Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
March 2022 - April 2022
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Williams, Esther Publishing Date: ©1999 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.43 WIL The author offers her perspective on life during Hollywood's Golden Age, chronicling her youthful idealism, her training to be a star, and her own tempestuous personal life. |
Basketball (and other things): a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated By Serrano, Shea Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.323 SER "Thirty-three chapters, each chapter a different basketball question that needs to be answered. Some of them are obviously crucial ... and some of them are secretly crucial. But all of them are approached in ways that ([the author] hope[s] you think) are smart and fun and nuanced"--Back cover. |
By Turbow, Jason Publishing Date: [2011] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.357 TUR A behind-the-scenes analysis of professional baseball's hidden rules reveals the impact of unwritten codes of conduct, retaliatory behaviors, and cheating, providing examples as committed by such figures as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Don Drysdale. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball--hitting, pitching, and baserunning--are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don't steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don't cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter's box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game's most hallowed--and least known--traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. |
By Anderson, Heather Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 AND By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Heather, whose trail name is "Anish," conveys not only her athleticism and wilderness adventures, but also shares her distinct message of courage--her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her. Amid the rigors of the trail--pain, fear, loneliness, and dangers--she discovers the greater rewards of community and of self, conquering her doubts and building confidence. Ultimately, she realizes that records are merely a catalyst, giving her purpose, focus, and a goal to strive toward. Heather is the second woman to complete the "Double Triple Crown of Backpacking," completing the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide National Scenic Trails twice each. She holds overall self-supported Fastest Known Times (FKTs) on the Pacific Crest Trail (2013)hiking it in 60 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes, breaking the previous mens record by four days and becoming the first women to hold the overall record and the Arizona Trail (2016), which she completed in 19 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes. She also holds the womens self-supported FKT on the Appalachian Trail (2015) with a time of 54 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes. Heather has hiked more than twenty thousand miles since 2003, including ten thru-hikes. An ultramarathon runner, she has completed six 100-mile races since August 2011 as well as dozens of 50 km and 50-mile events. She has attempted the infamous Barkley Marathons four times, starting a third loop once. Heather is also an avid mountaineer working on several ascent lists in the US and abroad. |
Crag survival handbook: the unspoken rules of climbing By Samet, Matt Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5223 SAM Crag Survival Handbook: The Unspoken Rules of Climbing is longtime climber Matt Samet's personal handbook to becoming a member of the climbing community. While Samet discusses key skills like movement, dealing with fear, gear management, and how to fall, he also delves into crag culture. |
By LaPlante, Gary Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.7 LAP "How to Ride Off-Road Motorcycles gives first-time riders all the information they need to know to get started in this exciting sport. Author Gary LaPlante takes riders through a step-by-step lesson plan that details the basic and advanced techniques to safely navigate the trails"--Provided by publisher. |
Godforsaken sea: racing the world's most dangerous waters By Lundy, Derek Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 700 Call Number: 797.1246 LUN Hair-raising account of the world's most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing race. Around the world, one sailor, one boat, no stops, no assistance. On November 3, 1996, the 16 solo sailboat racers of the third Vende Globe contest left the little French port of Les Sables dOlonne for a four-month round race whose most trying feature would be a circumnavigation of treacherous Antarctica. |
Maps and legends: reading and writing along the borderlands By Chabon, Michael Publishing Date: 2009, ©2008 Classification: 800 Call Number: 801.95 CHA A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection. |
The best American science writing, 2011 Publishing Date: ©2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.0665 Collects into one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year 2011. Culled from a wide variety of publications, these selections of outstanding journalism cover the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, providing a comprehensive overview of the most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science. |
The best American science and nature writing 2001 Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.8 Iterations of immortality / David Berlinski -- To save a watering hole / Mark Cherrington -- New life in a death trap / Edwin Dobb -- Abortion and brain waves / Gregg Easterbrook -- Baby steps / Malcolm Gladwell -- In the forests of Gombe / Jane Goodall -- The doubting disease / Jerome Groopman -- The recycled generation -- Stephen S. Hall -- Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich -- Harpy eagles / Edward Hoagland -- Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy -- A killing at dawn / Ted Kerasote -- Seeing scarlet / Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp -- The best clock in the world / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- The wild world's Scotland Yard / Jon R. Luoma -- Breeding discontent / Cynthia Mills -- Ice station Vostok / Oliver Morton -- Being prey / Val Plumwood -- Troubled waters / Sandra Postel -- The genome warrior / Richard Preston -- Megatransect / David Quammen -- Inside the volcano / Donovan Webster. |
The best American science and nature writing, 2002 Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.8 A collection of nature and science based essays by such authors as Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Dennis Overbye. |
The best American science and nature writing 2019 Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 810.8 Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature writing are how we share the truth about the universe with the people of the world." And collected here are truths about nearly every corner of the universe. From meditations on extinction, to the search for alien life, to the prejudice that infects our medical system, the pieces in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing seek to bring to the people stories of some of the most pressing issues facing our planet, as well as moments of wonder reflecting the immense beauty our natural world offers. |
By Collins, Billy Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 COL Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets. - (Random House, Inc.) |
The winged seed: a remembrance By Lee, Li-Young Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 LEE This memoir of Chinese American poet Lee creates a moving portrait of his imposing, emotionally elusive father that testifies to the pride, hope, social pain, and cultural alienation of Asian refugees in America. |
By Ondaatje, Michael Publishing Date: 2000, ©1998 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 OND Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's return to the place of his family, a remembrance, an honoring, and a lament of astonishing beauty. It is an irresistible work of poetic genius, and reaffirms Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today. He takes us through the sweep of history in the island of Sri Lanka, summoning up stories of war and love, of goon squads, kings and robbers, and of two millennia of culture, to create a tapestry of images, scents and gestures—the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory—that reveal the longing for, and expose our anguish over, lost loves, homes, and lost ways of expression. He joins the poets of old who "wrote their stories on rock and leaf / to celebrate the work of the day,/ the shadow pleasures of the night." At the same time, his artistry as a poet, and the language of these poems, supersede all individual story-moments to give us a larger understanding of the human condition—he himself can be counted among those who "shared it / on a scroll or nudged / the ink onto stone / to hold the vista of a life." - (Random House, Inc.) |
By Smith, Danez Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.6 SMI Smith's unflinching poetry addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity. The collection opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved on earth. "Dear White America," which Smith performed at the 2014 Rustbelt Midwest Region Poetry Slam, has as strong an impact on the page as it did on the spoken word stage. Smith's courage and hope amidst the struggle for unity in America will humble and uplift you. |
By Hughes, Langston Publishing Date: ©1986 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 HUG Volume one of Hughes' autobiography tells of his early years--in Paris and Harlem. |
NEW RELEASE How to be perfect: the correct answer to every moral question By Schur, Michael Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.602 SCH "From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"-- |
House lessons: renovating a life By Bauermeister, Erica Publishing Date: [2020] Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.603 BAU "In this memoir-in-essays, New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in the eccentric town of Port Townsend, WA, and in the process takes readers on a journey into the ways our spaces subliminally affect us, ultimately showing us how to make our houses (and lives) better"-- |
Late migrations: a natural history of love and loss By Renkl, Margaret Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.608 REN Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world—from beloved New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. - (Perseus Publishing) |