Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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Gypped

By Clark, Carol Higgins

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: M

Call Number: M

PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigate an L.A.-based business scam that extends up and down the coast of California --

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Medals in the attic

By Elliott, Cathy

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: M

Call Number: M

"Annie Dawson is enjoying rummaging through the jumble of memorabilia, old toys, and discarded furniture in the attic of Grey Gables, the stately Victorian house in Stoney Point, Maine, that she has inherited from her grandmother. But when she discovers a carved wooden case holding two World War II military medals she is dumbfounded...and troubled. Grandpa Holden's military service medals are on full display in the living room. Are these also Grandpa's? If so, why are they hidden away where no one can see them? And if not, whose are they? Why have they been kept in secret in the attic of Grey Gables all these years?"--Publisher's description.

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The Hand that trembles: [a mystery]

By Eriksson, Kjell

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: M

Call Number: M

Years after the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish county commissioner, a veteran police officer stumbles on a seemingly unrelated case while Ann Lindell investigates the murder of a woman in a housing development populated by single men.

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The Janus stone

By Griffiths, Elly

Publishing Date: 2012, c2010

Classification: M

Call Number: M

Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells him that two children did go missing from the home forty years before -- a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the scent by frightening her half to death...

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A serpent's tooth

By Johnson, Craig

Publishing Date: [2013]

Classification: M

Call Number: M

When a lost Mormon child wanders into Absaroka County, the intrepid Wyoming sheriff teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.

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As the crow flies

By Johnson, Craig

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: M

Call Number: M

When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.

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Hell is empty

By Johnson, Craig

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: M

Call Number: M

Transporting a confessed murderer only to learn that the man's crime falls under his jurisdiction and that the killer has escaped, Sheriff Walt Longmire taps insights from Indian mysticism and Dante's "Inferno" in a manhunt through the icy Cloud Peak Wilderness Area.

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The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe

By McCall Smith, Alexander

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: M

Call Number: M

"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes on her building. Eventually, she'll have to accept all the help she can get--even if it comes from a completely unexpected source"--

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To fetch a thief: a Chet and Bernie mystery

By Quinn, Spencer

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: M

Call Number: M

"Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scents he encounters when an old-fashioned traveling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less-than-greatest-show-on-earth because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only problem is that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one-ring circus, has gone missing--along with her trainer, Uri DeLeath. Stranger still, no one saw them leave. How does an elephant vanish without a trace?--Cover, p. 2.

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The midwife's tale: [a mystery]

By Thomas, Samuel S.

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: M

Call Number: M

A tale set against a backdrop of the 1644 Siege of York finds midwife Bridget Hodgson joining forces with resourceful servant Martha Hawkins to prove the innocence of a woman who has been sentenced to burn at the stake for murdering her husband. A first novel. - (Baker & Taylor)

Leviathan wakes: book one of The expanse

By Corey, James S. A.

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.

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The Elder Gods

By Eddings, David

Publishing Date: c2003

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

The first installment of a new series introduces the fated Land of Dhrall, which is shared by the gods with its people and is overshadowed by Wasteland ruler Vlagh, who plans to take advantage of a shift in power and eventually take over the world unless four children are able to counter his intentions.

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Host

By Hunter, Faith

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

In a near future world marked by a post apocalyptic ice, powerful neomage Thorn St. Croix has been accepted age,--albeit warily--by her human friends and neighbors, until a mage arrives from the Council of Seraphs to reveal that her long-lost sister, Rose, is still alive, forcing Thorn to make a perilous choice to risk her own life. By the author of Bloodring.

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From the two rivers

By Jordan, Robert

Publishing Date: 2002

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the "Best Books for Young Adults, " Part One of this novel is now in this age-appropriate edition for younger readers. When his village is attacked by Trollocs, a savage tribe of half-man, half-bests, Rand al'Thor and his friends are lucky to be alive. For Rand there is no time to celebrate. It was not the village the Trollocs were after--it was Rand.

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Redshirts

By Scalzi, John

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.

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Castleview

By Wolfe, Gene

Publishing Date: c1990

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

Arthurian legend collides with Main Street, USA, in Gene Wolfe's classic fantasy adventure. Castleview, Illinois, got its name from occasional sightings of a phantom castle on stormy nights--a place where the barrier between past and present is weak and strange things happen.

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Fate, time, and language: an essay on free will : David Foster Wallace

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 100

Call Number: 123

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant critique of Taylor's work. Written long before the publication of his fiction and essays, Wallace's thesis reveals his great skepticism of abstract thinking made to function as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of certain paradigms of thought-the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism-that abandoned "the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises to meet the challenge to free will presented by Taylor, we witness the developing perspective of this major novelist, along with his struggle to establish solid logical ground for his convictions. This volume, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert, reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace. James Ryerson's introduction connects Wallace's early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of his later fiction, and Jay Garfield supplies a critical biographical epilogue. - (Columbia Univ Pr)

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The afterlife of Billy Fingers: how my bad-boy brother proved to me there's life after death

By Kagan, Annie

Publishing Date: [2013]

Classification: 100

Call Number: 133.9 KAG

Billy's ongoing after-death communications take his sister on an unprecedented journey into the bliss and wonder of life beyond death --

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Life unlocked: 7 revolutionary lessons to overcome fear

By Pillay, Srinivasan S.

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 100

Call Number: 152.46 PIL

A psychologist reveals the way hidden anxieties trigger self-sabotaging behaviors, sharing exercises based on cutting-edge neuroscience to explain how to reframe and move past fear in order to pursue one's goals.

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The folly of fools: the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life

By Trivers, Robert

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 100

Call Number: 153.4 TRI

"The time is ripe," Trivers says in the preface, "for a general theory of deceit and self-deception based on evolutionary biology." Self-deception, he suggests, is a function of evolution. We evolved the ability to deceive ourselves, to deliberately distort the evidence of our own senses, so that we can deceive others. (Our brains can more easily participate in deception if, first, they are unaware of the contradiction, and have been themselves deceived.) Trivers, a professor of anthropology and biological sciences, organizes the book in sections on, for instance, self-deception in everyday life, self-deception and the structure of knowledge in the social sciences, and religion and self-deception. Self-deception can take many forms, from little white lies to outright fraud to large-scale, deliberate rewriting of the facts (Holocaust denial is one good example), and Trivers does an excellent job of showing how the human species could not have evolved to its present state without a keen ability to ignore, edit, or distort the information from its own senses. Approaching self-deception from a Darwinian angle is not only fresh and thought-provoking, it also feels right and appropriate. A must-read for students of psychology, sociology, and evolutionary theory. Copyright 2011 Booklist Reviews.