Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2014 - October 2014
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 Federle, Tim Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Now on Broadway as second understudy for E.T., Nate Foster keeps in close contact with his best friend, Libby, as he faces his nemesis, Jordan Rylance, and his own insecurities as the cast member with the least training and experience. |
Eddie: the lost youth of Edgar Allan Poe By Gustafson, Scott Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Edgar Poe, aided by the imp McCobber, has twenty-four hours to prove himself innocent of an act of mischief committed at the home of the judge who lives beside John Allan, foster father of the orphaned author-to-be. |
By Harness, Cheryl Publishing Date: c1992 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Mary, Remember, and Bartholomew are among the pilgrims who survive the harsh early years in America and see New Plymouth grow into a prosperous colony. |
NEW RELEASE By Howe, James Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears. |
NEW RELEASE By Jones, Kari Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J A Canadian family goes to Ghana. What was supposed to be a family adventure has turned into a disaster. |
NEW RELEASE By MacLachlan, Patricia Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows. |
NEW RELEASE Zane and the hurricane: a story of Katrina By Philbrick, W. R. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. |
By Snicket, Lemony Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J In the fading town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl. Is the girl a runaway? Or was she kidnapped? Was she seen last at the grocery store? Or could she have stopped at the diner? Is it really any of your business? These are All The Wrong Questions. |
"Who could that be at this hour" By Snicket, Lemony Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue. |
NEW RELEASE By Turnage, Sheila Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"-- |
Spaghetti and meatballs for all: a mathematical story By Burns, Marilyn Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: E Call Number: E The seating for a family reunion gets complicated as people rearrange the tables and chairs to seat additional guests. |
By Davies, Stephen Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: E Call Number: E After carrying a bowl of milk on her head across dunes and the River Niger, and even up a mountain, without spilling a drop despite many distractions, Penda gets a surprise when she arrives at the grasslands to give her father his lunch. |
NEW RELEASE By Pett, Mark Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: E Call Number: E A wordless picture book in which a girl sees a bicycle she wants to buy, works hard for a kindly neighbor to earn the money for it, then gets a pleasant surprise. |
We're back: a dinosaur's story By Talbott, Hudson Publishing Date: c1987 Classification: E Call Number: E Creatures from prehistoric time travel to the twentieth century and create excitement at the Museum of Natural History in New York. |
By Cashore, Kristin Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. |
By Condie, Allyson Braithwaite Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion. |
By Grisham, John Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone faces his biggest challenge when a new case opens up in Strattenburg and Theo is the prime suspect when the police discover some stolen computer equipment in his locker. |
NEW RELEASE By Kephart, Beth Publishing Date: c2014 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West. |
By Lanagan, Margo Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down. |
By Riordan, Rick Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. |