Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2014 - June 2014
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.
By Pierson, D. C. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Tenth-grader Tom Parking's dream of being swept away to a fantasy land where he becomes a hero nearly comes true when he finds himself the Chosen One of a nameless world, the most annoying, least "cool" place in the universe. |
By Singer, Nicky Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Jess is grieving for her beloved aunt, and when she finds a mysterious flask hidden in a antique bureau that belonged to Aunt Edie on the same day that her conjoined twin brothers are born, she begins to believe that the flask is magic and that their survival depends on it. |
By Sonnenblick, Jordan Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When his girlfriend asks him to perform at a protest rally, Rich jumps at the chance. Unfortunately, the police show up, and Rich is in big trouble. Again. To make matters worse, it's near the anniversary of his uncle's death from a drug overdose years ago, which makes Rich's dad depressed. Frustrated by his dad's silence, Rich breaks into a locked cabinet that holds a prized possession: an electric guitar signed by Jimi Hendrix. Before he knows it, Rich is transported to the side of a road, it's 1969, and he's at Woodstock. When he meets his fifteen-year-old dad and his uncle, what Rich learns, who he meets, and what he does could change his life forever. |
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: YA Call Number: YA bk.1 Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. |
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: YA Call Number: YA bk.2 As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past. |
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: YA Call Number: YA bk.3 Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear. |
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: YA Call Number: YA bk.4 As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together. |
Becoming Ben Franklin: how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty By Freedman, Russell Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: JNF Call Number: J 973.3092 FRE An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist. |
By Ondaatje, Griffin Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: JNF Call Number: J297.1 OND Inspired by the retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith, an account of the words or actions of the Prophet, which the author first heard in Sri Lanka, this is an unforgettable story about empathy. |
NEW RELEASE By Cooper, Ilene Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JNF Call Number: J320.082 COO For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole. |
NEW RELEASE By Fern, Tracey E. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JNF Call Number: J387.5 FER "Ellen Prentiss felt the sea tug at her heart, strong as a full-moon tide. She loved the water so much that her papa taught her to navigate his schooner across Massachusetts Bay. Soon she was racing the fishing fleet! But she dreamed of even bigger adventures, so she married a sea captain and began navigating his ships on the trade route to China. Then Ellen's husband was given command of a fast new clipper ship, the Flying Cloud. Ellen was determined to use every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: a race out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco, where the Gold Rush was well under way. Ellen battled wild storms, broken masts, and dangerously slow winds. But she not only made it to port as the first woman to navigate that route; her daring voyage set a world record for speed, too!"--Jacket flap. |
By Pinkney, Jerry Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 PIN A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess. |
By Pinkney, Jerry Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.24 PIN A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it. |
By Stidworthy, John Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: JNF Call Number: J551.2 STI Looks at some of the visible ways that the earth can be changed in a matter of minutes, and discusses how the natural forces involved in earthquakes and volcanoes can raise mountains, build islands, change weather and help to produce varieties of plants and animals. |
Life in the ocean: the story of oceanographer Sylvia Earle By Nivola, Claire A. Publishing Date: p2012 Classification: JNF Call Number: J551.46 NIV Listeners follow noted oceanographer Sylvia Earle as her childhood adventures in the Gulf of Mexico help inspire her life's work: discovering the secrets of "the blue heart of the planet." |
Life in the ocean: the story of oceanographer Sylvia Earle By Nivola, Claire A. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JNF Call Number: J551.46 NIV A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world. |
By Allaby, Michael Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: JNF Call Number: J551.5 ALL "100 ways parents and kids can share the secrets of the atmosphere"--Jacket subtitle. |
National Audubon Society first field guide: Wildflowers By Hood, Susan Publishing Date: c1998 Classification: JNF Call Number: J582.13 HOO Provides an overview of wildflowers and where they grow, with specific information about individual species. |
NEW RELEASE By Stefoff, Rebecca Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JNF Call Number: J591.563 STE "Provides comprehensive information on the science behind how and why animals play"--Provided by publisher. |
By Jenkins, Steve Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JNF Call Number: J595.76 JEN An illustrated introduction to a variety of beetle species with information on unique characteristics and how these insects have adapted to survive. |