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 Graham, Heather Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Actress Kelly Trent becomes the victim of an obsessed fan who confuses her with the evil character that she plays on TV, and, after several attempts on her life, she teams up with a sexy former cop to catch a determined killer. |
By Gyasi, Yaa Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"-- |
NEW RELEASE The girl in the red coat: a novel By Hamer, Kate Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Despite being told by the authorities that she might be gone for good, a newly single mom embarks on a harrowing journey to find her daughter, who went missing during a local outdoor festival. |
NEW RELEASE By Hamilton, Jane Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave. Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie's roots. As Frankie is forced to shed her childhood fantasies and face the possibility of losing the idyllic future she had envisioned for her family, she must decide whether loving something means clinging tightly or letting go"-- |
By Hannah, Kristin Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart. |
By Higgins, Aidan Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Langrishe, Go Down traces the fall of the Langrishes - a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family - through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in erotic and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II."--Jacket. |
By Iggulden, Conn Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC 1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father. Richard Duke of York, Protector of the Realm, extends his influence throughout the kingdom with each month that Henry slumbers. The Earls of Salisbury and Warwick make up a formidable trinity with Richard, and together they seek to break the support of those who would raise their colours in the name of Henry and his Queen. But when the King unexpectedly recovers his senses and returns to London to reclaim his throne, the balance of power is once again thrown into turmoil. |
The Friday night knitting club By Jacobs, Kate Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships. |
By James, Kelvin Christopher Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Gossipy, intimate, and provocative, and set in Trinidad and New York City, People and peppers, a romance gives a diverting peek into the nuances of a Caribbean island's callaloo of inter-racial and multicultural social mores"--Back cover. |
By Johansen, Iris Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital at an island search-and-rescue site. When Jude Marrok arrives with his wounded black lab Ned, Devon has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror, destruction, and unstoppable passion. |
By Johansen, Iris Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Rescued from slavery with her sister Thea as a young girl by a mysterious assassin named Kadar, Selene lives at her brother-in-law's Scottish estate, cherishing a smoldering passion for her savior, until a mysterious summons forces Kadar to leave Scotland, with Selene and a young soldier at his side, in a saga of love, war, and immortality set in the twelfth century. |
By Johnson, Denis Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers Denis Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. The insights and careening energy in Jesus' Son have earned the book a place of its own among the classics of twentieth-century American literature. For more than twenty years, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from Manhattan's Flatiron Building. Our Twentieth Anniversary Modern Classics line pairs iconic books with a design that's both small enough to fit in your pocket and unique enough to stand out on your bookshelf. "-- |
By Johnston, Tim Publishing Date: NC 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life? In the weeks and months that follow, hope leads to disillusionment, and each of them--father, mother, son--withdraws into emotional isolation, individually assessing the blame and assuming the responsibility for their collective loss. Haunting and unforgettable, Descent is a novel that will grab the reader's heart and mind, and will linger there long after the last page is turned" -- |
NEW RELEASE By Kaaberbøl, Lene Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her that this case is connected to a surprising and dangerous friendship among three young men from Manila. It's a long way from Viborg to Manila, and yet Nina and her pursuer her face the same dilemma: How far will they go to save themselves?"-- |
By Kane, Andrea Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Seventeen years after the brutal double murder of her parents, Morgan Winter finds her life in turmoil when she discovers that the wrong person was convicted for the crime, and realizes that the true killer has been silently watching her all along. |
By Kane, Andrea Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Traumatized after a life-threatening attack by Gordon Mallory, who died in an accident after assaulting her, radio personality Taylor Halstead receives a threatening e-mail and wonders if she can trust Gordon's twin brother, Jonathan. |
By Kane, Andrea Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank survived a life-threatening injury sustained in the line of duty, only to face leaving a job she loves in order to recuperate. As an independent consultant, she now uses her specialized skills to train law enforcement and private organizations in crisis resolution. But when one of her closest childhood friends mysteriously disappears, and the woman's parents beg for her help, Sloane takes the case--even though her ex-lover Derek Parker is the FBI agent in charge. |
NEW RELEASE By Kerr, Philip Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as "the best crime novels around today.""-- |
NEW RELEASE By Kingsbury, Karen Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of her own. The only problem is Major League Baseball player Marcus Dillinger, the man she never meant to fall in love with. Neither Marcus nor Mary Catherine's other friends--Tyler Ames and Sami Dawson--know just how serious her heart condition is. Still, Marcus is sure in the depths of his soul that something isn't right. Ultimately his correspondence with Mary Catherine leads him on a desperate life-or-death mission to rescue her and get her to a US hospital before time runs out. Meanwhile, Sami and Tyler struggle with issues of their own. In a season when Tyler plans to ask Sami to marry him, the very core of their relationship is in jeopardy. The team of angels walking is busier than ever in this epic battle between life and death. A Brush of Wings is a poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of faith"-- |
By Kohner, Frederick Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presents the coming-of-age story of Franzie, a California girl who learns how to surf from the guys at the beach at Malibu in 1957. - (Baker & Taylor) |