Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
July 2017 - August 2017
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.
NEW RELEASE Big agenda: President Trump's plan to save America By Horowitz, David Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.933 HOR Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America -- and the world. Conservative commentator Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats' march to extinguish the values conservatives hold dear. He details President Trump's likely moves, and explores the opportunities he will have to reshape the American political landscape while securing the nation's vital security interests abroad.-- |
NEW RELEASE Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI By Grann, David Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 900 Call Number: 976.6004 GRA Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. |
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the making of America By McDonnell, Michael A. Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 977.401 MCD "A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view, centered on the Odawa tribe of Northern Michigan"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Lockwood, Patricia Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 900 Call Number: B LOCKWOOD Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972." His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence, from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group, with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition. |
The World Book Encyclopedia 2016 Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: R Call Number: R031 |
NEW RELEASE The World Book Encyclopedia 2017 Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: R Call Number: R031 |
Famous first facts: a record of first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: R Call Number: R031.02 For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developments and discoveries, and newly organized for better access to information. - Amazon. |
Current biography yearbook 2016 Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: R Call Number: R920 |
By Applegate, Katherine Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant just added to the mall, he decides he must find her a better life. |
NEW RELEASE By Arnold, Elana K. Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises -- some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he's got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet. |
By Bosch, Pseudonymous Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Cass's mom is kidnapped by sinister, blind chocolatier Se©łor Hugo. The ransom? the legendary Tuning Fork. |
By Bosch, Pseudonymous Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest desperately searching for a way to awaken her. |
By Bradbury, Ray Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween. |
By Bruchac, Joseph Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah s new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy, or worse practicing witchcraft. What they don t know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language. |
NEW RELEASE By Cheng, Jack Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"-- |
NEW RELEASE Hazy Bloom and the tomorrow power By Hamburg, Jennifer Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When third-grader Hazel "Hazy" Bloom begins having visions of trouble that will come within twenty-four hours, she finds that this mysterious power provides her the ability to make things worse. |
By Harrington, Janice N. Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J After moving from Alabama to Illinois, the talkative Keet finds it hard to make friends and stops talking, and no longer feeling like herself, sets out to find her voice. |
By Holm, Jennifer L. Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Grown-ups lie. That s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means locals ) in all of Key West. Not that Beans really minds; it s 1934, the middle of the Great Depression. With no jobs on the island, and no money anywhere, who can really blame the grown-ups for telling a few tales? Besides, Beans isn t anyone s fool. In fact, he has plans. Big plans. And the consequences might surprise even Beans himself. |
NEW RELEASE By Kelly, Erin Entrada Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him. |
By Lagercrantz, Rose Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Dani's been trying her best to stay happy ever since her best friend Ella moved away. But when some girls in Dani's class start being cruel to her, it starts a chain of rather unhappy events... It would all be okay if only Ella would move back. |