Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
April 2024 - July 2024
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.
Taylor Swift: American girl : the illustrated biography By McHugh, Carolyn Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.4216 MCH This illustrated biography celebrates Taylor Swift's many hits and achievements. Taylor Swift's discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative song writing, which is often inspired by her personal life, has received widespread media coverage and critical praise. She has scored eight Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, and won 11 Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins), an Emmy Award, 34 American Music Awards. She featured on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015) and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists list (2019). Having sold over 200 million records around the world she is one of the best selling music artists of all time. Named the Woman of the 2010s Decade by Billboard and the Artist of the 2010s Decade by the American Music Awards, Swift has been recognized for her influential career as well as advocacy of artists' rights and women's empowerment in the music industry. This is her story. |
By Rees, Paul Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.4216 REE "John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. Not only has he absorbed into his own work the influence of Faulkner, Williams, Steinbeck and other such literary giants, but he himself could have stepped straight from the pages of any of their great American novels. A complex, colorful and larger than life character, Mellencamp, like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash before him, walks to the beat of his own drum. Or, as he told author and veteran music journalist, Paul Rees: 'I just refuse to take shit off anyone.' Mellencamp will definitively chart the life of one of the most fascinating characters in all of American music. It will bring into full relief the complex, iconoclastic character of the man Billy Joel, when inducting Mellencamp into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, urged to 'Stay ornery, stay mean. We need you to be pissed off,' Joel continued. 'People need to hear a voice like yours to echo the discontent in the heartland. Someone's got to tell 'em, "Don't take any shit," and John, you do that very well.' Along with Mellencamp's full blessing, Rees will include new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, including Bob Seger, Stephen King, Willie Nelson, Larry McMurtry, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and Chuck D, among others. Rees will also include interviews from artists he has had a pronounced influence on such as John Mayer, Keith Urban, and Jason Isbell. Telling Mellencamp's story is telling the story of the American heartland, along with such pivotal moments in social history as the dawning of the Civil Rights movement, the hippy era, the anti-Vietnam War protests, Watergate, and the terms of such divisive US Presidents as Richard Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush and now Donald Trump. In terms of music, Mellencamp's account runs parallel to the advent of rock-and-roll, the Summer of Love, the singer-songwriter superstars and the nihilistic punks of the nineteen-seventies, the founding of MTV and the have-it-all eighties, the creation of Farm Aid, and the radical re-shaping of the music industry that has gone on through this century"-- |
"The Whorehouse bells were ringing" and other songs cowboys sing Publishing Date: 1989 Classification: 700 Call Number: 784.4978 Gathers sixty cowboy songs and ballads, and discusses the role of singing in the cowboy's life - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Bacon, Tony Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 BAC "A complete history of Fender electric guitars."--Cover. |
Funk guitar: the essential guide By Bolton, Ross Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 BOL Parts written in staff notation include parallel tablature. Includes chord symbols and (in part)--guitar chord diagrams. |
By Clapton, Eric Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 CLA Rock guitar solos, in staff notation and tablature. "A step-by-step breakdown of his guitar styles and techniques"--Cover. |
By Hunt, Chris Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 HUN Learn how to play funk and R&B rhythm guitar with easy-to-follow instructions on the hottest grooves. CD features recorded demonstrations of every example, plus 8 jam along tracks! Topics covered include: the backbeat * single-line parts * quarter note, eighth note, and 16th note feels * reggae grooves * shuffle and triplet feels * common chords and progressions * and more! - (Hal Leonard) |
Jimi Hendrix sessions: the complete studio recording sessions, 1963-1970 By McDermott, John Publishing Date: [1995] Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 MCD Jimi Hendrix, the musician and studio magician, comes alive in this first-ever chronicle of his recording sessions. In this landmark book, Hendrix biographer John McDermott, working with Hendirx's producer Eddie Kramer and bass player Billy Cox, re-creates in unprecedented day-by-day detail the making of every one of Hendrix's songs. Based on firsthand accounts by people who were there and hundreds of hours of unreleased tapes, this is the first book to take us inside the studio and show, track by track, how Hendrix created "Purple Haze," "Foxey Lady," "All Along the Watchtower," and his other masterpieces. Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, lyric sheets, and other memorabilia, Jimi Hendirx: Sessions is a loving tribute to the electric guitar's greatest master." -- |
The universal tone: bringing my story to light By Santana, Carlos Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.87 SAN An intimate account by the rock music artist traces his hardscrabble youth in Mexico and early days as a promising guitarist through his influential collaborations with fellow Latin stars. |
Jimi Hendrix: a step-by-step breakdown of his guitar styles and techniques By Aledort, Andy Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.8716 ALE "Jimi Hendrix Signature Licks offers a unique and thorough examination of twelve of Hendrix's greatest compositions."--Page 4 |
The Rolling Stones guitar classics By Jagger, Mick Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.8716 JAG 12 hits, including: She's So Cold * Start Me Up * Hang Fire * When The Whip Comes Down * and more. - (Hal Leonard) |
By Letsch, Glenn Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 700 Call Number: 787.8719 LET "A guide to the essential styles and techniques, including 20 great songs"--Cover |
By Coen, Ethan Publishing Date: 1994 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.43 COE Script for the motion picture, The Hudsucker proxy. |
By Avni, Sheerly Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4309 AVN 'A welcome book.' Includes index. |
Glamour ghoul: the passions and pain of the real Vampira, Maila Nurmi By Niemi, Sandra Publishing Date: [2021] Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4502 NIE "Maila Nurmi, the beautiful and sheltered daughter of Finnish immigrants, stepped off the bus in 1941 Los Angeles intent on finding fame and fortune. She found men eager to take advantage of her innocence and beauty but was determined to find success and love. Her inspired design and portrayal of a vampire won a costume contest that lead to a small role on the Red Skelton show which grew into a persona that brought her the notoriety she desired yet trapped her in a character she could never truly escape. This is Maila's story. Her diaries, notes, and ephemera and family stories bring new insights to her relationships with Orson Welles, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. Sandra Niemi--Maila's niece--fills in the nuances of her life prior to fame and her struggles after the limelight faded and she found a new community within the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene who embraced her as their own."--Amazon website. |
Chess fundamentals: algebraic notation, extra diagrams By Capablanca, José Raúl Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 700 Call Number: 794.12 CAP "Chess Fundamentals will serve as a guide for the player who wants to learn about the principles in endgame play, middlegame planning, general chess theory, how to play the opening, and the book includes 14 illustrative games by the former world champion. Former World Chess Champion, José Raúl Capablanca, wrote this classic book in 1921. Now 100 years later this masterpiece is still being read and referenced as a must-read chess book." -- |
The complete idiot's guide to bridge By Medley, H. Anthony Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: 700 Call Number: 795.415 MED "In this Complete Idiot's Guide you get: Expert advice for evaluating your hand and making opening bids, idiot-proof rules for responses and rebids, valuable help in deciding when to overcall or double your opponents, solid information on play of the hand for both declarers and defenders, down-to-earth advice on first leads and trick-taking, help for identifying hands with slam potential, and strategies for making the bid!"--Back cover |
The grand minor league: an oral history of the old Pacific Coast League By Dobbins, Dick Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.357 DOB |
Minnie and the Mick: the go-go White Sox challenge the fabled Yankee dynasty, 1951 to 1964 By Vanderberg, Bob Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.357 VAN Chicago Tribune staffer Vanderberg tells of the fierce competition between the late Yankee Mickey Mantle and Minnie Minosa of the White Sox. His fair and nostolgic account of life during baseball's Golden Years is recommended for popular collections. Copyright 1998 Library Journal Reviews |
By Moore, Michael Scott Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 700 Call Number: 797.3 MOO Offers a folk history of surfing after World War II, while documenting the author's visits to such destinations as West Africa and Cuba, and describes the roles played by such contributors as Christian missionaries and colonials. |