Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
March 2015 - April 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.
Betrayed: a Rosato & Associates novel By Scottoline, Lisa Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Judy has always championed the underdog, so when Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers, and never before has murder struck so close to home."-- |
By Silva, Daniel Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After failing to stop a suicide bomber attack in London, master art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon is summoned by the CIA and is faced with an organization riddled with dissent--and ill-equipped to deal with the deadly new face of global jihadist terror. |
By Simpson, Mona Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching. Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is planning for his life. When he learns instead that his parents are separating, his investigation deepens, and he enlists his best friend, Hector, to help. Both boys are in thrall to Miles's unsuspecting mother, Irene, who is "pretty for a mathematician." They rifle through her dresser drawers, bug her telephone lines, and strip-mine her computer, only to find that all clues lead them to her bedroom, and put them on the trail of a mysterious stranger from Washington, D.C. Their amateur detective work starts innocently but quickly takes them to the far reaches of adult privacy as they acquire knowledge that will affect the family's well-being, prosperity, and sanity. Burdened with this powerful information, the boys struggle to deal with the existence of evil and concoct modes of revenge on their villains that are both hilarious and naive. Eventually, haltingly, they learn to offer animal comfort to those harmed and to create an imaginative path to their own salvation. Casebook brilliantly reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, miraculously reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson, once again, demonstrates her stunning mastery, giving us a boy hero for our times whose story remains with us long after the novel is over.we've read the novel's final page"-- |
By Simsion, Graeme C. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Don Tillman, a profesor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father. |
By Smiley, Jane Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher. |
Desert god: a novel of ancient Egypt By Smith, Wilbur A. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Taita the fusspot slave, spiritual wiseman and advisor to the Pharaoh is caught in a maelstrom of passion and danger in his efforts to destroy the Hyksos army by forming a dubious alliance with Crete. |
Death on the High Route: a novel By Stichter, Ken Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
By Swann, E. L. Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The romance of two people in their sixties. She is Maggie Welles, 61, a Boston widow exercising in her garden after a stroke, he is Tristan Mallory, 60, a landscape designer, working on a nearby property. Gardening brings them together. |
NEW RELEASE By Takano, Kazuaki Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a child--which might make him the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced. An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under Presidential orders to destroy this threat to humanity before Akili's full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili's advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager's only hope for saving his son's life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it--or destroy it"-- |
By Thoene, Bodie Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC As Spring 1940 unfolds in Paris, war is inevitable. AP jouranlsit Josephine Marlow is asked to undertake a dangerous journey back into the borders of the Reich--just when the Fuhrer is gathering his forces for another invasion. If she is successful, a child will live. If not, he will die. And many other children, too. French colonel Andre Cahrdon knows that the undefeated Fuhrer will not hold back his Blitzkrieg long from France. But the plan of attack revealed in a coded message is so audacious that no one believes Andre. Whom can he convince? Who will have the courage to act before thousands of innocents are slaughtered? And is a miracle at Dunkirk Harbor possible? |
By Thoene, Bodie Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In the dark fall of 1939, the hopes of the Polish people fade as Nazi bombers strafe the beloved city of Warsaw. Politicians debate while hundreds stand in lines at the British Embassy, desperate to flee the country before Hitler's ground forces arrive. Mac McGrath, a veteran American photographer, recorded the landslide toward war with dedication, believing that if he told the truth, the world would rise up and put a stop to Hitler's plans. Now his foolish idealism embarrasses him. Outside the embassy gates, Jewish schoolteacher Eva Weitzman prays for a miracle. Without a British passport, she will fall into the Nazis' clutches. Who will live and who will die? Will anyone dare to stand against the apathy of nations? |
These is my words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories By Turner, Nancy E. Publishing Date: 1999, c1998 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In a novel based on the life of the author's ancestor, Sarah Prine, a child of the westward expansion, records her dreams, marriage, adventures, joys, and sorrows in her diary. |
Women of the Gold Rush: "The new Penelope" and other stories By Victor, Frances Fuller Publishing Date: c1998 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The reintroduction of a forgotten classic, essential for drawing a complete picture of the West and its true pioneers |
NEW RELEASE By Vreeland, Susan Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A young Parisian woman is exiled to Provence to take care of her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime, but discovers that despite the horrors of war, the paintings of Cezanne, Pisarro, Chagall, and Picasso bring to life the landscape around her and allow her once again to experience love"-- |
NEW RELEASE By White, Randy Wayne Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of two previous owners. |
By Wiggs, Susan Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC While transforming Bella Vista, her childhood home, into a destination cooking school, chef Isabel Johansen finds her plans interrupted by war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill who has arrived to dig up old history. |
By Yoshimoto, Banana Publishing Date: [2006] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presents two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma. |
By Yoshimoto, Banana Publishing Date: [2006] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. |
By Atwood, Margaret Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: SS The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire. |
NEW RELEASE Trigger warning: short fictions and disturbances By Gaiman, Neil Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: FIC Call Number: SS This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods. |