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 By Adams, Alex Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Working at an animal testing laboratory to pay her way through college, Zoe discovers that she is pregnant at the same time the world is shattered by an apocalyptic viral outbreak that wipes out everyone she loves and genetically mutates humanity's survivors. |
 | By Akinti, Peter Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London - beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth." "In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top of twin tower blocks. Facing each other across the abyss of London's urban sprawl, they say their good-byes and jump. One dies. The other, alternating with the sister of the deceased, narrates this novel." "James gives us a window into the inner city - his mom is a crack addict, his gang "brothers" force him to kill another black boy. Meina describes with feeling her family history in Somalia: after her parents are killed before her eyes, her village aunt sells her to six husbands - before she is even a teenager. Desperate to rebuild their lives, James and Meina set out to find the place for which every child longs - home." "Brutal and shockingly violent in places, rambunctious and lively in others and slyly, dryly witty in yet others, Meina and James's journey toward life through their past is ultimately a powerful story of redemptive love and the debut of an extraordinary literary talent." --Book Jacket. |
 | By Anderson, Robert Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A young New York writer finds his life transformed by the poetry of Sylvia Plath, as well as by her suicide, in a novel that explores the poet's death and its impact on her survivors, including her husband, Ted Hughes. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Baldacci, David Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy. |
 | By Barker, Raffaella Publishing Date: [2001], c1999 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Young divorce and single mother of three Venetia Summers finds herself marooned in the English countryside, surrounded by clutter, children, and hens. This charming, wickedly funny novel marks the author's U.S. debut. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Brockmann, Suzanne Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than." |
By Burns, John Horne Publishing Date: [1947] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Short stories connected by descriptions of life in Casablanca, Algiers, and Naples during World War II. |
 | Parable of the talents: a novel By Butler, Octavia E. Publishing Date: c1998 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In this long-awaited novel, Butler revisits familiar themes of a society in 2032 whose very fabric has been torn, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet. 30,000 first print. |
 | By Callaghan, Mary Rose Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A modern retelling of the famous story of Heloise and Abelard by an acclaimed Irish novelist. A Bit of a Scandal opens as Louise, a middle-aged Irish emigrant, returns to Dublin for Christmas after thirty years of living in New York City, where she works as an Art History professor. While waiting for her son to join her, Louise visits her friend, Felicity, whose home overlooks an old Cistercian monastery. The granite building reminds Louise of her youthful love affair with Peter, a Canadian monk, who, at the time, lived in the same monastery while studying theology. The couple, like their predecessors in medieval times, shared a passionate but impossible love. |
 | The fruit of her hands: the story of Shira of Ashkenaz By Cameron, Michelle Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A rabbi's wife perseveres amid rising anti-Semitism in 13th century Europe. |
 | By Cannell, Stephen J. Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The Mafia, having secured secret control of a television network, runs its own puppet for the presidency of the United States. |
 | By Carofiglio, Gianrico Publishing Date: 2010, c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. Then one terrifying night Giorgio is forced to realize just how far he has left his past behind. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Carr, Caleb Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumored to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword-even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood. At every turn, the lives of Broken's defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine: Sixt Arnem, the widely respected and honorable head of the kingdom's powerful army, grapples with his conscience and newfound responsibilities amid rumors of impending war. Lord Baster-kin, master of the Merchants' Council, struggles to maintain the magnificence of his kingdom even as he pursues vainglorious dreams of power. And Keera, a gifted female tracker of the Bane tribe, embarks on a perilous journey to save her people, enlisting the aid of the notorious and brilliant philosopher Caliphestros. Together, they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken, ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition."--Dust jacket. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Chabon, Michael Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Meet Archy and Nat, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records, and their wives Gwen and Aviva. The wives are the Berkeley Birth Partners, delivering thousands of new-minted little citizens. Both couples have worked to construct lives and livelihoods, connect across barriers of race and class, and cling to a sense of order. But that's all about to be threatened. |
 | By Clark, Mary Higgins Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Struggling with unending heartache for the toddler son who went missing in Central Park two years earlier, interior designer Alexandra is wrongly accused of identity theft and implicated in the murder of a stranger. |
 | By Cohen, Robert Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Artfully juxtaposing two contrasting personalities (as he did in Inspired Sleep), Cohen explores the terrain of male middle age in a novel that keenly observes the dissatisfactions of contemporary life. Teddy Hastings, the 53-year-old principal of a New England middle school, yearns for a grand adventure that would celebrate his manhood. Restless and impulsive, Teddy unwittingly causes a scandal that lands him briefly in jail. Disgraced and forced to take a sabbatical, Teddy leaves his wife, Gail, behind and flies to Ethiopia, where his college dropout daughter is working with orphans. Meanwhile, Oren Pierce, the younger man appointed in Teddy's absence, skitters through life in the same manner he has always done: perennially uncommitted, congenitally irresolute, though he is eventually forced to confront the limits of his desultory lifestyle. (Gail comes into play, as well.) Teddy's sojourn in Africa is the most dynamic part of the book, though it is Gail who acts as the novel's fulcrum; witty, sensual, focused and centered in reality, she remains an indelible figure as the two men in her orbit are diminished by the collapse of their dreams and expectations. |
 | NEW RELEASE By Connelly, Michael Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Harry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992. |
 | Some people, some other place: a novel By Cooper, J. California Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest. |
 | By Coulter, Catherine Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead monster Ted Bundy. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on..." -- Jkt. flap. |
 | By Cumming, Charles Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Hard-up Russia expert Dr. Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book that could set his career back on track. He has staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring -- a man who has evaded detection for his entire life. But when his source suddenly dies, Gaddis is left with just shreds of his investigation, and no idea that he is already in too deep. |
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