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.
By Vonnegut, Kurt Publishing Date: [c1959] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
The financial lives of the poets: a novel By Walter, Jess Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all. |
By Wambaugh, Joseph Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo--a smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. |
NEW RELEASE By Ward, Katie Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. Each chapter of Ward's kaleidoscopic novel takes readers into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads readers into the present and beyond. |
NEW RELEASE By Waters, Paul Publishing Date: 2012, c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC 355 AD: In a late-Roman world of ambitious bureaucrats and power-hungry courtiers, two young friends of the British nobility, Drusus and Marcellus, have fallen foul of the emperor's authority. Charged with treason, the emperor's dark and terrifying agent Paulus, they must face the might of the corrupt Roman state. For Drusus and Marcellus, their only ally is the young prince, Julian. From one end of the empire to the other, they set themselves against forces that are determined to crush them. Following the daring and suspenseful plotline of Cast Not the Day, Paul Waters has once again delivered a humane and fresh portrayal of Roman intrigue. |
Nocturnes for the King of Naples By White, Edmund Publishing Date: c1978 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. Each chapter, each nocturne, is set in a different emotional key, but all are interconnected through such subtle modulations that the final effect is devastating. |
NEW RELEASE By Wilson, Adam Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence-- pasty, soft, and high-- who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new. Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn has purchased Eli's old family home. The two begin a dangerous friendship, one that distracts from their circumstances but speeds their descent into utter debasement and, inevitably, YouTube stardom. By story's end, through unlikely acts of courage and kindness, roles will be reversed, reputations resurrected, and charges (hopefully) dropped" -- p. [4] of cover. |
By Woods, Stuart Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Ed Eagle finds the tables turned when he testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trail of his ex-wife, who has been a very, very bad girl. |
NEW RELEASE Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the dark By Bagshawe, Tilly Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: LARGE PRINT "When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that three nearly identical killings have taken place across the globe in recent years. In all cases an elderly, newly wed millionaire is murdered and his wife assaulted. And in each case the widow is the sole beneficiary of the will, but donates all her new found wealth to children's charities... Soon evidence arises pointing to one woman, dubbed by police as the Angel of Death, moving around the globe changing her identity over the years. Matt and former LA investigator Danny Maguire resurrect the old case, but when the so-called widow resurfaces once again it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems... and time is ticking before the Angel of Death claims her next victim"--Provided by publisher. |
Drunk with love: a book of stories By Gilchrist, Ellen Publishing Date: c1986 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of some of Ellen Gilchrist's best short stories. |
By Proulx, Annie Publishing Date: 1995, c1988 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS The acclaimed debut collection of short stories--enhanced by two never-before-published works--by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News. |
Publishing Date: 1998, c1991 Classification: M Call Number: M |
By Barre, Richard Publishing Date: c1998 Classification: M Call Number: M |
By Berry, Jedediah Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: M Call Number: M Unexpectedly promoted to detective when his predecessor goes missing and a supervisor is killed, agency clerk Charles Unwin struggles with inexperience and nerves during a case in which he encounters bizarre clues and is framed for murder. |
NEW RELEASE By Block, Lawrence Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: M Call Number: M With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him to Dallas to settle a domestic dispute to New York, where people might remember him. |
By Chandler, Raymond Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: M Call Number: M A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune--the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."-- Erle Stanley Gardner "Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." -- The New York Times |
NEW RELEASE By Cornwell, Patricia Daniels Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: M Call Number: M In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.--Publisher. |
NEW RELEASE The Alpine Xanadu: an Emma Lord mystery By Daheim, Mary Publishing Date: [2013], ©2013 Classification: M Call Number: M Emma can't say she's too shocked when Wayne Erik's body shows up battered to death at a combined rehab center and home for the mentally disturbed. She hated the guy. As she investigates the killing, she comes to learn that the killer she suspects happens to think Emma's the culprit. |
NEW RELEASE By DePoy, Phillip Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: M Call Number: M Recovering from a near-death experience in his family home in the Georgia Appalachian Mountains, Fever Devilin finds his sanity questioned when he is approached by a woman from his past who claims to have had his baby, an encounter that precedes an attempt on his life. |
NEW RELEASE The valley of the shadow: a Cornish mystery By Dunn, Carola Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delerious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees from East Africa, abandoned by the smugglers who brought them in, so while the countryside is being scoured for the family, Eleanor herself descends into a dangerous den of smugglers in a desperate search to find the man responsible while there is still time. |