Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2015 - February 2015
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.
The deserters: a hidden history of World War II By Glass, Charles Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.548 GLA An historical account of the view of deserters during World War II, this story deals with ordinary men under pressure to accomplish enormous and paradoxical expectations imposed on them. It is a history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines. This book offers a new perspective on the Second World War, delving deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surprisingly, deserters weren't looked on as cowards by their comrades, but rather as a normal part of wartime behavior. A soldier could fight bravely, but in a year's time become exhausted and disillusioned, causing desertion. It discards the notion of a flawless military and the dignity of conflict. |
The heir apparent: a life of Edward VII, the playboy prince By Ridley, Jane Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 941.082 RID Born Prince Albert Edward and known as Bertie, the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state and the architect of Britain's modern constitutional monarchy. |
My promised land: the triumph and tragedy of Israel By Shavit, Ari Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 956.054 SHA Presents an examination of Israel that traces the events that led the country to its current state of conflict through the stories of everyday citizens to illuminate the importance of lesser-known historical events. |
Little America: the war within the war for Afghanistan By Chandrasekaran, Rajiv Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 958.104 CHA In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way. |
Undaunted: my struggle for freedom and survival in Burma By Phan, Zoya Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 959.105 PHA Zoya Phan escaped the Burmese army in her native jungle and a Thai refugee camp to become the spokesperson of the Free Burma movement.--Publisher description. |
By Hobson, Richmond P. Publishing Date: c1961 Classification: 900 Call Number: 971.12 HOB Richmond P. Hobson Jr. (1907-1966) was born in Washington, DC, where he worked with pack outfits, survey crews, and construction gangs, saving, all the while, to buy a cattle ranch. He came to Canada after the stock market crash of the late 1920s. He and his business partner, Panhandle "Pan" Phillips, moved to the interior of British Columbia and established the Frontier Cattle Company in the 1930s. He later married his wife, Gloria, moved to Vanderhoof, British Columbia, and continued ranching while writing about his experiences. Other books by Hobson are Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy andThe Rancher Takes a Wife. - (Random House, Inc.) |
Ecstatic nation: confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 By Wineapple, Brenda Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.6 WIN Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P.T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L.C.Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation balances cultural and political history: it provides an account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and it chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills, and it signals the painful, thrilling birth of modern America.--From publisher description. |
With my face to the enemy: perspectives on the Civil War : essays Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7 A collection of essays on the Civil War explores every aspect of the conflict, from Lee's role in the Confederacy to the battle tactics that won and lost the war, with contributions from James M. McPherson, Tom Wicker, Thomas Fleming, David Herbert Donald, and many other notable historians. Reprint. - (Baker & Taylor) |
38 nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end By Berg, Scott W. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7 BER "38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars. |
A world on fire: Britian's crucial role in the American Civil War By Foreman, Amanda Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.72 FOR Presents a history of the role of British citizens in the American Civil War that offers insight into the interdependencies of both nations and how the Union worked to block diplomatic relations between England and the Confederacy. |
The Union soldier in battle enduring the ordeal of combat By Hess, Earl J. Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.741 HES "Drawing extensively upon the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers, Hess reveals their deepest fears and shocks, and also their sources of inner strength. By identifying recurrent themes found in these accounts, Hess constructs a multilayered view of the many ways in which these men coped with the challenges of battle."--Jacket. |
Pat and Dick: the Nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage By Swift, Will Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.924 SWI A study of the partnership between the thirty-seventh President and his wife argues that the couple endured political and intimate disappointments during their fifty-three-year marriage but ultimately shared genuine affection. |
Pay any price: greed, power, and endless war By Risen, James Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.931 RIS "War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses -- and until this book, it has worked very hard to cover them up. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR authorized the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. Presidents Bush and Obama now must face their own reckoning. Power corrupts, but it is endless war that corrupts absolutely"-- |
That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863 By Mackowski, Christopher Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 975.5365 MAC Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years to compile this remarkable story of one of the war''s greatest battles. escribes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including General Robert E. Lee''s radical decision to divide his small army--a violation of basic military rules--sending Stonewall Jackson on his famous march around the Union army flank. Jackson''s death--accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers--is one of the many fascinating stories included in this definitive account of the battle of Chancellorsville.""That Furious Fir. |
Sierra stories: tales of dreamers, schemers, bigots, and rogues By Noy, Gary Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.44 NOY "[Gary] Noy curates his collection to great effect, offering readers a smattering of succinct and highly readable accounts of the mad strivers, the ostracized immigrants, the robber barons, the famous entertainers and other noteworthy individuals who lived in the skinny mountain range running down eastern California....Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots and Rogues delivers exactly what the title promises."-- Matthew Renda, Tahoe Quarterly magazine, Summer 2014 |
The World almanac and book of facts 2015 Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: R Call Number: R031 |
The A to Z of plant names: a quick reference guide to 4000 garden plants By Coombes, Allen J. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: R Call Number: R635.03 COO Provides the names of over four thousand common British and North American garden plants, and includes information on the names' origins, meanings, and relationships to the plants themselves. |
Television westerns episode guide: all United States series, 1949-1996 By Lentz, Harris M. Publishing Date: [2012] Classification: R Call Number: R791.45 LEN |
AAA road atlas 2014: Canada, United States, Mexico Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: R Call Number: R912.7 Provides detailed road maps for each state, province, and major city in North America. |
By Budlong, Tom Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: R Call Number: R979.497 BUD |