Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
April 2019 - June 2019
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 Reed, Robert Publishing Date: ©2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A planet called Marrow has been discovered at the center of the Ship that's "roamed the universe for longer than any of the immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown."--Jacket. |
By Reynolds, Alastair Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band. |
NEW RELEASE By Scalzi, John Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it--unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing is ever that easy. Arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth--or at the very least, an opportunity that can allow them to ascend to power. While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war, a war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business, and the altars of worship as much as it will take place between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, but so are her enemies. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its widening gyre" -- |
By Sherman, Josepha Publishing Date: ©1998 Classification: SF Call Number: SF |
The death and life of Superman: a novel By Stern, Roger Publishing Date: ©1993 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The events leading up to Superman's fatal battle with Doomsday and the strange events after Superman's death. The book was primarily adapted from the story serialized in comic books. |
By Stith, John E. Publishing Date: 1993 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When Manhattan--and everyone on it--is kidnapped into space by some unknown alien force, the humans trapped on the island are faced with a baffling (and terrifying) enigma. A new artificial dawn reveals that the city is encased in a bubble. Is this some sort of cosmic zoo exhibit, part of a scientific experiment? Or perhaps fresh groceries? |
By Tchaikovsky, Adrian Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?" -- |
By Varley, John Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: SF Call Number: SF An unlikely group of seven suburban misfits band together to construct a spaceship built out of old tanker cars that they call Red Thunder, determined to beat the Chinese in a race to become the first humans to set foot on Mars. |
By Varley, John Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--otherwise known as Podkayne--is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That's why she's joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she's going to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to be an entertainer. But she's about to learn that there's plenty of danger to go around in the Martian Navy, even if you've just signed on to sing. |
By Weber, David Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase of the new war, has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet, which must stand between the Star Kingdom and total defeat. |
By Weber, David Publishing Date: [2003] Classification: SF Call Number: SF Drawn into an alien conflict when his ship is taken over and pitted against a dangerous ancient enemy, Colin Macintyre takes on the task of defeating a group of immortals who have been secretly ruling Earth. |
By Weber, David Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When her world is destroyed by planet pirates and her family is slaughtered, former commando leader Alicia DeVries turns pirate herself, steals a cutting-edge ship from the Empire, and launches a campaign to seek revenge on those responsible. |
By Whicker, Julia Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA's space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice. When traveling marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a young girl named Aurora is taken captive as his bride and forced to join his band on their journey to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must decide if she is willing to become her captor's queen. But then other queens emerge, some grotesque and others aggrieved, and not all are pleased with the girl's ascent. Politics and survival are at the centre of this ravishing novel. |
By Williams, Walter Jon Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two orphans steal back their father's spaceship. |
By Williamson, Jack Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Stumbling on ancient stones in the Sahara Desert, four adventurous excavators and poker buddies realize that they have discovered a gateway to other worlds, from technologically advanced planets to primitive civilizations. |
By Wilson, Robert Charles Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is a slacker in a beach community of expatriates, barely supporting his wife and daughter. Then one day he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the appearance of a two-hundred-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. This is no ordinary artifact. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years in the future. Then, not much later, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok - obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, its own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a strange final battle with the future."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Wilson, Robert Charles Publishing Date: 1993 [i.e. 1992] Classification: SF Call Number: SF The Travelers, aliens orbiting the Earth, have offered humanity the chance to live forever, but is it such a good deal? |
By Zubrin, Robert Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Five are chosen for the first mission to Mars; a top-gun Air Force pilot, a tomboy chief engineer, a brilliant scientist, a Texas geologist, and an adventurous historian. In spite of clashing egos and personal friction, the crew of the ship Beagle makes history by becoming the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet."--Jacket. |
Plato, not prozac: applying philosophy to everyday problems By Marinoff, Lou Publishing Date: [1999] Classification: 100 Call Number: 100 MAR Examines how the insights of philosophers from throughout the ages can be used to help people solve their most common everyday problems and improve their lives; explains the author's five-step PEACE program; and includes a list of philosophical practitioners and organizations. |
I'll meet you there: a practical guide to empathy,mindfulness and communication By Shantigarbha Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: 100 Call Number: 152.41 SHA Shantigarbha shows how we connect with each other in the space that opens up when we let go of our ideas of good and bad, right and wrong. When we feel safe and connected to ourselves, we don’t need to use these labels, and we are also connected to the people around us with a sense of compassionate presence, intense closeness, and empathy. To empathize with others, we need to learn how to empathize with ourselves, so that when we reach out, we do so from the inside out. To support this, in each chapter there are practical exercises for individual or group study. Shantigarbha also shows how through this empathy we can find a way to stay connected to our humanity, and contribute to a more peaceful world. - (Perseus Publishing) |