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.
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.
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By Benford, Gregory Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts. |
By Briggs, Patricia Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson will face a threat unlike any other. . . . I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five-pound coyote and I can fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them. Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill--until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill, wreaking havoc. Only the deadliest survived. Now one of those prisoners has escaped. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. But if it bites you, it controls you. It lives for chaos and destruction. It can make you do anything--even kill the person you love the most. It is here, in the Tri-Cities, in my territory. It won't--can't--remain. Not if I have anything to say about it"-- |
By Brooks, Terry Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A novel of evil and magic in a land where magic has been forbidden but now must be used again. |
By Brooks, Terry Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The first three novels of Terry Brooks Shannara epic of good and evil. |
By Griffith, Nicola Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate"-- |
By Stewart, Andrea Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognize her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright--and save her people"-- |
By Weir, Andy Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Ryland Grace es el unico superviviente en una mision desesperada. Es la ultima oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma pereceran. Claro que, de momento, el no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su mision o como llevarla a cabo. Lo unico que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilometros de su hogar, sin mas compania que la de dos cadaveres. Muertos sus companeros de tripulacion, y a medida que va recuperando confusamente los recuerdos, Grace se da cuenta de que se enfrenta a una mision imposible. Recorriendo el espacio en una pequena nave, depende de el acabar con una amenaza de extincion para nuestra especie. Sin apenas tiempo y con el ser humano mas cercano a anos luz de distancia, habra de conseguirlo estando completamente solo. O no? Proyecto Hail Mary, una aventura interestelar irresistible como solo Andy Weir podia imaginar, es una historia de descubrimiento, especulacion y supervivencia a la altura de El marciano, que nos lleva a lugares que nunca sonamos alcanzar. |
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