Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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We're back: a dinosaur's story

By Talbott, Hudson

Publishing Date: c1987

Classification: E

Call Number: E

Creatures from prehistoric time travel to the twentieth century and create excitement at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

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Graceling

By Cashore, Kristin

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

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Crossed

By Condie, Allyson Braithwaite

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.

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Theodore Boone: the accused

By Grisham, John

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone faces his biggest challenge when a new case opens up in Strattenburg and Theo is the prime suspect when the police discover some stolen computer equipment in his locker.

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Going over

By Kephart, Beth

Publishing Date: c2014

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.

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Tender morsels

By Lanagan, Margo

Publishing Date: c2008

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.

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The lost hero

By Riordan, Rick

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

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The mark of Athena

By Riordan, Rick

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--

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The son of Neptune

By Riordan, Rick

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.

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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

By Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

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Threatened

By Schrefer, Eliot

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

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Freedom Summer: the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Rubin, Susan Goldman

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J 323.1196 RUB

An award-winning author offers a riveting account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

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Son of Sam case: Simon & Schuster Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board

By Gold, Susan Dudley

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J 344.7303 GOL

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Leaving China: an artist paints his World War II childhood

By McMullan, James

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J 741.6092 MCM

Illustrator James McMullan discusses how his early childhood in China and his wartime journeys with his mother influenced his life and career.

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Alive in the killing fields: surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide

By Keat, Nawuth

Publishing Date: c2009

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J 959.6042 KEN

The gripping story of a young boy who survived the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and escaped to the United States.

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Computer graphics: from concept to consumer

By Cunningham, Kevin

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J006.602 CUN

Explores the computer graphics industry and what it takes to be a computer graphic designer.

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Tales of the Greek heroes

By Green, Roger Lancelyn

Publishing Date: 2013, c1958

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J292.13 GRE

Greece is haunted by more than 3000 years of legend and history. In this retelling of the Heroic Age, you will meet many of the gods and mortals whose adventures are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world.

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Park scientists: Gila monsters, geysers, and grizzly bears in America's own backyard

By Carson, Mary Kay

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J333.783 CAR

Describes the work of scientists in America's national parks, as they study geysers, grizzly bears, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies.

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Plastic, ahoy: investigating the great Pacific garbage patch

By Newman, Patricia

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J363.738 NEW

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes. But what happens when it ends up where it doesn't belong-- like in the Pacific Ocean? How does it affect ocean life? Is it dangerous? And exactly how much is out there? A team of researchers went on a scientific expedition to find out. They explored the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have collected. The plastic has drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world. Most of it has broken down into tiny pieces the size of confetti.

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The Nazi hunters: how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi

By Bascomb, Neal

Publishing Date: [2013]

Classification: JNF

Call Number: J364.15 BAS

Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.