OCTOBER 1999 BOOKS SELECTED NEW BOOKS

NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
BIOGRAPHY
OCTOBER 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS
SELECTED NEW BOOKS
Bedell-Smith, Sally - Diana in search of herself
Callow, Simon - Love is where it falls
Campo, Rafael - The poetry of healing: a doctor's education in
empathy, identity, and desire
Cesarani, David - Arthur Koestler: the homeless mind
Cohen, Bernard - Howard Aiken: portrait of a computer pioneer
De Santis, Solange - Life on the line: one woman's tale of work, sweat,
and survival
Diliberto, Gioia - A useful woman: early life of Jane Adams
Draper, Lyman - The life of Daniel Boone
Fleming, G.H. - John Everett Millais
Kenneson, Claude - Musical prodigies
Lamont, Lansing - No twilight about me: a life in letters
McCourt, Frank - 'Tis
Opdyke, Irene - In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer
Phelps, Daphne - A house in Sicily
Said, Edward - Out of place
Sampson, Anthony - Mandela
Sarton, May - Dear Juliette: letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley
(edited by Susan Sherman)
Skakun, Michael - On burning ground (Holocaust)
Sobel, Dava - Galileo's daughter
Tift, Susan - The trust: private and powerful family behind the New
York Times
Voss, Frederick - Picturing Hemingway: a writer in his time
Wesker, Arnold - The birth of Shylock and the death of Zero Mostel
Williams, Esther - The million dollar mermaid
FICTION
Ball, David - Empires of sand
Brenda, Joyce - The third heiress
Briscoe, Connie - A long way from home
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Brown, Sandra - Alibi
Danvers, Dennis - The end of days
Davis, Kathryn - Somewhere lies the moon
Dershowitz, Alan - Just revenge
Frayn, Michael - Headlong
Friedman, Kinky - Spanking Watson
Garrett, Annie - After you
Gemmell, Nikki - Alice Springs
Goudge, Eileen - One last dance
Greeley, Andrew - Younger than springtime
Griner, Paul - The collectors
Hansen, Ron - Hitler's niece
Kelly, Mary Anne - Jenny Rose
Keyes, Marian - Lucy Sullivan is getting married
King, Lily - The pleasing hour
King, Stephen - Hearts in Atlantis
Lappin, Elena - Foreign brides
Lee, Chang Rae - A gesture life
L'Heureux, John - Having everything
Livia, Anna - Bruised fruit
Logue, Antonia - Shadow box
Makine, Andrei - The crime of Olga Arbyelina
Rizzuto, Rahna - Why she left us
Rufin, Jean - The Abyssinian
Shapiro, Jane - The dangerous husband
Sides, Marilyn - The genius of affection
St. John, Madeleine - Stairway to paradise
Swanson, Eric - The boy in the lake
Trollope, Joanna - The brass dolphin
White, Michael - Blind side of the heart
Wolper, Carol - The cigarette girl
SHORT STORIES
Doenges, Judy - What she left me
Foster, Ken - The kind I'm likely to get
Davis, Amanda - Circling the drain
Slavin, Julia - The woman who cut off her leg at the Maidstone Club
MYSTERIES
*Arnott, Jake - The long firm
Barnes, Linda - Flashpoint
Cannell, Stephen - The devil's workshop
Dorsey, Tim - Florida roadkill
Doss, James - The night visitor
Fairstein, Linda - Cold hit
Forrest, Katherine - Sleeping bones
Frommer, Sara - The vanishing violinist
*George, Elizabeth - In pursuit of the proper sinner
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NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
Gerritsen, Tess - Gravity
Grafton, Sue - "O" is for outlaw
*Graham, Caroline - A place of safety
Harris, Charlaine - A fool and his honey
Hart, Carolyn - White elephant dead
Hart, Ellen - Hunting the witch
Hegwood, Martin - Big easy backroad
*Hill, Reginald - Arms and the women
Iles, Greg - The quiet game
Johansen, Iris - The killing game
Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Vengeance
*Keating, H.R.F. - The bad detective
Lansdale, Joe R. - Freezer burn
Mathews, Adrian - Vienna blood
McCall, Wendall - Concerto in dead flat
Miles, Keith - Saint's rest
Paretsky, Sara - Hard time
Parker, Robert B. - Family honor
Ridley, John - Everybody smokes in hell
Rozan, S.J. - Stone quarry
*Spencer, Sally - Murder at Swann's Lake
Thayer, Steve - Silent snow
*White, Gillian - Unhallowed ground
Wolf, Joan - No dark place
Zimmerman, R.D. - Outburst
* indicates a British mystery
BIOGRAPHY
SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS
Brittain, Vera - Letters from a lost generation: the First
World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends
940.48B
DuPlessis, Rachel - The feminist memoir project 305.4F
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The English notebooks, 2 vols.
828H
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The letters, 4 vols. (1987) 92
H3993H
Hewitt, Leah - Autobiographical tightropes: Simone de
Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique
Wittig, and Maryse Conde (1990) 840.9H
Hilden, Patricia - When nickels where Indians: an urban,
mixed-blood story (1995) 92 H643H
Hopkins, John - The Tangier diaries, 1962-1979 92 H
79395
Johnson, Mahlon - Working on a miracle (AIDS) (1997)
92 J6778J
Kapr, Albert - Johann Gutenberg (1996) 92G983K
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Liftin, Hilary - Dear exile: the true story of two friends
separated (for a year) by an ocean 916.7L
Pilling, John - Autobiography and imagination (1981)
808P
Shannon, Richard - Gladstone, 2 vols. 92 G 543S
Wilson, Robert - Character above all: ten presidents from
FDR to George Bush (1995) 973.9C
Wroe, Ann - Pilate: the biography of an invented man
225.92P
BELLES LETTRES
ARTS
Auster, Paul - Translations (1997) 840T
Brombert, Victor - Stendhal: a collection of critical
essays (1962) 843S
Burroughs, William - Word virus 820.8B
Epstein, Joseph - Narcissus leaves the pool: familiar
essays 824E
Ermath, Elizabeth - Realism and consensus in the English
novel: time, space and narrative 823E
Herbert, Zbigniew - The king of the ants: mythological
essays 891.85H
Lee, A Robert - The Beat generation writers (1996)
820.9B
Mamet, David - Jafsie and John Henry: essays 824M
Oz, Amos - The story begins: essays on literature 808.3O
Rushdie, Salman - Mirrorwork: 50 years of Indian
writing, 1947-1997 820.8V
Spacks, Patricia - Late Augustan prose (1971) 820.9L
Stout, Janis - Strategies of reticence: silence and meaning
in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne
Porter, and Joan Didion (1990) 823S
Walker, Alice - Anything we love can be saved: a writer's
activism (1997) 828W
Barrier, Michael - Hollywood cartoons 741.5B
Boime, Albert - Art in an age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815
(1990) 709B
Decker-Phillips, Edith - Paik video 709.2P
Foster, Susan - Choreography & narrative 792.8F
Ingarden, Roman - Ontology of the work of art (1989)
700I
Larson, Gary - American canvas: an arts legacy for our
communities (1997) 709.73L
Lopate, Phillip - Totally, tenderly, tragically: essays and
criticism from a lifelong love affair with the movies
791.43L
McBride, Henry - The flow of art: essays and criticisms
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(1997) 704M
Olalquiaga, Celeste - The artificial kingdom: a treasury of
the kitsch experience 709.73O
Podro, Michael - Depiction 701P
Tinterow, Gary - Portraits by Ingres: image of an epoch
759.4I
COSTUME AND DESIGN
Helfand, Jessica - Six (+2) essays on design and new
media 745H
Jackson, Lesley - The sixties: decade of design revolution
709.04J
Walker, Richard - Savile Row: an illustrated history
(1989) 646W
Wilson, Verity - Chinese dress (1996) 391W
MUSIC
Bergeron, Katherine - Decadent enchantments: the
revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes 783B
Brightman, Carol - Sweet chaos (Grateful Dead) 782B
Larsen, Jens Peter - Handel's Messiah (1989) 783L
Perle, George - The listening composer (1990) 781P
Plantinga, Leon - Beethoven's concertos 785P
Sullivan, Jack - New World symphonies: how American
culture changed European music 780.94S
DRAMA
Edson, Margaret - Wit 822E
Hare, David - Via Dolorosa: & When shall we live? 822H
Marber, Patrick - Closer 822M
Williams, Tennessee - Not about nightingales 822W
POETRY
Bloom, Harold - The best of the Best American Poetry,
1988-1997 821.08B
Brendel, Alfred - One finger too many 831B
Galvin, James - Resurrection update: collected poems,
1975-1997 821G
Hollander, John - Figurehead and other poems 821H
Levine, Philip - The mercy 821L
Saba, Umberto - Songbook: selected poems 851S
Sisson, C.H. - Collected poems 821S
Williams, C.K. - Repair 821W
LIBRARIES & BOOK COLLECTIONS
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NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
Fox, Peter - Cambridge University Library 027C
Lerner, Fred - The story of libraries 027L
Myers, Robin - Property of a gentleman: the formation,
organisation, and dispersal of the private library, 1620-
1920 (1996) 027P Oversize
Searle, Ronald - Slightly foxed - but still desirable (1989)
741.5S
FOLKTALES AND MYTHOLOGY
Baldwin, Neil - Legends of the plumed serpent: biography
of a Mexican god 299.7B
Cashdan, Sheldon - The witch must die 398C
Green, Thomas - Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs,
customs, tales, music, and art 2 vols. 398F
Nagy, Gregory - Greek mythology and poetics (1990)
881.09N
Nequatewa, Edmund - Truth of a Hopi: stories relating to
the origin, myths, and clan histories of the Hopi (1973)
970.6N
Peck, Catherine - A treasury of North American folktales
398.2Q
HISTORY
Cobb, Richard - The French and their revolution 944.04C
Connolly, S.J. - Kingdoms united?: Great Britain and
Ireland since 1500: integration and diversity 942K
Martel, Gordon - Modern Germany reconsidered, 1870-
1945 (1992) 943.08M
Merrell, James - Into the American woods: negotiators on
the Pennsylvania frontier 974.8M
Tapie, Victor - The rise and fall of the Habsburg
monarchy (1971) 943.6T
Vansittart, Peter - In memory of England 942V
ARCHAEOLOGY
Squier, Ephraim G. - Ancient monuments of the
Mississippi Valley 913.73S Oversize
Thompson, Thomas - The mythic past: biblical
archaeology and the myth of Israel 221.6T
Weeks, Kent - The lost tomb (Ramesses II) 932W
CIVILIZATION
Burstein, Andrew - Sentimental democracy: the evolution
of America's romantic self-image 973B
Dery, Mark - The pyrotechnic insanitarium: American
culture on the brink 306D
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NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Boyce, D.G. - The Irish question and British politics
(1996) 941.5B
Cockburn, Andrew - Out of the ashes (Saddam Hussein)
956C
Falcoff, Mark - Panama's Canal 327.73F
Humphreys, R. Stephen - Between memory and desire:
the Middle East in a troubled age 956H
Jacoby, Russell - The end of utopia: politics and culture in
an age of apathy 973.9J
Margalit, Avishai - Views in review: politics and culture
in the state of the Jews 956.94M
Roosevelt, Eleanor - Courage in a dangerous world
973.917R
Sachar, Howard - Israel and Europe 327.56S
RELIGION
Jenkins, Thomas - The character of God: recovering the
lost literary power of American Protestantism (1997) 284J
Lewis, C.S. - The case for Christianity (1996) 230L
Nadell, Pamela - Women who would be rabbis 296.6N
Nouwen, Henri - The wounded healer: ministry in
contemporary society (1990) 250N
Smith, Jane - Islam in America 297S
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Chudacoff, Howard - The age of the bachelor 305.3C
Cox, Jeffrey - Contesting the master narrative: essays in
social history 306C
De Bary, William - Asian values and human rights
323.4D
Duby, Georges - Rural economy and country life in the
medieval West (1976) 338.1D
Epstein, Richard - Mortal peril: our inalienable right to
health care? (1997) 362E
Fagan, Brian - Floods, famines, and emperors: El Niño
and the fate of civilizations 363.7GF
Friedman, Lawrence - The horizontal society (Ethnicity)
306F
Keen, Lisa - Strangers to the law: gay people on trial
323.4K
Leach, William - Country of exiles: the destruction of
place in American life 973.92L
Mackaman, Douglas - Leisure settings: bourgeois culture,
medicine, and the spa in modern France 613.1M
Thomas, G. Scott - The United States of Suburbia
307.74T
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NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
Wolfe, Alan - One nation, after all: what middle class
Americans really think about 305.5W
SCIENCE
Blackmore, Susan - The meme machine 302B
Grmek, Mirko - Western medical thought from antiquity
to the Middle Ages 610.9S
Toulmin, Stephen - Foresight and understanding 501T
Weinberg, Robert - One renegade cell 616.9W
PSYCHOLOGY
Ackerman, Diane - Deep play 128A
Black, Donald - Bad boys, bad men 616.8B
Ramachandran, V.S. - Phantoms in the brain 612.8R
Rank, Otto - Psychology and the soul 128R
Sternberg, Robert - Cupid's arrow 157S
Wright, Lawrence - Twins (1997) 155.4W
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Barro, Robert - Getting it right: markets and choices in a
free society (1997) 338.9B
Dixit, Avinash - Thinking strategically (1993) 658D
Easton, Jaclyn - StrikingItRich.com 338.7E
Pendergrast, Mark - Uncommon grounds (coffee) 641.3P
Steinfeld, Edward - Forging reform in China 330.951S
JOURNALISM
Allen, Michael - Poe & British magazine tradition (1969)
823P
Corey, Mary - The world through a monocle: the New
Yorker at mid-century 050N
Dicken-Garcia, Hazel - Journalistic standards in 19th
century America (1989) 070.1D
Moeller, Susan - Compassion fatigue 070.4M
Sorel, Nancy - The women who wrote the war 940.53S
NEW YORK CITY
Dolkart, Andrew - Morningside Heights 720.973D
Dolkart, Andrew - Touring historic Harlem (1997)
917.471D
Gray, Christopher - Sutton Place (1997) 917.471G
Leff, Jim - The eclectic gourmet guide to greater NYC
647.9L
Schneider, Eric - Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian
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NYSL: Selected October 1999 Books
TRAVEL
Kings: youth gangs in postwar New York 364.1S
Allen, Charles - A glimpse of the burning plain: leaves
from the Indian journals of Charlotte Canning (1986)
915.4A
Bay, Jane - Precious jewels of Tibet 294B
Dampier, William - A new voyage around the world
910.4D
Delaney, Frank - A walk to the Western Isles: after
Boswell & Johnson (1993) 914.11D
Lawrence, Karen - Penelope voyages: women and travel
in the British literary tradition (1994) 828.09L
Marsden, Philip - The spirit-wrestlers: a Russian journey
914.7M
MISCELLANEOUS
Carson, Anne - Eros the bittersweet 880.9C
Coetzee, J.M. - The lives of animals 179C
Rivlin, Gary - The plot to get Bill Gates 338.7R
Wechsberg, Joseph - Trifles make perfection 940W
UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES
Cornwell, Patricia - Black notice (9 tapes) #837
Eliot, T.S. - Four quartets (1 tape) #836
James, P.D. - Devices and desires (12 tapes) #815
Kafka, Franz - The trial (6 tapes) #833
Maupin, Armistead - Tales of the city (2 tapes) #830
Shaw, Bernard - Mrs. Warren's profession (1 tape) #784
Wilde, Oscar - An ideal husband (1 tape) #785
Winchester, Simon - The professor & the madman (5
tapes) #806
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