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.
Heart of darkness and other tales By Conrad, Joseph Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
NEW RELEASE By Cook, Robin Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding. |
NEW RELEASE By Cooper, Mike Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Hired by a powerful financier to quickly and quietly address pressing monetary troubles, black ops veteran Silas Cade demands compensation for a deal gone bad from a hedge fund manager who is subsequently murdered. |
NEW RELEASE By Cornwell, Bernard Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC On September 19, 1356, a severly outnumbered English army faced off against the French at the Battle of Poitiers. But what seemed like certain defeat became instead the most decisive English victory of the Hundred Years' War. |
By Coulter, Catherine Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC From the Publisher: "Catherine Coulter can always be counted on to write an exciting thriller" (BookBrowser), and now here are the first two thrillers in the FBI series-The Cove and The Maze-in one volume for the first time ever. The Cove-In this "fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly) page-turner, the daughter of a murdered high-powered lawyer seeks sanctuary in a quaint little town, only to learn that she can't escape her past or the FBI agent hunting her. The Maze-"full of twists and turns" (Rocky Mountain News), this cliffhanger teams Savich and Sherlock for the first time in a case that leads them back to the murder of Sherlock's sister seven years ago-and puts both their lives on the line. "Coulter is a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more."-The Best Reviews. |
NEW RELEASE By Crais, Robert Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer. |
NEW RELEASE By Cussler, Clive Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan--a trail that they discover leads them not to one tomb, but five--the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself . . . and will stop at nothing to claim the tombs' riches as his own. |
By Dallas, Sandra Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's untimely death. |
By Dean, Margaret Lazarus Publishing Date: 2008, c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After the explosion of the space shuttle "Challenger," aspiring astronaut Dolores Gray tries to figure out what caused the catastrophe with the hopes of saving her father's job at NASA and mending her parents' strained relationship. |
NEW RELEASE By Doig, Ivan Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his twelve-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father. |
NEW RELEASE Semper fidelis: a novel of the Roman Empire By Downie, Ruth Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian. |
NEW RELEASE By Dryden, Alex Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Russia's attempts to destabilize Ukraine's fledgling democracy are countered by Cougar--a private intelligence company enlisted by the CIA-- in whose employ ex-KGB officer Anna Resnikov risks danger to rid her homeland of a resurgence of Russian influence. |
By Dunnett, Dorothy Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions. Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces on both sides. |
By Dworkin, Andrea Publishing Date: c1991 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A controversial novel by the author of Pornography, Intercourse and Ice and Fire. Mercy is an intelligent and courageous woman who, as a nine-year-old girl, was molested by a man in a dark theatre. The repercussions of this act follow her through her life. Gloria Steinem says of Dworkin: "In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race evolve. Andrea is one of them". |
NEW RELEASE By Edugyan, Esi Publishing Date: 2012, c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a caf ̌by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now a jazz legend, is the subject of a celebratory documentary. Two of the original Hot-Time Swingers American band members, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are invited to attend the film's premier in Berlin. As they return to the landscape of their past friendships, rivalries, loves and betrayals, Sid, the only witness to Falk's disappearance who has always refused to speak about what happened, is forced to break his silence. Sid recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars, and the salons of Paris, telling his vibrant and suspenseful story in German American slang. Half-Blood Blues is a novel about music and race, love and loyalty, and marks the arrival of an extraordinarily 'gifted storyteller' (The Toronto Star)"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Edwardson, Ake Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost decades ago in World War II. Meanwhile, there are reports that a woman is being abused, but she can't be found and her family won't tell the police where she is. Gothenburg's Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in search of the missing man, aided there by an old friend from Scotland Yard. Back in Gothenburg, Afro-Swedish detective Aneta Djanali discovers how badly someone doesn't want her to find the missing woman when she herself is threatened."--P. 4 of cover. |
By Eggers, Dave Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money, in a rowdy debut novel from the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. |
By Enright, Anne Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC During a snowstorm, Gina Moynihan reminisces the string of events that brought her the love of her life, Sean Vallely, and recalls their affair. |
By Eriksson, Kjell Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Manuel Alavez's life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell traces all leads back to the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer. |
NEW RELEASE By Evanovich, Janet Publishing Date: 2013, c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brother's world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mother's eyes. |