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.
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.
By James, Nick Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In 2095 when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls, fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth's most important energy source, government forces work to capture him. |
By Jones, Diana Wynne Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems. |
By Kincaid, S. J. Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA "While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"-- |
By Lore, Pittacus Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. |
Protector of the small: First test ; Page ; Squire ; Lady knight By Pierce, Tamora Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. |
By Pierce, Tamora Publishing Date: 2007, c2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City. |
Tricksters: Trickster's choice and Trickster's queen By Pierce, Tamora Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: YA Call Number: YA The adventures of Aly, daughter of Alanna of Trebond. |
By Smith, Sherwood Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Senrid is a story of swashbuckling boys and girls, royal stakes, mysterious villains, high adventure and strange magic, set in the universe of Crown Duel and Inda. |
By Spinner, Stephanie Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Damosel, a rule-bound Lady of the Lake, and Twixt, a seventeen-year-old dwarf, relate their experiences as they strive to help King Arthur face Morgause, Morgan, and Mordred, one through her magic and the other through his humble loyalty. |
By Wein, Elizabeth Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: YA Call Number: YA When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners. |
By Galdone, Paul Publishing Date: c1975 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GAL The Gingerbread Boy eludes the hungry grasp of everyone he meets until he happens upon a fox more clever than he. |
By Galdone, Paul Publishing Date: [2011], c 2001 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GAL Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain. Retells the traditional tale about three billy goats who trick a troll that lives under the bridge. |
The boy & his mud horses: & other stories from the tipi By Goble, Paul Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GOB A collection of short stories told in the traditional style of the Native American peoples. |
The lost children: the boys who were neglected By Goble, Paul Publishing Date: c1993 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GOB A Blackfoot Indian legend in which six neglected orphaned brothers decide to go to the Above World where they become the constellation of the "Lost Children," or Pleiades. |
The man who dreamed of elk-dogs: & other stories from the Tipi By Goble, Paul Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GOB Features twenty-three traditional stories from the Blackfoot, Lakota, Assiniboin, Pawnee, and Cheyenne nations about how horses first appeared to the tribes of the American Plains. |
The woman who lived with wolves, & other stories from the tipi By Goble, Paul Publishing Date: 2011, c2010 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.2 GOB This story belongs to Lakota historical tradition, the story believed to be true. |
Something from nothing: adapted from a Jewish folktale By Gilman, Phoebe Publishing Date: 1993, c1992 Classification: JNF Call Number: J398.21 GIL In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea. |
By Dorros, Arthur Publishing Date: c1990 Classification: JNF Call Number: J574.5 DOR Describes the characteristics, various forms of plant and animal life, and destruction of the world's rain forests. |
By Guiberson, Brenda Z. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: JNF Call Number: J599.78 GUI Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, get their name from the white moon-shaped blaze on their chests. Sadly, there are more moon bears in captivity than in the wild, as the animals are being farmed for their commercially valuable bile. This text pays tribute to the endangered species. |
Draw out the story: ten secrets to creating your own comics By McLachlan, Brian Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: JNF Call Number: J741.51 MCL Offers advice for effective storytelling in comic book format, covering such topics as color, placement, pacing, visually representing ideas, and other techniques for short gag strips as well as graphic novels and other more involved storylines. |