Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2018 - April 2018
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Jenkins, Mark Publishing Date: ℗♭2002 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5 JEN The author shares his adventures of climbing the ice-rimmed Italian ridge of the Matterhorn, sea kayaking along the Turkish coast of Gallipoli, and sneaking across Tibet to reach Buddhism's holiest lake deep in the Himalayas. |
Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises By Garner, Bryan A. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.0663 GAR In this new edition, Garner preserves the successful structure of the original while adjusting the content to make it even more classroom-friendly. He includes case examples from the past decade and addresses the widespread use of legal documents in electronic formats. His book remains the standard guide for producing the jargon-free language that clients demand and courts reward."--Pub. desc. |
William Everson: the life of Brother Antoninus By Bartlett, Lee Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 BAR In the annals of modern American letters, William Everson (1912-1994) holds prime place as a poet of conscience and consciousness of self, his richly textured verse mapping his extraordinary inner journey as social activist, Dominican brother, and preeminent religious and philosophical poet. In "William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus", Lee Bartlett charts the outer journey, drawing on the reminiscences of the poet, his friends, and a wealth of archival material. The life that Bartlett recalls begins in Sacramento, California, in 1912, and continues through to the present: Everson, from 1971, was poet-in-residence at Kresge College, the University of California at Santa Cruz. The years between were for the poet both prolific and hard. Everson the literary figure published thirty-seven books of poetry and five prose collections. He was been a Guggenheim fellow (1949), a Pulitzer Prize nominee (1959), and the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award (1978). Everson the man was a conscientious objector in World War II, for three and a half years confined to a work camp in Waldport, Oregon. He converted to Catholicism and joined the Dominican order in 1951 and, as Brother Antoninus, became one of the foremost Catholic poets of our time. In 1969, Everson dramatically broke his vows to marry the young woman he loved. "This is my habit", he said after a public reading, "and when I take it off, I take off my own skin, but I have to take it off to find my heart". In his poetry after that, during what he came to call his "integral years", Everson sought to express the harmony of the physical and the material. Lee Bartlett documents not only the secular and spiritual travails of a major American poet but projects the "crooked line" of an incarnational imperative in American poetry. Using exhaustive and original research, Bartlett provides us with our first look at the great heir of Emerson, Whitman, and Jeffers. |
The lost detective: becoming Dashiell Hammett By Ward, Nathan Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.52 WAR "A fascinating portrait of the overlooked Dashiell Hammett--from his years as a Pinkerton detective to becoming the author of arguably the most iconic detective novels of the twentieth century"-- |
Finding Abbey: the search for Edward Abbey and his hidden desert grave By Prentiss, Sean Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 PRE When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. |
By Sims, Michael Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 SIM As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called "the most companionable of writers" lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers. In this book the author shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole" by mining the raw ore of his childhood friendship with animals in Mount Vernon, New York, translating his own passions and contradictions, delights and fears, into an all time classic. Blending White's correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker into his own narrative, the author brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, real and imaginery, made him famous around the world. |
How to live--or--a life of Montaigne : in one question and twenty attempts at an answer By Bakewell, Sarah Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 848.3 BAK |
The mighty dead: why Homer matters By Nicolson, Adam Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 800 Call Number: 883.01 NIC Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? |
By Bunte-Mein, Julia Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 900 Call Number: 914.0456 BUN There isn't a hostel in Hungary we haven't tested, a beer in Brussels we haven't imbibed, or a metro line in Madrid we haven't mastered. After going through the ups and downs, we know the ins and outs. |
Hikertrash: life on the Pacific Crest Trail By Miller, Erin Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9 MIL With no jobs, no responsibilities, and little cash, Carl & Erin leave snowy, ultra-conservative North Idaho behind to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. Told through journal entries, this is the story not of great epiphanies and personal growth, but rather the real daily life of long distance "hikertrash" hikers. |
Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 918 |
Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilization By Billows, Richard A Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 938 BIL Traces the decisive military confrontation between Greek and Persian forces that led to an unexpected victory for the Greeks and the establishment of Greek cultural practices that became the basis for much of Western civilization. |
The First World War: Galleries [The First World War retold] By Cornish, Paul Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.3 COR Revisits World War I, drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, including oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles. |
Dark invasion: 1915: Germany's secret war and the hunt for the first terrorist cell in America By Blum, Howard Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.4867 BLU "Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series of "mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J.P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans. But the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth of deception, the more Tunney realizes that the enemy's plan is far more complex and more dangerous than he suspected.Full of drama and intensity, illustrated with eight pages of black and-white photos, Dark Invasion is riveting war thriller that chillingly echoes our own time"-- |
Fire in the night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion By Bierman, John Publishing Date: ℗♭1999 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5423 BIE Chronicles the life of World War II commander Orde Wingate. |
The Shetland bus: a WWII epic of escape, survival, and adventure By Howarth, David Armine Publishing Date: 2001, c 1951 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5459 HOW The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees, all under constant threat from German U-boats and winter storms. |
Hero of the empire: the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill By Millard, Candice Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 900 Call Number: 941.084 MIL "At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape -- but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned. Churchill would later remark that this period, "could I have seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life." Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters -- including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi -- with whom he would later share the world stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect 20th century history."-- |
Albion: the origins of the English imagination By Ackroyd, Peter Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: 900 Call Number: 942 ACK Offers an interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II By Dower, John W Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 900 Call Number: 952.04 DOW Chronicles the events that took place in Japan at the end of World War II and explores the effects they have had on the development and shaping of the Japanese society, from immediately after the war to the present day - (Baker & Taylor) |
First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers By Ung, Loung Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: 900 Call Number: 959.6042 UNG This is the story of Loung Ung, a survivor of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime. |