Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
December 2023 - March 2024
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.
Rock climbing Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks By Vogel, Randy Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5223 VOG This revised and updated book features topos and photos as well as text describing this popular Southern California area. - (Globe Fearon Co) |
By Wilts, Chuck Publishing Date: 1979 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5223 WIL |
Backcountry skiing: skills for ski touring and ski mountaineering By Volken, Martin Publishing Date: [2007] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.932 VOL The most up-to-date resource available for backcountry skiers. Ready to explore the serious backcountry terrain but want some help to enable you to do so safely and successfully? This authoritative new guide, written by a team of ski mountaineering experts and illustrated with more than 200 photos, provides instruction on traditional mountainerring skills, such as roped climbing, setting protection anchors, and using iced axes, that you'll need in the technical, high alpine environment. Emphasis is placed on being well-informed and making good decisions whenever you strap on your skis and head into the backcountry. |
By Warshaw, Matt Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 700 Call Number: 797.32 WAR Presents a history of surfing and and the culture it has spawned. |
The best of Field & Stream: 100 years of great writing from America's premier sporting magazine Publishing Date: [1995] Classification: 700 Call Number: 799 "Gathers fifty articles about hunting, fishing, wildlife, and the outdoors." -- Amazon.com. |
Fly fishing for trout in streams Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 700 Call Number: 799.1755 Improve your fly-fishing skills through this book's clear, concise text and beautiful, step-by-step color photographs. This book demonstrates how to consistently catch trout with flies and also details effective methods using nymphs, streamers and dry flies. You'll get the basics from equipment to trout behavior. Find out the most effective methods for fishing along the bottom or in the mid-depths. Or, learn how to catch trout that are feeding on the surface. Finally, once you've mastered the art of finding fish, learn the best way to hook, land and release trouts in streams.- (Quayside Pub Group) |
By Strunk, William Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.042 STR An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text. |
The best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 808.81 Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized and love, refection, and two original poems by her mother. |
By Glück, Louise Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 GLÜ The collected works of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer explores her transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined. |
By Hirshfield, Jane Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.54 HIR The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry's most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long ago--to avoid the word "or"--she concludes, "Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life." Hirshfield's lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, "Zero Plus Anything Is a World." Hirshfield's riddling recipes for that world ("add salt to hunger"; "add time to trees") offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives' losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss. -- Provided by publisher. |
John Okada: the life & rediscovered work of the author of No-no boy Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and is cast out by his divided community. The novel faced a similar rejection until is was rediscovered and reissued in 1976, becoming a classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure. This collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of photographs illuminate Okada's life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian, technical writer, and ad man. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy--back cover. |
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A By Anolik, Lili Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 ANO The quintessential biography of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), the brilliant chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood hedonism and one of the most original American voices of her time. |
She's not there: a life in two genders By Boylan, Jennifer Finney Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 BOY A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor. |
Tony Hillerman's landscape: on the road with an American legend By Hillerman, Anne Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 HIL A photographic journey through the landscapes of beloved bestselling author Tony Hillerman's novels-- narrated by his daughter, Anne, with an introduction by the late author. |
Capote's women: a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era By Leamer, Laurence Publishing Date: [2021] Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 LEA "'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at times, they infuriated him as well. He befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible. Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success -- including cultivating close friendships with the richest and most admired women of the era -- he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel... one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends. For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered Prayers. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see. The blowback incinerated his relationships and banished Capote from their high-society world forever... a world that was already crumbling, though none of them realized it yet. Laurence Leamer recreates in detail the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century." -- |
Song of anger: tales of Tule Lake By Shallit, Barney Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 SHA Song of Anger: Tales of Tule Lake is part memoir, part history, part fiction -- and all profoundly stirring and illuminating. In this curious ensemble of "war stories," Barney Shallit evokes his World War II experiences and observations as a Jewish American social worker at northern California's Tule Lake Segregation Center. |
One can think about life after the fish is in the canoe: and other coastal sketches By Houston, James D Publishing Date: 1985 Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.54 HOU |
The crane wife: a memoir in essays By Hauser, CJ Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 800 Call Number: 814.6 HAU "CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with a late-night barstool directness, through the sort of giddy confidences that usually pass between friends, Hauser relates, in dark and often funny ways, the pain of feeling out of sync with the world when you're going through the motions of a life story that doesn't match your reality. With unlikely guides from Katharine Hepburn to Defense Department robots to whooping cranes to golden era SNL comedians to Special Agent Dana Scully, Hauser grapples with the art she loves to mine new understanding of what these sorts of narratives might have to offer as a way forward. These essays follow Hauser as she dismantles the narrative expectations she carried inside her, letting go of the roles she performed to make others comfortable, and seeking joy by tending relationships with community and chosen family--love stories in their own right. The essays capture the daily work of trying, if sometimes failing, to architect a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a sort of home, to live in. The Crane Wife and Other Essays asks what more inclusive storytelling about family and love and growth might offer us all. A book for anyone who's ever been in love with love, anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would, and anyone who ever wondered: am I doing this right?"-- |
Representative American speeches, 2022-2023 Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 800 Call Number: 815.008 |
Writing with intent: essays, reviews, personal prose, 1983-2005 By Atwood, Margaret Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818 ATW "From one of our most passionately engaged global literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection ever assembled of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, spanning 1983-2005. The fifty-eight essays compiled here are written in a bracing voice that is provocative, witty, often colloquial, and always accessible. Comprised of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book and film reviews, eulogies, introductions written for great works of literature, and literary excursions that explore the writing of several of her own novels, this is Atwood's first essay collection in more than two decades, showing that whether writing fiction or nonfiction, she is one of the most probing thinkers in the world of letters today." "Compiled here are the Booker Prize-winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elmore Leonard, Angela Carter, Beryl Bainbridge, Dashiell Hammett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alice McDermott, as well as essays in which she recalls reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and a piece that examines the influence of George Orwell's work on The Handmaid's Tale. Here is Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller in 2004, a look back at a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001"--Jacket. |