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.
NEW RELEASE By Koppel, Hans Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Struggling with fear, despair, and suspicious Swedish authorities when his wife fails to return home, Mike endures a nightmarish existence with his daughter, unaware that his vigil is being secretly filmed and shown to his wife by her abductors in a nearby cellar. |
NEW RELEASE By Krentz, Jayne Ann Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Returning to the Oregon small town where fellow members of a research team were killed two years earlier, psychic counselor Gwen Frazier, convinced that her mentor's untimely death is related, searches for answers at the side of psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith, who is haunted by urgent dreams and a primal attraction to Gwen. |
NEW RELEASE By Krentz, Jayne Ann Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Returning to the Oregon small town where fellow members of a research team were killed two years earlier, psychic counselor Gwen Frazier, convinced that her mentor's untimely death is related, searches for answers at the side of psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith, who is haunted by urgent dreams and a primal attraction to Gwen. |
By Kunzru, Hari Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed--but not unchanged--the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. |
NEW RELEASE By Lansdale, Joe R. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood. |
By Larsson, Asa Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a masterpiece of suspense. |
By Lee, C. Y. Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Originally published in 1957, The Flower Drum Song was a groundbreaking work of popular literature. An immediate bestseller, it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This charming, bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta, who wants what every young American man wants: a great career and a woman to love. Living in San Francisco's Chinatown-with his widowed father, Old Master Wang, who misses the old way of life in China, and his younger brother, who just wants to be a normal American teenager-Wang Ta becomes involved with a series of women as he searches for love and the American dream. Comic, poignant, and sexy, The Flower Drum Song is an astute portrayal of immigrants struggling with assimilation. This edition features a new introduction by David Henry Hwang. |
By Lee, Janice Y. K. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Hired by the wealthy Chen family as a piano instructor, Claire Pendleton is seduced by the social life of Hong Kong's expatriate community and begins an affair with Will Truesdale, an enigmatic Englishman with a devastating past. |
By Leroy, Margaret Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do the pressures on Vivienne. Food and resources grow scant, and the restrictions placed upon the residents of the island grow with each passing week. Though Vivienne knows the perils of her love affair with Gunther, she believes that she can keep their relationship- and her family- safe. But when she becomes aware of the full brutality of the Occupation, she must decide if she is willing to risk her personal happiness for the life of a stranger--From book cover. |
By Lodge, David Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together for the first time in the U.S. in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best--and its worst. In Changing Places, we meet Philip Swallow, British lecturer in English at the University of Rummidge, and the flamboyant American Morris Zapp of Euphoric State University, who participate in a professorial exchange program at the close of the tumultuous sixties. Ten years later in Small World, older but not noticeably wiser, they are let loose on the international conference circuit--along with a memorable and somewhat oversexed cast of dozens. And in Nice Work, the leftist feminist Dr. Robyn Penrose from Rummidge is assigned to shadow the director of an engineering firm, sparking a collision of lifestyles that seems unlikely to foster anything other than mutual antipathy"--Cover p. [4]. |
NEW RELEASE By Lynch, Jim Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Roger Morgan, the promoter responsible for bringing the World's Fair to Seattle in 1962, runs for mayor in 2001, right after the tech bubble bursts, while budding reporter Helen Gulanos probes his secretive past. |
NEW RELEASE By Maltman, Thomas James Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. |
Windswept house: a Vatican novel By Martin, Malachi Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In Rome, an attempt to overthrow the pope by a conspiracy of political and financial interests. The protagonists are two American brothers, one a lawyer who is leading the attack, the other a priest who is defending the pope. By the author of Vatican. |
Him, her, him again, the end of him: a novel By Marx, Patricia Publishing Date: 2008, c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A neurotic Cambridge graduate struggles to cover up her dysfunctional relationship with a narcissistic young man and engages in increasingly absurd lies and acts of self-deception. |
By McDermott, Alice Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Theresa recalls her fifteenth summer as the most sought-after babysitter in Long Island, and the challenges of caring for her fragile younger cousin while crossing over into the world of adulthood. |
By McLean, Stuart Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Containing a faithful account of misdemeanours and transgressions, as well as clandestine matters of the heart, concerning a variety of characters, many familiar to friends of earlier chronicles, and some new acquaintances, which we have the pleasure to introduce in these pages". |
NEW RELEASE By Meltzer, Brad Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes. |
NEW RELEASE By Murari, Timeri Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In war-torn Kabul, Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist, devises a clever scheme to ensure her and her family's freedom by entering them in a cricket tournament where the winner will travel to Pakistan to train and then play at an international level. |
NEW RELEASE By Nesbø, Jo Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC HARRY IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO GET TOO INVOLVED. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry. HE MIGHT JUST BE THE NEXT VICTIM. Appearing in English for the first time, The Bat is the legendary first novel from the worldwide phenomenon Jo Nesbo. |
By Nesbø, Jo Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As Christmas approaches, Detective Harry Hole investigates the murder of a Salvation Army singer, who turns out to have been shot by mistake. |