Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2018 - January 2019
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 McManus, Sophie Publishing Date: 20160301 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
By McManus, Sophie Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Heiress Cecilia Somner's decline in wealth, her affliction with a rare disease and the complicated relationship with her son, George, and his wife, Iris, all culminate in a crime that is as unforgettable as it is unexpected. A first novel. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Mitchell, David Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor traces the year of 1982 in Worcestershire's Black Swan Green, he finds that there is nothing ordinary about his life. Though he manages to keep his stammer hidden most of the time, he still manages to have fun and explore his last days of boyhood by hanging out with his cousin who teaches him how to smoke and shoplift. The adventures for Jason seem endless and his developing interest in girls is noticed despite his parents' fraying marriage. |
By Modiano, Patrick Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half-clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience." |
By Morgenroth, Kate Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC From the bestselling author of They Did It with Love, a chance meeting ignites romance and results in murder Nora and Timothy have lives that are worlds apart. Nora lives in a small Kansas town, living paycheck to paycheck, working in a coffee shop. Timothy lives in Manhattan, responsible to no one and nothing except managing his family's millions. When these two meet, it seems like the beginning of a fairy tale. Except Nora is not your typical damsel in distress, Timothy does not quite fit the role of a gallant prince, and fairy tales don't include a dead body. As Nora and Timothy take turns telling their sides of the story, the reader is caught in the net of their love, and the chilling murder that results. With big questions of love, fidelity, filial responsibility and the role of fate,Through the Heart is a page-turning love story with a jaw dropping twist readers won't soon forget. - (Random House, Inc.) |
By Moriarty, Liane Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. |
Starting out in the evening: a novel By Morton, Brian Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When graduate student Heather Wolfe sets out to meet the elderly novelist whose works have changed her life, she meets someone very different from her expectations. |
The clockmaker's daughter: a novel By Morton, Kate Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"-- |
The many deaths of the Firefly Brothers: a novel By Mullen, Thomas Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In award-winning author Thomas Mullen’s evocative and spirited novel, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson—bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong crime spree across the Midwest, the Firefly Brothers are forced into a police shootout and die in a hail of bullets. Or do they? Jason and Whit’s girlfriends—Darcy, a wealthy socialite, and Veronica, a hardened survivor—struggle between grief and an unyielding belief that the Firesons are alive. Wild rumors spread that the bandits are still at large. Through it all, the Firefly Brothers remain as charismatic, unflappable, and as mythical as the American dream itself, racing to find the women they love and to make sense of a world in which all has come unmoored. - (Random House, Inc.) |
By Munro, Alice Publishing Date: 1995, c1994 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, telling of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. |
By Murakami, Haruki Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"-- |
By Naslund, Sena Jeter Publishing Date: 2001, c1993 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When Dr. Watson decides to write a biography of his late partner, Sherlock Holmes, an ad in the newspaper for information brings about unexpected threats, and in his investigations, Dr. Watson discovers a secret love affair. |
By Nin, Anaïs Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Seduction of the Minotaur is the fifth and final volume of Anaïs Nin’s continuous novel known as Cities of the Interior. First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics to a Mexican city loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing city, she travels inward as well, learning that to free herself she must free the "monster" that has been confined in a labyrinth of her subconscious.- (Chicago Distribution Center) |
By O'Farrell, Maggie Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Alice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to visit her family in Scotland. Hours later, she is lying in a coma at a London hospital, after an accident that may have been a suicide attempt. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Alice begins to recollect her past and a curtailed love affair. - (Gardners) |
By Oates, Joyce Carol Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When a young girl disappears near a community in the Adirondacks, the people of the town of Carthage must face the fact that an Iraq War veteran is the prime suspect. |
By Oates, Joyce Carol Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC This story begins when newlywed Gilbert Erskine leaps into Niagara Falls to his death. It continues with his widow's second marriage, her emotional instability, the suspicious death of her second husband, and finally focuses on her children. |
The sorrowful eyes of Hannah Karajich By Olbracht, Ivan Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich is a lyrical, deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish life. Hannah is the most beautiful girl in all Polana, an orthodox Jewish village in the remote province of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia. Involvement in the exciting new movement of Zionism takes her away to a commune in a nearby town. There she meets and falls in love with the strangely named Ivo Karajich: a Jew, yet not a Jew. The agonising drama that follows plants into her beautiful almond-shaped eyes the hard grain of sorrow that her children, too, will inherit." "Olbracht's novella is both a love story and a portrait of a world that modernity threatened and Hitler destroyed."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Patterson, James Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Vacationing in the Maine woods after a series of traumatic crises, Michael Bennett is pulled into the case of a series of child disappearances from a tight-knit community that is reeling from a deadly addiction. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Patterson, James Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law--until he's charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood. Now Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. It was self-defense; will a jury see it that way? As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome, titillating video tied to the mysterious disappearances of several young girls. Despite his suspension from the department, Cross can't say no to Sampson. The illicit investigation leads them to the darkest corners of the Internet, where murder is just another form of entertainment. As the prosecution presents its case, and the nation watches, even those closest to Cross begin to doubt his innocence. If he can't convince his own family that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury? But even with everything on the line, Cross will do whatever it takes to stop a dangerous criminal, even if he can't save himself. |
Twenty-one days: a Daniel Pitt novel By Perry, Anne Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "As a new series debuts, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents' influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose--in only twenty-one days. Could Mrs. Graves's violent death have anything to do with her husband's profession? Someone in power may be framing the biographer to keep damaging secrets from coming to light. It is a theory that leads Daniel's investigation unexpectedly to London's Special Branch--and, disturbingly, to one of his father's closest colleagues. Caught between duty to the law and a fierce desire to protect his family, Daniel must call on his keen intellect--and trust his natural instincts--to find the truth in a tangle of dark deception, lest an innocent man hang for another's heinous crime"-- |