Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2013 - December 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 Forsyth, Frederick Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When a terrorist known as the Preacher targets for assassination a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA's top hunter of men, the terrorist becomes the hunted -- landing him at the top of TOSA's Kill List. |
By Fowler, Earlene Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends her time writing columns for a regional magazine, helping her in-laws work their ranch, and trying to move on. But her dreams of reconciliation with her long-estranged grandchildren come true when her eighteen-year-old brokenhearted granddaughter, Rett, unexpectedly shows up. Together they struggle to co-exist while confronting old resentments and painful memories. When a family crisis forges an unexpected connection between the two grieving women, they must discover if by working together, they can change their lives, and the lives of those they love, for the better. |
By Frankau, Pamela Publishing Date: 1989, c1953 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
NEW RELEASE By Griffin, W. E. B. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne must locate the lone living witness to a sex trade ring connected to the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. |
NEW RELEASE By Grisham, John Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. |
By Hatcher, Robin Lee Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Emily wanted to be more than just a society wife. She came to the Idaho high country looking to make a difference. Gavin knows she would never make it in the rugged high country but his resistance makes her more determined to prove herself. |
By Hawke, Ethan Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Jimmy, AWOL from the Army, heads across America from Albany to New Orleans, Ohio, and Texas in a souped-up Chevy with his pregnant girlfriend, Christy, transforming themselves from passionate lovers into a young family along the way. By the actor-author of The Hottest State. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Higgins, Jack Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor. |
Who occupies this house: a novel By Hill, Kathleen Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC An Irish-American woman grieves the death of her mother and the impending sale of the house that has belonged to her family for four generations, prompting her to go through letters, journals, and mysterious areas of the house to discover the devastation and loss experienced by her ancestors. |
By Hilton, David E. Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Sent to reform school after stabbing his abusive father, thirteen-year-old William befriends three boys with whom he works to tame horses before triggering a series of tragic events that brings them into a greater awareness of the world's cruelty and social norms. |
By Hinnefeld, Joyce Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Follows the life of bird-lover Addie Sturmer Kavanagh as her outspoken environmentalism causes friction in her relationship with her daughter and husband and leads to a troublesome dying wish for a highly illegal burial. |
By Hulme, Keri Publishing Date: 1985, c1983 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Kerewin, a part-Maori painter living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a mute boy who is cast up on a beach, the only survivor of a shipwreck. |
By Irwin, Stephen M. Publishing Date: [2010], c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close becomes haunted, literally, by ghosts. Torn by guilt and fearing for his sanity, he returns home to Tallong, Australia, and becomes entangled in a disturbing series of disappearances and murders--both as a suspect and as the next victim of the malignant evil lurking in the heart of the woods. |
By Jen, Gish Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians and struggling family farms. |
By Joern, Pamela Carter Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Stories that demonstrate living with a view of the plain sense of things -- a farm wife struggles to support her children after the death of her second husband; a young woman grapples with the shift from girlhood to motherhood; World War II wreaks havoc on those left behind; and a failing farmstead breaks a family's heart. |
By Johnson, Denis Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes. |
By Johnston, Wayne Publishing Date: 2007, c2006 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. But she soon comes to suspect another presence: that of a man known only as her Provider, who has shadowed her for twenty years. Against the backdrop of Newfoundland's history and landscape, Fielding is a compelling figure. Taller than most men and striking in spite of her crippled leg, she is both eloquent and subversively funny. Her newspaper columns exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of her native city, St. John's, have made many powerful enemies for her, chief among them the man who fathered her children--twins--when she was fourteen. Only her Provider, however, knows all of Sheilagh Fielding's secrets."--Cover. |
By Jolley, Elizabeth Publishing Date: 2010, c1985 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's 'Better Body Through the Arts' summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay. |
First grave on the right: [a novel] By Jones, Darynda Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Using her ability to see ghosts in her work as a private investigator, Charley Davidson begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious entity that has been following her throughout her life. |
By Kadare, Ismail Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A tale set against a backdrop of the Balkans war follows a fatal Autobahn accident in Vienna that triggers an investigation into the dual identities of two mysterious victims, a pair of young lovers who engaged in an illusory affair marked by political subterfuge. |