Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2013 - February 2013
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.
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NEW RELEASE By Dellamonica, A. M. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Indigo Springs used to be a sleepy town in Oregon. Now it's the epicenter of a magical insurrection. Astrid Lethewood's discovery of a river of the blue liquid magic known as vitagua was initially harmless, until it burst out of the ground, contaminated everything, and attracted power-hungry rebels. The secret is out, and the world will never be the same. Plants and animals aren't the only things that have mutated. Astrid's best friend, Sahara, has been corrupted by it, and now leads a cult that seeks to rule the world. Astrid sets out to make things right and bring some sort of balance back into a nation thrown into chaos by magical contamination. |
NEW RELEASE By Evenson, Brian Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A post-apocalyptic thriller follows the experiences of a man who wakes up paralyzed with no memory of his life and who is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out. |
NEW RELEASE By Irvine, Ian Publishing Date: 2012, c2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Twelve years ago, two children witnessed a murder that still haunts them as adults. Tali, a slave girl in subterranean Cython, saw her mother's head hacked open and something taken from inside. Rix, boy heir to the biggest fortune in Hightspall, watched two shrouded figures do the deed. He did not realise they were his parents, acting for a faceless sorcerer. Tali has sworn to bring her mother's murderers to justice, but now she is hunted by a killer who can only be beaten by magic. |
NEW RELEASE By Jemisin, N. K. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic. |
By Lackey, Mercedes Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe. |
NEW RELEASE By Meynard, Yves Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Cristine, the princess and heir to the enchanted world of Chrysanth has been kidnapped as a small child and exiled to a world very much like our own. She is forced through bogus psychotherapy to recall unspeakable abuse at the hands of her family. At the age of seventeen, emotionally scarred by these false memories, she is rescued by Sir Quentin from her imprisonment. But reaching her true home brings Christine no solace, as her arrival spurs the enemies of the realm to desperate measures which culminate in a war filled with monsters, heroes, magicians and epic confrontations. |
NEW RELEASE By Planck, M. C. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Centuries after the ecological collapse of Earth, humanity has spread among the stars. Under the governance of the League, our endless need for resources has driven us to colonize hundreds of planets, all of them devoid of other sentient life. Humanity is apparently alone in the universe. Then comes the sudden, brutal decimation of Kassa, a small farming planet, by a mysterious attacker. The few survivors send out a desperate plea for aid, which is answered by two unlikely rescuers. Prudence Falling is the young captain of a tramp freighter. She and her ragtag crew have been on the run and living job to job for years, eking out a living by making cargo runs that aren't always entirely legal. Lt. Kyle Daspar is a police officer from the wealthy planet of Altair Prime, working undercover as a double agent against the League. He's been undercover so long he can't be trusted by anyone--even himself. While flying rescue missions to extract survivors from the surface of devastated Kassa, they discover what could be the most important artifact in the history of man: an alien spaceship, crashed and abandoned during the attack. But something tells them there is more to the story. Together, they discover the cruel truth about the destruction of Kassa, and that an imminent alien invasion is the least of humanity's concerns."-- Provided by publisher. |
NEW RELEASE By Robinson, Kim Stanley Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Sawyer, Robert J. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president's memories, including secret military plans. |
By Wurts, Janny Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. Meanwhile his daughter is being raised and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but when she eventually learns of her father's existence, she chooses her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon. |
By Wurts, Janny Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. Meanwhile his daughter is being raised and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but when she eventually learns of her father's existence, she chooses her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon. |
By L'Amour, Louis Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: W Call Number: W The title story "With These Hands" is a powerful tale that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit, as an oil company executive finds himself the sole survivor of an Arctic plane crash. Fighting for his life against the perilous cold and looming starvation, he resists the temptation to surrender to death--only to discover a life-affirming strength he never knew he had. Vivid in scope and displaying the diverse talents of a master storyteller, the stories in With These Hands are certain to be treasured by both old and new fans, celebrating the incomparable imagination of a timeless American author. |
By Thompson, Rod Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: W Call Number: W "Young Cormac Lynch looks up to his dad as much as he loves his mother and sister. But one day, a few men ride in ... men who defile everything they touch. They take what they want and move on, leaving Cormac the only survivor. Killing those men won't bring his family back, but it is all he can do to set things right"-- Cover verso. |
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