Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
March 2013 - April 2013
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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 | The girl who chased the moon: a novel By Allen, Sarah Addison Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother's life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren't solved in Mullaby, they're a way of life. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Austen, Jane Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages, including: explanations of historical context; citations from Austen's life, letters, and other writings; definitions and clarifications; literary comments and analysis; maps of places in the novel; an introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events; [and] nearly 200 informative illustrations. Filled with fascinating information about everything from the social status of spinsters and illegitimate children to the shopping habits of fashionable ladies to English attitudes toward gypsies, David M. Shapard's Annotated Emma brings Austen's world into richer focus"--Provided by publisher. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Berg, Elizabeth Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect with a daughter she gave away at birth; another wants to visit her long-absent ex-husband; a third woman, a professional chef, is seeking new inspiration from the restaurants along the way. And Cecilia is looking for Dennis Halsinger, the man she never got over, who recently sent her a postcard out of the blue. This novel is classic Elizabeth Berg--a portrait of how women grow through the relationships that define them, and a testament to the power of female friendship"-- |
 | By Box, C. J. Publishing Date: 2008, c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's unexpected savior comes in the form of an old-school rancher teetering on the brink of foreclosure.--From publisher description. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Box, C. J. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Buckell, Tobias S. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In a future Earth decimated by global warming where rival countries fight to claim massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean, an innovative corporation creates a technology that can both cool the planet and provide a massive super-weapon, prompting airship pilot Anika Duncan to be swept up by an international plot. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Chung, Catherine Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Coben, Harlan Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life--a time he has never gotten over--is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart, and who lied to him. soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Crombie, Deborah Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Only the past can save those in the present when a murdered barrister is found naked in a Crystal Palace hotel. Years ago, a widowed young teacher and a 13-year-old boy grew close in Crystal Palace, but betrayal changed everything. |
 | NEW RELEASE The striker: an Isaac Bell adventure By Cussler, Clive Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Coal mine saboteurs are the least of young Isaac Bell's worries when the young rookie seeks to give his boss an urgent message in 1902. Bell will stop at nothing to prove that something much larger is going on. Two ruthless men are ready to make an example of Bell, and it'll take everything Bell has just to get out of this alive. |
 | NEW RELEASE The Sleepy Hollow family almanac: a novel By D'Agostino, Kris Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Twenty-four-year-old college dropout Calvin Moretti moves back home with his parents and two siblings and is forced to deal with their problems, which include his father's cancer and his sister's pregnancy, as well as his own. |
 | Trespass into Eternity: Sister of Christ By Diaz de Leon, Frank J. Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC LOCAL AUTHOR. "Trespass into Eternity," a religious fiction by F. Joseph Diaz de Leon, centers around Connor Donnelley, an aging maverick archeologist who has been called to a reservation to investigate an image of Christ which appears on the wall of a newly opened cave. As the archeologists race to decipher long-hidden texts, a corrupt priest in the Vatican Security Department sends murderous twins to retrieve the artifacts and terminate Connor Donnelley. The most interesting aspects of the novel are the lengthy and convincing extracts the author has created by a writer who witnessed the crucifixion. These writings may hold the truth about the relationship between Christ and Mary Magdalene. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Publishing Date: 2013, c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents' deaths, 17-year-old Korobi is prompted by a love note among her mother's possessions and a fiance's shattering revelation to travel from India to post-September 11 America in search of her true identity. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Ferraris, Zoë Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Ibrahim Al-Brehm, a respectable husband and police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad, goes to Katya, one of the few women on the force, to locate a missing woman and Katya uncovers a murder which connects the woman to a human trafficking ring. |
 | NEW RELEASE Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald By Fowler, Therese Publishing Date: Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Freudenberger, Nell Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The story of a Bengali woman who marries a man from Rochester, NY, after they meet online"-- |
 | NEW RELEASE By Gass, William H. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Investigates the multifaceted nature of human identity and follows the experiences of Joseph, who flees Austria in 1938 and pretends to be Jewish before disappearing from London under mysterious circumstances. |
 | By Gilmore, Maeve Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A final volume of the classic Gormenghast novels, produced from recently discovered manuscripts written by Peake's wife and based on his outlines, follows Titus' nightmarish departure from Castle Gormenghast. |
 | NEW RELEASE The queen's vow: a novel of Isabella of Castile By Gortner, C. W. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Isabella of Castile, the intelligent and fiery Spanish queen best remembered today for funding the voyages of Christopher Columbus, begins this historical novel as a mere pawn in the decadent court of her weak older brother. When controversy arises over the legitimacy of her brother's heir, Isabella's tenacity and ruthlessness allow her to seize the throne with the help of her beloved Ferdinand of Aragon. After she is crowned, however, Isabella faces continued threats to the security of the realm not only from outside sources but also from Ferdinand's own pride and arrogance."--Library Journal. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Grecian, Alex Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Suffering public contempt after the Metropolitan Police's failure to capture Jack the Ripper, Walter Day, a member of Victorian London's recently formed "Murder Squad," partners with Scotland Yard's first forensic pathologist to track down a killer who is targeting their colleagues. |
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