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SEPTEMBER 2002 BOOKS ARCHIVED LISTS
NEW BOOKS
BIOGRAPHY
Barrett, Anthony - Livia: first lady of Imperial Rome Birkerts, Sven - My sky blue trades: growing up counter in a contrary time Blass, Bill - Bare Blass Collingridge, Vanessa - Captain Cook Courtney, Nicholas - Gale force 10: the life and legacy of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857 Freeling, Nicholas - Village book Graff, Henry F. - Grover Cleveland Haffner, Sebastian - Defying Hitler: a memoir Hirshon, Stanley - General Patton: a soldier's life Holmes, Richard - Wellington Hughes, Lindsey - Peter the Great Ivan Bunin: the twilight of emigre Russia, 1934-1953: a portrait from letters, diaries, and memoirs Jackson, Lawrence - Ralph Ellison: emergence of genius Johnson, John - Only son: a memoir Klima, Ivan - Karel Capek: life and work Kurzke, Hermann - Thomas Mann: life as a work of art Milton, Giles - Samurai William Morgan, Edmund - Benjamin Franklin Page, Nick - Lord Minimus Remini, Robert - John Quincy Adams Ridley, Jane - The architect and his wife: the life of Sir Edward Lutyens Ross, Andrew - David Livingstone: mission and empire Steinberg, Saul - Reflections & shadows Stone, Amey - King of Capital (Sandy Weill & Citigroup) Suiter, John - Poets on the peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades Wefali, Amine - Westchester burning: portrait of a marriage Zemanova, Mirka - Janacek
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FICTION
Abse, Dannie - The strange case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas Auster, Paul - Book of illusions Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Street boys Card, Orson Scott - Shadow puppets Cartwright, Justin - White lightning Cela, Camilo Jose - Boxwood Clancy, Tom - Red rabbit Clark, Robert - Love among the ruins Crowell, Jean - Letting the body lead Crusie, Jennifer - Faking it Darnton, John - Mind catcher Davis, Kathryn - Versailles Eisler, Barry - Rain fall Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex Farrington, Tim - The monk downstairs Fielding, Joy - Whispers and lies Flagg, Fannie - Standing in the rainbow Furst, Alan - Blood of victory Gaffney, Patricia - Flight lessons Gee, Maggie - White family Gertler, Stephanie - Puzzle bark tree Gould, Judith - The best is yet to come Graham, Laurie - The unfortunates Griffiths, Niall - Sheepshagger Harris, E. Lynn - Love of my own Hatoum, Milton - The brothers Huth, Angela - Of love and slaughter Jakes, John - Charleston: a novel Keun, Irmgard - The artificial silk girl Leebron, Fred - In the middle of all this Lehrer, Jim - No certain rest McGovern, Cammie - Art of seeing McNab, Andy - Last light Makine, Andrei - Music of a life Mda, Zakes - Heart of redness Michon, Pierre - Origin of the world Morgenroth, Kate - Saved Morris, J.M. - Lonely places Nigam, Sanjay - Transplanted man Pears, Tim - Wake up Plain, Belva - Her father's house Pratt, James Michael - Paradise Bay Robbins, Harold - Sin city Roberts, Nora - Cordina's royal family Sebastian, Barry - Annie Dunne Sherwood, Frances - Book of splendor Sinclair, Iain - Landor's tower Staincliffe, Cath -Trio
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Storey, David - As it happened Sullivan, Mark T. - Labyrinth Thubron, Colin - To the last city Toer, Pramoedya Ananta - Girl from the coast Tosches, Nick - In the hand of Dante Wells, Ken - Logan's storm Wiesel, Elie - Judges The year's best science fiction
SHORT STORIES
Capek, Karel - Cross roads Evans, Elizabeth - Suicide's girlfriend Gilchrist, Ellen - I, Rhoda Manning, go hunting with my daddy Murakami, Haruki - After the quake Papernick, Jon - Ascent of Eli Israel Stories from the Blue Moon Café (Rick Bragg, Pat Conroy, William Gay, W.E.B. Griffin, et al.) Winegardner, Mark - That's true of everybody
MYSTERIES
Bernhardt, William - Criminal intent Billingham, Mark - Scaredy cat * Block, Lawrence - Enough rope Brett, Simon - Torso in the town Burcell, Robin - Fatal truth Butler, Gwendoline - Coffin knows the answer * Cameron, Stella - Cold day in July Carlon, Patricia - Who are you, Linda Condrick? Clark, Mary Jane - Nobody knows Cleverly, Barbara - The last Kashmiri rose * Conant, Susan - Wicked flea Constantine, K.C. - Saving room for dessert Cooper, Natasha - Out of the dark * Crombie, Deborah - And justice there is none * Davis, Lindsey - Jupiter myth Davis, Patrick - The commander Diamond, Diana - Good sister Doherty, P.C. - Slayers of Seth: a story of intrigue and murder set in Ancient Egypt Eddy, Paul - Flint's law Engel, Howard - Cooperman variations Estleman, Loren - Black powder, white smoke Gardner, John - Bottled spider * Gerritsen, Tess - Apprentice Gleeson, Janet - The grenadillo box * Granger, Ann - A restless evil * Grimes, Martha - The grave Maurice * Grippando, James - Beyond suspicion
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Hamill, Denis - Long time gone Hansen, Joseph - Bohannon's women Harris, Charlaine - Last scene alive Hart, Ellen - Immaculate midnight Hills, Kathleen - Past imperfect Hooper, Kay - Whisper of evil Horn, Stephen - Law of gravity Jance, J.A. - Partner in crime Kava, Alex - Soul catcher Kellerman, Faye - Stone kiss McClendon, Lise - Sweet and lowdown MacDonald, Marianne - Blood lies * McGown, Jill - Births, deaths & marriages * McInerny, Ralph - As good as dead Maitland, Barry - Silver meadow * Maron, Margaret - Slow dollar Marston, Edward - Bawdy basket * Martin, Andrew - The necropolis railway * Michaels, Kasey - Maggie needs an alibi O'Marie, Carol Anne - The corporal works of murder O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Unfit to practice Owen, Barry - Honor's kingdom Pearson, Ridley - Art of deception Pickard, Nancy - The truth hurts Reich, Christopher - First billion Roberts, Les - The Irish sports pages Sanders, Lawrence - McNally's alibi Santlofer, Jonathan - The death artist Siegel, Sheldon - Criminal intent Siler, Jenny - Shot Simmons, Dan - Hard freeze Tannenbaum, Robert - Absolute rage Tope, Rebecca - Grave concerns Turnbull, Peter - The return *
* indicates a British mystery
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS
BELLES LETTRES
Bettini, Maurizio - Classical indiscretions: a millennial enquiry into the state of the classics 880.9B Gay, Peter - Savage reprisals: Bleak house, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks 809.3G Hamilton, Ian - Against oblivion: some lives of the 20th century poets 821.09H James, Clive - Reliable essays 824J Larkin, Philip - Trouble at Willow Gables and other fictions 828.08L
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Sackville-West, Vita - Selected writings 828S Vargas Llosa, Mario - Letters to a young novelist 808.3V Warshow, Robert - The immediate experience: movies, comics, theatre & other aspects of popular culture (originally published in 1962; includes new chapters) 824W Zipes, Jack David - Sticks and stones: the troublesome success of children's literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter 809Z
POETRY
Evaristo, Bernandine - The emperor's babe 821E Poems to live by in uncertain times (Joan Murray, editor) 821.08P Strand, Mark - The story of our lives 821S
BOOKS & READING
Justice, Keith L. - Bestseller index: all books, by author, on the list of Publisher's Weekly and the New York times through 1990 (1998) 016J Spufford, Francis - The child that books built 028S Sutherland, John - Reading the decades: fifty years of the nation's bestselling books (UK) 028S
LANGUAGE
Dunn, Jerry Camarillo - Idiom savant (1997) 427C Nunberg, Geoffrey - The way we talk now: commentaries on language and culture from NPR's "Fresh air" 401N
ARTS
Bröhan, Torsten - Glass of the avant-garde 748B Brooks, H. Allen - Le Corbusier's formative years (1997) 720.92B Chapman, H. Perry - Jan Steen, painter and storyteller (1996) 759.9S Gebhard, David - The National Trust guide to Art Deco in America (1996) 720.973G Klaus, Susan - A modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. & the plan for Forest Hills Gardens 307K Shiner, L.E. - The invention of art: a cultural history 709S Stafford, Barbara Maria - Devices of wonder: from the world in a box to images on a screen 701S
BIOGRAPHY
Ames, Jonathan - My less than secret life 92 A5138 A Barlow, Frank - The Godwins 942.01B Gelles, Edith Belle - Abigail Adams (1998) 92 A199 G Litwak, Leo - The medic: life and death in the last days of WWII 940.548L Millet, Catherine - The sexual life of Catherine M. 92 M6832 M
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The Norton book of interviews: an anthology from 1859 to the present (1996) 920 P41 N
HISTORY
Benjamin, Thomas - La Revolución: Mexico's great revolution as memory, myth & history 972B Blanning, T.C.W. - The culture of power and the power of culture: old regime Europe, 1660-1789 940.25B Cradock, Percy - Know your enemy: how the Joint Intelligence Committee saw the world 355.34C Eley, Geoff - Forging democracy: the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 940.28E Gerolymatos, André - The Balkan wars 949.6G Gilbert, Martin - Letters to Auntie Fori: the 5000 year history of the Jewish people and their faith 909.4G Glassberg, David - Sense of history: the place of the past in American life 973G Gregson, Jonathan - Blood against the snows: the tragic story of Nepal's royal dynasty 954.96G Lamb, David - Vietnam, now: a reporter returns 915.9L Morris, Dick - Power plays: win or lose-how history's greatest political leaders play the game 909.82M Parker, Geoffrey - Success is never final: empire, war, and faith in early modern Europe 940.22P
CIVILIZATION
Cartledge, Paul - Spartan reflections 938C D'Souza, Dinesh - What's so great about America 973D Hartog, Francois - Memories of Odysseus: frontier tales from ancient Greece 938H An Oxford companion to the romantic age: British culture, 1776-1832 306O
TRAVEL
Chaffetz, David - A journey through Afghanistan: a memorial 915.8C De Botton, Alain - The art of travel 910D Lane, Edward William - Description of Egypt (1825-1828) 916.2L Tattlin, Isadora - Cuba diaries: an American housewife in Havana 972.91T
NEW YORK CITY
A Community of many worlds: Arab-Americans in New York City 974.71C Kornblum, William - At sea in the city: New York from the water's edge 974.71K Stoller, Paul - Money has no smell: the Africanization of New York
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City 305.88S
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Adler, E. Scott - Why congressional reforms fail: reelection and the House Committee system 328.73A Bobbitt, Philip - The shield of Achilles: war, peace, and the course of history 327B Chandler, David - From Kosovo to Kabul: human rights and international intervention 323.4C Coulter, Ann H. - Slander: liberal lies about the American right 320.9C Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Globalization and its discontents 337S Talbott, Strobe - The Russia hand: a memoir of presidential diplomacy 327.73T
RELIGION
Buber, Martin - Eclipse of God: studies in the relation between religion and philosophy (1952) 201B Croce, Paul Jerome - Science and religion in the era of William James (1995) 215C Dever, William - What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it? 220.9D Lipsey, Roger - Have you been to Delphi?: tales of the ancient oracle for modern minds 292L Waugh, Alexander - God: the biography 212W
PHILOSOPHY
Ficino, Marsilio - Platonic theology 184F Flanagan, Owen J. - The problem of the soul: two visions of mind and how to reconcile them 128F Gilson, Etienne - The philosophy of St. Bonaventure (1965) 189G Magee, Bryan - Confessions of a philosopher: a journey through western philosophy (1997) 100M
INDUSTRY AND ECONOMICS
Defying corporations, defining democracy: a book of history & stategy 322.3D LeBaron, Dean - Mao, Marx and the market: capitalist adventures in Russia and China 330.947L McMillan, John - Reinventing the bazaar: a natural history of markets 330.1M Nestle, Marion - Food politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health 338.4N
SOCIAL STUDIES
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Banner, Stuart - The death penalty: an American history 343.2B Florida, Richard L. - The rise of the creative class: and how it is transforming work, leisure, community & everyday life 305.5F Foster, Gaines M. - Moral reconstruction: Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 322.4F Freedman, Estelle B. - No turning back: the history of feminism and the future of women 305.4F Hewlett, Sylvia Ann - Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children 306.8H Horowitz, David - Uncivil wars: the controversy over reparations for slavery 323.1H Mitchell, Richard G. - Dancing at Armageddon: survivalism and chaos in modern times 301M Roiphe, Anne - Married: a fine predicament 306.8R Segal, Ronald - Islam's Black slaves: the other Black diaspora 306.3S
CRIMES
Pollock, Ellen Joan - The pretender: how Martin Frankel fooled the financial world and led the feds on one of the most publicized manhunts in history 364.1P Taylor, John - The count and the confession 364.1T Wambaugh, Joseph - Fire lover: a true story 364.1W
PSYCHOLOGY
Bruner, Jerome - Making stories: law, literature, life 121B Chesler, Phyllis - Woman's inhumanity to woman 305.4C Essential papers on the psychology of aging 155.6E Gilligan, Carol - The birth of pleasure 155.3G
SCIENCE
Emsley, John - Nature's building blocks: an A-Z guide to the elements 546E Flowers, Charles - Instability rules: the ten most amazing ideas of modern science 509F Gould, Stephen Jay - The structure of evolutionary theory 575G Hawking, Stephen - The theory of everything 523.1H Jahme, Carole - Beauty and the beasts: woman, ape and evolution 599J
ENVIRONMENT
Ashcroft, Frances M. - Life at the extremes (2000) 612A Foster, David R. - New England forests through time: insights from the Harvard Forest dioramas (2000) 634.9F Lomborg, Bjørn - The skeptical environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world 363.7L McDonough, William - Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make
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things 658M
HUMOR
Floating off the page: the best stories from the Wall Street journal's "Middle column" 081F Franken, Al - Oh, the things I know! 170F Moore, Michael - Stupid white men-and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! 973.929M
SPORTS
Bellos, Alex - Futebol: the Brazilian way of life 796.3B Charyn, Jerome - Sizzling chops and devilish spins: ping-pong and the art of staying alive 794.7C Fletcher, Colin - The complete walker IV 796.51F
COOKERY
Boorstin, Sharon - Let us eat cake 641.5B Brenner, Leslie - The fourth star: dispatches from inside Daniel Boulud's celebrated New York Restaurant 647.9B David, Elizabeth - Is there a nutmeg in the house? 641.5D
HEALTH AND HOME
Gallagher, Winifred - Spiritual genius 291.4G Legato, Marianne - Eve's rib: the new science of gender-specific medicine and how it can save your life 616L Weinblatt, Michael E. - The arthritis action program 616.9W
SEPTEMBER 11
Miller, John - The cell: inside the 9/11 plot and why the CIA and FBI failed to stop it 303.6M Ruthven, Malise - A fury for God: the Islamist attack on America 303.6R September 11th photo project Oversize 974.71S
AUDIOCASSETTES
Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio (6 cassettes; readings by Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Paul Auster, et al.) AC A Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent (8 cassettes) AC C Lobby Proust, Marcel - Swann's way (16 cassettes) AC P - Lobby
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