Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

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Kayak morning: reflections on love, grief, and small boats

By Rosenblatt, Roger

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 100

Call Number: 155.937 ROS

"In [his earlier book] 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in 'Kayak Morning', he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. 'Everybody grieves,' he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of loss. On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy's death, Roger heads out in his kayak. He observes, 'You can't always make your way in the world by moving up. Or down, for that matter. Boats move laterally on water, which levels everything. It is one of the two great levelers.' Part elegy, part quest, 'Kayak Morning' explores Roger's years as a journalist, the comforts of literature, and the value of solitude, poignantly reminding us that grief is not apart from life but encompasses it. In recalling to us what we have lost, grief by necessity resurrects what we have had."-- Provided by publisher.

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Godwink stories: a devotional

By Rushnell, Squire D.

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 200

Call Number: 242 RUS

A title which builds on the themes in the author's book GodWinks teaches readers how to seize certainty in uncertain times by looking at how coincidences guided your path and how being alert to them can guide your future. - (Baker & Taylor)

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Unchristian: what a new generation really thinks about Christianity-- and why it matters

By Kinnaman, David

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 200

Call Number: 277.3083 KIN

Based on groundbreaking research conducted with sixteen to twenty-nine-year-old non-believers, and featuring responses from a vast array of Christian leaders, this insightful book, filled with motivation and hope, shows Christians how society really perceives them and what can be done to reverse these negative perceptions. - (Baker & Taylor)

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Beyond fear: a Toltec guide to freedom and joy : the teachings of Miguel Angel Ruiz, M.D

By Nelson, Mary Carroll

Publishing Date: 1997

Classification: 200

Call Number: 299.792 NEL

The wisdom in this life-changing book has the power to replace fear with joy. Fear, the source of all the negative agreements we've made in life, can alienate us from the joy that is our birthright. When we are able to look at our lives and our worlds without fear or judgment, we realize that this dream we are dreaming - reality - can be whatever we want it to be. - (Independent Publishing Group)

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The Four agreements companion book: using the four agreements to master the dream of your life

By Ruiz, Miguel

Publishing Date: c2000

Classification: 200

Call Number: 299.792 RUI

Furthers the code of conduct for attaining personal freedom described in "The Four Agreements," explaining how to live in happiness, escape the slavery of fear, and become the master of one's own life. - (Baker & Taylor)

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The four agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom

By Ruiz, Miguel

Publishing Date: c1997

Classification: 200

Call Number: 299.792 RUI

In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. - (Hay House)

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The 48 laws of power

By Greene, Robert

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 300

Call Number: 303.3 GRE

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, & instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, & other great thinkers.

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Plutocrats: the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else

By Freeland, Chrystia

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 300

Call Number: 305.5234 FRE

A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world.

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Oddly normal: one family's struggle to help their teenage son come to terms with his sexuality

By Schwartz, John

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 300

Call Number: 306.766 SCH

A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening guide for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe's disclosure--delivered in a tirade about homophobic attitudes--was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills. In the aftermath, John and his wife, Jeanne, determined to help Joe feel more comfortable in his own skin, launched a search for services and groups that could help Joe understand that he wasn't alone. This book is Schwartz's very personal attempt to address his family's struggles within a culture that is changing fast, but not fast enough to help gay kids like Joe.--From publisher description.

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The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution

By Fukuyama, Francis

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 300

Call Number: 320.9 FUK

Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.

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Flash boys: a Wall Street revolt

By Lewis, Michael

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 332.6 LEW

A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders the big Wall Street banks expose this institutionalized injustice and go to war to fix it.

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All the wild that remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

By Gessner, David

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 333.7209 GES

"Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West"--Dust jacket flap.

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Rights gone wrong: how law corrupts the struggle for equality

By Ford, Richard T.

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 300

Call Number: 342.7308 FOR

"Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimination and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice--including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance--a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discrimination? It's tempting to believe that civil rights litigation can combat these social ills as efficiently as it has fought blatant discrimination. In Rights Gone Wrong, Richard Thompson Ford, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Race Card, argues that this is seldom the case. Civil rights do too much and not enough: opportunists use them to get a competitive edge in schools and job markets, while special-interest groups use them to demand special privileges. Extremists on both the left and the right have hijacked civil rights for personal advantage. Worst of all, their theatrics have drawn attention away from more serious social injustices. Ford, a professor of law at Stanford University, shows us the many ways in which civil rights can go terribly wrong. He examines newsworthy lawsuits with shrewdness and humor, proving that the distinction between civil rights and personal entitlements is often anything but clear. Finally, he reveals how many of today's social injustices actually can't be remedied by civil rights law, and demands more creative and nuanced solutions. In order to live up to the legacy of the civil rights movement, we must renew our commitment to civil rights, and move beyond them"--

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Blood rites: origins and history of the passions of war

By Ehrenreich, Barbara

Publishing Date: 1997

Classification: 300

Call Number: 355.02 EHR

With her customary boldness, Ehrenreich takes readers on an original journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war" in an effort to confront the mystery of the human attraction to violence.

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Gales of November: the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

By Hemming, Robert J.

Publishing Date: c1981

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.123 HEM

Recounts the mysterious sinking of a seven hundred foot ore freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, during a violent storm on Lake Superior in 1975 - (Baker & Taylor)

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Fitzgerald's storm: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

By MacInnis, Joe

Publishing Date: c1998

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.123 MAC

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Mighty Fitz: the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

By Schumacher, Michael

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.123 SCH

The Edmund Fitzgerald, often called the Titanic of the Great Lakes, sank on November 10, 1975, with no survivors. Because the ship never radioed for help, the exact cause and circumstances of the disaster remain a mystery. Written in narrative style, this account gives background on the ship's previous history and describes the sinking, search efforts, and the investigation. There is special emphasis on the controversy over the Coast Guard report released after the investigation into the accident. Appendices offer a list of the crew members, the lyrics to the commemorative song by Gordon Lightfoot, and a glossary of ship terms. Schumacher has written other historical works. The book was originally published in 2005 by Bloomsbury. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News)

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Facing the wave: a journey in the wake of the tsunami

By Ehrlich, Gretel

Publishing Date: c2013

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.3494 EHR

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water. The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air. Facing the Wave is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a suddenly shattered world.

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The Mather Mountain Party of 1915 and the founding of the National Park Service

By Albright, Horace M.

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.6 ALB

"In 1915 a group of influential men crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains through Sequoia National Park. This trek is considered to have led to the creation of the National Park Service. This is a direct account by participants on this trip including actual photographs. Stephen Mather became the Park Service's first director"--

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People who eat darkness: the true story of a young woman who vanished from the streets of Tokyo and the evil that swallowed her up

By Parry, Richard Lloyd

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.1523 PAR

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.

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