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.
By Wells, Martha Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai's magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions. He's not going to like the answers"-- |
By Yarros, Rebecca Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter--like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret"--Provided by publisher. |
By Tobin, Greg Publishing Date: 1987 Classification: W Call Number: W Avenging the cold-blooded murder of his father plunges James Stark into the life of a gun-fighter named Kid Stark., and although he doesn't want to have to kill again, he doesn't want to die either. |
The complete book of numerology: discovering the inner self By Phillips, David A. Publishing Date: [2005] Classification: 100 Call Number: 133.335 PHI The Complete Book of Numerology reveals the underlying meaning behind the numbers in your life and enables you to understand the connection between your numerological patterns and your degree of abundance, health, and general well-being. Overall, delving into the world of numbers will provide you with a simple and accurate way to decipher your experiences in the same manner that a road map helps you navigate a route that you haven't previously traveled. |
By Castaneda, Carlos Publishing Date: 1979, 1977 Classification: 100 Call Number: 133.4 CAS Transformed by don Juan from a bent, gray-haired old woman into a sensual sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda, dona Soledad turns her mysterious and awesome powers against Castaneda in a struggle that nearly consumes him - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Orion, Rae Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 100 Call Number: 133.5 ORI "Shows how to cast your birth chart, understand the way planets affect you, and discover what your horoscope means for romance, work, and the future."--Cover. |
Talking to the dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the rise of spiritualism By Weisberg, Barbara Publishing Date: [2004] Classification: 100 Call Number: 133.9 WEI March 1848. Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil. Are the children who live there -- Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and fourteen -- making the raps to trick their parents? Or are the girls mediums for otherworldly messages? From a battery of strange sounds and the excitement they create, modern Spiritualism is born. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism follows the remarkable story of the Fox sisters, who were catapulted to fame after word spread that they communicated with spirits. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. An international movement developed. Yet forty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying that they had ever been in contact with the dead. Shortly after, in another stunning reversal, they changed their story again and reaffirmed their faith in the spirit world. Were the Fox sisters con artists who had taken a childhood prank too far? Or were they really in touch with "voices from beyond"? In this riveting biography, Barbara Weisberg traces not only the lives of Kate, Maggie, and their family -- including the girls' shrewd and charismatic sister, Leah -- but also the social, religious, economic, and political forces that helped shape the Spiritualist movement. A vivid, compelling overview of a remarkable period in U.S. history, Talking to the Dead provokes questions about belief systems, the power of celebrity, the wish to reconcile faith and science, and the timeless quest for knowledge about life after death. |
NEW RELEASE Tripping on utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science By Breen, Benjamin Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 100 Call Number: 154.4 BRE ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists-and star-crossed lovers-Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson's fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges"-- |
When parents die: a guide for adults By Myers, Edward Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: 100 Call Number: 155.937 MYE Sensible, compassionate advice to those coping with the death of a parent. |
Hardwiring happiness: the new brain science of contentment, calm, and confidence By Hanson, Rick Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: 100 Call Number: 158 HAN "... tells you why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Your brain was wired this way when it evolved, primed to learn quickly from bad experiences, but not so much from the good ones. It's an ancient survival mechanism that turned the brain into Velcro for the negative, but Teflon for the positive. Life isn't easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated and stressed, instead of confident, secure and happy. Every day is filled with opportunities to build these strengths inside, but the brain is designed to ignore and waste them. This makes you come down harder on yourself than you do other people, feel inadequate even though you get a hundred things done, and lonely even when support is all around. Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed neuropsychologist and internationally bestselling author, shows us what we can do to override the brain's default programming. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures that stick to happiness, love, confidence, and peace. Dr. Hanson's four steps build a brain strong enough to withstand its ancient negativity bias, allowing contentment and a powerful sense of well-being to become the new normal. In mere minutes each day, we can transform our brains into oases of calm and happiness. We can hardwire in happiness"-- |
Four things that matter most: a book about living By Byock, Ira Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 100 Call Number: 158.2 BYO Newly updated with stories from people who have turned to this life-altering book in their time of need, this motivational teaching about what really matters reminds us how we can honor each relationship every day. |
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: Britain and the American dream By Moore, Peter Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 100 Call Number: 190.9033 MOO "A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- |
The wandering mind: what Medieval monks tell us about distraction By Kreiner, Jamie Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 200 Call Number: 206.57 KRE "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"-- |
By Rufus, Anneli S Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 200 Call Number: 235.2094 RUF Holy relics--the bodily remains of saints and other sacred figures--were for centuries the most revered objects in the Western world, at center-stage in Europe's great churches and cathedrals. Today some relics have been shunted to side chapels and dark crypts, yet many continue to draw prayerful pilgrims, as they have for centuries, seeking solace, inspiration, and signs of miracles. In Magnificent Corpses, Anneli Rufus recounts her visits to 18 of Europe's most significant relics. With an engaging mix of history and personal narrative, Rufus tells their secret stories and, along the way, revisits with a fresh eye the compelling accounts of the saints whose physical bodies the relics represent.--Amazon.com. |
A crazy, holy grace: the healing power of pain and memory By Buechner, Frederick Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 200 Call Number: 248.8 BUE When pain is real, why is God silent? Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. In this essential collection of essays, including one never before published, Frederick Buechner finds that the God who might seem so silent is ever near. He writes about what it means to be a steward of our pain, and about this grace from God that seems arbitrary and yet draws us to his holiness and care. Finally he writes about the magic of memory and how it can close up the old wounds with the memories of past goodnesses and graces from God. Here now are the best of Buechner's writings on pain and loss, covering such topics as the power of hidden secrets, loss of a dearly beloved, letting go, resurrection from the ruins, peace, and listening for the quiet voice of God. And he reveals that pain and sorrow can be a treasure--an amazing grace. Buechner says that loss will come to all of us, but he writes that we are not alone. Crazy and unreal as it may sometimes seem, God's holy, healing grace is always present and available if we are still enough to receive it. |
The church of mercy: a vision for the church By Francis Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 200 Call Number: 252.02 FRA Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among and for the people, solidarity with the poor, and the need to demolish the idols of power and money. |
John G. Paton : missionary to the New Hebrides: an autobiography edited by his brother, James Paton By Paton, John Gibson Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 200 Call Number: 266.0092 PAT |
Hamlet's mill: an essay on myth and the frame of time By De Santillana, Giorgio Publishing Date: 1977, 1969 Classification: 200 Call Number: 291 DES "In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, the authors track world myths to a common origin in early man's descriptions of cosmological activity, arguing that these remnants of ancient astronomy, suppressed by the Greeks and Romans and then forgotten, were really a form of preliterate science"--Publisher marketing |
The golden bough: a study in magic and religion By Frazer, James George Publishing Date: 1963 Classification: 200 Call Number: 291 FRA The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief, ranging from ancient belief systems to relatively modern religions such as Christianity. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. This king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the earth, who died at the harvest, and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend is central to almost all of the world's mythologies. The germ for Frazer's thesis was the pre-Roman priest-king at the fane of Nemi, who was ritually murdered by his successor. |
The flight of the wild gander: explorations in the mythological dimension By Campbell, Joseph Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: 200 Call Number: 291.13 CAM "Exploration in the mythological dimensions of fairy tales, legends, and symbols"--Cover subtitle. |