March 1999
Volume 3, Issue 5

Fiction | Junior Fiction | Non-Fiction | Arts | Biography & Memoirs | History | Literature
New York City | Science | Black Studies | Tapes and Video

in the library

It is time once again to start planning for the booksale in June. We are now happily accepting donations. Please bring any contributions to the library or leave them behind Pearl's desk in the lobby. Make sure your name goes along with them so that we can properly thank you. Also, please keep recommending books for the library.

Have a wonderful vacation.

Annie, Elise, Kate and Ragan

Night Train by Martin Amis
Fiction

Amy and Isabelle. By Elizabeth Strout. (Zarina Feinman's mother)
Another November. By Roger Grenier.
Burden of Desire. By Robert MacNeil.
Cloudsplitter. By Russell Banks.
Eden Close. By Anita Shreve.
The Emigrants. By W.G. Sebald.
Falling Slowly. By Anita Brookner.
Human Croquet. By Kate Atkinson.
An Instance of the Fingerpost. By Iain Pears.
London. By Edward Rutherfurd.
The Magician's Wife. By Brian Moore.
The Mirror. By Lynn Freed.
Night of Many Dreams. By Gail Tsukiyama.
Night Train. By Martin Amis.
Pride. By Lorene Cary.
Songdogs. By Colum McCann.
Unicorn's Blood. By Patricia Finney.
The Wanting Seed. By Anthony Burgess.
Was it Something I Said. By Valerie Block.

Scifi

Game of Thrones. By George R.R. Martin.
The Initiate. By Louise Cooper.
The Master. Louise Cooper.
The Outcast. By Louise Cooper.
Temple of the Winds. By Terry Goodkind.
Wizard's First Rule. By Terry Goodkind.

Junior Fiction

Bad Girls. By Jacqueline Wilson.
Beyond the Mango Tree. By Amy Bronwen Zemser.
Cast Two Shadows. By Ann Rinaldi.
A City in Winter. By Mark Helprin.
Granny. By Anthony Horowitz.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. By J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone. By J.K. Rowling.
Jazmin's Notebook. By Nikki Grimes.
The Kid from Tomkinsville. By John Roberts Tunis.
Little House on Rocky Ridge. By Roger Lea MacBride.
The Lottie Project. By Jacqueline Wilson.
Raven in a Dove House. By Andrea David Pinkney.
Rest in Peace. By Kathryn Reiss.
Rustle in the Grass. By Robin Hawdon.
Sirena. By Donna Jo Napoli.
The Suitcase Kid. By Jacqueline Wilson.
The Veil of Snows. By Mark Helprin.
The Witch's Portraits. By Lisa Geurdes Mullarkey.
Witchs' Brew. By Holly Warriner.

A City in Winter by Mark Helprin

Uppity Women of the Renaissance
Non-Fiction

Amazing Logic Puzzles. By Norman D. Willis.
American Photojournalism Comes of Age. By Michael Carlebach.
The Archaeology of Knowledge & the Discourse on Language. By Michael Foucault.
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. By Naomi Wolf.
The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter: The Uses of Storytelling in the Classroom. By Vivian Gussin Paley.
Canary Islands. Lonely Planet.
The Democrats from Jefferson to Clinton. By Robert Allen Rutland.
Drives and Reinforcements: Behavioral Studies of Hypothalamic Functions. By James Olds.
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Vol 1. By Timothy Gantz.
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt. By Maria Carmela Betro.
Impeachment: A Handbook. By Charles Jr. Black.
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. By Michael B. Katz.
Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind the Nation of Islam's "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews". By Harold Brackman.
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers. By Andrew Ross.
The Silk and Spice Routes: Exploration by Land. By Paul Strathern.
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch.
The Teenage World: Adolescents' Self-image in Ten Countries. By Offer, Ostrov, Howard & Atkinson.
Uppity Women of Medieval Times. By Vivki Leon.
Uppity Women of the Renaissance. By Vicki Leon.
The Victorian Internet; The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers. By Tom Standage.
Wall St.: How It Works and for Whom. By Doug Henwood.
Wild Women in the White House: The Formidable Females Behind the Throne, On the Phone, and (Sometimes) Under the Bed. By Autumn Stephens.
Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era. By Autumn Stephens

Arts

Archaic and Classical Greek Art. By Robin Osborne.
The Arts in Spain. By John F. Moffitt.
Masaccio and the Brancacci Chapel. By Ornella Casazza.
Who's Who of Jazz. By John Chilton.

Masaccio and the Brancacci Chapel by Ornella Casazza

The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
Biography & Memiors

The Boys of My Youth. By Jo Ann Beard.
The Darwin Legend. By James Moore.
Hilary and Jackie. By Hilary and Piers Du Pre.

History

The American Century. By Harold Evans.
Aztec and Maya Myths. By Karl Taube.
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. By Stephen O'Shea.
Eye-deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I. By John Ellis.
France in Modern Times. By Gordon Wright.
Making Thirteen Colonies. By Joy Hakim.
The Peloponnesian War: The Complete Hobbes Translation. By Thucydides.
The Scent of Eden: A Narrative of the Spice Trade. By Charles Corn.
Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya. By William L. Fash.
Stalemate! The Great Trench Warfare Battles of 1915-1917. By J.H. Johnson.
The Thirty Years War. By C.V. Wedgwood.

Literature

The Best American Short Stories 1998. Ed. by Garrison Keillor.
Black Eagle Child: The Facepoint Narratives. By Ray A. Young Bear.
Black Zodiac. By Charles Wright.
Collected Fictions. By Jorge Luis Borges.
The Complete Plays of John M. Synge.
Elegy for Iris. By John Bayley.
Franz Kafka; Letter to His Father.
Hay. By Paul Muldoon.
The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction. By Michael Wood.
Plays Vol. I by Georg Kaiser.
Poor Murderer. By Pavel Kohut.
The Princess de Cleves. By Madame Marie Madeleine Lafayette.
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. By Syd Field.

New York City

Birds of New York City, Western Long Island & Northern New Jersey. By Chris Fisher & Andy Bezener.
Breaking Ground: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground. By Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan.
Manhattan Shores: An Expedition Around The Island's Edge. By Laura Rosen.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

Science

Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife. By Richard Conniff.
Physiological Psychology. By Peter M. Milner.

Black Studies

From Slavery to Freedom. A History of Negro Americans. By John Hope Franklin. (Updated)
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. By Taylor Branch.
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry. Ed. by Jerry W. Ward.

Film

Al Jolson: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet! By Robert Oberfirst.
The American Film Heritage: Impressions from the American Film Institute Archives. By Tom Shales.
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movements. By Ruby B. Rich.
Chick Flicks; A Movie Lover's Guide to the Movies Women Love. By Jami Bernard.
A Concise History of the Cinema. Ed. by Peter Cowe.
The Film Idea. By Stanley J. Solomon.
The Films of D.W. Griffith. By Edward Wagenknecht & Anthony Slide.
The Films of Laurel and Hardy. By William K. Everson.
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. By Molly Haskell.
Harold Lloyd; The Shape of Laughter. By Richard Schickel.
Lunatics and Lovers: A Tribute to the Giddy and Glittering Era of the Screen's "Screwball" and Romantic Comedies. By Ted Sennet.
Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Howard Lloyd. By Donald W. McCaffrey.
The Three Stooges Scrapbook. By J. Lenburg, J. Maurer & G. Lenberg.
W.C. Fields: A Life on Film. By Ronald J. Fields.
Zero by Mostel. By Zero Mostel.

Tapes and Video

Dylan Thomas Reads And Death Shall Have No Dominion, On Reading Poetry & Other Selections.
Dylan Thomas Reads A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems.
Berlin: Divided, Re-united, City of the Free. Super Cities series.
Desert Life. Science Series.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Portrait of the Artist.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Mexico City: Energetic, Alive, the City Where Past and Present Combine.

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