25 Books to Remember from 1995
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Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
Rothstein, Edward
| Times Books, © 1995 | 781.01-R
The chief music critic of The New York Times crafts an eloquent inquiry into the historical, structural, and creative connections between music and mathematics.
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Warner, Marina
| Farrar, © 1995 | 398.2-W
From the Queen of Sheba to Walt Disney, classic tales are brilliantly reinterpreted in this thoroughly enjoyable, lavishly illustrated work of scholarship and insight.
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Basbanes, Nicholas A.
| Henry Holt, © 1995 | 002.075-B
A chronicle of those who lust to acquire books.
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Landscape and Memory
Schama, Simon
| Knopf, © 1995 | 304.23-S
A noted historian explores concepts of landscape in art, religion and society in Western civilization.
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Our Paris: Sketches from Memory
White, Edmund
| Knopf, © 1995 | 944.361-W
White's chatty style and Sorin's trés amusant illustrations bring their Paris neighborhood alive.
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Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks & Whites
Dalton, Harlon L.
| Doubleday, © 1995 | 305.8009-D
These clearheaded essays, touched with humor, suggest specific ways to begin a dialogue between races.
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Shaping the City: New York and the Municipal Art Society
Gilmartin, Gregory F.
| Clarkson Potter, © 1995 | 709.7471-G
An excitingly rendered history of the organization that helped shape New York City as we know it today.
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Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Douglas, Ann
| Farrar, © 1995 | 974.91-D
A cultural cornucopia of American life as defined by the Manhattan of the 1920s.
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Allison, Dorothy
| Dutton, © 1995 | 812-Allison
The author focuses her storytelling skills on her own family.
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Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
Garber, Marjorie
| Simon & Schuster, © 1995 | 306.765-G
A witty treatise on bisexuality that includes cultural interpretations and a gossipy who's who.
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The Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas
Mutis, Alvaro
| HarperCollins, © 1995 | FIC-M
A quartet of interrelated stories takes Maqroll on fantastic adventures in exotic places.
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The Cunning Man
Davies, Robertson
| Viking, © 1995 | FIC-D
A compassionate novel of a Toronto doctor's life.
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The Good Negress
Verdelle, A. J.
| Algonquin, © 1995 | FIC-V
A young girl must choose between the life expected of her and the one she could make for herself.
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In the Place of Fallen Leaves
Pears, Tim
| Donald I. Fine, © 1995 | FIC-P
thirteen-year-old English girl comes of age during the crippling drought of 1984.
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Independence Day
Ford, Richard
| Knopf, © 1995 | FIC-F
Frank Bascombe, of Sportswriter fame, sells real estate and reflects on life.
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The Information
Amis, Martin
| Harmony, © 1995 | FIC-A
A jealous writer painstakingly plots revenge against a literary rival.
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The Longest Memory
D'Aguiar, Fred
| Pantheon, © 1995 | FIC-D
Characterized by spare prose and understated emotion, this first novel powerfully portrays a young slave's desire for freedom.
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Memoir from Antproof Case
Helprin, Mark
| Harcourt, © 1995 | FIC-H
The grumpiest of old men tells all--his climb to the top and back down again.
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Pig Cookies and Other Stories
Ríos, Alberto Alvaro
| Chronicle, © 1995 | FIC-R
A charming, gentle, and sweet recollection of life in a northern Mexican bordertown over a 50-year period.
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The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo
| Knopf, © 1995 | FIC-I
A pianist arrives in a city he cannot name and is plagued by people who demand a recital he has not planned.
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Bad Alchemy: Poems
Martinez, Dionisio D.
| Norton, © 1995 | 811-Martinez
A poetic rollercoaster that sweeps through the Tiananmen Square massacre, follows the decline of the variety show without Ed Sullivan, and soars to the heavens with a prayer.
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Holocaust Poetry
Schiff, Hilda, comp.
| St. Martin's, © 1995 | 808.8193-H
European, Israeli, and American voices bear witness to the Holocaust and its aftermath in this moving tribute to the human spirit.
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Biography |
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The Liar's Club: A Memoir
Karr, Mary
| Viking, © 1995 | B-Karr
The gritty truth is revealed in this tough, honest memoir.
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Paula
Allende, Isabel
| HarperCollins, © 1995 | B-Allende
Three generations of family life, love, and history are captured in a letter from a mother to her dying daughter.
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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
Reynolds, David S.
| Knopf, © 1995 | B-Whitman-R
From the era of Brooklyn as a village sprang the life and times that influenced America's great poet.
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Each year a committee from the staff of The New York Public Library selects 25
Books to Remember 1996 Committee:
Janet Campano, Nancy A. Farrell, Kenneth Giles, Rhonda K. Kitchens, Alice C. Phillips, Bonnie Farrier-Chairperson
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