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 A people's guide to Los Angeles By Pulido, Laura Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.494 PUL A People's Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.'s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions--North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley--this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape. |
NEW RELEASE The ARRL handbook for radio communications 2013 Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: R Call Number: R 621.3841 2013 |
NEW RELEASE The United States government manual 2012 Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: R Call Number: R353 |
NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: R Call Number: R910.5 |
NEW RELEASE By Airgood, Ellen Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Erdrich, Louise Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home. |
NEW RELEASE There's a hamster in my pocket By Ewart, Franzeska G. Publishing Date: 2012, c2011 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "A laugh-out-loud story about two best friends" --Front cover. |
NEW RELEASE On the day I died: stories from the grave By Fleming, Candace Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker. |
By Garner, Alan Publishing Date: 1998, c1967 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J During a summer vacation in a secluded Welsh valley, three young people find themselves driven by the spirits of three mythical lovers to reenact an ancient tragedy. |
NEW RELEASE Hunter Moran saves the universe By Giff, Patricia Reilly Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J While trying to hide an incriminating report card and dodge meddling siblings, fifth-grade twins Hunter and Zack set out to save their town from a diabolical dentist who is planning to blow it to smithereens. |
Nicholas St. North and the battle of the Nightmare King By Joyce, William Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle Nicholas can win only if he finds five other Guardians in time. |
By Oliver, Lauren Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey. |
NEW RELEASE By Orr, Wendy Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Finding a horse in the park, Amy takes it to the Rainbow Street Shelter and secretly hopes the owner never turns up. |
NEW RELEASE By Rivers, Karen Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J As Tink Aaron-Martin writes an encyclopedia of her life, she also tells the story of the summer leading into her eighth-grade year. |
NEW RELEASE Maybelle and the haunted cupcake By Speck, Katie Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Maybelle the cockroach is tired of all the rules she must follow to safely get food from Mr. and Mrs. Peabody's kitchen, but when Bernice, an ant with a head cold, insists on helping out, the situation only gets worse. |
NEW RELEASE By Stead, Rebecca Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building. |
Rude Ramsay and the roaring radishes By Atwood, Margaret Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: E Call Number: E In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letter "r," Rude Ramsay goes on an adventure with his friend Ralph the red-nosed rat. |
Rude Ramsay and the roaring radishes By Atwood, Margaret Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: E Call Number: E In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letter "r," Rude Ramsay goes on an adventure with his friend Ralph the red-nosed rat. |
NEW RELEASE By DaCosta, Barbara Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: E Call Number: E "Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."-- |
NEW RELEASE By Frazee, Marla Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: E Call Number: E Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up. |