Summer '03

Booklist

Fiction

Archer, Jeffrey. Sons of Fortune.
Assiniwi, Bernard. The Beothuk Saga.
Baldacci, David. The Christmas Train.
Brady, James. Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines.
Broadbent, Tony. The Smoke: A Creeping Narrative.
Buckley, William F. Nuremberg: The Reckoning.
Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Street Boys.
Case, John. The Eighth Day.
Clancy, Tom. Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cutting Edge.
Cobb, James H. Target Lock.
Codrescu, Andrei. Casanova in Bohemia.
Collins, Joan. Star Quality.
Cookson, Catherine. The Fifteen Streets.
Corey, Deborah Joy. The Skating Pond.
Coulter, Catherine. The Penwyth Curse.
Dailey, Janet. Green Calder Grass.
Dark, Alice Elliott. Think of England.
Darnton, John. Mind Catcher.
Davis, Kathryn. Versailles.
Davis-Goff, Annabel. This Cold Country.
Dee, Jonathan. Palladio.
Delinsky, Barbara. An Accidental Woman.
Drabble, Margaret. The Seven Sisters.
Ebershoff, David. Pasadena.
Enquist, Per Olov. The Royal Physician's Visit.
Evans, Richard Paul. The Last Promise.
Faber, Michel. The Crimson Petal and the White.
Farrington, Tim. The Monk Downstairs.
Fielding, Joy. Whispers and Lies.
Flagg, Fannie. Standing in the Rainbow.
Follett, Ken. Hornet Flight.
Frayn, Michael. Spies.
Frost, Gregory. Fitcher's Brides.
Fry, Stephen. Revenge.
Furst, Alan. Blood of Victory.
Gay, William. I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down:
Collected Stories.
Grisham, John. The King of Torts.
Haig, Brian. Mortal Allies.
Hansen, Erik Fosnes. Tales of Protection.
Hardy, Jules. Altered Land.
Harris, Joanne. Coastliners.
Harrison, Kathryn. The Seal Wife.
Hilderbrand, Elin. Nantucket Nights.
Hoffman, Alice. Blue Diary.
Horch, Daniel. The Angel with One Hundred Wings:
A Tale of the Arabian Nights.
Hough, John. The Last Summer.
Jiles, Paulette. Enemy Women.
Jin, Ha. The Crazed.
Johansen, Iris. No One to Trust.
Johnston, Wayne. The Navigator of New York.
Kelley, Douglas. The Captain's Wife.
Kennedy, William. Roscoe.
Koontz, Dean R. By the Light of the Moon.
Kunzru, Hari. The Impressionist.
Lanchester, John. Fragrant Harbor.
Lent, Jeffrey. Lost Nation.
McCracken, Elizabeth. Niagara Falls All Over Again.
McCullough, Colleen. The October Horse.
McDermott, Alice. Child of My Heart.
McDonald, John. A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar.
McMurtry, Larry. Sin Killer.
Mapson, Jo-Ann. Along Came Mary: A Bad Girl Creek Novel.
Maraini, Dacia. Darkness.
Mason, Daniel. The Piano Tuner.
Medlicott, Joan A. From the Heart of Covington.
Mistry, Rohinton. Family Matters.
Mount, Ferdinand. The Man Who Rode Ampersand.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Beasts.
O'Brien, Tim. July, July.
Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine.
Patterson, James. The Jester.
Phillips, Scott. The Walkaway.
Plain, Belva. Her Father's House.
Powers, Richard. The Time of Our Singing.
Quindlen, Anna. Blessings.
Ray, Jeanne. Step-Ball-Change.
Reisert, Rebecca. The Third Witch.
Russo, Richard. The Whore's Child and other stories.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.
Sherwood, Frances. The Book of Splendor.
Shields, Carol. Unless.
Smith, Martin Cruz. December 6.
Smith, Zadie. The Autograph Man.
Sparks, Nicholas. Nights in Rodanthe.
Spinka, Penina Keen. Dream Weaver.
Starr, Jason. Tough Luck.
Tartt, Donna. The Little Friend.
Trevor, William. The Story of Lucy Gault.
Trigiani, Adriana. Milk Glass Moon: A Big Stone Gap Novel.

Mystery

Aird, Catherine. Amendment of Life.
Albert, Susan Wittig. Indigo Dying.
Barr, Nevada. Flashback.
Barr, Nevada. Hunting Season.
Beaton, M. C. Death of a Village: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery.
Block, Lawrence. Small Town.
Braun, Lilian Jackson. The Cat Who Brought Down the House.
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
Brown, Rita Mae. Hotspur.
Brown, Rita Mae. The Tail of the Tip-Off.
Browne, Marshall. The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders.
Buckley, Christopher. No Way to Treat a First Lady.
Camilleri, Andrea. The Terra-Cotta Dog.
Cleverly, Barbara. The Last Kashmiri Rose.
Connelly, Michael. City of Bones.
Crais, Robert. The Last Detective.
Cray, David. What You Wish For.
Deaver, Jeffery. The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel.
Dewberry, Elizabeth. Sacrament of Lies.
Dobson, Joanne. The Maltese Manuscript.
Fairstein, Linda A. The Bone Vault.
Gardner, John. Bottled Spider.
Gill, Bartholomew. Death in Dublin: A Novel of Suspense.
Gilstrap, John. Scott Free.
Greeley, Andrew M. Irish Stew!: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel.
Griffin, W. E. B. Final Justice.
Grindle, Lucretia W. The Nightspinners.
Gruber, Michael. Tropic of Night.
Hamilton, Denise. Sugar Skull: An Eve Diamond Novel.
Hansen, Joseph. Bohannon's Women: Mystery Stories.
Kerr, Philip. Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton.
King, Laurie R. Keeping Watch.
Lansdale, Joe R. A Fine Dark Line.
Lehrer, James. No Certain Rest.
McCall Smith, R. A. Morality for Beautiful Girls.
McCall Smith, R. A. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
McCall Smith, R. A. Tears of the Giraffe.
McCammon, Robert R. Speaks the Nightbird.
Mayes, Frances. Swan.
Miscione, Lisa. Angel Fire.
Monsour, Theresa. Clean Cut.
Morrissey, J. P. A Weekend at Blenheim.
O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Unfit to Practice.
Parker, Robert B. Back Story.
Parker, T. Jefferson. Black Water.
Paton Walsh, Jill. A Presumption of Death.
Peale, Cynthia. The White Crow: A Beacon Hill Mystery.
Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club.
Pearson, T. R. Polar.
Perry, Anne. Seven Dials.
Preston, Douglas J. The Cabinet of Curiosities.
Rankin, Ian. Resurrection Men.
Robinson, Peter. Close to Home: A Novel of Suspense.
Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. Conflict of Interest.
Rozan, S. J. Winter and Night.
Saulnier, Beth. Ecstasy: An Alex Bernier Mystery.
Scott, Manda. No Good Deed.
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone. Love Her Madly.
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone. She's Not There: A Poppy Rice Novel.
Spencer-Fleming, Julia. In the Bleak Midwinter.
Stabenow, Dana. A Fine and Bitter Snow.
Thomas, Scarlett. Dead Clever.
Tolkien, Simon. Final Witness.
Truman, Margaret. Murder at Ford's Theatre.
White, Kate. If Looks Could Kill.
White, Stephen. The Best Revenge.
White, Stephen. Warning Signs.
Wilson, Laura. My Best Friend.

Biography

Allen, Paul. Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge.
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor.
Blunt, Judy. Breaking Clean.
Brokaw, Tom. A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland.
Budden, Julian. Puccini: His Life and Works.
Chaffin, Tom. Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire.
Chernow, Burt. Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir.
Coughlin, Con. Saddam: King of Terror.
Doherty, P. C. The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun.
Drew, Elizabeth. Citizen McCain.
Ferguson, Kitty. Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens.
Ficowski, Jerzy. Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait.
Fosl, Catherine. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Justice in the Cold War South.
Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler: A Memoir.
Hatch, Orrin. Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator.
Hibberd, Dominic. Wilfred Owen.
Jones, J. D. F. Teller of Many Tales: The Lives of Laurens van der Post.
Keneally, Thomas. Abraham Lincoln.
Keynes, Randal. Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution.
Lebow, Eileen F. Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation.
Lind, Michael. Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics.
McLynn, Frank. Napoleon.
Mendez, Antonio J. Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War.
Miller, Anita. Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician.
Mogulof, Milly. Foiled: Hitler's Jewish Olympian: The Helene Mayer Story.
Moorehead, Caroline. Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia.
Peterson, Merrill D. John Brown: A Legend Revisited.
Remini, Robert Vincent. Joseph Smith.
Smith, Bob. Hamlet's Dresser.
Spotts, Frederic. Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.
Stacks, John F. Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism.
Steinberg, Saul. Reflections and Shadows.
Stevenson, Helen. Instructions for Visitors: Life and Love in a French Town.
Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.
Tomalin, Claire. Samuel Pepys: The Unequaled Self.
Tuccille, Jerome. Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, The World's Most Powerful Banker.

World History

Assmann, Jan. The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs.
Barnes, Julian. Something to Declare: Essays on France.
Collas, Philippe. Edith Wharton's French Riviera.
Ethell, Jeffrey L. Target Berlin: Mission 250, 6 March 1944.
Figes, Orlando. Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia.
Gerber, Merrill Joan. Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence.
Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heros of the Holocaust.
Hiro, Dilip. Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm.
Holmes, Richard. Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket.
Horne, Alistair. Seven Ages of Paris.
Jones, Howard. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War.
Kagan, Robert. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.
Kimmerling, Baruch. The Palestinian People: A History.
Koul, Sudha. The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir.
Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.
McCaffrey, Carmel. In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish, from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English.
Merwin, W. S. The Mays of Ventadorn.
Murgatroyd, Sarah P. The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier.
Nathan, Andrew J. China's New Rulers: The Secret Files.
National Geographic, Eds. Cradle and Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East.
Neuffer, Elizabeth. The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Perry, Marvin. Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present.
Schecter, Jerrold L. Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History.
Scroggins, Deborah. Emma's War.
Stern, Robert Cecil. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-Boats at War.
Zoll, Amy. Gladiatrix: The True Story of History's Unknown Woman Warrior.

American History

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum.
Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power.
Brands, H. W. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream.
Coggins, Jack. Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution.
Drye, Willie. Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.
Dudley, Wade G. Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.
Gess, Denise. Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History.
Gurewitsch, Edna P. Kindred Souls: The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Daniel Gurewitsch.
Hemingway, Lorian. A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives it Changed Forever.
Hertsgaard, Mark. The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World.
Homberger, Eric. Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Guilded Age.
Katharine Graham's Washington.
Lindsay, David. Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims.
Matthews, Christopher. American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Eight Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism.
Simpson, Richard V. Bristol: Montaup to Poppasquash.
Telhami, Shibley. The Stakes: America and the Middle East: The Consequences of Power and the Choice for Peace.
Wallison, Peter J. Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency.
Wills, Garry. A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government.
Zimmermann, Warren. First Great Triumph: How Fine Americans Made Their Country a World of Power.

Literature / Poetry

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales.
Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC.
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer.
Howe, Irving. Politics and the Novel.
Morgan, Frederick. The One Abiding.
Naipaul, V. S. The Writer and the World: Essays.
Ricerca delle radici. The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology/Primo Levi.
Statius, Papinius. Silvae.
Suiter, John. Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades.
Yolen, Jane. Take Joy: A Book for Writers.

Social Science

Carr, Caleb. The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians.
Emerson, Steven. American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.
Friedman, Thomas L. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11.
Gore, Albert. Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family.
Katz, Samuel M. Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the al-Qaeda Terroists.
McElroy, Wendy, Ed. Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty First Century.
Moran, Richard. Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair.
Munthe, Turi, Ed. The Saddam Hussein Reader.
Rischard, J. F. High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them.
Robbins, Alexandra. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones - The Ivy League, and the Hidden Rights of Power.
Weightman, Gavin. The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story.
Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife.

Fine Arts / Music

Flam, Jack D. Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship.
King, Ross. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.
Lowrey, Carol. Hayley Lever (1876-1958): Exhibition - February 20-April 5, 2003.
Walker, Paul Robert. The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World.

Food

Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History.
Richardson, Tim. Sweets: A History of Candy.
Wolke, Robert L. What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained.
Young, Carolin C. Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver: Stories of Dinner as a Work of
Art.

Music CD

Albeniz, Isaac. Iberia.
Puccini, Giacomo. Messa di gloria.
Reinecke, Carl. Flute Concertos.
Vaughan William, Ralph. A Sea Symphony.
Von Suppé, Franz. Suppé Overtures.
Zydeco.

Philosophy/Religion

Bloom, Harold. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Minds.
Boston Globe, Eds. Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church.
Brown, Ruth Murray. For A "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right.
Cameron, Julia. Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity.
Edis, Taner. The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science.
Goldstone, Lawrence. Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World.
Mencken, H. L. H. L. Mencken on Religion.
Skoyles, John R. Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence.
Wills, Garry. Why I Am a Catholic.

Recreation

Blom, Philipp. To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting.
Frost, Mark. The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Frances Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf.
Frump, Robert. Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine.
Menzies, Gavin. 1421: The Year China Discovered America.
Shaw, David W. America's Victory: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans and How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever.

Science/Nature

Aczel, Amir D. Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics.
Caputo, Philip. Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography.
Vertosick, Frank T. The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing.

Historical Science / Medicine

Barzun, Jacques. A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works.
Jones, Martin. The Molecule Hunt: Archeology and the Hunt for Ancient DNA.
McTaggart, Lynne. The Field: The Quest for the Universe.
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History.
Simon, Lizzie. Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D.

Reference

Gagne, Peter J. Links to Your Rhode Island Past.

Geography

Clifford, Barry. The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy.
de Botton, Alain. The Art of Travel.
Horwitz, Tony. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Naval/Military Science

Cohen, Richard. By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions.
Parker, Neal. Wendameen: The Life of an American Schooner from 1912 to the Present.
Stevenson, David. The World's Lighthouses from Ancient Times to 1820.

Juvenile

Bang-Campbell, Monika. Little Rat Sets Sail.
Clavel, Bernard. Castle of Books.
DePaola, Tomie. Things Will Never be the Same.
James, Simon. Little One Step.
Johnson, Crockett. Ellen's Lion: Twelve Stories.
Krasner, Steven. Play Ball Like the Pros: Tips for Kids from Twenty Big League Stars.
McClintock, Barbara. Dahlia.

Note: These are selections from recent acquisitions. Please inquire at the circulation desk for new titles not listed above.