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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Ani DiFranco: verses

By DiFranco, Ani

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.6 DIF

With eight Grammy nominations and sales of over 4.5 million albums, Ani DiFranco is one of America's most fiercely independent and beloved musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. ANi DiFranco: Verses rages, eulogizes, revels, and envisions. With a poet's precision and a citizen's stake, DiFranco finds the meeting places of intimacy and politics, of self and country, of resolve and compromise, and of the fickle and magnificent capacities of love and solitude.

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Let's explore diabetes with owls

By Sedaris, David

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 800

Call Number: 814.54 SED

From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that are not to be forgotten.

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Brave new world ; & Brave new world revisited

By Huxley, Aldous

Publishing Date: c1965

Classification: 800

Call Number: 823.912 HUX

When the novel "Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.

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Country girl: a memoir

By O'Brien, Edna

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 800

Call Number: 823.914 OBR

Edna O'Brien, the author of "The Country Girls" trilogy, "The Light of Evening," and "Byron in Love," portrays the events, people, emotions, and landscape that contributed to her rich and heady life. She is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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