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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Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives By Denby, David Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 800 Call Number: 807.1273 DEN "It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to our standing as a great nation--and a personal loss, too, for millions of teenagers who may turn into adults with limited understanding of themselves and the world. Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester County. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves, including The Scarlet Letter, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Notes From Underground, Long Way Gone and many more. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. In a sea of bad news about education and the fate of the book, Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great books"-- |
Doing it for money: the agony and ecstasy of writing and surviving in Hollywood Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.23 |
A book of luminous things: an international anthology of poetry Publishing Date: 1998, c1996 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.81 A collection of the world's greatest poetry from the past two thousand years brings together five hundred works by more than two hundred poets, along with commentary by the editor. |
Risking everything: 110 poems of love and revelation Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.81 Offers a collection of poems by world poets including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rumi, and Chuang Tzu. - (Baker & Taylor) |
The shooting of Dan McGrew and other poems By Service, Robert W. Publishing Date: 1993 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 SER |
By Balakian, Peter Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 BAL "A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 2009. The speaker "dreams back," as it were, to the 1980s, when, as a young man in his thirties and caring for a young daughter after a recent divorce, he is having to juggle both personal and cultural/historical complexities living as a single parent in Manhattan. The poems create a montage that has the feel of history as lived experience, with the speaker struggling with the nature of memory as the poems move constantly back and forth to the Syrian desert, the dissolution of his marriage, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of AIDS, and encounters with famous jazz producers at Columbia Records to discuss music. In this book, Peter Balakian aims at the bigger picture of humanity's history of atrocity and trauma, but through short vignettes grounded in everyday situations, and in particular times and places"--Publisher's info. |
Dogfight: the 2012 presidential campaign in verse By Trillin, Calvin Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 TRI In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign.-- |
By Ensler, Eve Publishing Date: c2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 812.54 ENS A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The vagina monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again. |
Politically correct holiday stories: for an enlightened yuletide season By Garner, James Finn Publishing Date: [1995] Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 GAR Retells traditional holiday tales from a politically correct point of view, eliminating gender and social biases. |
By McCaig, Donald Publishing Date: c1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 MCC A National Public Radio commentator on rural life in America comments on his own lifestyle and the nature of rural democracy as he describes the experiences he and his wife have had since they bought an unworked farm in western Virginia. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Rankine, Claudia Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.6 RAN "Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society"--From publisher's description. |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a biography By Davis, Cynthia J. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.409 DAV "Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The Yellow Wallpaper." She was hailed as the "brains" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential sociological work criticized the competitive individualism of capitalists and Social Darwinists, and touted altruistic service as the prerequisite to both social progress and human evolution." "By 1900, Gilman had become an international celebrity, but had already faced a scandal over her divorce and "abandonment" of her child. As the years passed, her audience shrunk and grew more hostile, and she increasingly positioned herself in opposition to the society that in an earlier, more idealistic period she had seen as the better part of the self. In her final years, she unflinchingly faced breast cancer, her second husband's sudden death, and finally, her own carefully planned suicide - she "preferred chloroform to cancer" and cared little for a single life when its usefulness was over." "Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents new insights into the life of a remarkable woman whose public solutions often belied her private anxieties. It aims to recapture the drama and complexity of Gilman's life while presenting a comprehensive scholarly portrait." --Book Jacket. |
The Keats brothers: the life of John and George By Gigante, Denise Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 821.7 GIG John and George Keats--Man of Genius and Man of Power--embodied sibling forms of Romanticism. George's emigration to the U.S. frontier created an abysm of loneliness and alienation in John that would inspire his most plangent and sublime poetry. Gigante's account places John's life in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers. |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead By Stoppard, Tom Publishing Date: c1967 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822.914 STO "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. |
Telling times: writing and living, 1954-2008 By Gordimer, Nadine Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 828.914 GOR A comprehensive collection of the author's nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. |
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