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.
By Evison, Jonathan Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Since the dawn of recorded history, the Klallam Indians have thrived upon the bounty of the Elwha River. In 1889, on the eve of Washington's statehood, the Olympic Peninsula remains America's last frontier. But not for long. As northwestern expansion reaches its feverish crescendo, the clock is ticking. |
By Fabre, Dominique Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Pierre is a veteran bartender in a cafe in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go--sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. He prefers to let the world come to him. Soon however the cafe must close it's doors, and Pierre finds himself at a loss... |
By Faulkner, William Publishing Date: c1985 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show. |
Novels, 1942-1954: Go down, Moses ; Intruder in the dust ; Requiem for a nun ; A fable By Faulkner, William Publishing Date: 1994 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity - sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve - and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it. This volume - the third in The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulkner's complete works - collects the novels written during this crucial and fascinating period in his career. The newly restored texts, based on Faulkner's manuscripts, typescripts, and proof sheets, are free of the changes introduced by the original editors and are faithful to the author's intentions. In the four works included here, Faulkner delved deeper into themes of race and religion, and furthered his experiments with fictional structure and narrative voice; defying the odds, he continued to break new ground in American fiction. Go Down, Moses (1942) is a haunting novel made up of seven related stories that explore the intertwined lives of black, white, and Indian inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha County. It includes "The Bear", one of the most famous works in all American fiction, with its evocation of "the wilderness, the big woods, bigger and older than any recorded document". Characters from Go Down, Moses reappear in Intruder in the Dust (1948). Part detective novel, part morality tale, it is a compassionate story of a black man on trial and the growing moral awareness of a southern white boy. Requiem for a Nun (1951) is a sequel to Sanctuary. With an unusual structure combining novel and play, it tells the fate of thepassionate, haunted Temple Drake and the murder case through which she achieves a tortured redemption. Prose interludes condense millennia of local history into a swirling counterpoint. In A Fable (1954), Faulkner's recasting of the Christ story set during World War I, he wanted, he said, "to try to tell what I had found in my lifetime of truth in some important way before I had to put the pen down and die". The novel, which earned a Pulitzer Prize, is both an anguished spiritual parable and a drama of mutiny, betrayal, and violence in the barracks and on the battlefields. |
NEW RELEASE By French, Nicci Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector. |
By Fullerton, Alexander Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Nick Everard and his son Paul return in this final chapter of the Everard saga. Paul commands a state-of-the-art midget submarine, sent to sneak up on the formidable German battleship Tirpitz and lay explosive charges. It's one step away from a suicide mission, but Paul must try-for if he fails, his father Nick's escort of an Arctic convoy hardly stands a chance. |
NEW RELEASE By Gage, Eleni N. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Her happy life in New York shattered by a property dispute in India that culminates in her father's claim that a curse has been placed on them, Maya rejects family superstitions until a series of misfortunes prompts her to visit relatives in India to break the curse. |
NEW RELEASE By Galland, Nicole Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From the author of The Fool's Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare's Othello in which the "true" motivations of literature's greatest villain, Iago, are revealed"--Provided by publisher. |
NEW RELEASE By Gardner, Lisa Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go. |
NEW RELEASE By Griffin, W. E. B. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program. |
NEW RELEASE By Grisham, John Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. |
By Gruen, Sara Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Annemarie Zimmer decides to take her rebellious teenaged daughter home to her family's New Hampshire horse farm when she loses her job and her husband leaves her. At the farm, Annemarie is forced to confront memories of her equestrian career cut tragically short twenty years before. A veterinarian and a gifted horse trainer help Annemarie to rediscover her love of horses. |
NEW RELEASE By Guthrie, Woody Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are one with the farm and with each other, the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs. Due to larger forces beyond their control-including ranching conglomerates and banks-their adobe house remains painfully out of reach."--Dust jacket. |
NEW RELEASE By Haddon, Mark Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes. |
By Haigh, Jennifer Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. Her strict mother lives in a state of angry denial; her younger brother Mike has already convicted his brother in his heart. But most disturbing of all is Art himself, who persistently dodges Sheila's questions and refuses to defend himself. |
By Hall, James W. Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Silencer" pits brother against brother against wife against husband in a thriller that proves once again that Hall is a master of suspense ("Publishers Weekly"). |
NEW RELEASE By Harkaway, Nick Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator. |
NEW RELEASE By Harrison, Jim Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape. |
NEW RELEASE By Haruf, Kent Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother. |
By Hearn, Lian Publishing Date: 2003, c2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In ancient Japan, Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre by the mysterious Lord Otori, struggles to reconcile his dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist people among whom he was born and raised, and the one inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin. |