Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2023 - June 2023
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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Disorder: hard times in the 21st century By Thompson, Helen Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.831 THO This book explains why we in the West live in the political times we do - a moment of historical time arising from systemic dynamics that have wrought predicaments to confront and not problems to be solved. A retrospective and predictive account of the political shocks of 2016 and onwards, and how the specific consequences of the structural historical forces at work are ongoing and in good part inexorable. The author argues that these political times arise - and disruption will continue - from the intersection of fault lines generated by a geopolitical cycle that has been disrupted, but is not over. -- Adapted from publisher's description. |
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: exploring the high peaks of China and Tibet By Rowell, Galen A. Publishing Date: 1984, ©1983 Classification: 900 Call Number: 915.1 ROW A photographic journey through the mountain regions of China and Tibet profiles the landscape, people, culture, and wildlife of the area - (Baker & Taylor) |
Grand Canyon's long-eared taxi By Taylor, Karen L. Publishing Date: ©1992 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9132 TAY The role of the mules and Grand Canyon's history are inseparable. This spacious mule ride and holding on to the reins while riding along though this richly illustrated book filled with touching and humorous anecdotes. What a ride! |
By Sullivan, William L. Publishing Date: ©2009 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.95 SUL With the addition of 200,000 more acres designated by Congress as Oregon wilderness in 2009, use this as a planning guide to explore new areas and old favorites from The Three Sisters and Mount Hood to Eagle Cap and Steens Mountain. This is a complete guide to Oregon's backcountry. |
Mountain fever: historic conquests of Rainier By Haines, Aubrey L. Publishing Date: 1962 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9778 HAI |
Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands By Albiston, Isabel Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 900 Call Number: 918.6604 ALB "Lonely Planet's Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Surf at Montanita, climb El Altar, and ride the TelefériQo; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Ecuador & the Galápagos and begin your journey now!"-- |
Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands By Pitts, Bethany Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 900 Call Number: 918.6604 PIT Canoe through the Amazon, explore the bustling capital of Quito, snorkel in the Galápagos, or kick back on the coast: Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands. |
Poles apart: parallel visions of the Arctic and Antarctic By Rowell, Galen A. Publishing Date: ©1995 Classification: 900 Call Number: 919.8 ROW In Poles Apart, Galen Rowell takes us on an exhilarating visual journey to the top and the bottom of the world, using the parallel visions of his camera to reveal the fascinating differences between these polar opposites. |
Desert Voices: a history of the Shoshone Cemetery Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 900 Call Number: 929 The town of Shoshone has been operated by members of the Brown and Fairbanks families since “Dad” Fairbanks leased the land from the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad (T&T RR) in 1913 as a station stop. His son-in-law, Charles Brown, purchased the property in 1944. Through the leadership of strong men and independent-minded women, Shoshone became a unique place. This is not a history of Shoshone or all of its resdients. It is a collection of stories, photographs, and newspaper clippings that provide some personal data on people buried in the Shoshone Cemetery. Personal recollections have been supplemented with information from death certificates, minig location records, voter registration rolls, contemporary newspaper accounts, mortuary and census records, California State Mineralogist reports, and the transacton records of the Fairbanks & Brown General Store, which, under various names, has sold provisions to desert dwellers for more than eight decades.--from preface. |
The Pope at war: the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler By Kertzer, David I. Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5325 KER When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him. In 2020, Pius XII's archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer--widely recognized as one of the world's leading Vatican scholars--has been mining this new material ever since, revealing how the pope came to set aside moral leadership in order to preserve his church's power. Based on thousands of never-before-seen documents not only from the Vatican, but from archives in Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, The Pope at War paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped the continent and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews. The book clears away the myths and sheer falsehoods surrounding the pope's actions from 1939 to 1945, showing why the pope repeatedly bent to the wills of Hitler and Mussolini. Just as Kertzer's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Pope and Mussolini became the definitive book on Pope Pius XI and the Fascist regime, The Pope at War is destined to become the most influential account of his successor, Pius XII, and his relations with Mussolini and Hitler. Kertzer shows why no full understanding of the course of World War II is complete without knowledge of the dramatic, behind-the-scenes role played by the pope."-- |
American midnight: the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis By Hochschild, Adam Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.91 HOC "A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--Provided by publisher. |
Cowboys: America's living legend By Poulet, Claude Publishing Date: 1986 (Printed in Spain) Classification: 900 Call Number: 978.632 POU Shows America's cowboys at work and play, and traces the history of the cowboy, including the men who are keeping the legend alive today - (Baker & Taylor) |
NEW RELEASE Vengeance is mine: the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath By Turley, Richard E. Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.202 TUR "Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of the atrocity. In greater detail than ever before, Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies about the victims and perpetrators of the crime. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials, the second ending in Lee's conviction. The book examines the fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham Young, including what Young knew of the crime and when he knew it. The book also tells the story of the seventeen young children who survived the massacre and their later return to Arkansas, from where the ill-fated wagon train originated. The book traces the fate of the perpetrators to the end of their lives, including the harrowing demise of Nephi Johnson, who screamed, "Blood! Blood! Blood!" in the delirium of his death bed more than sixty years after the massacre"-- |
By Moore-Smith, Rena Publishing Date: ©2018 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.487 MOO "I was born into the Frederick A. Moore Family, in November, 1932…already in progress. I had four older rothers and later one younger. My father was born in 1896, in the small town of Blackrock, just East of Hwy. 395, across from, the now, Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery…The little town of Blackrock does not exist today. The Moore families, before 1896 and later… had settled in the surrounding towns of Independence, Bishop, Keeler, and Lone Pine, California. My father grew up in Lone Pine acquiring long time friendships with many families of the 1900’s, in which today I still keep in contact with: The Cook’s, The Lasky’s, The Spainhower’s, Chrysler’s & Lacey’s. I am the last survivor on my immediate ‘Moore’ family. In my book I touch on my family and town history. How my Dad met my Mother…their first home, The Mary Austin House…possibly the first movie made in the Alabama Hills, The Roundup, 1920. The early Chrysler-Cook, Mt. Whitney Pack Trains, in which my father was a guide in the summer months…Our many adventures in the Whitney Portals, that not many children ever get to experience! Plus, our life during WWII on a ranch in the Alabama Hills.”—cover. |
By Olson, Wilma R. Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.487 OLS |
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