Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2016 - October 2016
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.
By Stinson, Kathy Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: E Call Number: E It seems like a normal day until Dylan hears the man playing violin in the metro station. But can he get his mom to stop and listen? |
By Verde, Susan Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: E Call Number: E "The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village"-- Provided by publisher. |
By Watts, Jeri Hanel Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: E Call Number: E A child-friendly story about the trials and triumphs of starting over in a new place while keeping family and traditions close. |
By Anderson, Jodi Lynn Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Girls started vanishing in the fall. For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam. What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenaged girls, and the town reels from the tragedy. As Maggie's and Pauline's worlds collide and change around them, they will both experience love and loss. And by the end of the book, only one of them will survive. |
By Keyes, Daniel Publishing Date: [1995], c1966 Classification: YA Call Number: YA After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life. |
By Quintero, Isabel Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: YA Call Number: YA Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity. |
By Rosoff, Meg Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: YA Call Number: YA Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing. |
By Schmidt, Gary D. Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: YA Call Number: YA "Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"-- |
By Sepetys, Ruta Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: YA Call Number: YA "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"-- |
By Shusterman, Neal Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: YA Call Number: YA "A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"-- |
By Smith, Andrew Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: YA Call Number: YA The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow. |
By Smith, Andrew Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates. |
By Walter, Jon Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother. |
By Woodson, Jacqueline Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: YA Call Number: YA "A young girl uses crystal meth to escape the pain of losing her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina, and then struggles to get over her addiction"-- |
Bioluminescence: nature and science at work By Zimmer, Marc Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J 572.4358 ZIM Offers information on bioluminescence, a unique adaptation found in the animal kingdom, and scientific and medical uses of the green fluorescent protein genes that make it possible, including tracking body processes and the progress of disease. --Publisher. |
Hilo: Saving the whole wide world By Winick, Judd Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J 741.5973 Hilo and his friends must save the world from monsters from another dimension. |
Miss Mary reporting: the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber By Macy, Sue Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J070.4 MAC Details the life and accomplishments of Mary Garber, the first woman to win the APSE award and inducted into the Hall of Fame of National Sportcasters and Sportswriters Association. |
Ten days a madwoman: the daring life and turbulent times of the original "girl" reporter, Nellie Bly By Noyes, Deborah Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: JNF Call Number: J070.92 NOY "A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"-- |
Mercy: the incredible story of Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA and friend to animals By Furstinger, Nancy Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J179.3 FUR Presents the life of the animal activist, describing his work in nineteenth-century New York to bring attention to the cruel treatment of animals, the initial opposition that he faced from the public, and his founding of the ASPCA in 1866. |
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka By Wilson, Sharon J. Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JNF Call Number: J344.73 WIL "This title will inform readers about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, segregation in public schools, those involved in the case, and the law applied after the ruling--the fourteenth amendment."--Publisher's website. |