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.
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By Shattuck, Roger Publishing Date: [1968] Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.44 SHA Studies the avant-garde movement in France through four avant-gardists, post-Impressionist painter Henri Rousseau, composer Erik Satie, playwright Alfred Jarry, and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. |
Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 700 Call Number: 717 |
Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: 700 Call Number: 717 Shows how to build a variety of trellises and arbors, and recommends popular plant species to grow on them - (Baker & Taylor) |
Wild clay: creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources By Levy, Matt Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 700 Call Number: 738.12 LEV "The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies, throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or, even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate, collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage, water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who have embraced the clays found around them."-- |
NEW RELEASE By Deveney, Jean-Christophe Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5952 DEV The Second Bakery Attack: A newlywed couple lie in bed, hungry. The man tells his wife about when he and a friend robbed a bakery and stole bread to feed themselves for two days. On hearing this story, the woman suggests they try the same thing again. |
By Deveney, Jean-Christophe Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5952 DEV "For the first time in English, the work of master Haruki Murakami is available in manga form. In this collection you'll find striking full-color adaptions of these iconic short stories: Super-frog saves Tokyo -- A few days after an earthquake, Katagirl-san finds a giant frog in his home. The forg promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri-san must help him. Is this real, or a dream? Where i'm likely to find it -- A woman's husband goes missing and she hires a dectective to find him. As the detective picks up clues about the man's whereabouts, he reflects on the meaning of his own life. Birthday girl -- A woman tells a friend the story of a surreal encounter on her twentieth birthday with the owner of the restaurant where she works. The Seventh man -- A man who is deeply scarred by the depth of his childhood friend must find a way to deal with this trauma as an adult"-- Back cover. |
By Gaiman, Neil Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 GAI "In the final Sandman tale, Morpheus makes the ultimate decision between change and death. As one journey for the Endless ends, another begins for the Lord of Dreams and his family, bringing with it a time of reflection and a sad celebration. It's a wake in which friends and loved ones, relatives and rivals, fleeting lovers and immortal enemies gather to pay their respsects and to mourn their loss"--Provided by publisher. |
By Waid, Mark Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 WAI What happens when your crime-fighting sidekick grows up to be an arrogant, ungrateful douchebag who makes rock stars look humble? Worse, what on Earth could force the two of you together for one last case? Nocturnus and his former protege, Galahad, will find out--if they don't kill one another first. Later, on the trail of the murderer who bankrupted them, Galahad and Nocturnus are forced to travel overseas--where their connections and resources are of no use to them! And, with their city under siege by an army of supervillains, only Nocturnus and Galahad can save the lives of millions. However, they have no resources, no weapons, and nothing but one another to depend on! The classic cape-and-cowl series from creators Mark Waid (World's Finest, Kingdom Come) and Peter Krause (Irredeemable), joined by colorist Nolan Woodard and letterer Troy Peteri, together in a complete collection for the first time ever! |
200 of the best songs from swing era Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 780.9 The result of years of research, this fake book contains 200 easy-to-read lead sheets of the best songs from the Swing Era, 1936-1947. Includes: All the Things You Are -- April in Paris -- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home -- Bewitched -- Cheek to Cheek -- Don't Explain -- Heart and Soul -- I Could Write a Book -- I'll Be Seeing You -- Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) -- It's Only a Paper Moon -- Long Ago (And Far Away) -- Marie -- Moonlight in Vermont -- My Funny Valentine -- The Nearness of You -- Pennies from Heaven -- Prelude to a Kiss -- Sentimental Journey -- Skylark -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- Stormy Weather -- A String of Pearls -- Take the "A" Train -- Tangerine -- There's a Small Hotel -- Tuxedo Junction -- Undecided -- The Very Thought of You -- Where or When -- Why Don't You Do Right -- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To -- and more! Features large size music notation, a chord glossary, artist & tide indexes, biographies, and common usage chords. For piano, guitar, electronic keyboard, and all C instruments |
Ear training for the contemporary musician By Wyatt, Keith Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: 700 Call Number: 781.2 WYA This book with online audio access takes you step by step through MI's well-known Ear Training course. Complete lessons and analysis include: basic pitch matching * singing major and minor scales * identifying intervals * transcribing melodies and rhythm * identifying chords and progressions * seventh chords and the blues * modal interchange, chromaticism, modulation * and more! Learn to hear and to visualize on your instrument. Take your playing from good to great! Over 2 hours of practice exercises with complete answers in the back. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book. Now including PLAYBACK+, a multifunctional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard. - (Hal Leonard) |
By Fox, Dan Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: 700 Call Number: 781.224 FOX "For students & professionals who want to gain the ability to sight-sing and play rhythms from the simplest to the most complex syncopations. For the first time in print, syncopations are explained, illustrated and classified." |
Publishing Date: [1998?] Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 Exact transcriptions in notes and tab of 22 of the best rock songs ever! Includes: Born to Be Wild * Crossroads * The House Is Rockin' * Jailhouse Rock * Ramblin' Man * Surrender * Sweet Home Alabama * Twist and Shout * You Really Got Me * more. - (Hal Leonard) |
The Best jazz standards ever, easy guitar Publishing Date: [2000?] Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 Includes 106 classics: Ain't Misbehavin' * Cheek to Cheek * Dancing on the Ceiling * Easy Living * How Insensitive * Misty * Mood Indigo * My Romance * A Night in Tunisia * Old Devil Moon * Sophisticated Lady * Stormy Weather * Summer Samba * Where or When * more. - (Hal Leonard) |
Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 Heavy metal music, as performed by AC/DC. For voice and guitar; in staff notation and tablature, with chord symbols. |
Publishing Date: 1984 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 For voice and piano with guitar chord diagrams. |
By Santana (Musical group) Publishing Date: [199-?] Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.42 SAN (Transcribed Score). Includes full-score transcriptions of ten great Santana songs: Black Magic Woman * Everybody's Everything * Everything's Coming Our Way * Evil Ways * Hope You're Feeling Better * Jingo (Jin-Go-Lo-Ba) * Oye Como Va * Persuasion * Samba Pa Ti * Se A Cabo. - (Hal Leonard) |
Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.4216 Principally for voice and piano, with chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams |
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) |
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