Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
July 2019 - October 2019
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Russell, James Publishing Date: [2000] Classification: 700 Call Number: 799.3132 RUS |
By Harjo, Joy Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 HAR A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice. |
By Oliver, Mary Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 OLI In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments. |
By Valdez, Luis Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 812.54 VAL Collection of three of Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays. The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Zoot suit: A gritty and vivid depiction of the horrifying violence and racism suffered by young Mexican Americans on the home front during World War II, focusing on the events surrounding the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 1942 and the ensuing Zoot Suit Riots that turned Los Angeles into a bloody war zone. Valdez's cadre of young urban characters struggle with the stereotypes and generalizations of America's dominant culture, the questions of assimilation and patriotism, and a desire to rebel against the mainstream pressures that threaten to wipe them out. Bandido!:An exploration and expurgation of old clichés about the early California bandits, specifically Tiburcio Vásquez, the last man to be publicly hanged in California. I don't have to show you no stinking badges!: A middle-aged Chicano couple make their living as "King and Queen of the Hollywood Extras," playing non-speaking roles as maids, gardeners and the like. The couple have been very successful, and have achieved the American Dream-- owning a home and swimming pool, and putting their daughter through medical school and their son into Harvard. The major conflict arises when Sonny, alienated from the Ivy League reality, comes home from Harvard unexpectedly and announces that he has dropped-out. To make matters worse, he decides he will become a Hollywood actor. Will Sonny be fated to play sterotypical bit parts like his parents? |
NEW RELEASE By Lopez, Barry Holstun Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 LOP Recounts the author's travels to six regions of the world and the extraordinary encounters with people, animals, and natural elements that shaped his life. |
Representative American speeches, 2017-2018 Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: 800 Call Number: 815.608 To the graduating class. Living by an honor code / Mike Bloomberg -- Editorial gatekeepers / Oprah Winfrey -- Remarks to the Class of 2018 Brandeis University International Business School / Kaushik Basu -- Address to the Liberty University Class of 2018 / Jimmy Carter -- It's not just about technology : it's about people / Sheryl Sandberg -- Remarks to the Pomona College Class of 2018 / Danielle Allen -- Commencement address to the US Naval Academy Class of 2018 / Donald Trump -- Politics and policies. State of the Union address, 2018 / Donald Trump -- Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly / Donald Trump -- Immigration enforcement actions of the Trump administration / Jeff Sessions -- Midterm campaign speech / Donald Trump -- The Be Best program / Melania Trump -- Joint press conference at the Helsinki Summit / Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin -- Proposal for the United States Space Force / Mike Pence -- Political responses to the establishment. Response to Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union address / Bernie Sanders -- The state of American democracy / Barack Obama -- Remarks on corruption in Washington / Elizabeth Warren -- Propaganda and the political manipulation of the media / Jeff Flake -- Outsiders and activists. We call BS / Emma Gonzalez -- At the 2018 Women's March / Viola Davis -- Identity, gender, and politics / Oprah Winfrey -- Separating children from their parents / Leah Cayasso -- Comments on the NFL anthem protests / Beto O'Rourke -- Ambassador of conscience speech / Colin Kaepernick -- Standing up and speaking out / Ximena Cid. |
Robert Young Pelton's the world's most dangerous places By Pelton, Robert Young Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.202 PEL "This cult classic adventure book is "everything you didn't want to know about drugs, guns, crime, war, accidents, and uprisings" in the world's most perilous places. Photos and maps."--Jacket. |
The adventurist: my life in dangerous places By Pelton, Robert Young Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.92 PEL The author, television personality, and adventurer recalls his travels over four decades and six continents, offering portraits of memorable people, descriptions of exotic locales, and memories of pivotal events. |
Old lady on the trail: triple crown at 76 By Davison, Mary E. Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.4 DAV Mary Davison began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2003 and the Appalachian Trail in 2004. She completed hiking both these trails in 2012. She started hiking the Continental Divide in 2012 and finished hiking it in 2017. This is her story of hiking all three Trails. |
The deluge: the Great War, America and the remaking of the global order, 1916-1931 By Tooze, J. Adam Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.31 TOO "A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America's centrality--including the slide into fascism--The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I"-- |
By Hornfischer, James D. Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.545 HOR Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway. |
Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe By Corera, Gordon Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5486 COR The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a spy operation code-named Columba. Returning to MI14, the secret government branch in charge of the "Special Pigeon Service," the birds carried messages that offered a glimpse of life under the Germans in rural France, Holland, and Belgium. Written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the birds legs, these messages were sometimes comic, often tragic, and occasionally invaluable, reporting details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar systems, and even the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets used to terrorize London. The people who sent these messages were not trained spies. They were ordinary men and women willing to risk their lives in the name of freedom, including the "Leopold Vindictive" network, a small group of Belgian villagers led by an extraordinary priest named Joseph Raskin. The intelligence Raskin sent back by pigeon proved so valuable that it reached Churchill and MI6 parachuted agents behind enemy lines to assist him. Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Operation Columba and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. A powerful tale of wartime espionage, bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage, astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky, quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission, Operation Columba opens a fascinating new chapter in the annals of World War II. It is ultimately, the story of how, in one of the darkest and most dangerous times in history, under threat of death, people bravely chose to resist. |
Imperial twilight: the opium war and the end of China's last golden age By Platt, Stephen R. Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: 900 Call Number: 951.033 PLA Describes how nineteenth-century British efforts to open China to trade set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty and started a war that allowed for the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century. |
NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 900 Call Number: 951.9 "For the United States and allied nations, North Korea has long been a source of controversy and concern. In the spring and summer of 2018, North Korea again entered the public debate when news reports indicated that the nation had developed offensive nuclear capabilities and was rapidly approaching a state in which it could attack the United States directly. For decades, the United States and allies have attempted to prevent the escalation of North Korea's military, utilizing negotiation, economic sanctions, and even threats of military force, but to little avail. To better understand the North Korean controversy, it is useful to look at the history and bifurcated cultures of the Korean Peninsula, from the kingdoms that united the peninsula to the struggle for global ideological dominance that ultimately tore the nation into warring halves. From the economic importance of South Korea's bustling urban economies, to the constant threat of North Korea's fundamentalist conservatism, to the lives of transplanted Koreans in the United States and elsewhere, Korea's long and storied culture has left a deep impact on the world."--Preface. |
NEW RELEASE Places and names: on war, revolution, and returning By Ackerman, Elliot Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 900 Call Number: 956.7044 ACK "From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Toward the beginning of [this book], Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special operations officer. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary quickly joins him in the game of filling in the map with the names and dates of where they saw fighting during the war. They had shadowed each other for some time, it turned out, a realization that brought them to a strange kind of intimacy. The rest of Elliot Ackerman's extraordinary memoir is in a way an answer to the questions of why he came to that refugee camp, and what he hoped to find there. By moving back and forth between his recent experiences on the ground as a journalist in Syria and its environs and his deeper past in Iraq and Afghanistan, he creates a work of astonishing atmospheric pressurization. Ackerman shares vivid and powerful stories of his own experiences in combat, culminating in the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah--the most intense urban fighting for the Marines since Hue in Vietnam--where Ackerman's actions leading a rifle platoon saw him awarded the Silver Star. He weaves these stories into the latticework of a masterful larger reckoning with contemporary geopolitics through his vantage as a journalist in Istanbul and with the human extremes of both bravery and horror. At once an intensely personal book about the terrible lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the deeper meaning of the past two decades of strife for America, the region and the world, Places and Names bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern war."--Dust jacket. |
NEW RELEASE By Gilio-Whitaker, Dina Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 900 Call Number: 970.004 GIL "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship"-- |
By Postel, Charles Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.8 POS The Populist Vision is about how Americans responded to wrenching changes in the national and global economy. In the late nineteenth century, the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. The new technologies also made possible large-scale bureaucratic organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fortunes. Those on the short end of these changes responded in the Populist revolt, one of the most effective challenges to corporate power in American history. But what did Populism represent? Half a century ago, scholars such as Richard Hofstadter portrayed the Populist movement as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to the challenges of modernity. Since then, historians have largely restored Populism's good name. But in so doing, they have sustained a romantic notion of Populism as the resistance movement of tradition-based and pre-modern communities to a modern and commercial society, or even a counterforce to the Enlightenment ideals of innovation and progress. Postel's work marks a departure. He argues that the Populists understood themselves as, and were in fact, modern people. Farmer Populists strove to use the new innovations for their own ends. They sought scientific and technical knowledge, formed highly centralized organizations, launched large-scale cooperative businesses, and pressed for state-centered reforms on the model of the nation's most elaborate bureaucracy--the Postal Service. Hundreds of thousands of Populist farm women sought education, employment in schools and offices, and a more modern life. Miners, railroad workers, and other labor Populists joined with farmers to give impetus to the regulatory state. Activists from Chicago, San Francisco, and other urban centers lent the movement an especially modern tone. Modernity was also menacing, as the ethos of racial progress influenced white Populists in their pursuit of racial segregation and Chinese exclusion. The Populist Vision offers a broad reassessment. Working extensively with primary sources, it looks at Populism as a national movement, taking into account both the leaders and the led. It focuses on farmers but also wage-earners and bohemian urbanites. It examines topics from technology, business, and women's rights, to government, race, and religion. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, business and political leaders are claiming that critics of their new structures of corporate control represent anti-modern attitudes towards the new realities of globalization. The Populist experience puts into question such claims about who is modern and who is not. And it suggests that modern society is not a given but is shaped by men and women who pursue alternative visions of what the modern world should be. |
Acheson: the Secretary of State who created the American world By Chace, James Publishing Date: [1998] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.91 CHA "Acheson is the first complete biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. More than any other of the renowned "Wise Men" who together proposed our vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dean Acheson was the quintessential man of action."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on Acheson family diaries and letters as well as recent revelations from Russian and Chinese archives, historian James Chace traces Acheson's remarkable life, from his days as a schoolboy at Groton and his carefree life at Yale to his work for President Franklin Roosevelt on international financial policy and his unique partnership with President Truman."--BOOK JACKET. "Chace corrects many misconceptions about Acheson's role in the Cold War. Acheson was not one of the original Cold Warriors. In 1945, willing to acknowledge Soviet concerns about its security, Acheson worked closely with Secretary of War Henry Stimson on a plan to share America's scientific information about atomic energy with Moscow in order to avert an arms race. It was only when Moscow made threatening demands on Turkey for bases in the Dardanelles that Acheson hardened his views toward the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET. "Later, Acheson encouraged President Kennedy to stand firm against the Soviets in the Berlin Wall and Cuban missile crises. He headed a group of elder statesmen who advised President Johnson on the Vietnam War. When Acheson turned against the war, Johnson realized that domestic support for his policy had crumbled."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Peters, Charles Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.923 PET Documents the 36th president's term in office and the legacy of his achievements, revealing the insights he gained while serving in the Senate and throughout the Kennedy-Johnson administration and discussing how factors including the Vietnam War drove him from office. |
By Drew, Elizabeth Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.924 DRE The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency. In this revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, Washington journalist Drew explains how Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often wasn't interested in them. Turning to international affairs, she reveals the inner workings of Nixon's complex relationship with Henry Kissinger, and their mutual rivalry and distrust. The Watergate scandal that ended his presidency was both an overreach of executive power and the inevitable result of his paranoia and passion for vengeance. Even Nixon's post-presidential rehabilitation was motivated by a consuming desire for respectability, and he succeeded through his remarkable resilience. While giving him credit for his achievements, Drew questions whether such a man--beleaguered, suspicious, and motivated by resentment and paranoia--was fit to hold America's highest office.--From publisher description. |