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.
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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 -- |
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