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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The crypt thief: a Hugo Marston novel By Pryor, Mark Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: M A twisted grave robber and a killer. The second Hugo Marston mystery begins when two tourists are murdered in the famous Pre Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The killer leaves the bodies untouched but moves deeper into the cemetery, where he breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears into the night with part of her skeleton. |
Sun, stone, and shadows: 20 great Mexican short stories Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS |
The Norton book of American short stories Publishing Date: c1988 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS "...American short stories...tend to be conveyed through a tone of voice that the author invents for that particular story alone -- a first-person narration that reminds us of the oral tradition that lies behind all stories. This anthology recognizes that uniquely American trait in short fiction and preserves it in a collection that should delight readers for many years to come." |
By Williams, Joy Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O.J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists. |
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