Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2025 - May 2025
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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May cause side effects: a memoir By Siem, Brooke Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.85 SIE "May Cause Side Effects is the gripping story of what happened when, after fifteen years and 10,000 antidepressants, Siem was forced into harrowing antidepressant withdrawal when an opportunity to travel around the world dropped into her lap"-- |
Conscious loving: the journey to co-commitment By Hendricks, Gay Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.86 HEN From a husband and wife team of psychologists who live what they teach, here are powerful techniques for transforming painful relationships into satisfying ones. The Hendricks challenge couples to stop "sleepwalking" through life and work to achieve a passionate, productive and harmonious state of "co-commitment." |
Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking By Carr, Allen Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.865 CAR "This seminal book has enabled millions of smokers to quit easily and enjoyably using Allen Carr's simple, drug-free approach. This edition has been developed specifically for smokers in the US. Using the clinically-proven Easyway method, this book removes the desire to smoke altogether, without willpower or sacrifice. Read it now to become a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life"-- |
Momma and the meaning of life: tales of psychotherapy By Yalom, Irvin D Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.8914 YAL Explores the mysteries and marvels at the heart of the therapeutic encounter, revealing in six enthralling stories his own and his patients' confrontations with life's most profound challenges. |
On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy By Rogers, Carl R. Publishing Date: [1995] Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.8916 ROG Collection of essays by American psychotherapist Carl Rogers written between 1951 and 1961, in which he put forth his ideas about self-esteem, flexibility, respect for self, and acceptance of others. |
Menopause bootcamp: optimize your health, empower your self, and flourish as you age By Gilberg-Lenz, Suzanne Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 600 Call Number: 618.175 GIL Drawing on her twenty-year medical career, the doctor known for her "Menopause Bootcamp" gatherings helps readers not only survive the physiological and psychological transition, but embrace and even celebrate this remarkable developmental phase, which can be the start of something new and wonderful. |
Good energy: the surprising connection between metabolism and limitless health By Means, Casey Publishing Date: [2024] Classification: 600 Call Number: 619.399 MEA "What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing. If you are battling minor signals of "bad energy" inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here's the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves"-- |
Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 600 Call Number: 621.31 |
Where the light comes from: a memoir By Uiga, Endel Publishing Date: ©2020 Classification: 600 Call Number: 621.381 UIG Endel Uiga was born on March 3, 1918 just days after Estonia declared its independence from Russia. He and his country came of age together, before their destinies diverged during World War II. In his memoir he describes the idyllic life of a curious and ingenious child with great promise for a successful future while a roiling undercurrent of unrest pervaded eastern Europe. Although there is a plethora of memoirs written about World War II, the plight of the Baltic nations, and particularly that of Estonia has been largely overlooked. Still, more than a recounting of historical facts or the personal reminiscences of a centenarian, the story holds universal truths. Uiga’s message is clear. Democracy is fragile, hard won and easily lost. It’s a warning. Citizens in a democracy must make wise choices rather than merely expeditious ones. There’s a lot at stake. He calls us to be ever vigilant, upholding democratic principles for the sake of freedom not just now, but for generations to come.—cover. |
The secret horsepower race: Western Front fighter engine development By Douglas, Calum E Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 600 Call Number: 629.134 DOU "The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole." |
Hybrid: the history and science of plant breeding By Kingsbury, Noel Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 600 Call Number: 631.52 KIN "Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious--a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs--and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new; plant breeding has always had a political dimension. A powerful reminder of the complicated and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, Hybrid will give readers a thoughtful new perspective on--and a renewed appreciation of--the cereal crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers that are central to our way of life."--Jacket. |
By Buckingham, Alan Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635 BUC From the Publisher: Home-grown vegetables are fresh, healthy, and inexpensive. Here is the manual for growing your own, whether on your balcony, in your apartment, or in a garden, large or small. Even if you have only a few hours a week, Grow Vegetables teaches you the tools and methods you need to produce your own vegetables. |
The market gardener: a successful grower's handbook for small-scale organic farming By Fortier, Jean-Martin Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.0484 FOR Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods. |
Flora: the gardener's bible : over 20,000 plants Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9 |
Variegated trees & shrubs: the illustrated encyclopedia By Houtman, Ronald Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9 HOU "Written under the sponsorship of the Netherlands' prestigious Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society, this book describes in detail nearly 800 variegated trees, shrubs, and vines available internationally from nurseries. Author Ronald Houtman describes the origins of variegated plants, and offers complete horticultural information, including cold hardiness and cultural needs, on choices that gardeners should add to their wish lists. Painstaking in the accuracy of its nomenclature - variegated plants are notorious for being misnamed in commerce - this volume also includes a scientific discussion of the reasons for variegation as well as an essay on how to design with variegated plants in any garden." "More than 760 garden photographs have been assembled from the author's collection and from contributors around the world."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Levy, Ran Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9 LEV "Japanese plants have had an unmistakable influence on the gardens of the world. Who can imagine gardens without flowering cherries, hostas, Japanese maples, or magnolias? For all the popularity of these plants in international gardens, however, few gardeners know the full story of Japanese plants - their history and uses in gardens in Japan, their horticultural merits for gardens of all kinds, even the meaning and symbolism of their native names. Now for the first time, a color encyclopedia provides an authoritative overview of the Japanese garden flora." |
Tiny + wild: build a small-scale meadow anywhere By Gardner, Graham Laird Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9676 GAR "Tiny & Wild is the essential guide to creating a small-scale mini meadow that's filled with low-maintenance plants to please both pollinators and people"-- |
Dog man: an uncommon life on a faraway mountain By Sherrill, Martha Publishing Date: 2009, 2008 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.73 SHE Chronicles the fierce determination of individualist Morie Sawataishi to ensure the survival of the Akita species after all but sixteen dogs were slaughtered for the Japanese war effort, describing his radically unconventional lifestyle. |
Living the 1.5 degree lifestyle: why individual climate action matters more than ever By Alter, Lloyd Publishing Date: [2021] Classification: 600 Call Number: 640.286 ALT "Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do and shows how to slash your own carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year by choosing a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating."-- |
Lobscouse & spotted dog: which it's a gastronomic companion to the Aubrey/Maturin novels By Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5 GRO "Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brien's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centiru dishes as burgoo, drownede baby, sea-pie, solomongundy, jam roly-poly, toasted cheese, sucking pig, treacle-dowdy and, of course, spotted dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as wel;l as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings and raised pies"--Publisher's description |