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.
Dining with dinosaurs: a tasty guide to mesozoic munching By Bonner, Hannah Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J567.9 BON "Sure you know T-Rex was the meat-eating king and brontosaurus munched on leaves, but what else was on the dino dining menu during the Mesozoic era? Meet the 'vores: carnivores, piscivores, herbivores, insectivores, "trashivores," "sunivores," and omnivores like us. Readers will be surprised and inspired to learn about dino diets and they'll get to explore how scientists can tell which dinosaurs ate what just from looking at fossils! Journey through artist and author Hannah Bonner's whimsical world to learn how the dinosaurs and their contemporaries bit, chewed, and soaked up their food."-- |
By Krull, Kathleen Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: JNF Call Number: J576.8 KRU Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection. |
Apex predators: the world's deadliest hunters, past and present By Jenkins, Steve Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J591.53 JEN "In his latest illustrated exploration of the animal kingdom, Steve Jenkins introduces readers to some of the most powerful predators in history, from the Tyrannosaurus rex to the African lion."-- |
Catching air: taking the leap with gliding animals By Collard, Sneed B Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J591.57 COL Only a select few animals are able to glide long distances through air, but they include an amazing variety-- even a few species of frogs and snakes. Catching Air takes us around the planet to meet these animals and explore why this gravity-defying talent has evolved in animals, amphibians, and reptiles.-- |
By Osborne, Mary Pope Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: JNF Call Number: J591.77 OSB |
By Hirschmann, Kris Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J595.4 HIR "Spiders are small but fierce hunters with all the tools and skills they need to capture and kill their prey. Some species have venom that is lethal to humans as well as their normal prey. Six deadly spiders, including the black widow and the Chilean recluse, are profiled"--Provided by the publisher. |
My awesome summer, by P. Mantis By Meisel, Paul Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J595.7 MEI The life cycle of a praying mantis. -- |
By Osborne, Mary Pope Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: JNF Call Number: J597.9 OSB |
Lesser spotted animals: the coolest creatures you've never heard of By Brown, Martin Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JNF Call Number: J599 BRO |
Hopping ahead of climate change: snowshoe hares, science, and survival By Collard, Sneed B Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J599.32 COL The impacts of climate change on human beings make headlines almost daily. But what about climate change's effects on wildlife? Explore the consequences of warmer temperatures for a particularly vulnerable group of animals - those that change their coat colors with the seasons. |
By Markle, Sandra Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J599.67 MAR When her herd suffers during a drought in Tanzania, Grandma Elephant leads Little Calf and the other elephants in a search for the watering hole she remembers from her youth. |
The search for Olinguito: discovering a new species By Markle, Sandra Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J599.763 MAR "Learn about the olinguito, one of the most recently discovered mammal species, the discovery thereof, and the "cloud forests" in which they live."-- |
Sea otter heroes: the predators that saved an ecosystem By Newman, Patricia Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J599.769 NEW "Marine biologist Brent Hughes discovered a surprising connection between sea otters and sea grass at an estuary in northern California. Follow science in action as Hughes conducts the research that led to this major discovery."-- |
Frontier surgeons: a story about the Mayo brothers By Crofford, Emily Publishing Date: c1989 Classification: JNF Call Number: J610 CRO A biography of the two doctor brothers whose Minnesota clinic became world-famous. |
By Bow, James Publishing Date: c2017 Classification: JNF Call Number: J621.988 BOW |
Lighter than air: Sophie Blanchard, the first woman pilot By Smith, Matthew Clark Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JNF Call Number: J629 SMI Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, making more than sixty ascents until 1819, she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident. |
Mission to Pluto: the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt By Carson, Mary Kay Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J629.43 CAR "Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."-- |
Dog heroes: a nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #46: Dogs in the dead of night By Osborne, Mary Pope Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: JNF Call Number: J636.7 OSB Answers questions about the history and behavior of dogs and provides true stories of dog heroics. |
Maya Lin: artist-architect of light and lines By Harvey, Jeanne Walker Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JNF Call Number: J720.92 LIN "The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"-- |
By Rubin, Susan Goldman Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JNF Call Number: J746 RUB |