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 Wolff, Isabel Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Therese Bell, an elderly Frenchwoman, has an impressive clothing collection. But among the array of smart suits and couture gowns, London dressmaker Phoebe finds a child's sky-blue coat--an item with which Bell is stubbornly reluctant to part. As the two women become friends, Phoebe will learn the tale of that little blue coat. And she will discover an astonishing connection between herself and Therese Bell--one that will help her heal the pain of her own past and allow her to love again. |
By Yoerg, Sonja Ingrid Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family. For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They're also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it's up to Geneva to give her the care she needs. Since her teens, Geneva has kept her self-destructive mother at arm's length. Now, with two slippery teenagers of her own at home, the last thing she wants is to add Helen to the mix. But Geneva's husband convinces her that letting Helen live with them could be her golden chance to repair their relationship. Geneva isn't expecting her mother to change anytime soon, but she may finally get answers to the questions she's been asking for so long. As the truth about her family unfolds, however, Geneva may find secrets too painful to bear and too terrible to forgive. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED"-- |
Someone to watch over me: a thriller By Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?" -- |
Dead man's hand: crime fiction at the poker table Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS An assortment of short stories set at the poker table features tales of murder, crime, and mystery, including Walter Mosley's "Mister In-Between," "One Dollar Jackpot" by Michael Connelly, and Laura Lippman's "Hardly Knew Her." - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Bergman, Megan Mayhew Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity--she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first all-female, integrated swing band. We see Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra; Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly; "West With the Night" author Beryl Markham; Edna St. Vincent Millay's sister, Norma. These extraordinary stories travel the world, explore the past (and delve into the future), and portray fiercely independent women defined by their acts of bravery, creative impulses, and sometimes reckless decisions. |
What we talk about when we talk about love: stories By Carver, Raymond Publishing Date: 1989 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Stories feature men and women without education, insight, or prospects, who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up. |
By Guterson, David Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human drive to connect with others. |
By Munro, Alice Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Twenty-eight stories set in farms and small towns around Lake Huron. They include Dance of the Happy Shades, on a retired piano teacher, and Walker Brothers Cowboy, on two children making calls with their salesman father during the 1930s depression. |
Something rich and strange: selected stories By Rash, Ron Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: FIC Call Number: SS No one captures the complexities of Appalachia as evocatively as Rash. This collection of short stories demonstrate his ability to evoke the heart and soul of this land and its people. |
Last stories and other stories By Vollmann, William T. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS "William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer's dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death -- |
The mammoth book of great detective stories Publishing Date: c2001 Classification: M Call Number: M Book one: The inoffensive captain / E.C. Bentley -- The scapegoat / Christianna Brand -- The mystery of the child's toy / Leslie Charteris -- The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers -- The Moabite cipher / R. Austin Freeman -- The little old man of Batignolles / Emile Gaboriau -- The scarlet butterfly / Dulcie Gray -- Out of paradise / E.W. Hornung -- The cave of Ali Baba / Dorothy Sayers -- Book two: Superintendent Wilson's holiday / Margaret Cole -- The treasure hunt / Edgar Wallace -- Sing a song of sixpence / Agatha Christie -- Inspector Ghote and the miracle baby / H.R.F. Keating -- The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins -- We know you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin -- Murder! / Arnold Bennett -- The eye of Apollo / G.K. Chesterton -- A matter of goblins / Michael Innes -- The woman in the big hat / Baroness Orczy -- Book three: Goldfish / Raymond Chandler -- The girl with the red-gold hair / June Thomson -- Mr. Bovey's unexpected will / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace -- The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The alibi / J.C. Squire -- The evidence of the altar-boy / Georges Simenon -- The judge corroborates / J.S. Fletcher -- Book four: The case of the Parr children / Antonia Fraser -- The Hanover Court murder / Sir Basil Thomson -- B as in bludgeon / Lawrence Treat -- The victim / P.D. James -- To protect the innocent / Elwyn Jones -- The man who grassed / John Wainwright -- The King of the gigolos / Hulbert Footner -- Lot's wife / F. Tennyson Jesse -- The black cats vanished / Ellery Queen. |
Jane and the Waterloo map: being a Jane Austen mystery By Barron, Stephanie Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: M Call Number: M "November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraordinaire, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to tour Carlton House, the Prince's fabulous London home. Clarke is a fan of Jane's books, and during the tour he suggests she dedicate her next novel Emma to HRH, whom she despises. However, before she can speak to HRH, Jane stumbles upon a body sprawled on the carpet in (where else?) the Regent's library. The dying man, Colonel MacFarland, was a cavalry hero and a friend of Wellington's. He utters a single failing phrase: "Waterloo map" and Jane is on the hunt for a treasure of incalculable value and a killer of considerable cunning"-- |
A woman unknown: a Kate Shackleton Mystery By Brody, Frances Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: M Call Number: M "A winning combination of both intricate plotting and nostalgic post-WWI English country setting, A Woman Unknown will appeal to fans of both classic murder mysteries in the vein of Agatha Christie as well as readers of historical mystery series set in 1920s England, two popular subgenres. The Woman Unknown: Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother and calls on the expertise of Kate Shackleton, amateur sleuth extraordinaire to investigate. The Gentleman: Everett Runcie is a banker facing ruin and disgrace. His American heiress wife will no longer pay for his mistakes, or tolerate his infidelity, and is seeking a divorce. The Murder: When a chambermaid enters Runcie's hotel room, she is shocked to find that he is alone and dead! Suddenly Kate is thrown into the depths of an altogether more sinister investigation. Can she uncover the truth of her most complex, and personal, case to date?"-- |
NEW RELEASE Devonshire scream: a tea shop mystery By Childs, Laura Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: M Call Number: M "The New York Times bestselling author of Ming Tea Murder serves up heists, homicides, and herbal blends in the latest in the Tea Shop mysteries. Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's best blends. But just as Theo settles in to enjoy the fruits of her labor, the party is crashed by a gang of masked muggers who steal the precious gems and jewels on display. The thieves disappear almost as quickly as they arrived, leaving shattered glass, scattered gemstones, and a dead body in their wake. Although the last thing Theo wants is to get involved, she can't help but intercede when her dear friend Brooke, aunt of the victim and owner of Heart's Desire, begs for help in figuring out who committed the brutal burglary. Though the FBI believes this daring "smash and grab" is the work of an international gang of jewel thieves, Theo is convinced that the felon is someone much closer to home ... INCLUDES RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!"-- |
By Cleeves, Ann Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: M Call Number: M "The shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence as Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady? Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities. Soon Vera and Joe are on their way to where Margaret lived to begin their inquiry.Then, just days later, a second woman is murdered. Vera finds herself searching deep into the hidden past led by clues that keep revolving around one street.Why are the residents of Harbour Street so reluctant to speak?"-- |
By Cleeves, Ann Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. But her path leads her to more than a missing friend. It's an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writers' House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work through their novels. It gets complicated when a body is discovered and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else. She's too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting and she's never been one to follow the rules. Working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth, she starts the hunt for a murderer who is artistic as well as deadly. There seems to be no motive. No meaning to the crime. Then another body is found, and Vera suspects that someone is playing games with her. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real. |
By Crofts, Freeman Wills Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: M Call Number: M Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been committed? |
NEW RELEASE By Estleman, Loren D. Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: M Call Number: M "Valentino, a mild-manner film archivist at UCLA and sometime film detective, is at the closing party for the Red Montana and Dixie Day museum when he is approached by no less than his hero and man-of-the-hour Red Montana, western film and television star. Red tells Valentino that he is being blackmailed over the existence of a blue film that his wife, now known throughout the world as the wholesome Dixie Day and the other half of the Montana/Day power couple, made early in her career. With Dixie on her deathbed, Red is desperate to save her the embarrassment of the promised scandal, and offers Valentino a deal-find the movie, and he can have Red's lost film, Sixgun Sonata, that Red has been hiding away in his archives. Don't accept, and the priceless reel will go up in flames. Feeling blackmailed himself, Valentino agrees and begins to dig. In the surreal world of Hollywood, what is on screen is rarely reality. As he races to uncover the truth before time runs out, his heroes begin their fall from grace. Valentino desperately wants to save Sixgun Sonata...but at what cost?"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Flanders, Judith Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: M Call Number: M "Summer in London-the sun is finally shining, the flowers are in bloom, and life is humming merrily along for book editor Samantha Clair, off to lunch with her old friend, art-dealer Aidan Merriam. Humming merrily until she learns that his partner has just been found dead in their gallery, slumped over his desk with a gun in his hand. Could anything be worse? Oh yes, the police investigation is being led by Inspector Jake Field, who just happens to be Sam's new boyfriend. And Aidan, who just happens to be Sam's ex-boyfriend, wants Sam's help. Finding herself drawn into another investigation, Sam does the only sensible thing and calls her mother. Before long, Sam finds her loyalties stretched to the limit as she herself is threatened. Armed with nothing more than her trusty weapons of satire, cynicism and a stock of irrelevant information culled from novels, Sam races to find a killer who is determined to find her first in the newest fast-paced, uproarious novel in the critically acclaimed series from New York Times bestselling author Judith Flanders"-- |
Death by cashmere: a seaside knitters mystery By Goldenbaum, Sally Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: M Call Number: M When an official investigation rules the death of a Sea Harbor woman an accident, Izzy and the Seaside Knitters smell something fishy and decide to take matters into their own hands. |