Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2022 - October 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.
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What lips my lips have kissed: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay By Epstein, Daniel Mark Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 EPS "This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, a young girl from Camden, Maine, who used her pen as a key to open doors to the wider world. Raised in a female, theatrics-loving household, the sensitive child harbored a talent for words, music, and drama and an inexorable desire to be loved. When Edna St. Vincent Millay was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved by readers the world over." "She was widely considered to be the most seductive woman of her age. Few men could resist her, and many women also fell under her spell. From the publication of her first poems until the scandal over Fatal Interview twenty years later, gossip about the poet's liberated lifestyle prompted speculation about who might be the real subject of her verses." "With a poet's insight, Daniel Mark Epstein re-creates the events and ideas that led to Millay's precocious masterpiece "Renascence," published when she was just nineteen. His detective work exposes the affair between the young poet and the middle-aged editor Arthur Hooley, who encouraged her sexual adventures at Vassar. Epstein has also discovered love letters from the poet George Dillon illuminating the romance that threatened Millay's marriage, and a cache of correspondence concerning the poet's surprising obsession and success with thoroughbred horse racing."--Jacket. |
By Parker, Dorothy Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.52 PAR Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literary coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputation as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humor earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. |
Mr. Straight Arrow: the career of John Hersey, author of Hiroshima By Treglown, Jeremy Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.52 TRE "A monumental revaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of Hiroshima"-- |
Mystery and manners: occasional prose By O'Connor, Flannery Publishing Date: [1969] Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5408 OCO The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relation to the writer's religion. |
Outside history: selected poems, 1980-1990 By Boland, Eavan Publishing Date: ©1991 Classification: 800 Call Number: 821.914 BOL Poems deal with experiences of Irish women in love, marriage, motherhood, and modern society - (Baker & Taylor) "[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention." —David Walker, Field - (Norton Pub) An essential volume by one of our most esteemed poets. - (Norton Pub) |
This time next year we'll be laughing: a memoir By Winspear, Jacqueline Publishing Date: [2020] Classification: 800 Call Number: 823.92 WIN "After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents' years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline's own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory"-- |
By Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Publishing Date: 1986 Classification: 800 Call Number: 848.912 SAI This volume includes the aviator's letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations. |
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