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.
NEW RELEASE A very stable genius: Donald J. Trump's testing of America By Rucker, Philip Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.933 RUC "This peerless and gripping narrative reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished and exposes how decision making in his administration has been driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement--but a logic nonetheless. This is the story of how an unparalleled president has scrambled to survive and tested the strength of America's democracy and its common heart as a nation"--Dust jacket. |
Crime in progress: inside the Steele dossier and the Fusion GPS investigation of Donald Trump By Simpson, Glenn R. Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.933 SIM "The never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trumps Russia tiesculminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller reportfrom the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS" -- Amazon.com. |
NEW RELEASE Running against the devil: a plot to save America from Trump -- and Democrats from themselves By Wilson, Rick Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.933 WIL "Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump's administration is rocked by daily scandals, and he's embarrassed us at home and abroad. Trump can't win in 2020, right? Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can't win, but the Democrats can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that's a Democratic candidate who runs the race Trump wants them to run instead of the campaign they must run to win in 2020. Wilson combines decades of national political experience and insight in his take-no-prisoners analysis, hammering Trump's destructive and dangerous first term in a case-by-case takedown of the worst president in history and describing the terrifying prospect of four more years of Trump. Like no one else can, Wilson blows the lid off Trump's 2020 Republican war machine, showing the exact strategies and tactics they'll use against the Democratic nominee . . . and how the Democrats can avoid the catastrophe waiting for them if they fall into Trump's trap. Running Against the Devil is sharply funny, brutally honest, and infused with his biting commentary. It's a vital indictment of Trump, a no-nonsense, no-holds-barred road map to saving America, and the guide to making Donald Trump a one-term president. The stakes are too high to do anything less"-- |
By Gornick, Vivian Publishing Date: 2005, 1987 Classification: 900 Call Number: 974.7 GOR In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. |
Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made By Genovese, Eugene D Publishing Date: 1976 Classification: 900 Call Number: 975.004 GEN An analysis of slavery in America as well as the Afro-American community and American society |
A season of night: New Orleans life after Katrina By McNulty, Ian Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 976.3 MCN For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighborhoods. Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming. After the floodwaters drained, author Ian McNulty returned to live on the second floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity was writing this book on a laptop by candlelight. By turns haunting, inspiring, and darkly comic, this memoir offers a behind-the-headlines story of resilience and renewal. From bittersweet camaraderie in the wreckage to depression and violent rampages in the lawless night to the first flickers of cultural revival and the explosive joy of a post-Katrina Mardi Gras, A Season of Night delivers an unprecedented tale from the wounded but always enthralling Crescent City. - (Univ of Washington Pr) |
Wicked river: the Mississippi when it last ran wild By Sandlin, Lee Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 977 SAN A chronicle of the Mississippi River in the first half of the nineteenth century--before it was tamed by commerce and technology--draws on first-hand accounts to describe life along the river, natural and man-made disasters, acts of piracy, and cultural celebrations. |
Cattle kingdom: the hidden history of the cowboy West By Knowlton, Christopher Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 900 Call Number: 978 KNO "A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired legends, such as that icon of rugged individualism, the cowboy. Yet this extraordinary time and its import have remained unexamined for decades. Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We venture from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakota Badlands to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a diverse array of players--from the expert cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton shows us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison in a decade, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousands, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West."--Jacket. |
Black Elk: the life of an American visionary By Jackson, Joe Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 900 Call Number: 978.004 JAC "Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement"-- |
By Poling-Kempes, Lesley Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979 POL "Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher. |
A Field guide to rock art symbols of the greater Southwest Publishing Date: [1992] Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.01 A key to the interpretation of rock art of the American Southwest, providing descriptions and illustrations of rock art symbols, along with their ascribed meanings, and including general and specific information on rock art sites. |
By Morris, Edmund Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: B ROOSE- VELT This biography by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author recounts the last decade of Theodore Roosevelt's amazing life. |
Lilacs: a gardener's encyclopedia By Fiala, John L. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: R Call Number: R 635.9338 FIA "First published in 1988 by American hybridizer Reverend John Fiala, the first edition of this reference quickly became known worldwide as the lilac loves' bible. The latest revision combines Fiala's passion for lilacs with the expertise of Canadian plantsman Freek Vrugtman, the International Lilac Registrar." "The new enlarged book provides up-to-date information on the 21 known lilac species and 10 natural hybrids, as well as hundreds of the 2000 named cultivars. Five hundred color photos have been added, including some which show the newest introductions from Russia and neighboring states. The text addresses practical concerns of selecting, growing, propagating, and using lilacs in the landscape, alone or with companion plants. It also provides details of the history, origin, and discovery of the species and of the people behind the development of the cultivars. A new chapter on lilacs in art and design, an updated list of places where lilacs can be viewed and celebrated, and an extensive bibliography complete this rich resource."--Jacket. |
The World Book Encyclopedia 2018 Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: R Call Number: R031 v.1-22 |
Where did that word come from: fascinating and curious origins of everyday words Publishing Date: 2008, c1960 Classification: R Call Number: R422.03 |
The Best bear in all the world Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter. |
Sarah and Simon and no red paint By Ardizzone, Edward Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Sarah and Simon do all they can to help their parents, but when their father, an artist, needs red paint to complete his masterpiece and the art store owner refuses him credit, they do not know where to turn. |
By Benjamin, Ali Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death. |
By Dixon, Franklin W. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Brothers Frank and Joe Hardy and their elementary school friends help them track down what they hope is a treasure after they find a mysterious map. |
By Farley, Walter Publishing Date: [c2002] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue, their adventure continues in America. |