Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2015 - October 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.
NEW RELEASE By Hepinstall, Kathy Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Two Southern sisters, disguised as men, who join the Confederate Army--one seeking vengeance on the battlefield, the other finding love"-- |
Our house in the last world: a novel By Hijuelos, Oscar Publishing Date: c1983 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC This award-winning first novel from the author of the National Book Award nominee The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love was applauded by the New York Times Book Review as "a novel of great warmth and tenderness ... a virtuoso writing that describes immigrant life in New York ... a loving and deeply felt tribute." |
NEW RELEASE By Hilderbrand, Elin Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis be Madeline's salvation? As the gossip escalates, and the summer's explosive events come to a head, Grace and Madeline try desperately to set the record straight--but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it" - |
NEW RELEASE By Hornby, Nick Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process. "-- |
By Howard, Linda Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Come lie with me / Linda Howard -- Part of the bargain / Linda Lael Miller -- Yesterday's love / Sherryl Woods. |
By Howard, Linda Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In "Mackenzie's Pleasure," Navy SEAL Zane Mackenzie sets out to rescue the mother of his child from terrorists; in "A Game of Chance," agent Chance Mackenzie sets out to capture an elusive criminal using the man's daughter as bait. |
NEW RELEASE By Hunter, Aislinn Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare. She was babysitting a sweet young girl named Lily, and in one fleeting moment, lost her. The little girl was never found, leaving her family and Jane devastated. Twenty years later, Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As a final research project--an endeavor inspired in part by her painful past--Jane surveys the archives for information related to another missing person: a woman who disappeared over one hundred years ago in the same woods where Lily was lost."--Publisher. |
NEW RELEASE By Ishiguro, Kazuo Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Jackson, Lisa Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The 21 Killer, a case from Rick Bentz's past, comes back to haunt him. |
By Johansen, Iris Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis's mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world. |
NEW RELEASE By Jones, Darynda Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. Of course, if hellhounds aren't enough, Charley also has a new case to hold her attention: the decades-old murder of a newly-vowed nun she keeps seeing in the shadows of the convent"--Dust jacket flap. |
NEW RELEASE Shame and the captives: a novel By Keneally, Thomas Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war camp down the road, is assigned to work on the farm, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence her husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will expand her outlook and self-knowledge. But what most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their culture, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, they plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching effects on all the citizens around them. In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proved a master at exploring ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events. With this profoundly gripping and thought-provoking novel, inspired by a notorious incident in New South Wales in 1944, he once again shows why he is celebrated as a writer who "looks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can match" (Sunday Telegraph)"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Kerr, Philip Publishing Date: c2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The tenth installment of the Bernie Gunther series by the author of PRAGUE FATALE and A MAN WITHOUT BREATH"-- Provided by publisher. |
NEW RELEASE By King, Stephen Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" -- |
NEW RELEASE By Lagercrantz, David Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After receiving a call from a trusted source claiming to have vital information to the United States, journalist Mikael Blomkvist turns to hacker Lisbeth for help. |
NEW RELEASE By Lansens, Lori Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A ... survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs. Four go up the mountain, but only three will come down"-- |
The knight, death, and the devil By Leffland, Ella Publishing Date: c1990 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC An historical novel focuses on the life of Hermann Goring, who embodied the paradox of evil - (Baker & Taylor) |
NEW RELEASE By Lehane, Dennis Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges. |
NEW RELEASE By Lescroart, John T. Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC San Francisco lawyers Dismas Hardy and his associate and only daughter Rebecca find themselves in the middle of a difficult murder case involving a teenage African American foster child. |
NEW RELEASE Art in the blood: a Sherlock Holmes adventure By MacBird, Bonnie Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC 1888. After a disasterous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's father, the Earl of Pellingham and a famous art collector and humanitarian, may, in fact be behind the theft of the priceless Marseilles Nike as well as the disappearance and murder of young boys working in the Earl's silk factory. Before Holmes and Watson can search for Emil, they must work through obstacles laid down by a French rival detective, Mycroft's obstruction, and series of apparently related murders--all events that hinder the detectives' search for the truth. |