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 Gregory, Susanna Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M In 1664 London, Thomas Chaloner is told to investigate missing construction materials from the Earl of Clarendon's new house. Soon, though, he finds connections between this trivial theft and assassination threats, treasonous schemes and the corruption of overseas trading syndicates. |
By Gregory, Susanna Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: M Call Number: M Thomas Chaloner, the chief spy for England's Lord Chancellor, the earl of Clarendon, is on uncertain ground because of his past support for Oliver Cromwell. The earl increases the pressure by giving Chaloner a tight deadline to solve a series of poisonings that have claimed the lives of two government clerks. Convinced that another clerk, Greene, is responsible, the earl orders Chaloner to prove Greene's guilt, despite the spy's misgivings. |
NEW RELEASE By Griffiths, Elly Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: M Call Number: M "In the eleventh installment of the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Griffiths, Elly Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: M Call Number: M "In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Hillerman, Anne Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: M Call Number: M Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact -- a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware -- witchcraft is afoot. |
By Kennealy, Jerry Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: M Call Number: M When a serial killer calling himself Thanatos taunts entertainment critic Carroll Quint with a series of e-mails holding clues to his next target, Quint finds that he is the prime suspect, since he is the only person who knows the victims. |
By Krueger, William Kent Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: M Call Number: M When a charter plane carrying Cork O'Connor's wife, Joe, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that his wife is gone forever. But is she?--From publisher's description. |
By McGarrity, Michael Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: M Call Number: M "Retired police chief Kevin Kerney returns--this time as the prime suspect in a brutal cold-case murder. A long-unsolved mystery gets a grim new break when the bones of Kim Ward are unearthed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, forty-five years after her disappearance. Suspicion swiftly falls on her old college boyfriend: none other than retired police chief Kevin Kerney. The chief's hopes of clearing his name look bleak in the face of damning evidence compiled against him by State Police Lieutenant Clayton Istee--Kerney's own son. Left grasping for clues, with no alibi and not a single witness to speak for him, Kerney and his wife must race to reconstruct long-past events to identify the one person who can clear his name and expose the killer before it's too late. As their investigation unfolds, they'll discover that Kim Ward's murder isn't the only crime they'll have to solve before they can put danger behind them"-- |
By North, Suzanne Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: M Call Number: M Phoebe Fairfax films the launch of a TV special on Dr. Graham Maxwell, a paleoanthropologist who announces that he has fossil evidence of a new hominid species who appreciated and played music. When Phoebe returns to the studio the next morning to collect her equipment, she finds Maxwell's dead body and discovers that someone has stolen the fossils. Canadian setting. |
A beautiful place to die: a novel By Nunn, Malla Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: M Call Number: M Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius. |
NEW RELEASE By Paretsky, Sara Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: M Call Number: M "Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout--her most widely read novel in years--with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East. In Shell Game, nothing and no one are what they seem, except for the detective herself, who loses sleep, money, and blood, but remains indomitable in her quest for justice"-- |
By Alten, Steve Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A deep-sea diver finds himself the sole survivor of an attack by a 20-ton Megalodon, the prehistoric mother of the Great White shark. Written off as a crackpot, he spends years studying the subject. But it takes a friend in need and a hotshot female sub driver to dare him back into the depths. |
By Anderson, Kevin J. Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files" - cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable - Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI ... and beyond. Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery. Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound. In theory this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality. It was also the only way Dr. Kennessy could save his leukemia-stricken son. But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every step by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government - even perhaps of their own agency - at their command. Enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls in the right hands - their hands."--Jacket. |
By Bacigalupi, Paolo Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: SF Call Number: SF "A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire--unless the people find a way to resist"-- |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey-- and the competition for survival can kill human compassion. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A race of microscopic beings, who were genetically engineered to survive on the turbulent mantle of a neutron star and who vividly remember their superbeing creators, prepare for the biggest family reunion in history. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: [2001] Classification: SF Call Number: SF This thrilling sequel to "Manifold" finds Reid Malenfant, fueled by curiosity, venturing to the far edge of the solar system. There, he discovers a strange alien artifact; a gateway allowing instantaneous travel through interstellar space. What lies beyond the other side of the gateway will push Malenfant beyond terror, sanity, and humanity itself. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In 2010, more than a century of ecological damage, industrial technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, Reid Malenfant's solution to the problems plaguing the planet is the exploration and colonization of space. |
By Bear, Greg Publishing Date: 1985 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Ordered to destroy all products of unauthorized experimentation involving mammal genes, a researcher injects the altered cells into his own body. |
By Bishop, Michael Publishing Date: c1988 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The appearance of unicorns on a Colorado cattle ranch joins a dying man, the ranch owner, and a Ute man and his daughter in a test of courage and humanity - (Baker & Taylor) |