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.
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.
NEW RELEASE By Dellamonica, A. M. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Indigo Springs used to be a sleepy town in Oregon. Now it's the epicenter of a magical insurrection. Astrid Lethewood's discovery of a river of the blue liquid magic known as vitagua was initially harmless, until it burst out of the ground, contaminated everything, and attracted power-hungry rebels. The secret is out, and the world will never be the same. Plants and animals aren't the only things that have mutated. Astrid's best friend, Sahara, has been corrupted by it, and now leads a cult that seeks to rule the world. Astrid sets out to make things right and bring some sort of balance back into a nation thrown into chaos by magical contamination. |
NEW RELEASE By Evenson, Brian Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A post-apocalyptic thriller follows the experiences of a man who wakes up paralyzed with no memory of his life and who is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out. |
NEW RELEASE By Irvine, Ian Publishing Date: 2012, c2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Twelve years ago, two children witnessed a murder that still haunts them as adults. Tali, a slave girl in subterranean Cython, saw her mother's head hacked open and something taken from inside. Rix, boy heir to the biggest fortune in Hightspall, watched two shrouded figures do the deed. He did not realise they were his parents, acting for a faceless sorcerer. Tali has sworn to bring her mother's murderers to justice, but now she is hunted by a killer who can only be beaten by magic. |
NEW RELEASE By Jemisin, N. K. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic. |
By Lackey, Mercedes Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe. |
NEW RELEASE By Meynard, Yves Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Cristine, the princess and heir to the enchanted world of Chrysanth has been kidnapped as a small child and exiled to a world very much like our own. She is forced through bogus psychotherapy to recall unspeakable abuse at the hands of her family. At the age of seventeen, emotionally scarred by these false memories, she is rescued by Sir Quentin from her imprisonment. But reaching her true home brings Christine no solace, as her arrival spurs the enemies of the realm to desperate measures which culminate in a war filled with monsters, heroes, magicians and epic confrontations. |
NEW RELEASE By Planck, M. C. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Centuries after the ecological collapse of Earth, humanity has spread among the stars. Under the governance of the League, our endless need for resources has driven us to colonize hundreds of planets, all of them devoid of other sentient life. Humanity is apparently alone in the universe. Then comes the sudden, brutal decimation of Kassa, a small farming planet, by a mysterious attacker. The few survivors send out a desperate plea for aid, which is answered by two unlikely rescuers. Prudence Falling is the young captain of a tramp freighter. She and her ragtag crew have been on the run and living job to job for years, eking out a living by making cargo runs that aren't always entirely legal. Lt. Kyle Daspar is a police officer from the wealthy planet of Altair Prime, working undercover as a double agent against the League. He's been undercover so long he can't be trusted by anyone--even himself. While flying rescue missions to extract survivors from the surface of devastated Kassa, they discover what could be the most important artifact in the history of man: an alien spaceship, crashed and abandoned during the attack. But something tells them there is more to the story. Together, they discover the cruel truth about the destruction of Kassa, and that an imminent alien invasion is the least of humanity's concerns."-- Provided by publisher. |
NEW RELEASE By Robinson, Kim Stanley Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Sawyer, Robert J. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president's memories, including secret military plans. |
By Wurts, Janny Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. Meanwhile his daughter is being raised and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but when she eventually learns of her father's existence, she chooses her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon. |
By Wurts, Janny Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. Meanwhile his daughter is being raised and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but when she eventually learns of her father's existence, she chooses her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon. |
By L'Amour, Louis Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: W Call Number: W The title story "With These Hands" is a powerful tale that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit, as an oil company executive finds himself the sole survivor of an Arctic plane crash. Fighting for his life against the perilous cold and looming starvation, he resists the temptation to surrender to death--only to discover a life-affirming strength he never knew he had. Vivid in scope and displaying the diverse talents of a master storyteller, the stories in With These Hands are certain to be treasured by both old and new fans, celebrating the incomparable imagination of a timeless American author. |
By Thompson, Rod Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: W Call Number: W "Young Cormac Lynch looks up to his dad as much as he loves his mother and sister. But one day, a few men ride in ... men who defile everything they touch. They take what they want and move on, leaving Cormac the only survivor. Killing those men won't bring his family back, but it is all he can do to set things right"-- Cover verso. |
NEW RELEASE Practical cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC21 By Welsh, Anne Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 000 Call Number: 025.32 WEL |
The science of evil: on empathy and the origins of cruelty By Baron-Cohen, Simon Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 100 Call Number: 152.41 BAR A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil. |
NEW RELEASE By Kandel, Eric R. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 100 Call Number: 154.2 KAN A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art. |
NEW RELEASE By Horstman, Judith Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 100 Call Number: 155.3 HOR "A fascinating look at how the brain controls our relationships and romances. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and most men and women readers today have learned that the brain is Grand Central Station for our most erotic associations, memories, and secret desires. The latest research shows that the popular myth is true: Sexual orientation and identity is hard-wired, the result of our neurological predisposition, not a choice or result of socialization. We instinctively crave connection and relationship as an essential part of our well-being, self-esteem, and pleasure. The process of achieving and recovering from orgasm ignites the same pleasure centers in the brain as exercise, music, religion, food, alcohol, and drugs. Sexual desire can be triggered by a thought, a smell, a touch, or the sight of an object of desire. These sensorium are located at different parts of the brain, and can be activated indefinitely into our senior years. Filled with little known and fascinating information about the brain. The third Scientific American book in the series about the brain. The core science and latest research is drawn from the prestigious Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines"-- |
Scapegoat: a history of blaming other people By Campbell, Charlie Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 100 Call Number: 158.2 CAM Traces the history of blaming others, exposes the anger and irrationality of it, and reveals man's capacity to cast blame. |
By James, William Publishing Date: c1987 Classification: 100 Call Number: 191 JAM |
NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 200 Call Number: 201.65 Preface: faith and science / Joseph L. Spradley -- 1. Common ground between faith and science?: -- "And yet, it moves": the conflict between faith and science / Paul McCaffrey -- Religion and science / Albert Einstein -- Science at the crossroads / Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama -- White lies of Dover / Eugene W. Harper -- God vs. science / Dean Nelson -- Einstein's religious awakening / William Berkson -- 2. Is your brain hardwired for religion?: -- "It's just all one": neurotheology, religion, and the brain / Paul McCaffrey -- The biology of belief / Jeffrey Kluger -- Divided minds, specious souls / David Weisman -- How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue -- Does analytic thinking erode religious belief? / Andrew Aghapour -- Science and religion: reality's toolkit / Jessica Hahne -- Neurononsense / Roger Scruton -- 3. The politics of religion and science: -- The bible, the beaker, and the ballot box: faith, science, and American politics / Paul McCaffrey -- Unholy alliance / Jonathan Cohn -- New poll: even religious voters overwhelmingly want candidates to debate science / Shawn Lawrence Otto -- How science can lead the way / Lisa Randall -- A day in heaven / Joe Murphy -- Some Ojibwe tribal members object to wolf hunting, trapping / Tom Robertson -- 4. Evolution and public education: -- Evolution in the classroom: from monkey laws to intelligent design / Paul McCaffrey -- A spiritual approach to evolution / Michael Lerner -- Intelligent design or intelligible design? / Frederick Grinnell -- Religion doesn't belong in public schools, but debate over Darwinian evolution does / Casey Luskin -- Evolution still debated on religious grounds in the public domain / Susan Barreto -- The light of the world / Michael Reiss -- Faith and the cosmos / Ila Delio -- 5. The greening of faith: -- Silent spring: faith and the environment / Paul McCaffrey -- Environment and the new humanism / Edward O. Wilson -- Environmentalism as religion / Joel Garreau -- The emerging alliance of world religions and ecology / John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Stewards of the earth / Jim E. Motavalli -- Making the climate a part of the human world / Simon D. Donner -- 6. Creation, the cosmos, and the origin of the universe: -- The origins of the universe: faith and the big bang / Paul McCaffrey -- The testimony of faith to the ultimate origin / Hans Küng -- Science on faith / Elaine Howard Ecklund -- Let's get a big bang out of science / Richard Malloy -- Physics of the divine / Zeeya Merali -- A god of creativity / Stuart Kauffman. |