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.
One dog at a time: saving the strays of Afghanistan By Farthing, Pen Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.0832 FAR Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs. |
The shepherd's life: modern dispatches from an ancient landscape By Rebanks, James Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.3009 REB Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much loved illustrated children's books of Beatrix Potter. But James' world is quite different. His way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand. It hasn't changed for hundreds of years: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the grueling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the hills and valleys. |
Not becoming my mother: and other things she taught me along the way By Reichl, Ruth Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5092 REI Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well. |
Express lane meals: what to keep on hand, what to buy fresh for the easiest-ever 30-minute meals By Ray, Rachael Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.555 RAY |
By Beranbaum, Rose Levy Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.815 BER Legendary baker Rose Levy Beranbaum is back with her most extensive "bible" yet. With all-new recipes for the best cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, candies, pastries, breads, and more, this magnum opus draws from Rose's passion and expertise in every category of baking. As is to be expected from the woman who's been called "the most meticulous cook who ever lived," each sumptuous recipe is truly foolproof--with detail-oriented instructions that eliminate guesswork, "plan-aheads," ingenious tips, and highlights for success. |
By Richardson, Julie Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.8653 RIC Cakes are central to the way we celebrate traditions and this guide to those in the "vintage" category will appeal to any baker who appreciates having fool-proof recipes at their fingertips or wants to rekindle a love affair with the classics. |
By Osborne, Cecil G. Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 600 Call Number: 646.78 OSB |
By Kurlansky, Mark Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 600 Call Number: 676.09 KUR Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilizing of regimes. Witness history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Mao zhu xi yu lu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong), or the fact that Leonardo da Vinci left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless"--And amid rampant speculation about the effects of a digitally dependent society-we've come to a world-historic juncture to examine what paper means to civilization. Through tracing paper's evolution, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. 'Paper' will be the history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times. |
NEW RELEASE Portraits of courage: a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors By Bush, George W. Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 700 Call Number: 759.13 BUS A collection of military oil paintings and profiles presents the stories of post-9/11 veterans, their experiences on the battlefield, road to recovery, and continuing contributions as civilians. |
By Jennings, Waylon Publishing Date: c1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 JEN Life story of country music singer Waylon Jennings, relating his impoverished childhood, failed marriages, problems with drugs, and how he found success in music. |
NEW RELEASE The push: a climber's journey of endurance, risk, and going beyond limits By Caldwell, Tommy Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 CAL "This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top of the sport-climbing circuit. Caldwell's affinity for adventure then led him to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of big wall free climbing. But his evolution as a climber was not without challenges; in his early twenties, he was held hostage by militants in a harrowing ordeal in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Soon after, he lost his left index finger in an accident. Later his wife, and main climbing partner, left him. Caldwell emerged from these hardships with a renewed sense of purpose and determination. He set his sights on free climbing El Capitan s biggest, steepest, blankest face -- the Dawn Wall. This epic assault took more than seven years, during which time Caldwell redefined the sport, found love again, and became a father." -- Dust jacket. |
Soldier's heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point By Samet, Elizabeth D. Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 800 Call Number: 810.71 SAM A West Point English professor discusses teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching at a military academy, and what books and movies mean to her students. |
Lives like loaded guns: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds By Gordon, Lyndall Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.4 GOR Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination. |
In the western night: collected poems, 1965-90 By Bidart, Frank Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 BID In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today. Frank Bidart's collections of poetry include Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.- (McMillan Palgrave) |
By Kaur, Rupi Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.6 KAU Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.--Amazon.com. |
Representative American speeches, 2015-2016 Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 800 Call Number: 815.008 |
Reeling through life: how I learned to live, love and die at the movies By Ison, Tara Publishing Date: ℗♭2015 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5403 ISO Looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love. |
By Smith, Stevie Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 800 Call Number: 821.912 SMI This new and updated edition of Stevie Smith's collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five year career. |
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's letters to his mother By Dahl, Roald Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 800 Call Number: 823.914 DAH A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones, travels to Africa, Royal Air Force service, work in Washington D.C., literary achievements, and rise in Hollywood. |
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey By Wilson, Frances Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 800 Call Number: 828.809 WIL "A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"--NoveList. |