Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2018 - April 2018
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.
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A is for apron: 25 fresh & flirty designs By Mornu, Nathalie Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: 600 Call Number: 646.48 MOR |
Steel and shade: the architecture of Donald Wexler By Bricker, Lauren Weiss Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 700 Call Number: 720.92 BRI |
Tiny homes: simple shelter : scaling back in the 21st century By Kahn, Lloyd Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 700 Call Number: 728.3 KAH "Here are some 150 builders who have created tiny homes (under 500 sq. ft.). Homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, and homes on water, and homes in the trees. There are also studios, saunas, garden sheds, and greenhouses. Here is a rich variety of small homemade shelters, with 1,300 photos, along with stories of people who have chosen to provide their own roofs overhead."--P. [2] of cover. |
By Bair, Deirdre Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.092 BAI Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg. |
Dr. Seuss goes to war: the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel By Geisel, Theodor Seuss Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 GEI Examines Theodor Geisel's early work as a political cartoonist during World War II and reproduces two hundred of his best cartoons from that time. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Crochet prayer shawls: 15 wraps to share Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 700 Call Number: 746.434 |
By Daniel, Nancy Brenan Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: 700 Call Number: 746.46 DAN |
By Crepaldi, Gabriele Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 700 Call Number: 759.2 CRE This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. - (Prestel Publishing) |
Dylan goes electric: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties By Wald, Elijah Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 700 Call Number: 781.6609 WAL One of the music world's preeminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world-- Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation-- and one of the defining moments in twentieth-century music. In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the Sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime-mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever. Breaking new ground on a story we think we know, Dylan Goes Electric! is a thoughtful, sharp appraisal of the controversial event at Newport and a nuanced, provocative, analysis of why it matters. |
Louie, take a look at this: my time with Huell Howser By Fuerte, Luis Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4502 FUE "Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California's Gold and other California public television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera, 'Louie, take a look at this!' Now, four years after Huell's death, Louie--aka Luis Fuerte, a five-time Emmy-winning cameraman--shares stories of their adventures together as they explored California and made great television that showcased Huell's infectious love for the Golden State. Luis (with help from David Duron) takes readers from Huell's early days--as well as his own--to the creation of California's Gold and Visiting with Huell Howser, and the many adventures that ensued. From the top of the Golden Gate Bridge to the bottom of the sea in a diving bell, from See's chocolates to Pink's hot dogs, and from the historic missions to the spectacular poppy fields, Luis and Huell experienced the best of California together."--Cover. |
By Ziegler, Philip Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 700 Call Number: 792.02 ZIE A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered the greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actor -- Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man: his three Shakespearian adaptations are among the most memorable ever filmed. |
Last girl before freeway: the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers By Bennetts, Leslie Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 700 Call Number: 792.7602 BEN "Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition and her massive insecurities. But Rivers' career was also hugely significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life. A juicy, intimate biography of one of the greatest comedians ever-a performer whose sixty year career was borne, simply, out of a desire to make people laugh so she could feel loved-LAST GIRL BEFORE FREEWAY delves into the inner workings of a woman who both reflected and redefined the world around her,"--Amazon.com. |
By Jenkins, Mark Publishing Date: ℗♭2002 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5 JEN The author shares his adventures of climbing the ice-rimmed Italian ridge of the Matterhorn, sea kayaking along the Turkish coast of Gallipoli, and sneaking across Tibet to reach Buddhism's holiest lake deep in the Himalayas. |
Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises By Garner, Bryan A. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.0663 GAR In this new edition, Garner preserves the successful structure of the original while adjusting the content to make it even more classroom-friendly. He includes case examples from the past decade and addresses the widespread use of legal documents in electronic formats. His book remains the standard guide for producing the jargon-free language that clients demand and courts reward."--Pub. desc. |
William Everson: the life of Brother Antoninus By Bartlett, Lee Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 BAR In the annals of modern American letters, William Everson (1912-1994) holds prime place as a poet of conscience and consciousness of self, his richly textured verse mapping his extraordinary inner journey as social activist, Dominican brother, and preeminent religious and philosophical poet. In "William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus", Lee Bartlett charts the outer journey, drawing on the reminiscences of the poet, his friends, and a wealth of archival material. The life that Bartlett recalls begins in Sacramento, California, in 1912, and continues through to the present: Everson, from 1971, was poet-in-residence at Kresge College, the University of California at Santa Cruz. The years between were for the poet both prolific and hard. Everson the literary figure published thirty-seven books of poetry and five prose collections. He was been a Guggenheim fellow (1949), a Pulitzer Prize nominee (1959), and the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award (1978). Everson the man was a conscientious objector in World War II, for three and a half years confined to a work camp in Waldport, Oregon. He converted to Catholicism and joined the Dominican order in 1951 and, as Brother Antoninus, became one of the foremost Catholic poets of our time. In 1969, Everson dramatically broke his vows to marry the young woman he loved. "This is my habit", he said after a public reading, "and when I take it off, I take off my own skin, but I have to take it off to find my heart". In his poetry after that, during what he came to call his "integral years", Everson sought to express the harmony of the physical and the material. Lee Bartlett documents not only the secular and spiritual travails of a major American poet but projects the "crooked line" of an incarnational imperative in American poetry. Using exhaustive and original research, Bartlett provides us with our first look at the great heir of Emerson, Whitman, and Jeffers. |
The lost detective: becoming Dashiell Hammett By Ward, Nathan Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.52 WAR "A fascinating portrait of the overlooked Dashiell Hammett--from his years as a Pinkerton detective to becoming the author of arguably the most iconic detective novels of the twentieth century"-- |
Finding Abbey: the search for Edward Abbey and his hidden desert grave By Prentiss, Sean Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 PRE When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. |
By Sims, Michael Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 SIM As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called "the most companionable of writers" lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers. In this book the author shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole" by mining the raw ore of his childhood friendship with animals in Mount Vernon, New York, translating his own passions and contradictions, delights and fears, into an all time classic. Blending White's correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker into his own narrative, the author brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, real and imaginery, made him famous around the world. |
How to live--or--a life of Montaigne : in one question and twenty attempts at an answer By Bakewell, Sarah Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 848.3 BAK |
The mighty dead: why Homer matters By Nicolson, Adam Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 800 Call Number: 883.01 NIC Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? |