Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2014 - June 2014
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.
Long, last, happy: new and selected stories By Hannah, Barry Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death. |
By Moore, Lorrie Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Eight short stories. |
By Munro, Alice Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be. |
By Serber, Natalie Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters includes such tales as a mother and child who turn cooking ingredients into symbolic weapons and a woman who questions her place in the face of teen antics. |
The book of mischief: new and selected stories By Stern, Steve Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Stern manages to be both ebullient and caustic, even within perfectly stitched sentences, throughout his cunning and transporting tales of Jewish life. This vital collection of new and previously published works spans a quarter of a century of Stern's shape-shifting and loving stories of families and enclaves, most notably the Jewish neighborhood in WWI–era Memphis called the Pinch. Here the pragmatic old hands focused on assimilation shun those among them who pursue mystical revelations and run the Neighborhood House, where the greenhorns were taught how to box-step and brush their teeth. Stern's fablelikeaccountsof mismatched marriages, misfit children, gossip, fear, and folly are stoked by sharp-tongued disputations and philosophical humor and stand as the American descendants of Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales. Similarly vivid stories take place in New York City during the high tide of Jewish immigration and in Europe, including one about a boy in a death camp. Stern breathes life into every robustly detailed and emotionally nuanced story, lifting the veil between the earthly and the divine to create a radiant book of mischief and magic. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. |
The name of the nearest river: stories By Taylor, Alex Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Taylor blends all the essential ingredients of classic Southern fiction—beer, fishing, guns, cars, and moral and social restlessness—together in his first collection, 11 stories of revenge, violence, impossible love, and true heartache. His hard-drinking, dogged Kentuckians have little and desire less, yet find themselves losing their dignity to those who seem to possess more. Two surly brothers, late for their aunt's funeral (and without a gift), snag a prize catfish with their bare hands, only to have it stolen by a smug man with a jet ski and a pretty girl. A group of lonesome men, who regularly meet for a cathartic, makeshift demolition derby, lose their bearings when a woman driving her husband's Mustang interrupts them. And a band of vengeful American colonists on a manhunt are betrayed by a silver-tongued Tory while the outlaw hides in a cave. Taylor's voice is sure and raw, truly and comically Southern in the best sense of the word, and these spirited tales are a fine addition to the South's long and celebrated storytelling tradition. Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews. 2011 Eric Hoffer Award in the General Fiction 2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin Award Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”' --Chris Offutt |
Hills like white hills: stories By Wetherell, W. D. Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS "In "The Lucy Coffin," an elderly lawyer finally tells his son the real story of the magical journey he took as a young man and the lovely woman he met whose memory haunts him still; in "Pucker Pie," a summer rock concert in Vermont turns ugly as one family becomes caught up in a night of terror; and in the award-winning tale, "Watching Girls Play," a middle-aged former soccer star, shirking a sales call, happens upon a girls' soccer match that forces him to face some unpleasant truths about the kind of man he's become."--BOOK JACKET. |
Wherever that great heart may be: stories By Wetherell, W. D. Publishing Date: c1996 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS ~ Nine idiosyncratic, moving stories from the author of, most recently, The Wisest Man in America (1995). In his first collection since Hyannis Boat (1989), Wetherell offers a number of deftly crafted variations on the struggles of parents and children to create a shared language--often in tales set among families living by choice or misfortune on the fringe of society. In ``The Road to the City,'' a boy, in the course of an absurd trip with his feckless father, tries desperately to penetrate the reasons for the man's increasingly manic behavior, while the frightened young boy in ``The Snow'' fights to find a way to help his embattled, isolated family survive a massive blizzard. In ``Natale's Hat,'' a grown man and his elderly, ailing, bitter father are caught up in a less lethal but nonetheless alarming tangle with nature while crossing Lake Como. ``In a Maritime Province'' traces the awkward attempts of a long-absent father and his disaffected 17-year-old daughter to comfort each other in the wake of a death. ``The Greatest Mayan Speller Extant'' is an exact, heartbreaking portrait of a young girl from South America exploited by a hustler attempting to cash in on her startling talent. And ``Those Who Cross,'' one of Wetherell's most audacious tales, is a fable set in a timeless rural past, describing in precise, beautifully modulated prose the manner in which a boy, fascinated by the river that flows past the family farm, becomes for a brief time a ferryman transporting the souls of the dead across the water. The title story, in which a man recollects the wonderful tales his exuberant grandfather once told him, is a lovely celebration of the ability of stories to stir, and transmit, something essential in our nature, an ability repeatedly on display here. A strong collection from one of the most ambitious and inventive writers working in the form. Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews |
Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: M Call Number: M An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl- burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson. - (Penguin Putnam) |
NEW RELEASE By Albert, Susan Wittig Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M "When China's and Ruby's friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend's death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen? Delving into the cold case, China learns the motive for the first murder may be related to a valuable collection of Mexican art. Enlisting the help of her San Antonio lawyer friend Justine Wyzinski--aka the Whiz--China is determined to track down the murderer. But is she painting herself into a corner from which there's no escape?"-- |
NEW RELEASE Aunt Dimity and the wishing well By Atherton, Nancy Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M "When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person's wish is another person's worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos. As more and more wishes come true, Lori resolves to find out what's really going on. Is handsome Jack somehow tricking his neighbors? Or are they fooling themselves? With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Lori discovers that the truth is even more marvelous than a magical wishing well"-- |
NEW RELEASE Don't look for me: an Amos Walker novel By Estleman, Loren D. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M "Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the dead body in the basement . . . or about any illegal activity that might be connected to the corpse. She is, however, interested in Walker's body, and he discovers he's interested in hers as well. But he can't tarry long, for the Mafia could be involved . . . or maybe there's a connection to the porno film studio where the missing woman's former maid now works. But when two Mossad agents accost Walker--and then are brutally killed--he realizes he's discovered a plot far darker run by someone more deadly than either the Mafia or a two-bit porn pusher. Who--or what--could be so viciously murderous? Walker has few clues, and knows only that with every new murder he is no closer to solving the case. When he finally gets a break, he recognizes the silken, deadly hand of a nemesis who nearly killed him twice before . . . and this time may finish the job"-- |
By Goodwin, Jason Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: M Call Number: M In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery before Palewski is unmasked and falls prey to a ruthless killer. |
The shadows in the street: a Simon Serrailler mystery By Hill, Susan Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: M Call Number: M Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his life.--From publisher description. |
By Kilmer, Nicholas Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: M Call Number: M Taylor is sent undercover as a member of the faculty at Stilton Academy near Boston. An instructor has purportedly disappeared with a female first-year student, daughter of the Academy's only significant donor. There are other conflict brewing-- are they misguided, or sinister? |
NEW RELEASE By Leon, Donna Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty. |
Tom Wasp and the Newgate knocker By Myers, Amy Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: M Call Number: M When chimney sweep Tom Wasp visits his friend Eliza Hogg in Newgate Prison in January 1863, on the day before she is due to be hanged, he is given the only thing of value she possesses, a pawn ticket. His 12 year old apprentice, Ned, is disappointed that the pawn item turns out to be a scruffy sailor doll, until they find a hidden secret... that sets off the two most notorious gangs of London's East End. |
NEW RELEASE By Woods, Stuart Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M Stone Barrington's newest client does not seem the type to bring mayhem in his wake. A polite, well-deported gentleman, he comes to Stone seeking legal expertise on an unusual--and potentially lucrative--dilemma. Stone points him in the right direction and sends him on his way, but it's soon clear Stone hasn't seen the end of the case. Several people are keenly interested in this gentleman's activities and how they may relate to a long-ago crime . . . and some of them will stop at nothing to find the information they desire. |
By Baggott, Julianna Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm. |
NEW RELEASE By Benford, Gregory Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated--one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape--while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe"-- |