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.
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 | NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 914.2048 |
 | By Morton, H. V. Publishing Date: 2002, c1964 Classification: 900 Call Number: 914.5 MOR The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia, and Veneto, whether relating to the fantastic reconstruction of the La Scala opera house or the superstitious lovers at Juliet's Tomb, make his style as engaging as the landscape and people he evokes. |
 | By Gruchow, Paul Publishing Date: c1988 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.3 GRU Gruchow pays homage to the stark grandeur of the infinitely barren landscapes that have traditionally captivated the collective national consciousness. In a series of exquisitely rendered essays, the author skillfully evokes the desolate majesty that characterizes the mountains, prairies, and canyons of the American West. An introspective tribute to the natural architecture of the wilderness.--Booklist |
 | Combat WWII: European theater of operations Publishing Date: c1983 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5421 Provides eyewitness accounts of the European war with the Axis powers on land, sea, and air. |
 | By Ambrose, Stephen E. Publishing Date: c1985 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5421 AMB Gives an account of the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. |
 | Knight's cross: a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel By Fraser, David Publishing Date: c1994 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5423 FRA In any numbering of the great captains of history, the name of Erwin Rommel must stand in the first rank. He was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second World War, and was respected, even admired, as well as feared by his opponents. Here, it seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier: chivalrous, decent, untainted by the crimes of the Nazi regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success. |
 | By Heimann, Judith M. Publishing Date: 2008, c2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5425 HEI Recounts the true story of army airmen in November 1944, who parachuted out of their B-24 bomber into the mountainous interior of Borneo and into the hands of the Dayak people, a tribe of headhunters. |
 | With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa By Sledge, E. B. Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5425 SLE A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns. |
 | Combat WWII: Pacific theater of operations Publishing Date: c1983 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5426 Provides eyewitness accounts of the Pacific war with Japan from Singapore to Hiroshima and from Pearl Harbor to the destruction of the Japanese fleet. |
 | By Costello, John Publishing Date: [2009], c1981 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5426 COS An incisive history of World War II in the Pacific traces the campaigns and strategies from before the attack on Pearl Harbor to the surrender of Japan and analyzes the causes of the war. |
 | By Prange, Gordon William Publishing Date: c1982 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5426 PRA Sequel to: At down we slept. Recounts the Battle of Midway Island based on interviews with surviving officers and archival sources. |
 | By Lech, Raymond B. Publishing Date: 1982 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.545 LEC The cover-up of America's greatest wartime disaster at sea, the sinking of the Indianapolis with the loss of 880 lives because of the incompetence of admirals, officers, and gentlemen--cover. |
 | By Macintyre, Ben Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5486 MAC From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. |
 | By Weir, Alison Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: 900 Call Number: 942.04 WEI Reconstructs the conflict between the royal Houses of Lancaster and York, bringing to life both the war and the historic figures who fought it. |
 | Inside the Stalin archives: discovering the new Russia By Brent, Jonathan Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 947.086 BRE To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to confront its tortured past. Here, author Brent asks why this didn't happen. Why are archivists under surveillance and phones still tapped? Why does Stalin, responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, remain popular enough to appear on boxes of chocolate? Brent draws on fifteen years of access to high-level Soviet archives to answer these questions. He shows us a Russia where, in 1992, used toothbrushes were sold on the sidewalks, while now shops are filled with luxury goods. Stalin's specter hovers throughout, and in the dictator's personal papers we find an unnerving prophecy of the world to come. Both cultural history and personal memoir, this is a deeply felt and vivid portrait of Russia in the 21st century.--From publisher description. |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood By Fuller, Alexandra Publishing Date: March 2003 Classification: 900 Call Number: 968.9104 FUL Annotation |
 | The art of political murder: who killed the Bishop By Goldman, Francisco Publishing Date: [2008] Classification: 900 Call Number: 972.8105 GOL Details the story of a group of engaging and courageous young people known as Los Intocables and their fight for justice, in an account of the murder of Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi, the country's leading human rights activist. |
 | By Wyden, Peter Publishing Date: 1980, c1979 Classification: 900 Call Number: 972.91 WYD |
 | Repatriation reader: who owns American Indian remains Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.0497 In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu:da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself. |
 | Honor's voice: the transformation of Abraham Lincoln By Wilson, Doug Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7092 WIL Focusing on the crucial years between 1831 and 1842, Wilson's skillful analysis of the testimonies and writings of Lincoln's contemporaries reveals the individual behind the legends. We see Lincoln as a boy: not the dutiful son studying by firelight, but the stubborn rebel determined to make something of himself. We see him as a young man: not the ascendant statesman, but the canny local politician who was renowned for his talents in wrestling and storytelling (as well as for his extensive store of off-color jokes). Wilson also reconstructs Lincoln's frequently anguished personal life: his religious skepticism, recurrent bouts of depression, and difficult relationships with women - from Ann Rutledge to Mary Owens to Mary Todd. |
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