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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Tell me a story: creating bedtime tales your children will dream on By Collins, Chase Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.068 COL Discusses the basics of storytelling, and helps parents rediscover the creative powers within themselves - (Baker & Taylor) |
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: a version of Euripides's Helen By Carson, Anne Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 800 Call Number: 812.54 CAR "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renee Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell." -- |
By Daugherty, Tracy Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 DAU "A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country's pioneer traditions. It follows his astonishing career as bestselling novelist, Pulitzer-Prize winner, author of the beloved Lonesome Dove, Academy-Award winning screenwriter, public intellectual, and passionate bookseller. A sweeping and insightful look at a versatile, one-of-a-kind American writer, this book is a must-read for every Larry McMurtry fan."-- |
The skeptic: a life of H.L. Mencken By Teachout, Terry Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 TEA A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians. |
NEW RELEASE As the trail turns: rag short stories, vol. 1, you won't know until you get there By Timeoni, Amanda Publishing Date: ©2024 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.6 TIM "A selection of my photos and writings from life, work, and hiking long trails."--cover. As the Trail Turns is a collection of unvarnished yet colorful autobiographical short stories and poems by serial long distance hiker Amanda "Not a Chance" Timeoni. The collection recounts moments from over 20,000 miles of long trails, growing up in Ohio, working on a farm, hitchhiking, and love.--Amazon. |
By Doyle, John Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822.33 DOY A guide to the comedies, tragedies, and histories of the renowned playwright and poet includes plot and main character summaries, and an overview of sentence structure and word use. |
By Birkenhead, Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Publishing Date: 1978 Classification: 800 Call Number: 828.809 BIR |
Between parentheses: essays, articles, and speeches, 1998-2003 By Bolaño, Roberto Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 864 BOL Collection of most of Bolano's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolano during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole ... a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1. |
The gift: poems by the great Sufi master By Hafiz Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 800 Call Number: 891.5511 HAF More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, translator Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Each line imparts the qualities of this spiritual teacher: an audacious love that empowers lives, profound knowledge, wild generosity, and a sweet, playful genius unparalleled in world literature.--From publisher description. |
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