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 Victims: an Alex Delaware novel By Kellerman, Jonathan Publishing Date: [2012] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest depths of the human condition. For the compelling proof, look no further than Victims--Kellerman at his razor-sharp, harrowing finest. Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills, even Alex is stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion. yet with no apparent connection among the victims. And the only clue left behind--a blank page bearing a question mark--seems to be both a menacing taunt and a cry for help from a killer baffled by his own lethal urges. Under pressure to end the bloody spree and prevent a citywide panic, Milo redoubles his efforts to discover a link between the disparate victims. Meanwhile, Alex navigates the secretive world of mental health treatment, from the sleek office of a Beverly Hills therapist to a shuttered mental institution where he once honed his craft--and where an unholy alliance between the mad and the monstrous may have been sealed in blood. As each jagged piece of the puzzle fits into place, an ever more horrific portrait emerges of a sinister mind at its most unimaginable--and an evil soul at its most unspeakable. "This one was different," Alex observes at the start of the case. This one will haunt his waking life, and his darkest dreams, long after its end"-- |
 | By Klavan, Andrew Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want him dead. |
 | Frankenstein: lost souls : a novel By Koontz, Dean R. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Leon, Donna Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered. Deeply-connected in religious and political circles, the composer died childless; now two Venetians, descendants of his cousins, each claim inheritance. Caterina's job is to examine any enclosed papers to discover the "testamentary disposition" of the composer. But when her research takes her in unexpected directions she begins to wonder just what secrets these trunks may hold. |
 | NEW RELEASE Father night: a McClure/Carson novel By Lustbader, Eric Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Danger has always been a part of Jack McClure's life. From his life on the streets of Washington, D.C., to his military service and his employment with ATF and DoD, he's no stranger to trouble. But now after saving the life of Ali, the daughter of the President of the United States, two men from the criminal underworld have made him their number one target. |
 | By Mantel, Hilary Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A sick Irish giant in 18th century London is offered money by an anatomist if he will bequeath his body. The giant refuses, he wants to enter heaven whole, but the anatomist gets the body anyway. A parable on man of myth versus man of science. By the author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. |
 | By Marcom, Micheline Aharonian Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Here is a novel of import and style, set in 1915-1917, the years of the Ottoman Turkish government's campaign of unspeakable brutality that resulted in the deaths of more than a million Armenians. Through a series of chapters that have the weight and economy of poetry, Micheline Aharonian Marcom introduces us to the stories of Anaguil, an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the death of her parents and who now views the remains of her world through a Muslim veil; Sargis, a poet hidden away in his mother's attic, dressed in woman's clothing, and steadily going mad; Lucine, a servant and lover of the American consul, reviled by the villagers for the illusory privilege she enjoys; Maritsa, a rage-filled Muslim wife who leaves her husband while he is at the front and becomes a whore; and Dickran, an infant left behind under a tree on the long exodus from an Armenian village, whose tiny hands reach up to touch the stars, who dies with his name unrecorded. Through these lives, we witness the vanishing of a people. In pages replete with indelible images of beauty and horror, Marcom conjures the steam and the gossip of the hamam, the ghostly fragrance of rose petal preserves, and the metallic chill of fear. Her novel is an elegy to the final days of Orientalism and an elegant memorial to the victims of the twentieth century's first genocide. Together, the stories of these lives form a narrative mosaic-faceted, complex, exquisite in its detail, a devastating tableau. |
 | Far Tortuga / At play in the fields of the Lord By Matthiessen, Peter Publishing Date: [1975] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The western Caribbean Sea and its sailors. A stark and almost poetry-like portrayal of life aboard a small turtle vessel. There are also pirates, reefs, wrecks of ships and wrecks of men. |
 | By McCall Smith, Alexander Publishing Date: 2011, c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In London's Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as "a building of no interest whatsoever". But the residents of Corduroy Mansions, including a literary agent, a wine merchant, a thoroughly unpleasant member of Parliament, and a vegetarian dog, are a rather fascinating lot. |
 | NEW RELEASE By McEwan, Ian Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him. |
 | By Milward, Richard Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Ten storey love song is a cutting but characteristally charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon"--Cover p. [4]. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Moriarty, Laura Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"-- |
 | By Patterson, James Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas on both sides of the law. And the dead: Back off or die is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows. |
 | By Patterson, James Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Agent Hays Baker and his wife, Lizbeth, who are part of a group of genetically engineered and technologically enhanced superhumans called Elites, are tasked with saving the human race from extinction. |
 | By Perry, Thomas Publishing Date: c2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Gruff security consultant Max Stillman and data analyst John Walker, an employee of McClaren Life and Casualty in San Francisco, unite--for conflicting purposes--in an urgent search that propels them across the country and into unexpected dangers to find a colleague of Walker with whom he once had a love affair and who has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Powers, Tim Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In 1862 London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the one-time physician of Lord Byron, is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, and a group of mismatched allies must enter into a supernatural underworld in order to stop him. |
 | By Robards, Karen Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC With an ailing mother to support, attorney Lisa Shewmaker takes a job as a research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, she comes across photos that may help her uncover details about her mysterious past. But when a series of catastrophes strike close to home, Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel a terrifying web of criminal connections that could destroy the very fabric of Lisa's life--if she lives long enough, that is. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Robards, Karen Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC That night, Samantha Jones was doing what she always did: just trying to get by. Left to make her own way on the mean streets of East St. Louis, the pretty twenty-three-year-old single mother supported herself and her son as best she could by repo-ing cars. When she hooked her junker of a tow truck up to the BMW she'd been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk--or to be catapulted into a terrifying fight to survive. Danny Pantrero was minutes away from dying when Sam found him. Bleeding badly from a gunshot wound, he'd been snatched from protective custody by a vicious gang of drug runners who would stop at nothing to see him dead. With his life on the line, Danny takes Sam hostage. Forcing her to help him, he tries to make her understand that now she's a target for the killers, too. When they invade her house and threaten her son's life, she finally understands: there's no going back. She and five-year-old Tyler go on the run with Danny in a desperate effort to reach the authorities who have promised him protection before the killers can silence all three of them forever. In the face of harrowing danger, Sam has no choice but to trust Danny with her life--and, more importantly, her son's. Against her will, she starts to fall for the once-menacing stranger, and discovers a depth of passion she never imagined she could feel. But what Sam doesn't know is that Danny has a secret that could destroy them all. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Roberts, Nora Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A new novel of a shared past, a fresh start, and a lifetime of love. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers--Beckett, Ryder, and Owen--as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family's construction business with an iron fist--and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers bust on his compulsive list-making, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open right on schedule. The only thing Owen didn't plan for was Avery McTavish... Avery's popular pizza place is right across the street from the inn, giving her a first-hand look at its amazing renovation--and a newfound appreciation for Owen. Since he was her first boyfriend when they were kids, Owen has never been far from Avery's thoughts. But the attraction she's feeling for him now is far from innocent. As Avery and Owen cautiously take their relationship to another level, the opening of the inn gives the whole town of Boonsboro a reason to celebrate. But Owen's hard work has only begun. Getting Avery to let down her guard is going to take longer than he expected--and so will getting her to realize that her first boyfriend is going to be her last… |
 | By Roslund, Anders Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down. |