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 Kalotay, Daphne Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston. |
By Kaufman, Sue Publishing Date: [c1967] Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Made into a major motion picture that garnered an Oscar nomination, Diary of a Mad Housewife is a classic of women’s fiction that gave a wry voice to the nascent feminist stirrings of the 1960s and helped incite a revolution in the consciousness of a generation. After many years, this best-selling novel of Manhattan ennui is finally back in print. |
NEW RELEASE The daughters of Mars: a novel By Keneally, Thomas Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first on a hospital ship near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, the sisters become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger and also the hostility from some on their own side. |
By Kennedy, Cate Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Rich and Sandy were once environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age, although they've gone about it in very different ways. About the only thing they have in common these days is their fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie. When Rich decides to take Sophie, whom he hardly knows, on a trek into the Tasmanian wilderness, his overconfidence and her growing disillusion with him set off a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Instead of respect, Rich finds antagonism in his relationship with Sophie; and in the vast landscape he once felt an affinity with, he encounters nothing but disorientation and fear. Ultimately, all three characters will learn that if they are to survive, each must traverse not only the secret territories that lie between them but also those within themselves. |
By Kennedy, Douglas Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
By Kingman, Peg Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Receiving a gift from her believed-dead twin brother in 1822, Catherine MacDonald travels to India with her stepdaughter and maids in search of answers, a quest that takes her along an obscure trail of tea, opium, and artistic works (summary from online). |
Edible stories: a novel in sixteen parts By Kurlansky, Mark Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A novel composed of linked tales set in Seattle examines the lives of a variety of men and women through the lens of their relationships with food and drink. The best-selling author of Cod and Salt offers up all-new fictional stories about the food we share, love--and fight over--in a collection of linked tales set in Seattle. - (Baker & Taylor) |
NEW RELEASE By Lancet, Barry Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single father of six-year-old Jenny is living a busy intercontinental life, traveling to Japan to acquire art and artifacts for his store and consulting on Brodie Security's caseload at home and abroad. One night, an entire family is gunned down in San Francisco's bustling Japantown neighborhood, and Brodie is called on by the SFPD to decipher the lone clue left at the crime scene: a unique Japanese character printed on a slip of paper drenched in blood"--Dust jacket flap. |
Hector and the search for happiness: a novel By Lelord, François Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Hector keeps a list of observations about the people he meets, hoping to find the secret to happiness in his travels. |
By Leotta, Allison Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A thrilling ride through D.C.'s criminal justice, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis makes a series of choices that jeopardizes her career, her relationships, and her very life. |
By Lope, Manuel de Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In the days before the Civil War, two women in the Basque Country in northern Spain conspire to commit a victimless crime. |
The Oracle of Stamboul: a novel By Lukas, Michael David Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC It is 1877, when a heartbreaking tragedy leaves Eleanora Cohen marooned in Istanbul during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. But young Eleonora, clever and engaging beyond her years, soon catches the attention of the Sultan's court. |
NEW RELEASE By Lustbader, Eric Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "In the stunning follow-up to Father Night, Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves, or destroy her as the enemy she is. Shortly after McClure leaves a late night meeting with Dennis Paull, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Paull is found-- shot dead. The President is furious but equally frightened of a scandal, since Jack McClure is one of their own-- an operative and Paull's friend. Who will protect the country if even McClure cannot be trusted? With top officials in the CIA and FBI after him, McClure, still devastated over his friend's death, goes on the run. Someone framed him for Paull's murder, possibly to prevent him from accomplishing Paull's last request-- a task vital to U.S. National Security. Someone in the intelligence community has gone rogue and is reporting to The Syrian, one of the most cruel, aggressive terrorists McClure and Paull have ever come across. McClure has been charged with securing the name of the mole, but when Paull's informant goes missing, McClure realizes his mission has only begun. Jack may be setting off after a mole, but he knows that ultimately he will have to confront The Syrian. Which also means confronting The Syrian's lover, Annika Dementieva, the woman Jack once loved and lost. On a quest to find the mole before cloaked agents around the world are exposed and murdered, Jack will soon find himself facing his own beloved enemy.."-- |
By MacIntyre, Linden Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Father Duncan MacAskill, already troubled by years of being the bishop's "hatchet man", is sent to a parish church near where he grew up, only to find the memories of the past and new temptations setting him on a possibly disastrous path. |
By Macomber, Debbie Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Thirty-three-year-old Cassie wants a husband and kids, and she turns to Simon Dodson, a professional matchmaker for help. Dodson assigns her three tasks to complete, and despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie completes them all. Her Christmas match turns out to be a wonderful surprise. |
The next queen of heaven: a novel By Maguire, Gregory Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "As the new millennium approaches, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues. Her daughter, Tabitha Scales, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus--whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this frantic, funny, and farcical. The ancient Sisters of the Sorrowful Mysteries join with a gay singing group. The Radical Radiants battle the Catholics. A Christmas pageant goes horribly awry. And a child is born. THE NEXT QUEEN OF HEAVEN is Maguire's most imaginative story yet"-- |
By Mantel, Hilary Publishing Date: 2010, c1986 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Lock your doors, barricade your windows: Muriel Axon is back in town. It's been ten years since she was locked away for killing her mad old mother. Now she wants to lay Mother's ghost to rest and find her missing child. But above all, she wants revenge. Her former social worker and her old neighbors have made new lives, but Muriel, with her talent for disguise, will infiltrate their homes and exploit their talents for self-destruction, until at last all her enemies are brought together for a gruesome finale. Hilary Mantel's razor-sharp wit animates every page. This malevolent black comedy has as many twists and turns as a well-plotted thriller. - (Blackwell North Amer) |
By Maynard, Joyce Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend. |
The stray sod country: a novel By McCabe, Pat Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC In 1958, the residents of Cullymore, Ireland, wrestle with their identities and their fates, including the barber's wife who is obsessed with Laika, the Sputnik dog. |
By McGuane, Thomas Publishing Date: c 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Struggling to find meaning in a sordid and humiliating youth from which he emerged a doctor through the help of a surrogate father figure, Berl Pickett is charged with negligent homicide in the death of a former lover before finding strength in the human connections he made throughout the years. By the author of Gallatin Canyon. |