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.
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 Davis, Jim Publishing Date: 1994 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 DAV Everyone's favorite fat cat is back in the twenty-sixth collection of daily comic strips--chowing down goodies, tormenting his pal Odie, and reminding his human master, the beleaguered Jon, who is really in charge. |
By Davis, Jim Publishing Date: 1991 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 DAV A new collection features Garfield and his friends, Jon and Odie, in a host of hilarious situations. |
By Feehan, Christine Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 FEE Juliette, a beautiful activist dedicated to freeing caged animals from a secret jungle lab, unwittingly releases Riordan, a caged, insatiable, and immortal Carpathian thirsting for revenge against his captors. |
By Radtke, Kristen Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 RAD "A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief. When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and, not long after his funeral, the sight of an abandoned mining town marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted towns in the American Midwest, Italian villas, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. At once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke's stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: why are we here, and what will we leave behind?"-- |
By Windsor-Smith, Barry Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 WIN "The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning"-- |
How to draw 60 native California plants and animals By Wareh, Sama Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 743.6 WAR Did you know that you can make medicine out of Prickly Pear Cactus or that it only takes a few steps to learn how to draw it? How to Draw 60 Native California Plants and Animals highlights some of California's diverse native species, and shows step by step instructions on how to draw them. Each page offers a fact about the species, and is formatted in a way that makes it easy to understand its ecological significance. This book is designed with the teacher and Field Naturalist in mind. With easy to photocopy pages, step by step instructions on how to make a field journal, and recipes for making tea, it is the perfect, travel friendly, easy-to-pack book. |
Bottles: how to pick antiques like a pro By Polak, Michael Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 700 Call Number: 748.82 POL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES: CERAMICS & GLASS. When a brilliant and rare flask sold at auction for a record $176,670 a few years ago, a secret was unearthed- bottles are true treasures. Discover for yourself what veteran bottle hunters have known for years with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking bottles. Learn what seasoned collectors look for and what they value in the easy-to-follow and indispensable pockets guide. |
To a young jazz musician: letters from the road By Marsalis, Wynton Publishing Date: ©2004 Classification: 700 Call Number: 781.65 MAR "In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music - and to leading a good life." |
Maria Callas: a musical biography By Levine, Robert Publishing Date: ©2003 Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.1 LEV A biography of the extraordinary life and art of Greek soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977). Includes a track-by-track commentary on her major performances, all included on two full-length CDs, as well as a glossary, chronology, performance history, and discography. Nice b&w photographs throughout. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
Pacific Ocean Park: the rise and fall of Los Angeles' space-age nautical pleasure pier By Merritt, Christopher Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.0687 MER An amusement pier reinvented as a theme park, P.O.P. operated for less than ten years (1958 to 1966), but remains a nostalgic memory for many Angelenos. |
Burt Lancaster: an American life By Buford, Kate Publishing Date: [2000] Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.43 BUF The story of Burt Lancaster, the star of such films as Sweet smell of success, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, The swimmer, Atlantic City, From here to eternity, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg, The leopard, 1900, and Field of Dreams, from his teenage years to the "anti-Communist witch-hunts" and on through his final years. |
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. |