Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2020 - March 2020
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.
Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver By Oliver, Mary Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 OLI "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world"-- |
By Alexie, Sherman Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.6 ALE From the Publisher: In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time." |
The triumph of the thriller: how cops, crooks, and cannibals captured popular fiction By Anderson, Patrick Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.0872 AND In a thoughtful look at the popularity of the suspense genre, a novelist and critic for The Washington Post examines how and why the thriller came to dominate the world's best-seller lists, tracing the history of the thriller from Edgar Allan Poe to Ed McBain and Patricia Cornwell and profiling the genre's major authors, in a volume that includes the author's picks for the top thriller novels of all time. - (Baker & Taylor) |
The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in America By Sedgwick, Catharine Maria Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.2 SED A novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution. In The Linwoods, Catharine Maria Sedgwick illuminates the American character and explores issues of civic virtue and national identity in the early republic, through the lives of two families: the Linwoods, dutiful loyalists, and the Lees, passionate revolutionaries. At the novel's heart is Isabella Linwood, a bright and independent young woman who will transform from a proud Tory to ardent Rebel, challenging not only British rule but its accepted social, economic, and political institutions, including the aristocracy, slavery, and patriarchal authority. |
By Smedley, Agnes Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.52 SME "A tale of American disinheritance told from the inside out," declared the Village Voice of this autobiographical novel. Written in 1929 by a dedicated social activist, it chronicles a woman's escape from grinding rural poverty into a predominantly male world of politics and revolution. "My aim in life was to study, not to follow a man around," asserts Marie Rogers, who struggles to establish her identity as an individual and as "a daughter of the earth," in restless pursuit of equality and justice. Marie's hardscrabble childhood and her involvement with freedom fighters of India and China reflect the author's own experiences. Agnes Smedley (1892&;1950) drew upon her own search for spiritual consciousness in this powerful exploration of race, class, and sex in early twentieth-century America. Smedley's novel fell into obscurity after her death, only to reemerge decades later as a remarkable tale of a working-class woman's heroic transformation into an agent for social change. - (Dover Pubns) |
Ride, cowboy, ride: 8 seconds ain't that long : a rodeo novel By Black, Baxter Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 BLA "This hilarious new novel by America's best-selling cowboy poet, Baxter Black, offers a funny, fast-paced inside look at the lives of rodeo cowboys and the women they love--or that they want to love"-- |
A childhood, the biography of a place By Crews, Harry Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 CRE Harry Crew recounts his childhood, focusing on the people, places, and circumstances that shaped him into the author he is today. |
Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.008 2001 A collection of twenty-six essays by American authors, chosen by guest editor Kathleen Norris as the best to be published in 2000, including selections by Stephen King, Diane Ackerman, and Reynolds Price. |
Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.008 2010 Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2009 which were originally published in American periodicals. |
Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.008 2013 Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals. |
It all turns on affection: the Jefferson lecture & other essays By Berry, Wendell Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.54 BER In 2012 Wendell Berry delivered the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, perhaps the most honorary award that can be granted by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In it he combines his unique combination of literary talent, farming experience, and environmental concern to advocate healing of the earth and a movement toward sustainability. Ultimately he settles upon affection, not morality as the key to making this happen. This is followed by an interview with him and his wife Tanya that drifts from personal experiences to Henry David Thoreau and finally settles upon his advocacy of government arising from the needs of people and the land. Part two includes five essays, two of which initially appeared in The Progressive and one that was a memorial for his friend Maury Telleen, who established the Draft Horse Journal in 1964. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
The end of the end of the earth: essays By Franzen, Jonathan Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.54 FRA In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we've come to expect from Franzen.00Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative and necessary. |
What are we doing here: essays By Robinson, Marilynne Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.54 ROB A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life. |
Representative American speeches, 2018-2019 Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 815 The reference shelf ; volume 91, number 6 Reference shelf ; v. 91, no. 6. |
The original knickerbocker: the life of Washington Irving By Burstein, Andrew Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.209 BUR Washington Irving-author, ambassador, politically connected Manhattanite and international icon-has somehow slipped from Americaơ memory, and yet, his creations are still well known. Acclaimed historian Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was an major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature. Irving traveled through Europe and America, excavating tales and publishing social comentary, beloved childrenơ stories, gothic drama, and picturesque history. He gave his young nation such enduring tales as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. His 1809 burlesque, A History of New York, popularized the figure of jolly old St. Nicholas, and gave birth to the modern American Christmas. Always toying with language, the original Knickerbocker called New York by the name ðotham.ðBefore Irving, no American had earned his living as an author and American writers were entirely disparaged in England and Europe. His deft use of language delighted readers of the Romantic age and announced Americaơ voice to the world. As his career advanced, Irving came to be appreciated as a serious historian, the first English-language biographer of Christopher Columbus and the author of a multi-volume life of George Washington. He also wrote of his travels in the Wild West of the 1830s and served as a U.S. ambassador to Spain, before retiring to his Dutch-inspired Hudson River sanctuary of Sunnyside, near Tarrytown, New York. |
After the tall timber: collected nonfiction By Adler, Renata Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.54 ADL "For decades, Renata Adler's writing has upheld and defined the highest standards of investigative journalism. A staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler has reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inquiry and Congress. She has also written about cultural matters, films (as chief film critic for The New York Times), books, politics, and pop music. Like many journalists, she has put herself in harm's way in order to give us the news, not the "news" we have become accustomed to--celebrity journalism, conventional wisdom, received ideas--but the actual story, an account unfettered by ideology or consensus. The peril that Adler places herself in comes specifically from speaking up (on the basis of careful research, common sense, original thought) when too many other writers have joined the pack. In this most basic and moral sense, Adler is one of the few independent journalists writing in America today. This collection of Adler's nonfiction draws on her early essays, reporting, and criticism, which describe the major crises and hopeful turmoil of the 1960s, and more recent pieces concerned with, in her words, "misrepresentation, coercion, and abuse of public process, and the journalist's role in it." Also included are writings on film, television, and music, and several uncollected essays on Jayson Blair and the Times, and the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore. A new epilogue by Adler provides an invaluable and long-overdue assessment of our culture today from one of its foremost chroniclers"-- |
By Alexie, Sherman Publishing Date: ©1996 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5409 ALE Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences. |
Without stopping: an autobiography By Bowles, Paul Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5409 BOW Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and his world. |
By Díaz, Jaquira Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.603 DIA "Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"-- |
By Mantel, Hilary Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 800 Call Number: 823 MAN An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness which rendered her unable to have children, and literary career. |