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.
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NEW RELEASE The invisible Arab: the promise and peril of the Arab revolutions By Bisharah, Marwan Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.0974 BIS "The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket. |
NEW RELEASE Beyond the blue horizon: how the earliest mariners unlocked the secrets of the oceans By Fagan, Brian M. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.45 FAG Looks at the early development of navigation, examining how ancient humans discovered the secrets of wind, tides, and stars that allowed them to make long voyages that profoundly changed human civilization. |
Yank: the story of World War II as written by the soldiers Publishing Date: 1984 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5373 |
By Rizzuto, Rahna R. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.54 RIZ In this National Book Critics Award finalist memoir, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto wrestles with the most personal and epic issues of our time. In June 2001 she travels to Hiroshima to interview survivors of the atomic bomb, while her husband and two young sons remain in New York. But initial interviews feel rehearsed, and the survivors reveal little beyond already published accounts. Then September 11 changes everything. The vulnerability exposed by the attacks shatters the survivor's carefully constructed narratives. They open up to Rizzuto in astonishing ways, describing in detail their agonizing experiences. Separated from family as her world seems to be falling apart, Rizzuto sees her marriage begin to crumble as she questions her role as a wife and mother. The parallel narratives of Hiroshima in the survivors' own words, and of Rizzuto's personal awakening, show memory not as history, but as a story we tell ourselves to explain who we are. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's highly acclaimed first novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000. She is a faculty member in the MFA in creative writing program at Goddard College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
NEW RELEASE Outlaw platoon: heroes, renegades, infidels, and the brotherhood of war in Afghanistan By Parnell, Sean Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 958.1047 PAR A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery. |
NEW RELEASE Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a dangerous world By Miller, William Lee Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.099 MIL Presents a dual examination of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to analyze their similarities and differences, covering their roles in the high politics of their time and their respective experiences during and between the world wars. |
By Chernow, Ron Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.41 CHE In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. |
The destiny of the republic: a tale of medicine, madness and the murder of a president By Millard, Candice Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.84 MIL A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet. |
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. |
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