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 Drake, David Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In the wake of the peace accord between the Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance, former warriors Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy make a living escorting wealthy nobles on an expedition to a remote section of the universe and find themselves taking on winged dragon. . |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: c2004 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In a distant part of the galaxy where immense danger threatens, desperate pirates travel to the outer limits of space, doing trade with the star colonies and encountering rivals, aliens, and strange human hybrids, in an omnibus edition that contains the trilogy Igniting the Reaches, Through the Breach, and Fireships. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Violence racks Cinnabar. The fleets of the tyrannical Alliance are on the move, and at home class riots threaten to rip apart not only society but the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but the needs of the Republic and the RCN require that he serve under an officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute crewmen out of hand. Signals Officer Adele Mundy has repeatedly proved her skills and loyalty as Cinnabar's most accomplished intelligence agent, but now elements within the Republic want to draw her into a conspiracy like the one that led to her parent's massacre. Leary and Mundy battle their way from riot-torn streets to spies in an outlying base and an anarchic planet where violence is the only law, but if they succeed at every stage, one test still remains: a space battle against an overwhelming Alliance force. Even for Daniel Leary it will be a difficult fight to win-and almost impossible to survive. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance, but they'll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians leading them. |
By Drake, Jocelynn Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Vampire Mira, who has mastery over fire, goes up against a human vampire hunter, Danaus, that continues through the first two volumes of the Dark Days series. |
By Flint, Eric Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Searching for the truth behind an oddly shaped fossil discovered in the Arizona desert that could hold the key to the great extinction at the KT boundary, Dr. Helen Sutter never realized that her quest would take her all the way to the planet Mars. |
By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A new adventure--the first in hardcover--in the best-selling series finds Flinx and his faithful mini-dragon Pip on a jungle planet, where they discover the human descendants of a lost colony ship. - (Baker & Taylor) |
The founding of the Commonwealth: Phylogenesis, Dirge, Diuturnity's dawn By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF All 3 books in the Humanx Commonwealth trilogy -- Phylogenesis, Dirge, and Diuturnity's Dawn -- in one volume. |
By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully. |
The howling stones: a novel of the commonwealth By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Continues the saga of the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and insectoid Thranx aliens. |
By Gardner, James Alan Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In the fourth volume of the League of Peoples series, Alexander York is one of the High Council's most iron-fisted admirals. When his children, Samantha and Edward, were born, he paid top dollar to have their DNA altered to insure they grew up perfect physical and mental specimens. But when Edward ended up with a faulty brain, his father sentenced him to join the Expendables, a band of misfits and the deformed mandated to explore the most dangerous parts of the galaxy. Accompanying his sister on a mission to Troyen, an anguished planet and home to the Mandasar, Edward finds himself in the middle of a civil war and is ultimately exiled. As violence escalates, Edward struggles to navigate a treacherous path with the assistance of none other than Festina Ramos--the greatest Explorer of all. |
By Gardner, James Alan Publishing Date: ©1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her fahter's hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him. Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet ... and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak. For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build--or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye's own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos--explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable. |
By Haldeman, Joe W. Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel--destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using nineteenth-century technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them. |
By Haldeman, Joe W. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first.--From publisher description. |
By Hamilton, Peter F. Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When his platoon is sent to a distant planet to stop a rebellion, Lawrence, determined to escape the constraints of the military, decides to steal their legendary gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. |
By Heinlein, Robert A. Publishing Date: 1963 Classification: SF Call Number: SF While accompanying their uncle, a wily politician, on a trip from Mars to Earth, Podkayne and her brilliant but pesky younger brother are caught up in a plot to keep Uncle Tom from an important conference. |
By Heinlein, Robert A. Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein. |
By Hickam, Homer H. Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A cosmic romp in which Jack Medaris, a former astronaut who is a widower, saves the female crew of a NASA spaceship from an attack by chauvinist astronauts. The ladies take him to the moon, he finds romance and brings back a rare helium element which will help his business. |
The book of fours: a historie of the four Slayers, this being their first adventure By Holder, Nancy Publishing Date: ©2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Catastrophic events happening in Sunnydale seem to have a connection with Buffy's nightmares and Faith thinks she knows where they originated. |
By McAuley, Paul J. Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Confluence is a man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micromachines and then thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is also the home of Yama, who was found as an infant floating down the river and raised by the prelate of Aeolis. Yama is the last remaining scion of The Builders, and now, awed and fearful of his growing abilities to awaken the artifacts of an earlier age, he must search for his identity and history. |