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.
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.
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: YA Call Number: YA When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn. |
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis complex By Colfer, Eoin Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex. |
By Collins, Suzanne Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
By Collins, Suzanne Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
By Collins, Suzanne Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
By Dessen, Sarah Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: YA Call Number: YA During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past. |
By Dessen, Sarah Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. |
By Ferris, Jean Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Since his mother's death, a 17-year-old boy has difficulty dealing with his irresponsible older sister and eventually faces a choice of helping her or living his own life. |
By George, Jessica Day Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Society girls from New York City circa 1890, Dacia and Lou never desired to know more about their lineage, instead preferring to gossip about the mysterious Romanian family that they barely knew. But upon turning seventeen, the girls must return to their homeland to meet their relatives, find proper husbands, and most terrifyingly learn the deep family secrets of The Claw, The Wing, and The Smoke. The Florescus, after all, are shape-shifters, and it is time for Dacia and Lou to fulfill the prophecy that demands their acceptance of this fate . . . or fight against this cruel inheritance with all their might. With a gorgeous Romanian setting, stunning Parisian gowns, and dark brooding young men, readers will be swept up by this epic adventure of two girls in a battle for their lives. |
By Haddix, Margaret Peterson Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: YA Call Number: YA Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents. |
Dial L for Loser: a Clique novel By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Just as the Pretty Committee is getting bored with being expelled and Massie begins worrying about losing her spot as the most popular girl, Claire is cast in a Hollywood film, and as Massie and Alicia report live from the set, Kristen and Dylan keep them posted on events in Westchester County. |
P.S., I loathe you: a Clique novel By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Having decided to give up their "boy fast," the Pretty Committee finds itself at odds with the members of the Witty Committee over the new cheerleading squad and crushes on Derrington and Dempsey. |
The Pretty Committee strikes back: a Clique novel By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA While on a seventh-grade school trip, Claire attempts to mend her relationship with Cam while Massie seeks to maintain her high social standing and receive her first kiss. |
By Holder, Nancy Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA |
By Kraus, Daniel Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler,to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother. |
A promising life: coming of age with America : a novel By McCully, Emily Arnold Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: YA Call Number: YA All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St. Louis--but he is troubled by the way Americans mistreat tribes like the Osage, Arikara, and Mandan, and as a man of mixed ancestry, he must ultimately choose which of the two heritages is more important to him. |
By Meyer, Stephenie Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways. |
By Moore, David Barclay Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center. |
By Niven, Jennifer Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: YA Call Number: YA "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another" |
Beastly bones: a Jackaby novel By Ritter, William Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer. |