Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2015 - October 2015
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Larson, Gary Publishing Date: [1982] Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 LAR A collection of Far Side cartoons featuring a variety of animals, insects, and people in humorous situations. |
Ansel Adams: letters and images, 1916-1984 By Adams, Ansel Publishing Date: c1988 Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.924 ADA An impressive addition to Adams's work, this book clarifies the emotional and conceptual framework of many of his most familiar and stunning photographs by offering with them letters to and from family and friends. Adams is openly loving and loyal in many letters, receiving in return deep respect and affection as both an artist and a warm, likable man. Though he often states that his images are his sole means of self-expression, some of his letters contain lucid critiques of his work and others' that shall prove useful to scholars. Perhaps the most important correspondence is with Stieglitz and Weston, revealing shared enthusiasm for photography as art. David Bryant, Belleville P.L., N.J. Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information. |
By Franklin, Aretha Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.4216 FRA Aretha Franklin's soaring voice has earned her mythic status. Now, in her own moving words, the woman behind the myth is revealed. The result is a captivating self-portrait of one of this century's most fascinating artists, an Aretha Franklin as real as the songs she sings. For the first time anywhere, Aretha tells her story--the glorious triumphs as well as the heartbreaking pain. With refreshing candor, Aretha tells it like it is, the way she sees it, the way she lived it. A child prodigy of the golden age of gospel, the daughter of a world-famous preacher, Aretha was the anointed successor to Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward. But her father had a broader vision and helped Aretha enter the field of pop and jazz. By age eighteen, she was under contract to Columbia Records. Six years later, after only a few minor hits, she switched to Atlantic, where she shook the musical world to its roots. Her song - (Random House, Inc.) |
Disneyland: the first thirty-five years Publishing Date: 1989 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.068 |
The young Duke: the early life of John Wayne By Kazanjian, Howard Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4302 KAZ Marion Morrison, born in Winterset, Iowa, also known as John Wayne, defined the myth of the Old West from the silver screen for five decades. This new book examines his early life and his first roles in Hollywood, uncovering the true stories behind the screen legend's highly publicized and sometimes controversial public life. The Young Duke, undertaken with the assistance of the Wayne family, offers an unflinching look at this icon's early years. This book includes unpublished family photographs and many personal reminisences. - (Globe Fearon Co) |
By Miller, Arthur Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4372 MIL This book documents the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961). Directed by the Hollywood auteur John Huston, it starred three of the most charismatic actors of all time -- Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift -- and had a script by Arthur Miller, one of America's greatest playwrights and Monroe's husband. |
By Sayre, Woodrow Wilson Publishing Date: [1964] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.52 SAY |
Near death in the mountains: true stories of disaster and survival Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 "In these true tales of narrow brushes with death, Cecil Kuhne has amassed a wide range of stories that show the awesome power of the mountains. Spanning five continents, from the frosty tip of Mount McKinley in the dead of the winter, to the unexplored vastness of the Himalayas and beyond, this is a pulse-pounding collection of disaster and survival at the top of the world."--BOOK JACKET. |
Nanga Parbat pilgrimage: the lonely challenge By Buhl, Hermann Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 BUH |
The crystal horizon: Everest--the first solo ascent By Messner, Reinhold Publishing Date: c1989 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 MES The controversial Messner, revered by some as the spiritual leader of mountaineering and denounced by others as a macho peak-bagger, chronicles his extraordinary 1980 solo climb of the world's tallest mountain. Messner's philosophy dictates that he climb without the aid of oxygen and unencumbered by the people and equipment of large-scale expeditions; he carries only a tent, camera, some climbing equipment, and food. Climbing from the Tibetan side, Messner provides intriguing observations of that mysterious region. He also includes fascinating stories of the climbers who preceded him. Messner presents selections from the diary of his American girlfriend, who accompanied him to base camp. Messner's reflections, coupled with those entries, show Messner to be egotistical and self-centered, perhaps the very characteristics that make him such a determined, ambitious, and great climber. -- Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svces., Boulder, Col. Copyright 1989 Cahners Business Information. |
By Holt, John Publishing Date: c1991 Classification: 700 Call Number: 799.1757 HOL |
Tablet & pen: literary landscapes from the modern Middle East Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.8 Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazik al-Malāʼikah, Mozaffar al-Nawwab, Melih Cevdet Anday, ʻArrār (Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal), Manouchehr Atashi, Reza Baraheni, Faraj Bayraqdar, Simin Behbahani, Alireza Behnam, Sadeq Chubak, Ismat Chughtai, Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, Simin Daneshvar, Mahmoud Darwish, Parvin E'tesami, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Altaf Fatima, Khalil Gibran, Hoiushang Golshiri, Melisa Gürpinar, Yahya Haqqi, Haydar Haydar, Sadegh Hedayat, Nâzim Hikmet, Abdullah Hussein, Intizaar Hussein, Yusif Idris, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Sardar Jafri, Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, Ghassan Kanafani, Orhan Veli Kanik, Refik Halit Karay, Cemil Kavukçu, Yaşar Kemal, Naguib Mahfouz, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Mahmud, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manto, Miraji (Muḥammad S̲ānāʼullāh Dār), Zakaria Mohammad, Nader Naderpour, Kishwar Naheed, Aziz Nesin, Orhan Pamuk, Zoya Pirzad, Hamid Reza Rahimi, N.M. Rashed, Fahmida Riaz, Oktay Rifat, Zeeshan Sahil, Ahmad Shamloo, Cemal Süreya, Zakariyya Tami, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Goli Taraghi, Akhtar ul-Iman, Saadi Youssef, Can Yücel, Nima Yushij, and Haifa Zangana. |
Beneath the American Renaissance: the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville By Reynolds, David S. Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 810.9 REY The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen'sAmerican Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it. - (Oxford University Press) |
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again: essays and arguments By Wallace, David Foster Publishing Date: 1998, c1997 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.54 WAL A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All," a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award, Wallace gorges himself on corn dogs, gawks at baton twirlers, and gropes toward the true meaning of the all-American Institution the State Fair. In the title essay, one of the most talked about (and frequently photocopied) nonfiction pieces of the-year, Wallace reports with excruciating humor the agonies of enduring forced fun on a commercial cruiseliner. Wallace's sports obsession comes out in an essay about the unfathomable gulf between professional tennis players and the merely excellent. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" explores the deep currents affecting both popular arts and literary craft, while "David Lynch Keeps His Head" is at once a portrait of the artist at work and an appreciation of the far-reaching cultural influence a popular artist can have. |
By Shaffer, Peter Publishing Date: 1975, c1974 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822 SHA |
The art of worldly wisdom: a collection of aphorisms from the work of Baltasar Gracian By Gracián y Morales, Baltasar Publishing Date: 1993 Classification: 800 Call Number: 868.302 GRA |
Publishing Date: [1999?] Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.8202 Drawing from Life magazine and the greatest photo archives of our time, this book chronicles our century by way of an unparalleled collection of photographs. |
National Geographic's guide to the national parks of the United States Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.304 |
The Sierra gateway map guide: where to stay, what to do, things to see By Delaney, Debora Publishing Date: c2001 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.94 DEL |
By McKinney, John Publishing Date: 1983 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.94 MCK |