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 Ríos, Julián Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses. Every book is born out of an earlier book (or books), and much as Joyce's novel unraveled Homer scene by scene, Ríos's The House of Ulysses returns the favor, giving us the story of several bickering characters hoping to get to the bottom of Joyce's masterpiece (by force, if necessary)—their conversation walking the line between a slapstick parody of the Joyce industry and a legitimate "guide for the perplexed." Focusing on each of Ulysses's characters, ideas, and references in turn, The House of Ulysses provides a playful, punning, ideal companion for the experienced Joycean and cautious procrastinator alike: one novel dreaming its way through another. - (Norton Pub) |
By Rock, Judith Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Paris, 1686. Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, is assigned to assist in teaching rhetoric and directing dance at the prestigious Collg̈e of Louis le Grand. On his first day, the school's star dancer disappears from rehearsal, and the next day another student is run down in the street. When the dancer's body is found under the worst possible circumstances, Charles is determined to find the killer in spite of being ordered to leave the investigation. |
By Rock, Peter Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Living with her father in an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week, when they venture into the city to buy groceries and attend church, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Roth, Philip Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.--From publisher's description. |
The goat woman of Largo Bay: a novel By Royes, Gillian Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Working at the side of an American employer who would rebuild a Caribbean hotel, Shadrack, a bartender and amateur detective, encounters a woman on the run who is being targeted by a group of election riggers. By the author of Business Is Good. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Russell, Karen Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. |
Deadgame: a John Marquez crime novel By Russell, Kirk Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC The abduction of a confidential informant draws California Fish and Game warden John Marquez into a desperate race against time to find the missing woman before it is too late and into an investigation that leaves him in the middle of a confrontation between the Russian mob and the FBI. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Shell games: a John Marquez crime novel By Russell, Kirk Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez, a former DEA agent and current head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, discovers that his own life is in danger from Kline, a vicious drug smuggler and abalone poacher with a grudge against Marquez. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Sackville, Amy Publishing Date: [2011], c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer's day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill-fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. |
By Saramago, José Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth-century Europe, based on a true story." (from the back cover). |
NEW RELEASE Accused: a Rosato & Associates novel By Scottoline, Lisa Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing in Accused. They'll face their most challenging and dangerous case ever. |
By Sharpe, Matthew Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC "It is 2008 in the suburban town of Seacrest, Long Island. Twenty-six-year-old high school math teacher Karl Floor has no parents, no friends, few prospects, is a dim bulb, and lives at home with Larchmont Jones, the aggressively loquacious widower of Karl's mother. One fine afternoon, Karl returns to his house after work to discover a beautiful stranger in the upstairs hallway. She is Sylvia Vetch, and claims to be robbing him. She also asks for his protection, but won't quite say from what or whom, and draws him into troubles she won't elucidate."--Cover. |
Please look after mom: a novel By Sin, Kyong-suk Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy. |
Mr. Rosenblum dreams in English By Solomons, Natasha Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project. |
Charles Jessold, considered as a murderer By Stace, Wesley Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera's premiere, Jessold murders his wife and her lover, and then commits suicide in a scenario that strangely echoes the plot of his opera---which Shepherd had helped to write. The opera will never be performed. |
By Stafford, Jean Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC |
A special place: the heart of a dark matter By Straub, Peter Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity "Ladykiller," recognizes his nephew's nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught. |
By Stuart, Julia Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Stuart offers this charming tale set in a French village in which the local barber, whose business is failing as his clients grow older and balder, decides to become the town matchmaker. |
By Swift, Deborah Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC After the English Civil War, a painter of wildflowers discovers a rare orchid growing in the woods belonging to a Quaker and steals the plant, setting off a chain of events that results in murder and exile. |
By Tranter, Kirsten Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Julia, Ralph, and Ingrid become college friends in Sydney, but after Ingrid moves to New York and then disappears on September 11th, Julia and Ralph are compelled to explore their friend's mysterious final days. |