Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2013 - February 2013
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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NEW RELEASE By Baker, Jo Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Bazell, Josh Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers--not to mention a lake monster--are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem. |
NEW RELEASE By Benjamin, Melanie Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness. |
NEW RELEASE By Berry, Steve Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. |
By Brecht, Bertolt Publishing Date: [1956] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
By Brooke-Rose, Christine Publishing Date: 1991 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC British novelist and critic Brooke-Rose ( Xorander ) might better have called this inventive book Six Characters in Search of a Reader. The setting is a literary conference, where academics have gathered to hear papers and debate about which works merit inclusion in the world's canon of literature. Also in attendance are hundreds of fictional characters--from Gilgamesh to Emma Bovary--who have come together to pray for their continued survival. Tensions run high: 20th-century characters are treated as second-class citizens, and characters from different times and places have trouble communicating with one another. After armed terrorists attack one of the pray-ins because it seems biased against Islam, TV's Columbo, McGarrett, and Magnum show up to investigate. Soon the convention is swamped with TV and movie characters who demand to be resurrected in the public memory along with their literary colleagues. Matters spin out of control until the arrival of the D.E.M. (Deus Ex Machina). Brooke-Rose has produced a wildly funny fictional entry in the ongoing debate about deconstruction, multiculturalism and the respective merits of ``fine'' and ``pop'' art. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved |
The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart By Bullington, Jesse Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men, but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. |
By Cather, Willa Publishing Date: c1987 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden," and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours." |
By Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Publishing Date: 2010, c2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Unabridged edition of the Spanish classic with footnotes. |
NEW RELEASE By Chevalier, Tracy Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom. |
NEW RELEASE Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker: a novel By Chiaverini, Jennifer Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave. |
The cross-country quilters: an Elm Creek Quilts novel By Chiaverini, Jennifer Publishing Date: [2002] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Follows the Cross Country Quilters, a group of five friends, on their quest to complete the "challenge quilt" that is symbolic of each woman's personal goals. |
NEW RELEASE By Clancy, Tom Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. |
NEW RELEASE By Clancy, Tom Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. |
By Clark, Mary Higgins Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace enthusiastically pursues a case against Gregg Aldrich, the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Broadway actress Natalie Raines, in spite of his unwavering profession of innocence, not realizing she is in danger herself from a killer who is posing as a friend. |
By Cleeves, Ann Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past. |
By Cleverly, Barbara Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder. |
By Coelho, Paulo Publishing Date: 2001, c1999 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. |
By Cohen, Paula Publishing Date: 2003, c2002 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, the world's greatest tenor. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, the handsome Alfieri needs a refuge from the clamor of New York's elite . . . and from the eager women who rule it. He finds it, he thinks, at Gramercy Park, in the elegant mansion of the recently deceased Henry Ogden Slade. The house is available . . . but not quite empty. Clara Adler, Slade's former ward, lives there still, friendless and alone. Who is this bewitching orphan? Why did Slade take her into his home, only to leave her penniless at his death? And what tragedies and terrors have left Clara little more than a pale and frightened ghost, haunting the deserted mansion? Mystified, then enchanted, Alfieri is soon involved in an intrigue that spans two decades and pits him against a vicious enemy who swears to destroy both him and the woman he loves . . . and whose weapon is a scandal that has already come close to killing Clara Adler. |
NEW RELEASE By Connolly, John Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Racing against a serial killer in the depths of the Maine woods, private detective Charlie Parker searches for a secret list of names in the wreckage of a plane that has never been reported missing. |
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