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.
 | How Clarissa Burden learned to fly By Fowler, Connie May Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The story of a young woman who, in a twenty-four hour period, journeys through starting moments of self-discovery that lead her to a courageous and life-altering decision. |
 | By Fraser, George MacDonald Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In Elizabethan England, a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The flashman novels and The pyrates. |
 | By Gabriele, Lisa Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When their respective lives as a small-town Canada farmer and a New York television star prove too much, sisters Peachy and Beth trade places for a whirlwind weekend during which Peachy reevaluates her beliefs about family and friendship. |
 | By Gardam, Jane Publishing Date: 2010, c1978 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny Lydia, Margaret's world hurtles towards a shattering moment of truth. Drama, tragedy and a touch of farce lend themselves to Gardam's typically eloquent prose. With subtlety and precision, God on the Rocks provides an intimate portrait of the tensions that divide men and women, present and past, and the love and sorrow that lingers throughout. --From publisher description. |
 | By Gardam, Jane Publishing Date: 2011, 2006 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "FILTH is a lawyer with a practice in the Far East. A few remember that his nickname stands for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. But Old Filth is not as pompous as people imagine, and his past contains many secrets and dark hiding places" -- publisher. |
 | By Gardam, Jane Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat. Old Filth was Eddie's story. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself. They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s. As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people, the novel is a triumph. The Man in the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power. It will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and so thoroughly satisfying. |
 | By Garner, Helen Publishing Date: 2009, 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Helen readies her home for her friend Nicola, who travels to Melbourne from Sydney to start a course of treatment for bowel cancer, and the two friends' disagreement over the efficacy of the treatments leads to conflict as symptoms worsen. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Gerritsen, Tess Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at isolated Evenson boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family. |
 | NEW RELEASE Victory at Yorktown: [a novel] By Gingrich, Newt Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC General Washington ends a three-year stalemate and embarks on a secret three-hundred-mile forced march of his entire army to meet the French navy's Chesapeake Bay blockade and capture Cornwallis's entire force. |
 | NEW RELEASE Five novels of the 1940s & 50s By Goodis, David Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings. |
 | The confessions of Catherine de Medici: a novel By Gortner, C. W. Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Leaving her native Florence to marry Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici embarks on an unanticipated destiny of religious warfare, thwarted leadership, and psychologically charged royal machinations. |
 | By Greenwood, T. Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "It's been five years since the Mason family vacationed at the lakeside cottage in northeastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son from a destructive path and salvaging what's left of his family. As Sam struggles with grief, writer's block, and a looming deadline, Mena tries to repair the marital bond she once thought was unbreakable. But even in this secluded place, the unexpected--in the form of an over-zealous fan, a surprising friendship, and a second chance--can change everything" -- from publisher's web site. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Grisham, John Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher. |
 | By Grisham, John Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error. |
 | By Grudin, Robert Publishing Date: 1993, c1992 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The English department at the University of Washagon is in a uproar. Professor Adam Snell - humanist, scholar, gadfly and faculty pariah - has disappeared without a trace." "Stranger still, all copies of his obscure but brilliant novel, Sovrana Sostrata, also seem to be missing." "Has Snell been murdered? Has his book been murdered? And, more important, if Snell is not dead, does his department have the power to fire him at his upcoming post-tenure review?" "So begins Book, a hilarious academic caper that lampoons clever critical theorists, spoofs the New York book-publishing scene, parodies at least seventeen separate literary forms and unleashes Frank Underwood, a deranged theorist with a high-powered target pistol - and a pathological hatred for Adam Snell." "And that's just for starters." "Book also contains a touching love story, an unforgettable mongrel dog, a genetically engineered garden weed, a power-crazed, sexually dazed chairwoman, a novel accused of rape and a revolt of footnotes that halts the text." "Book is the wildest, woolliest campus satire since Lucky Jim - brilliantly on-target send-up of contemporary fads and follies."--BOOK JACKET. |
 | Orion you came and you took all my marbles By Henehan, Kira Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Welcome to the off-kilter world of Finley, an investigator of indiscernible origins and prowess. Her assignment: the mysterious Professor Uppal and his puppets. The objective: impossible to say. But Finley is unassailable. She forges ahead with occasional assistance and hindrance from her colleagues Murphy, The Lamb, and Binelli, as well as the professor's beautiful daughter and her sinister artiste boyfriend. In her meticulous and completely unbiased report, Finley tracks the investigation's slow spiral back upon itself, as the clues she uncovers reveal questions that lead directly back to her own forgotten past." -- Publisher's website. |
 | By Hill, Tobias Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In southern Greece in 2004, a close-knit group of archaeologists searches for the buried traces of a formidable ancient power ... but there are things that should always remain hidden. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Hopkins, Ellen Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The gripping story of a woman torn between love for her boyfriend, a dedicated Marine deployed to Afghanistan, and the resentment she has for the war that is tearing their lives apart. |
 | By James, Peter Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The brutal rapes of two women in Brighton bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes from 1997. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past to find the key to unlocking the current mystery. |
 | NEW RELEASE All woman and springtime: a novel By Jones, Brandon W. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Introverted Gi and radiant Il-sun are sold as sex workers by Il-sun's suitor, first in South Korea and then in the U.S. Though their captivity outside North Korea is even crueler than the oppression, they endure on their path to freedom. |