| Recent Acquisitions | ||
| February 2004 | ||
| (click here for archived lists) | ||
| Call Number | Title | Author |
| REFERENCE | ||
| REF 352.13 BOO | The Book of the states | Council of State Governments. |
| REF 364.151 ENC | Encyclopedia of genocide | Charny, Israel W. |
| REF 782.42 POP | Popular music : an annotated index of American popular songs. | Popular music (Detroit, Mich.) |
| REF 970.004 SON | The New York Public Library amazing Native American history : a book of answers for kids | Sonneborn, Liz |
| REF BC CUR 2003 | Current biography yearbook | |
| GENERALITIES | ||
| 011.73 ELL | A year of reading : a month-by-month guide to classics and crowd-pleasers for you and your book group | Ellington, Elisabeth |
| 028.9 NEL | So many books, so little time : a year of passionate reading | Nelson, Sara, 1956- |
| 071.3 AUL | Backstory : inside the business of news | Auletta, Ken. |
| PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| 133 ZUK | The seat of the soul | Zukav, Gary. |
| 133.43 ARO | Witch-hunt : mysteries of the Salem witch trials | Aronson, Marc |
| 133.89 SHE | Dogs that know when their owners are coming home : and other unexplained powers of animals | Sheldrake, Rupert |
| 153.9 EXP | Scientific American presents : exploring intelligence | Yam, Philip M. |
| 158.12 BEN | Emotional alchemy : how the mind can heal the heart | Bennett-Goleman, Tara. |
| RELIGION | ||
| 246.845 PRA | Spiritual parenting : a guide to understanding and nurturing the heart of your child | Prather, Hugh |
| 291.082 AND | The feminine face of God : the unfolding of the sacred in women | Anderson, Sherry Ruth |
| 291.215 TAY | Angel wisdom : 365 meditations and insights from the heavens | Taylor, Terry Lynn, 1955- |
| 291.432 VAN | Until today! : daily devotions for spiritual growth and peace of mind | Vanzant, Iyanla |
| 296.70835 FEI | Tough questions Jews ask : a young adult's guide to building a Jewish life | Feinstein, Edward, 1964- |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE | ||
| 303.3 HIL | Kinds of power : a guide to its intelligent uses | Hillman, James. |
| 305.2355 STE | Our last best shot : guiding our children through early adolescence | Stepp, Laura Sessions |
| 305.4 LAN | I dream a world : portraits of black women who changed America | Lanker, Brian |
| 305.40922 KIT | Women who could...and did : lives of 26 exemplary artists and scientists | Kitaj, Karma |
| 305.40947 BAS | About women like me : public and private life in the USSR | Baskina, Ada Leontevna. |
| 305.40947 BIN | Women in the U.S.S.R : the Scynthians to the Soviets | Bingham, Marjorie Wall, 1936- |
| 305.5130973 LUB | Limbo : blue-collar roots, white-collar dreams | Lubrano, Alfred |
| 306.7 MCG | Relationship rescue : a seven step strategy for reconnecting with your partner | McGraw, Phillip C., 1950- |
| 306.7 MOO | The soul of sex : cultivating life as an act of love | Moore, Thomas, 1940- |
| 306.81 GRA | What is marriage for? | Graff, E. J. |
| 307.720947 SEM | Village life in late tsarist Russia | Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Olga, 1863-1906 |
| 320.092 AQU | Inspiration and images / selected speeches and paintings. | Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco |
| 327.47 KEN | Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin. | Kennan, George Frost, 1904- |
| 330.973 AMO | Economic literacy : a comprehensive guide to economic issues from foreign trade to health care | Amos, Orley M., 1954- |
| 332.024 KOB | Get a financial life : personal finance in your twenties and thirties | Kobliner, Beth, 1965- |
| 346.73048 INT | Intellectual property | Peloso, Jennifer |
| 353 BON | American government | Bone, Robert C. |
| 355.2 ANT | Anti-ballistic missile: yes or no? | Brennan, Donald G., 1926- |
| 362.19685162 KNA | Appetites : why women want | Knapp, Caroline, d. 2002 |
| 362.197481044 FLE | Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science | Fleischman, John, 1948- |
| 362.2913 NAK | Reclaim your family from addiction : how couples and families recover love and meaning | Nakken, Craig |
| 362.292 JER | Happy hours : alcohol in a woman's life | Jersild, Devon |
| 362.2923 WOI | Adult children of alcoholics | Woititz, Janet Geringer. |
| 363.192 PRI | Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto--the promises and perils of the biotech harvest / Peter Pringle. | Pringle, Peter. |
| 363.320973 HOM | Homeland security | Messina, Lynn M. ed. |
| 364.1523 CRO | Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case | Crowe, Chris |
| 364.66 LIF | Who owns death? : capital punishment, the American conscience, and the end of executions | Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- |
| 370.15 BUT | Learning styles : personal exploration and practical applications : an inquiry guide for students | Butler, Kathleen A. (Kathleen Ann) |
| 374.22 SAA | The New York Public Library guide to reading groups | Saal, Rollene |
| 387.7 BLA | The flying book : everything you've ever wondered about flying on airplanes | Blatner, David |
| 393.9 BEN | In memoriam : a practical guide to planning a memorial service | Bennett, Amanda |
| 398.20938 FLE | Dateline : Troy | Fleischman, Paul. |
| PURE SCIENCE | ||
| 501 SCI | Science in progress. | |
| 508.74485 RAY | The path : a one-mile walk through the universe | Raymo, Chet |
| 523 RAY | An intimate look at the night sky | Raymo, Chet |
| 523.3 MAC | The big splat, or, How our moon came to be | Mackenzie, Dana |
| 530 ROT | Instant physics : from Aristotle to Einstein, and beyond | Rothman, Tony. |
| 530.092 FEY | "What do you care what other people think?" : further adventures of a curious character | Feynman, Richard Phillips |
| 551.21 BOU | Volcanoes : journey to the crater's edge | Bourseiller, Philippe |
| 551.46 OCE | Scientific American presents : the oceans | Schneider, David A. |
| 561.160949582 VEL | The petrified forest of Lesvos | Velitzelos, Evangelos |
| 583.55 MAG | Scientific American presents : magnificent cosmos | Rennie, John. |
| 591.562 RIC | Wild love | Richardson, Nan |
| APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | ||
| 609 PET | The evolution of useful things | Petroski, Henry |
| 609 TOM | What a great idea! : inventions that changed the world | Tomecek, Steve |
| 610.92 OFR | Singular intimacies : becoming a doctor at Bellevue | Ofri, Danielle |
| 613.04244 WOM | Scientific American presents : women's health, a lifelong guide | Ezzell, Carol. |
| 613.7042 FAI | Strength & power for young athletes | Faigenbaum, Avery D., 1961- |
| 614.1 FRI | DNA fingerprinting : the ultimate identity | Fridell, Ron |
| 614.42 FRI | Outbreak : disease detectives at work | Friedlander, Mark P. |
| 614.518 DAV | The devil's flu : the world's deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it | Davies, Pete, 1959- |
| 615.952987 BAR | And the waters turned to blood : the ultimate biological threat | Barker, Rodney, 1946- |
| 616.861 LUD | Understanding the alcoholic's mind : the nature of craving and how to control it | Ludwig, Arnold M. |
| 617.1027 MIC | The sports medicine bible for young athletes | Micheli, Lyle J., 1940- |
| 636.089092 GAG | If wishes were horses : the education of a veterinarian | Gage, Loretta |
| 641.3383 DAL | Dangerous tastes : the story of spices | Dalby, Andrew, 1947- |
| 641.5972 KEN | My Mexico : a culinary odyssey with more than 500 recipes | Kennedy, Diana. |
| 649.1 AFT | The parent's guide to protecting your children in cyberspace | Aftab, Parry |
| 649.133 GLE | 200 ways to raise a girl's self-esteem : an indespensable guide for parents, teachers & other concerned caregivers | Glennon, Will, 1949- |
| 649.64 SEV | How to behave so your children will, too! | Severe, Sal |
| 650.13 HEI | In the company of women : turning workplace conflict into powerful alliances | Heim, Pat |
| ARTS & RECREATION | ||
| 704.0396073 BOL | Wake up our souls : a celebration of African American artists | Bolden, Tonya |
| 709.73 ART | Art 21 : art in the twenty-first century. | Golden, Thelma |
| 728.372 TOK | Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house | Toker, Franklin |
| 738.092 PIC | Picasso : painter and sculptor in clay | Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 |
| 741.5973 MCC | Reinventing comics : [how imagination and technology are revolutionizing an art form] | McCloud, Scott, 1960- |
| 741.609 PUR | Graphic design 20th century : 1890-1990 | Purvis, Alston W., 1943- |
| 758.1 IMP | Impressionists in winter : effets de neige | Moffett, Charles S. |
| 759.13 KEL | Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco | Grynsztejn, Madeleine |
| 759.9 REM | Rembrandt's journey : painter, draftsman, etcher | Ackley, Clifford S. |
| 760.092 GOY | Goya | Hughes, Robert, 1938- |
| 770.05 EXP | Exposure. | Johnston, Patricia. |
| 779.074 WOM | Women photographers in America 1987 : August 11-September 13, 1987, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. | Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. |
| 781.62 BAE | The Joan Baez songbook | Baez, Joan |
| 781.66 UNT | Eight miles high : folk-rock's flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock | Unterberger, Richie, 1962- |
| 793.3196 HUE | The dances of Africa | Huet, Michel, 1917- |
| 794.81 MOR | Game art : the graphic art of computer games | Morris, Dave, 1957- |
| 796.092 BUI | Scientific American presents building the elite athlete : the science and technology of sport. Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 2000. | |
| 796.62 ARM | Every second counts | Armstrong, Lance |
| 796.912 BRE | Champions on Ice | Brennan, Christine |
| 797.21 COX | Swimming to Antarctica : tales of a long-distance swimmer | Cox, Lynne, 1957- |
| LITERATURE | ||
| 808.8 HER | Here is my kingdom : Hispanic-American literature and art for young people | Sullivan, Charles, 1933- |
| 808.899282 HEY | Hey! listen to this : stories to read aloud | Trelease, Jim. |
| 808.899282 RUS | Classics to read aloud to your children | Russell, William F., 1945- |
| 810.9896073 HIL | Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance | Hill, Laban Carrick |
| 811.008 MIN | A mind of winter : poems for a snowy season | Atwan, Robert. |
| 811.54 CLO | Madonna Anno Domini : poems | Clover, Joshua |
| 811.54 GLU | The seven ages | Gluck, Louise, 1943- |
| 811.54 HAL | The painted bed | Hall, Donald, 1928- |
| 811.54 RIV | Wise poison : poems | Rivard, David, 1953- |
| 814.54 LOU | The web of life : weaving the values that sustain us | Louv, Richard |
| 822.33 SHA B | Shakespeare | Wood, Michael, 1948- |
| 891.784402 RUK | Is that you laughing, comrade? : the world's best Russian (underground) jokes | Ruksenas, Algis, 1945- |
| 891.8517 JOH | The Poetry of John Paul II : Roman triptych, meditations | John Paul II, Pope, 1920- |
| HISTORY | ||
| 910.2 SCH | 1,000 places to see before you die | Schultz, Patricia |
| 910.41 COH | One year off : leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children | Cohen, David Elliot, 1955- |
| 912 HAR | You are here : personal geographies and other maps of the imagination | Harmon, Katharine A., 1960- |
| 917.8042 TUR | It happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Turner, Erin H., 1973- |
| 929.2 KYV | Your family history : a handbook for research and writing | Kyvig, David E. |
| 930 MYS | Mysteries of the past | Casson, Lionel, 1914- |
| 937 GOL | The complete Roman Army | Goldsworthy, Adrian. |
| 940.53438 LUK | The forgotten Holocaust : the Poles under German occupation, 1939-1944 | Lukas, Richard C., 1937- |
| 947 RUS | The Russian chronicles : a thousand years that changed the world ... | |
| 947.083 RUS | The Russian people in 1914 : chronicles from National geographic | Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917- |
| 970.00497 MUR | North American Indian | Murdoch, David Hamilton, 1937- |
| 973.91 THO | The day the bubble burst : a social history of the Wall Street crash of 1929 | Thomas, Gordon, 1933- |
| 974.71 VON | Triangle : the fire that changed America | Von Drehle, Dave |
| BIOGRAPHY | ||
| B AUSTER | The invention of solitude | Auster, Paul, 1947- |
| B DUMAS | Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America | Dumas, Firoozeh |
| B MORGAN | My place | Morgan, Sally, 1951- |
| FICTION | ||
| F ALE | Ten little Indians : stories | Alexie, Sherman, 1966- |
| F ALL | Quaker witness | Allen, Irene, 1960- |
| F BRA | The second summer of the sisterhood | Brashares, Ann |
| F CAS | Testimony and demeanor | Casey, John, 1939- |
| F CHE | The lady and the unicorn | Chevalier, Tracy |
| F CHE | The virgin blue | Chevalier, Tracy |
| F DAV | World of wonders | Davies, Robertson, 1913- |
| F FAQ | Pillars of salt : a novel | Faqir, Fadia, 1956- |
| F FIE | Dating Hamlet : Ophelia's story | Fiedler, Lisa |
| F GOO | Singing the Dogstar blues | Goodman, Alison |
| F HOF | The probable future | Hoffman, Alice. |
| F JON | The known world | Jones, Edward P. |
| F JON | The rope eater : a novel | Jones, Ben, 1968- |
| F KAR | Exiled : memoirs of a camel | Karr, Kathleen |
| F KIM | Something rising (light and swift) | Kimmel, Haven, 1965- |
| F KIM | The solace of leaving early | Kimmel, Haven, 1965- |
| F LIT | Shutterbug follies | Little, Jason |
| F MAR | A corner of the universe | Martin, Ann M., 1955- |
| F MCF | The music room | McFarland, Dennis |
| F PEA | Call and response | Pearson, T. R., 1956- |
| F PER | Period pieces | Deak, Erzsi |
| F PET | Keeping you a secret : a novel | Peters, Julie Anne |
| F RIN | Amelia's war | Rinaldi, Ann. |
| F SAG | Contact : a novel | Sagan, Carl, 1934- |
| F SMI | The devil's dream | Smith, Lee, 1944- |
| F STR | Really, truly, everything's fine | Strauss, Linda Leopold |
| F TOL | The Silmarillion | Tolkien, J. R. R., 1892-1973 |
| F TSU | Dreaming water | Tsukiyama, Gail |
| F TYL | The amateur marriage : a novel | Tyler, Anne. |
| F WOL | The night in question : stories | Wolff, Tobias, 1945- |
| LIBRARY OFFICE | ||
| LO 028.12 REF | Reference books bulletin, 2000-2001 : a compilation of evaluations September 2000 through August 2001 | Quinn, Mary Ellen, 1923- |
| PICTURE BOOKS | ||
| P 780.3 KRU | M is for music | Krull, Kathleen |
| P 811.54 PAT | Who was the woman who wore the hat? | Patz, Nancy. |
| P F BRU | Babar visits another planet | Brunhoff, Laurent de, 1925- |
| P F BRU | Babar's birthday surprise | Brunhoff, Laurent de, 1925- |
| P F PUL | Punctuation takes a vacation | Pulver, Robin |
| P F WEG | Little Red Riding Hood | Wegman, William |
| AUDIOBOOKS | ||
| AUDIO 811.4 DIC | Emily Dickinson: poems & letters. | Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 |
| AUDIO 814.54 SED | David Sedaris live at Carnegie Hall. | Sedaris, David |
| AUDIO 914.045 BRY | Neither here nor there | Bryson, Bill. |
| AUDIO 919.40465 BRY | In a sunburned country | Bryson, Bill. |
| CDS | ||
| CD EC BRAH DC B21 | Double concerto | Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 |
| CD ES BRUCK 4 M38 | Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) | Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896 |
| CD-ROMS | ||
| CD-ROM 031 MIC | Microsoft Encarta reference suite 2001. | Microsoft Corporation |
| VIDEOS | ||
| VIDEO 372.632 SPE | Spellbound | Blitz, Jeffrey, 1969- |
| VIDEO 616.9232 MYS | Mystery of the black death | Schreiber, Liev |
| VIDEO 782.1 VER | La traviata | Levine, James, 1943- |
| VIDEO 782.4 VOI | Voices of Sarafina! | Ngema, Mbongeni |
| VIDEO 823.7 AUS | Jane Austen's life ; Jane Austen's society ; Jane Austen's works | Dale, Liam |
| VIDEO 843.914 DIN | Le Diner de cons = The dinner game | Lhermitte, Thierry |
| VIDEO 909.82 BEL | La Belle epoque 1890-1914 | Fairbanks, Douglas, 1909- |
| VIDEO 975.7 FAM | Family across the sea | Boulware, Domino |
| VIDEO F BAD | The Bad news Bears | Matthau, Walter |
| VIDEO F CEN | Center stage | Schull, Amanda. act |
| VIDEO F CHI | Chicago | Chicago (Motion picture : 2002) |
| VIDEO F CIR | The circle = Il cerchio | Panahi, Jafar |
| VIDEO F DAV | David Copperfield | Hodges, Adrian |
| VIDEO F FOO | Footloose | Ross, Herbert, 1927- |
| VIDEO F FOU | 1492 : Conquest of Paradise | Scott, Ridley |
| VIDEO F FRE | Freaky Friday | Freaky Friday (Motion picture : 2003) |
| VIDEO F HOU | The house of the spirits | Streep, Meryl. |
| VIDEO F MAS | Peter Bogdanovich's mask | Phelan, Anna Hamilton |
| VIDEO F RUM | A rumor of angels | Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- |
| VIDEO F SAB | Sabrina | Lehman, Ernest, 1915- |
| VIDEO F TEN | 10 things I hate about you | Pratt, Susan May |
| VIDEO F WHI | The white balloon | Panahi, Jafar |
| VIDEO F WIZ | The Wizard of Oz | Wizard of Oz (Motion picture) |