January 1999
Volume 3, Issue 4

Fiction | Junior Fiction | Non-Fiction | Arts | Biography & Memoirs | History | Literature
New York City | Science | Holocaust | Junior Non-Fiction | Reference and Video

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Welcome back. You may notice that there is a long list of film books. This is because Debra Dobski has generously donated a huge collection which we are slowly cataloging. They are a fabulous addition to the library. Once again, suggestions are welcome and always taken into consideration. Keep them coming.

Annie, Elise, Kate and Ragan

Dreams of My Russina Summers by Andrei Makine
Fiction

Affliction .By Russell Banks.
Breakfast on Pluto . By Patrick McCabe.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey . By Thorton Wilder.
Charming Billy . By Alice McDermott.
The Claverings . By Anthony Trollope.
Dreams of My Russian Summers . By Andrei Makine.
Empire of the Ants . By Bernard Werber.
The Golden Spur . By Dawn Powell.
The Iron Tracks . By Aharon Appelfeld.
Little Altars Everywhere . By Rebecca Wells.
Master Georgie . By Beryl Bainbridge.
Notes From Underground . By Fyodor Dostoevsky.Tr. by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Sea of Trees . By Yannick Murphy.
The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin . By Maeve Brennan.
The Surroundded . By D'Arcy McNickle.
Unto the Soul . By Aharon Appelfeld.
The Voyage of the Narwhal . By Andrea Barrett.

Junior Fiction

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . By Mark Twain. A new illustrated edition.
The Bravest Thing . By Donna Jo Napoli.
Earthshine . By Theresa Nelson.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone . By J.K. Rowling.
Holes . By Louis Sachar.
The Jellyfish Season . By Mary Downing Hahn.
Letters to Julia . By Barbara Ware Holmes.
The Magic Circle . By Donna Jo Napoli.
Monkey Island . By Paula Fox.
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer . By Clifton Wisler.
Parable of the Sower . By Octavia Butler.
Pleasing the Ghost . By Sharon Creech.
The Prince of the Pond . By Donna Jo Napoli.
Ribbons . By Laurence Yep.
Something Terrible Happened . By Barbara Ann Porte.
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster . By Mary Downing Hahn.
Time For Andrew: A Ghost Story . By Mary Downing Hahn.
Travelling On Into the Light and Other Stories . By Martha Brooks.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Essential Kaballah by Daniel C. Matt
Non-Fiction

Ancient Horsemen of Siberia. Jane Buell.
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War. Tr. by Barbara Stoler Miller.
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of America Submarine Espionage. S. Sontag, A. Drew & C. Drew.
A Civil Action. Jonathan Harr.
The Coming Conflict with China. R. Bernstein & R.H. Munro.
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture. E.P. Thompson.
The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stakes Science . By Richard Firstman & Jamie Talan.
The Druids . By Stuart Piggott.
The Essential Kabbalah . By Daniel C. Matt.
The Enemy Within: The McClellan Committee's Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labor Unions . By Robert E. Kennedy.
Everyday Heroes: Extraordinary Dogs Among Us . By Sherry Warshauer.
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul . By Jonathan Lear.
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation . By Matt Ridley.
The Quaker Reader . Ed. by Jessamyn West.
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt . By James Giblin.
Spelling Works! By Jim Halverson.
Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian . By Tim Johnson.
Super Carriers: US Naval Air Power Today . By Jean-Pierre Montbazet.
Tao te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way . By Lao-Tzu. Tr. by Victor Mair.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead . Tr. by Robert Thurman.
The Way of the Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way . Tr. by R. M. French.
Witches: Opposing Viewpoints . By Bryna Stevens.

Arts

"I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat": Fifty Years of Slyvester and Tweety . By Jerry Beck.
Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist . By Chuck Jones.
Clint Eastwood: A Biography . By Richard Schickel.
Country Girl: The Life of Sissy Spacek . By M. Emerson & E. Pfaff Jr.
Disneyland: Inside Story . By Randy Bright.
Documentary Explorations: 15 Interviews with Film-Makers . By Roy G. Levin.
The Documentary Tradition: From Nanook to Woodstock . By Jacob Lewis.
The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art . By Carter Ratcliffe.
The Films of Woody Allen . By Robert Benayoun.
The Gangster Film . By John Baxter.
Hollywood at War: The American Motion Picture and World War II . By Ken Jones & Arthur McClure.
Indian Film . By Erik Barnouw & S. Krishnaswamy.
Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art . By Vincent Di Fate.
Kirk Douglas . By Michael Munn.
Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons . By Leonard Maltin.
My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon .
Nonfiction Film: A Critical History . By Richard Barsam.
That's All Folks! The Art of Warner Bros. Animation . By Steve Schneider.
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas . By Frank Thompson.
The Walter Lantz Story with Woody Woodpecker & Friends . By Joe Adamson.

The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art by Carter Ratcliffe

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir by Jacki Lyden
Biography & Memiors

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad . By Waris Dirie & Cathleen Miller. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir . By Jacki Lyden. Henry James; A Life . By Leon Edel. Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived . By Ralph Helfer. The Names of Things: Life, Language and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert . By Susan Morrow. Slaves in the Family . By Edward Ball.

History

Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom . By Dean Walter Myers. Barcelona . Time Out guide. Chronicles of the Barbarians: Firsthand Accounts of Pillage and Conquest from the Ancient World to the Fall of Constantine . Ed. by David Willis McCullough. Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 . By J. Isaacs & T. Downing. Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War . By Mark Perry. The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible . Ed. & tr. by by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy. Greenland Mummies . By Janet Buell. Innocents in Africa . By Drury Pifer. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War . By Zak Mettger. Reflections on the Civil War . By Bruce Catton. A Short History of Africa . By Roland Oliver. The Vietnam Reader . By Stewart O'Nan.

The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible. Ed. & tr. by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy

Shaking A Leg: Collected Writings by Angela Carter
Literature

Aeneid VII-XII . By Virgil. Latin edition. Ed. by R.D. Williams.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century . Vol.Two. Ed. by John Hollander.
The Essential Rumi . By Jala al-Din Rumi. Tr. by Coleman Barks.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul . By Tom Stoppard.
Fortune and Men's Eyes . By John Herbert.
The House of Blue Leaves . By John Guare.
The Odes of Horace . Translated by David Ferry.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Play in Three Acts . By Dale Wasserman & Ken Kesey.
The Screens . By Jean Genet.
Shaking A Leg: Collected Writings . By Angela Carter.
The Voice of the Wild: An Anthology of Animal Stories . Ed. by Patricia Beard.

New York City

1939 The Lost World of the Fair . By David Gelernter.
Brooklyn Atlas (@tlas) . By Stephan C. Van Dam.
Invisible New York: The Hidden Infastructure of the City . By Stanley Greenberg.
New York City . An Insight Guide.
New York City Handbook . Moon Travel Books.
NY Atlas (@tlas) . By Stephen Van Dam.
Showtime at the Apollo . By Ted Fox.

1939 The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self by Peter Kramer
Science

Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year . By David Ewings Duncan.
Evolution . Alvin & Virginia Silverstein.
Food Chains . By Alvin & Virginia Silverstein.
Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self . By Peter Kramer.
Photosynthesis . By Alvin & Virginia Silverstein.
Symbiosis . By Alvin & Virginia Silverstein.

Holocaust

Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew . By Richard Breitman.
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust . By Susan Bachrach.

Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew by Richard Breitman

Canterbury Tales: Selected, Translated, and Adapted by Barbara Cohen
Junior Non-Fiction

Behind the Blue and Grey. Young Readers' History of the Civil War . By Delia Ray.
The Best of the Best in Basketball . By Rachel Rutledge.
The Best of the Best in Soccer . By Rachel Rutledge.
Canterbury Tales . Selected, Translated, and Adapted by Barbara Cohen.
A House Divided: The Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee . By Jules Archer.
The Juggling Book . By Carlo.
Mexico . By Jack Rummel. (Places and People of the World)
A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began . By Delia Ray.
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War . By Ina Chang.
Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War . By Zak Mettger.

Reference and Video

Immigration The Easy Way . By Howard Deutsch, Esq.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization . Ed. by S. Hornblower & A. Spawforth.
Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science . DK Publishing Inc.
Barcelona: Magical, Enchanting, A City Filled with Tradition . Super Cities Series.
Godspeed, John Glenn . Walter Cronkite, narrator.
Madrid: The Many Faceted Spanish Capital . Super Cities Series.
Sailing/Outdoor: The Whitbread Round the World Race 1997-1998 . An ESPN video w/ Gary Jobson as host.

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