Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2013 - December 2013
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Baldacci, David Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. |
The last voyage of Somebody the Sailor By Barth, John Publishing Date: 1992, c1991 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC National Book Award winner John Barth offers a rambunctious story full of narrative high jinks in this lively, inventive epic. Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a seagoing adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns recounting their voyages, merging medieval Baghdad and twentieth-century Maryland in a brilliantly entertaining weave of stories within stories. - (Houghton) |
By Berenson, Alex Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC CIA operative John Wells goes undercover in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon to find conspirators bent on tearing down the monarchy of King Abdullah. If the conspirators prevail, it will mean more than just the fall of a monarch -- it may be the start of a final conflagration between America and the full force of Islam itself. |
By Brown, Sandra Publishing Date: c1991 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who, with his two friends, changed her life forever. Someday, somehow, she'd return, exact a just revenge -- and free herself from fear, and the powerful family that could destroy her. - (Hachette Book Group) |
NEW RELEASE By Brown, Sandra Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years. |
By Carter, Stephen L. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office. |
NEW RELEASE Never go back: a Jack Reacher novel By Child, Lee Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Jack Reacher arrives in Virginia hoping to contact the woman he spoke with on the phone in "61 Hours," only to be drafted back into the Army, where he confronts life-changing elements from his past. |
By Clevidence, Carin Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A fireworks factory explodes in a quiet seaside town. In the house on Salt Hay Road, Clay Poole is thrilled by the hole it's blown in everyday life. His older sister, Nancy, is more interested in the striking stranger who appears, dusted with ashes, in the explosion's aftermath. The Pooles--taken in as orphans by their mother's family--can't yet know how the bonds of their makeshift household will be tested and frayed. As their aunt searches for signs from God and their uncle begins an offbeat courtship, they are pulled toward two greater cataclysms: the legendary hurricane of 1938 and the encroaching war. |
By Coleman, Reed Farrel Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe relunctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. When a suburban college student vanishes off the streets of Manhattan, Prager's universe is turned upside down and his life changed forever. Hired by the student's desperate family, Moe plunges deep into the world of New York's punk underground, sex clubs, and biker bars.Politicians, journalists, and crooked cops seem hell-bent on stopping him in his tracks. Set in the gritty city streets of the late seventies and the present day, Walking the Perfect Square is a unique mystery that delivers a compelling look at one man's efforts to find a man who was never really there and to protect his family from an unbearable truth. - (Fleming Marrs Inc) Back in print, the first book in Coleman's two-time Edgar Award-nominated Moe Prager private-eye series. - (Perseus Publishing) |
By Connolly, John Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Presumed dead, Daniel Clay was a psychiatrist accused of abusing his young patients. Now, his daughter Rebecca's life is about to be turned upside down by a vengeful father. |
By Corbalis, Judy Publishing Date: 1997, 1996 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
By Corona, Laurel Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC With her father, Odysseus, away and her mother, Penelope, dealing with power-hungry suitors, Xanthe reminisces about her upbringing among slaves, her years spent in hiding with Helen of Troy, and her sexual awakening in the arms of the man she loves. |
NEW RELEASE By Cussler, Clive Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out. |
NEW RELEASE By Danticat, Edwidge Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, goes missing"-- |
By Davis, Charles Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Two people, two faiths, one hope, one destiny... A white woman and a black man, stranded in the desert in a land laid waste by an undeclared war. She is a campaigning academic and believes in justice, absolutely. He is a barefoot librarian and believes in books, just about. Hunted by The Warriors of God, they must take refuge in the mountains and learn to live with their divergent beliefs if they are to survive ..."--Jacket. |
NEW RELEASE The October list: a novel in reverse By Deaver, Jeffery Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List"--Provided by the publisher. |
By DeHart, Terry Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After the United States is devastated by a nuclear attack, one ordinary suburban family must take up arms in a brutal and unforgiving world. |
By Drury, Joan M. Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Maddie, the fourth generation of the fiercely activist Jordan girls, shares the stories of her mother's, grandmother's, and great-grandmother's involvement in women's suffrage, temperance, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. - (Baker & Taylor) |
NEW RELEASE By Ellis, David Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny looking geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich's office one day with a preemptive concern. Two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend and the other was a friend. He's the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder. Believing he's the target of a frame up, Drinker hires Kolarich for his defense. Something about James Drinker seems off from the start but Kolarich doesn't give it too much thought. Until another murder occurs. And then another. And as he begins to probe his client's life and story more closely it quickly becomes clear that nothing about James Drinker is what it seems and that the target of the frame up isn't Drinker but Kolarich. Unable to stop a serial killer and prove his own innocence without breaking his sworn attorney client privilege, Jason Kolarich must hunt for the truth about James Drinker, the series of brutal murders, and why he's been set up to take the fall. The answers will be beyond anything he could have imagined. |
By Erpenbeck, Jenny Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside of Berlin lies at the heart of this novel. This novel offers us the stories of twelve individuals who make their homes here. |
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