Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2012 - December 2012
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
 | NEW RELEASE By Roy, Lori Publishing Date: [2012], c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died mysteriously twenty years before and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Sallis, James Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Driver thinks he has settled into a normal life, but after his fiance´e is killed he must confront his criminal past. |
 | By Sandford, John Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Investigating the discovery of two bodies in a house demolition, Lucas Davenport identifies the victims as two girls who disappeared in 1985, a cold case that overshadowed the early years of his career. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Smith, Zadie Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model… Like Zadie Smith's much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), NW is an urban epic." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books This is the story of a city. The northwest corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. And then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell's door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation… Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan -- as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the modern urban zone -- familiar to town-dwellers everywhere -- Zadie Smith's NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Soli, Tatjana Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Claire Nagy turned away from her literary education to marry Forster Baumsarg, the son of prominent California citrus ranchers. Although it meant a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights, her love was strong. What she didn't know was that she would pay for that lifestyle with the life of her son, alienation from her daughters, and the dissolution of her marriage. |
 | NEW RELEASE The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great By Stachniak, Eva Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A reimagining of the early years of Catherine the Great traces the story of a naive German duchess as observed by young Barbara, a servant who watches her mistress's elevation and rises to become one of Russia's most clever royal spies. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Toibin, Colm Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger, and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that His sacrifice was not for a worthy cause. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Vann, David Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen, a New Age believer, lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a suburb of Sacramento, surviving on the family trust fund--old money that his aunt and seventeen-year-old cousin are determined to get their hands on. When the family takes a trip to a cabin near South Lake Tahoe, tensions cause Galen to discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves. |
 | NEW RELEASE Cold city: a Repairman Jack novel By Wilson, F. Paul Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A first installment in a new prequel trilogy traces the early career of self-styled "fix-it" man Repairman Jack, who after moving to New York City establishes relationships with Julio and the Mikulski brothers while investigating a murder, launching a passionate affair and dismantling a child sex slave operation. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Landay, William Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: LARGE PRINT Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive. |
 | Delicate edible birds and other stories By Groff, Lauren Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Groff follows up The Monsters of Templeton with this innovative and beautifully written collection that covers a wide swath of humanity, from east coast resort towns, to the early 20th century flu epidemic, to WWII Europe. |
 | NEW RELEASE Happiness is a chemical in the brain: stories By Perillo, Lucia Maria Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of short stories that takes place in the Pacific Northwest includes odd characters like an addict who becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and a suburban housewife who commits armed robberies. |
 | NEW RELEASE The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate rose By Albert, Susan Wittig Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M The garden club known as the Darling Dahlias are preparing to plant Confederate roses along the fence of the town's cemetery in conjunction with the town's annual Confederate Day celebration. But, that's not the only thing they have going on. They're also investigating three mysteries and soon discover that Darling, Ala., is anything but a sleepy little town. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Brown, Rita Mae Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: M Call Number: M While outside on Manhattan's Midtown streets a fierce snowstorm rages ferociously, nothing can dampen the excitement inside the elegant ballroom of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. Hunt clubs from all over North America have gathered for their annual gala, and nobody is in higher spirits than Sister Jane, Master of the Jefferson Hunt in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Braving the foul weather, Sister and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, pop out to purchase cigars for the celebration at a nearby tobacco shop, finding themselves regaled by the colorful stories of its eccentric proprietor, Achilles Alonzo. Yet the trip's festive mood goes to ground the next morning with the grisly discovery of Alonzo's corpse. The tobacconist was shot in the head but found, oddly enough, with a cigarette pack of Smoky Mountain Smokes laid carefully over his heart. When a similar murder occurs in Washington, D.C., Sister's horse sense tells her there's a nefarious plot afoot, one that's winding its way from the South's aromatic tobacco farms to the wood-paneled boardrooms of power brokers hellbent on profit. When Sister voices her suspicions, she too becomes a target. Fortunately for her, the Master of the Jefferson Hunt may rely upon the wits and wiles of her four-legged friend--including horses Keepsake and Lafayette, and even the crabby fox Aunt Netty! |
 | NEW RELEASE By Church, James Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M When clues link a beautiful woman's disappearance to a sensitive mission to deliver an agent across the North Korean border, Bing, a director of state security in a volatile region of China, receives reluctant help from his uncle, Inspector O, to navigate an increasingly complex investigation. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Coel, Margaret Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M Vicki and Father John investigate the murder of an Indian artifact collector after the valuable regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes missing. |
 | NEW RELEASE Notorious nineteen: a Stephanie Plum novel By Evanovich, Janet Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M Tracking down a con man who has disappeared from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy, Stephanie Plum calls on Joe Morelli for help when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Finch, Charles Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Francis, Felix Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M "When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel; or so it seems. Devastated and guilty over her death, Mark goes in search of answers. What had led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all? "-- |
 | NEW RELEASE The buzzard table: a Deborah Knott mystery By Maron, Margaret Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are back home in Colleton County with all their family and courthouse regulars. But there are a few new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Anne's ailing mother, Mrs. Lattimore. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist who claims to be researching a new book on Southern vultures. More importantly, he's Mrs. Lattimore's long-lost nephew, and Sigrid and Anne's English cousin. With her health in decline, Mrs. Lattimore wants to make amends with her family--something Deborah can understand as she too is working to strengthen her relationship with her stepson, Cal. But for all his mysterious charm, Anne can't shake the feeling that there is something familiar about Martin...something he doesn't want Anne or anyone else to discover. When a murderer strikes, Deborah, Dwight, and Sigrid will once again work together to solve the crime and uncover long-buried Lattimore family secrets. |