, Italo – The hermit Inwood, Stephen – Man who in Paris: autobiographical knew too much: the strange writings and inventive life of Robert Chase, Alston – Harvard and Hooke, 1635–1703 the Unabomber: education of Miller, Sue – The story of my an American terrorist father Clegg, Brian – The first scien- O’Faolain, Nuala – Almost tist: a life of Roger Bacon there: the onward journey of Clifford, Colin – The Asquiths a Dublin woman Curtis, James – W.C. Fields: Olsen, Victoria – From life: a biography Julia Margaret Cameron and Eire, Carlos – Waiting for snow Victorian photography in Havana Rossant, Colette – Return to Eisler, Benita – Chopin’s funeral Paris: a memoir Waugh, John C. – Surviving the Maillard, Keith – Clarinet polka Confederacy: rebellion, ruin Maynard, Joyce – and recovery—Roger and Sara The usual rules Pryor during the Civil War Moses, Kate – Wintering: a novel of Sylvia Plath FICTION Nunez, Elizabeth – Grace Ammaniti, Niccolo – I’m not O’Connor, Joseph – Star of scared the sea Barnes, Kim – Finding Caruso Oe, Kenzaburo – Somersault Boyle, T. Coraghessan – O’Neill, Anthony – Lamplighter Drop city Ozeki, Ruth – All over creation Brown, Sandra – The thrill Patterson, James – The jester of victory Pearl, Matthew – Dante club Clark, Nancy – The hills at Pye, Michael – Pieces from home Berlin Connelly, Joe – Crumbtown Shattuck, Jessica – Hazards of Delinsky, Barbara – Heart of good breeding the night Smith, Deborah – Sweet hush Diliberto, Gioia – I am Steele, Danielle – Dating game Madame X Sutherland, Grant – Dreyer, Eileen – With a The consignment vengeance Wall, Alan – Lightning cage Galloway, Janice – Clara: Wallach, Janet – Seraglio anovel Walsh, Michael – And all the Gordon, Alan – Widow of saints Jerusalem Welsh, Louise – Cutting room Griffin, W.E.B. – Final justice West, Paul – Cheops: Hustvedt, Siri – What I loved a cupboard for the sun Keneally, Thomas – Wolitzer, Meg – The wife Office of innocence Woodiwiss, Kathleen – Kumpfmuller, Michael – Reluctant suitor Adventures of a bed salesman SHORT STORIES Land, Jon – Blue widows Laurens, Stephanie – Bauman, Beth Ann – Perfect lover Beautiful girls Liss, David – Coffee trader Huth, Angela – Collected stories Lively, Penelope – Photograph Packer, Z. Z. – Drinking coffee McNaught, Judith – Someone elsewhere to watch over me MYSTERIES Hall, Parnell – Manslaughter: Adam, Paul – Flash point a Stanley Hastings mystery Allbeury, Ted – The networks* Hall, Patricia – Death in dark Atherton, Nancy – waters * Aunt Dimity takes a holiday* Hamilton, Denise – Barclay, Tessa – A better Sugar skull class of person Hart, Carolyn – Engaged to die Beaton, M.C. – Hess, Joan – Big foot stole my Agatha Raisin and the case wife and other stories of the curious curate * Jeffries, Roderic – Bowen, Rhys – Evan only An intriguing murder knows Lovett, Sarah – Dark alchemy Brown, Dale – The Da Vinci Margolin, Philip – code Ties that bind Brown, Rita Mae – Tail of the Massey, Sujata – tip-off The Samurai’s daughter Bruen, Ken – The white trilogy Mina, Denise – Sanctum * Conant, Susan – Paige, Robin – The dogfather: a dog lover’s Death at Glamis castle mystery Parker, Barbara – Corcoran, Tom – Octopus alibi Suspicion of madness Deaver, Jeffrey – Parker, Robert – Back story Vanished man Pelecanos, George – Dobson, Joanne – Soul circus The Maltese manuscript Reilly, Matthew – Contest Ellis, David – Life sentence Silva, Daniel – The confessor Ellis, Kate – Skeleton room * Steiner, Peter – A French Emerson, Earl – country murder Into the inferno Thayer, Steve – Wolf pass Fforde, Jasper – Lost in a Walsh, Jill P. – Presumption good book * of death * Fluke, Joanne – Lemon Walter, Jess – Land of meringue pie murder the blind French, Nicci – * indicates a British mystery Land of the living * Glass, Leslie – Over his dead body Green, Christine – Deadly echo * SELECTED Fresonke, Kris – CATALOGED BOOKS West of Emerson: the design of manifest destiny · 820.9F BIOGRAPHY Jones, Steven – Satire and Augustine, Saint – romanticism · 827.09 J Saint Augustine’s memory: Lurie, Alison – Boys and girls Confessiones book two forever: children’s classics (introduction and commen- from Cinderella to Harry tary by Garry Wills) · 92 A9228 A Potter · 820.9L Beckerman, Michael – Quick studies: the best of New worlds of Dvorˇák: Lingua franca · 001Q searching in America for the Tolstaya, Tatyana – Pushkin’s composer’s inner life · 780.92D children: writings on Russia Garcia Márquez, Gabriel – and Russians · 891.7T Vivir para contarla · SP. 92 Walker, Carol Kyros – G2177 G CLOSED STACK Breaking away: Coleridge in Horrox, Rosemary – Scotland · 828W Richard III: a study of service POETRY (1999) · 92 R5113 H Oltuski, Enrique – Vida Anthologie de la poésie clandestina: my life in the francaise · FR. 841.08A Cuban Revolution · 972.91 O CLOSED STACK Published and perished: Jiggery-pokery: memoria, eulogies, and a compendium of double rememberances of America dactyls (1983) · 821.08 J writers · 920 P978 P Murdoch, Iris – A year Spoto, Donald – Reluctant of birds (w/ engravings by saint: the inner life of Reynolds Stone) (1984) · Francis of Assisi · 92 F8157 S 821M CLOSED STACK Sebald, Winfried Georg – BELLES LETTRES For years now: poems The Book of prefaces · 820.9B (2001) · 831S Broch, Hermann – Geist and Zagajewski, Adam – Zeitgeist: the spirit in an Without end: new and unspiritual age · 834B selected poems · 891.85Z Delany, Paul – Literature, NEW TRANSLATIONS money and the market · 823.09D Mallarmé, Stéphane – Mallarmé in prose · 848M Proust, Marcel – In search Bailyn, Bernard – To begin of lost time: v.1. Way by the world anew: the genius Swann’s; v.3. Guermantes and ambiguities of the way; v.4. Sodom and American founders · 973.3B Gomorrah; v.5. Prisoner · FP Buruma, Ian – Inventing Sir Gawain and the Green Japan, 1853–1964 · 952B Knight: a new verse transla- Coogan, Tim – Wherever tion (by W.S. Merwin) · 821G green is worn: the story of the Irish diaspora · 909.4C ARTS Crouzet-Pavan, Elisabeth – Bailey, Colin – Patriotic taste: Venice triumphant: the hori- collecting modern art in pre- zons of a myth · 945.3C revolutionary Paris · 759.4B Deane, Philip – Goffen, Rona – Power & greed: a short Renaissance rivals: history of the world · 909D Michelangelo, Leonardo, Gaddis, John Lewis – Raphael, Titian · 709.45G The landscape of history: Kantor, Sybil Gordon – Alfred how historians map the past H. Barr, Jr., and the intellec- · 901G tual origins of the Museum Gay, Ruth – Safe among the of Modern Art · 708.1K Germans: liberated Jews King, Ross – after World War II · 943G Michelangelo and the Pope’s Higham, N. J. – King Arthur · ceiling · 759.5M 942.01H Koerner, Joseph Leo – The Judd, Denis – The Boer War · moment of self-portraiture 968.2 J in German Renaissance art · Kearney, Hugh – 759.3K The British Isles: a history Quilts of Gee’s Bend · 746Q of four nations · 942K Zischler, Hanns – Kafka goes Kenyon, Cecelia – Men of to the movies · 791.4Z little faith: selected writings (18th c. U.S. history) · 973K HISTORY Menzies, Gavin – Ambrose, Stephen – 1421: the year China discov- The Mississippi and the ered America · 910.9M making of a nation: The Saddam Hussein reader: from the Louisiana Purchase selections from leading to today · 977A writers on Iraq · 956.9S Sokolow, Jayme – The great Sebald, Winfried Georg – encounter: native peoples On the natural history of and European settlers in the destruction · 940.5343S Americas, 1492–1800 · 970.1S TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION Steers, Edward – Blood on the moon: the assassination Bryson, Bill – Bill Bryson’s of Abraham Lincoln · 973.7S African diary · 916.7B Taylor, Jane – Kanigel, Robert – High season Petra and the lost kingdom (Nice) · 914.4K of the Nabataeans · 939.4T Lamb, Christina – Words to outlive us: voices The sewing circles of Herat: from the Warsaw ghetto · a personal journey through 940.5315P Afghanistan · 915.8L Molavi, Afshin – NATIVE AMERICANS Persian pilgrimages: Bragdon, Kathleen Joan – journeys across Iran · 955M The Columbia guide to Shah, Tahir – In search of American Indians of the King Solomon’s mines · 916.3S Northeast · 970.1B Steavenson, Wendell – McFeely, Eliza – Zuni and Stories I stole from Georgia the American imagination · (republic) · 914.7S 970.3M NEW YORK CITY Seed, Patricia – American pentimento: the invention Denson, Charles – of Indians and the pursuit of Coney Island — lost and riches · 970.5S found · 974.71D Harris, Leslie – WAR In the shadow of slavery: Gilbert, Martin – The right- African-Americans in New eous: the unsung heroes of York City, 1626–1863 · 305.88H the Holocaust · 940.5315G Marlin, George J. – James, Lawrence – Fighting the good fight: Warrior race: a history of a history of the New York the British at war · 942 J Conservative Party · 324.273M Mosier, John – Schecter, Barnet – The myth of the Great War: The battle for New York: a new military history of the city at the heart of the World War I · 940.4M American revolution · 974.2S Sloat, Warren – A battle for Ten rungs: Hasidic sayings the soul of New York: (collected and edited by Revered Charles Parkhurst’s Martin Buber) (1947) · 296.6T crusade against police EDUCATION corruption, vice, and Tammany Hall, 1892–1895 · Brimelow, Peter – The worm 363.4S in the apple: how the teacher unions are destroying CIVILIZATION American education · 331.88B Ancient Greece: a political, Gatto, John Taylor – social, and cultural history · The underground history of 938A American education: Schiavone, Aldo – The end of a schoolteacher’s intimate the past: ancient Rome and investigation into the prob- the modern West · 937.06S lem of modern schooling · 370.973G ARCHAEOLOGY Levine, Melvin – The myth Camp, John – The archaeology of laziness · 370.15L of Athens · 938C Weinstein, Rhona S. – Flood, Josephine – Reaching higher: the power Archaeology of the dream- of expectations in schooling time: the story of prehistoric · 370.15W Australia (1990) · 994F Wills, Garry – Mr. Jefferson’s Magness, Jodi – The archae- university · 720.973W ology of Qumran and the SOCIAL STUDIES Dead Sea scrolls · 933M Crister, Greg – RELIGION Fat land: how Americans Benedict, Philip – became the fattest people in Christ’s churches purely the world · 362.1C reformed: a social history of Keller, Edward – Calvinism · 284.2B The influentials · 303.3K Mitchell, Donald W. – Manso, Peter – Buddhism: introducing the Ptown: art, sex and money Buddhist experience · 294M on the outer Cape (Province- Porter, J. R. – town, MA) · 974.4M The lost Bible: forgotten Ozment, Steven – scriptures revealed · 229P Ancestors: the loving family in old Europe · 306.8 O Polsgrove, Carol – Divided Hine, Thomas – minds: intellectuals and the I want that!: how we all civil rights movement · 323.4P became shoppers · 339.4H Roberts, Andrew – McCormick, Michael – Hitler & Churchill: secrets Origins of the European of leadership · 301.15R economy: communications Theriault, Reg – The unmak- and commerce, ing of the American working a.d. 300 – 900 · 380M class · 305.5T Weightman, Gavin – Warner, Jessica – The frozen–water trade: Craze: gin and debauchery a true story · 380.14W in an age of reason · 394.1W CRIME POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Cornwell, Patricia – Portrait Berlin, Isaiah – of a killer: Jack the Ripper — Liberty: incorporating Four case closed · 364.1C essays on liberty · 323.4B Fletcher, R. A. – Bruce, Tammy – The new Bloodfeud: murder and thought police: inside the revenge in Anglo-Saxon Left’s assault on free speech England · 942.01F and free minds · 320.9B Schiller, Lawrence – Cape May Frum, David – The right man: Court House · 364.1S the surprise presidency of SCIENCE George W. Bush · 973.930F Morley, Morris – Unfinished Gratzer, W.B. – Eurekas and business: America and euphorias: the Oxford book Cuba after the Cold War, of scientific anecdotes · 509G 1989–2001 · 327.73M Kirshner, Robert – The extravagant universe: ECONOMICS / COMMERCE exploding stars, dark Cohen, Lizabeth – energy, and the accelerating A consumer’s republic: cosmos · 523.8K the politics of mass Mazur, Barry – consumption in postwar Imagining numbers · 510M America · 339.4C Sossinsky, A. B. – Goodwin, Jason – Knots: mathematics with Greenback!: the almighty a twist · 510S dollar and the invention of America · 332.4G ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY Davis, Devra Lee – Auster, Paul – The story of When smoke ran like water: my typewriter · 652A tales of environmental Axelrod, Karen – Watch it deception · 615.9D made in the U.S.A. · 917.3A Royte, Elizabeth – The Tapir’s Freese, Barbara – Coal: morning bath: mysteries of a human history · 553.2F the tropical rain forest and Moran, Richard – the scientists who are trying Executioner’s current: to solve them · 575.3R Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the NATURAL HISTORY invention of the electric Hanson, Elizabeth – chair · 364M Animal attractions: nature HEALTH AND HOME on display in American zoos · 590.7H Droit, Roger-Pol – 101 experi- Heinrich, Bernd – ments in the philosophy of Winter world: the ingenuity everyday life · 128D of animal survival · 591.5H Olson, James Stuart – Rogers, Lesley – Songs, roars Bathsheba’s breast: women, and rituals: communication cancer & history · 616.9 O in birds, mammals, and Reichman, Judith – I’m too other animals · 591.5R young to get old: health care for women after forty DISEASE AND MEDICINE (1996) · 613R Grob, Gerald – The deadly Robinson, Jancis – How to truth: a history of disease in taste: a guide to enjoying America · 616G wine · 641.2R Hayden, Deborah – Pox: HUMOR genius, madness and the mysteries of syphilis · 616.9H Rooney, Andrew A. – Marriott, Edward – The Common nonsense · 824R plague race: a tale of fear, Weird and wonderful words · science and heroism · 614M 423W Porter, Roy – Blood and guts: a short history of medicine · 610.9P PETS/ANIMAL RIGHTS AUDIOCASSETTES Dodman, Nicholas – If only Faulkner, William – Collected they could speak: stories stories (22 cassettes) · AC F about pets and their people Fraser, Antonia – Marie · 636.7D Antoinette (15 cassettes) · Martin, Peter – A dog called AC 92 M3342 F Perth: the true story of a Hawking, Stephen – beagle · 636.7M The universe in a nutshell Scully, Matthew – Dominion: (3 cassettes) · AC 5301.1H the power of man, the Hemingway, Ernest – suffering of animals, and For whom the bell tolls the call to mercy · 179S (11 cassettes) · AC H Sebold, Alice – Lovely bones REFERENCE (7 cassettes) · LOBBY AC S Dorland’s illustrated medical Strachey, Lytton – Eminent dictionary · REF 610.3D victorians (9 cassettes) · Encyclopedia of the LOBBY AC 920 S894 E Enlightenment · LSR 940.25E Fishman, Stephen – The copyright handbook 6th edition · REF 655.6F

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