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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 | By Warren, Robert Penn Publishing Date: c1980 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 WAR |
 | The stories that shape us: contemporary women write about the West : an anthology Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.5408 Over the past decade a rich chorus of women's voices has emerged from the West. The Stories That Shape Us is an extraordinary anthology of twenty-six personal essays by contemporary women writers, many being published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the cultures and the regions of the West, these women relate stories of family and community, of race and gender, of commitment and displacement, of grief and repair, of spirituality and connection to the earth. Against the story of the Winning of the West, of men in (and against) the natural world, these writers propose a revised narrative, one more appropriate to a world facing stark limits and ecological disaster. Their stories are not new, but until recently we have been unable to hear them. The voices in The Stories That Shape Us have been shaped by their particular regions and cultures, but they speak to the nation, and they demand attention because they tell us what we need in order to survive. The contributors to The Stories That Shape Us are as diverse as the regions they speak from. Some of them are well-established, even best-selling authors; others are new voices soon to be heard on the national scene. All are united by their passion to tell the truth about their land and their lives - to tell the stories that have shaped them and that can help shape us all. |
 | NEW RELEASE Representative American speeches 2011-2012 Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 800 Call Number: 815.008 |
 | NEW RELEASE By Auster, Paul Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5403 AUS Facing his sixty-third winter, novelist Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations. He takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire to the ever deepening bonds of married love; from meditations on eating and sleeping to an account of his mother's sudden death. |
 | By Hall, Meredith Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.609 HAL In 1965, Hall, called Meredy, becomes pregnant at 16. Four-and-a-half months later, maternal instincts kick in. She pauses before doing a somersault in gym class, and her secret is exposed. Expelled from school, she is shunned by her small New Hampshire community and turned away by her mother. Sent to live with her father and his chilly new wife, she hides upstairs while they have dinner parties, waiting out her pregnancy like a prison term. This rousing memoir tells the story of how Meredy was forced to give her baby up for adoption (was, in fact, drugged during labor to prevent any contact at all) and pushed into a vagabond existence. She lives on a boat, wanders penniless around the Middle East, and eventually settles in Maine. Divorced and raising two young children, she gets a phone call: her son is found. Written in spare, unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy's reunion with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the highlight. Book groups, take note. --Emily Cook Copyright 2006 Booklist |
 | Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 800 Call Number: 823.8 "Dickens on France brings together short stories, extracts from novels, travel writing, and journalism. Among its journalistic highlights are accounts of a train journey from London to Paris, a rough Channel crossing, the pleasures of Boulogne, and Parisian life in the 1850s and 1860s."--BOOK JACKET. |
 | By Nin, Anaïs Publishing Date: [1973] Classification: 800 Call Number: 848.91 NIN |
 | 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. |