Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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Vogue knitting: the ultimate knitting book

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 746.432

An updated knitting reference offers an expanded library of stitches; sections on new favorite techniques; dozens of projects for hats, mittens, gloves, socks, and shawls; and revised chapters on finishing and garment care.

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Sky runner: finding strength, happiness, and balance in your running

By Forsberg, Emelie

Publishing Date: 2018

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.425 FOR

"The ultimate outdoor woman, Emelie Forsberg captures the magic of a life spent amongst the mountaintops. She shares her passion for skyrunning and her accumulated expertise on how to thrive in this demanding sport. In Sky Runner, Emelie shares her experiences: using intervals, uphill and downhill training, and more to maintain peak physical condition; incorporating both yoga and strength exercises into her daily training routines; growing her own food and creating her own recipes to nourish body and soul; physically and mentally recovering from injury; finding balance in her life as a professional, extreme-sport athlete; sustaining both motivation and passion in her sport and her life"--Page [4] of cover.

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Training for the uphill athlete: a manual for mountain runners and ski mountaineers

By Jornet, Kilian

Publishing Date: [2019]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.428 JOR

"Training for the Uphill Athleete translates theory into methodolgoy to allow you to write your own training plans and coach yourslef to your endurance goals. This is the only book that presents training principles for athletes who regularly partipate in distance running, ski mountaineering, skimo, and other sports that require optimum fitness and customized strength....This book collectes the scientically backed and athelete-tested wisdom and experience of the best uphill athletes and educates outdoor athletes to develop plans to perform their best." --from back cover.

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Shout: a poetry memoir

By Anderson, Laurie Halse

Publishing Date: [2019]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 AND

"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore."--Publisher's description.

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The long-legged house: essays

By Berry, Wendell

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 800

Call Number: 814 BER

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Everybody's autobiography

By Stein, Gertrude

Publishing Date: 1993

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.5209 STE

"[This book] is Gertrude Stein's 1937 sequel to The Auobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is a profoundly different different book from its predecessor. Where that book is breezy and almost glib, this book is serious, and funny in a more biting manner. [It] is a book of the thirties, rather than the twenties: more sober, more concerned with social issues like nationhood and justice, and more realistic. Most dramatically, of course, Stein drops the voice of Alice B [Babette] Toklas and writes as herself. ..."--Publisher's note (page vii).

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We survived: at last I speak

By Malmed, Leon

Publishing Date: c2013

Classification: 900

Call Number: 940.5318 MAL

"This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned. Meanwhile their downstairs neighbors, Henri and Suzanne Ribouleau, gave the children a home and family and sheltered them through subsequent roundups, threats, air raids, and the war's privations. The courage, sympathy, and dedication of the Ribouleaus stand in strong contrast to the collaborations and moral weakness of many of the French authorities. "Papa Henri and Maman Suzanne" were honored as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 1977. It is a narrative of love and courage, set against a backdrop of tragedy, fear, injustice, prejudice, and the greatest moral outrage of the modern era. It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil"-- publisher's description.

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Ronald Reagan

By Weisberg, Jacob

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.927 WEI

"In the second half of the twentieth century, no American president defined his political era as did Ronald Reagan. He ushered in an age that extolled smaller government, tax cuts, and strong defense, and to this day politicians of both political parties operate within the parameters of the world he made. His eight years in office from 1981 to 1989 were a time of economic crisis and recovery, a new American assertiveness abroad, and an engagement with the Soviet Union that began in conflict but moved in surprising new directions. Jacob Weisberg provides a bracing portrait of America's fortieth president and the ideas that animated his political career, offering a fresh psychological interpretation and showing that there was more to Reagan than the usual stereotypes. Reagan, he observes, was a staunch conservative but was also unafraid to compromise and cut deals where necessary. And Reagan espoused a firm belief, just as firm as his belief in small government and strong defense, that nuclear weapons were immoral and ought to be eliminated. Weisberg argues that these facets of Reagan were too often ignored in his time but reveal why his presidency turned out to be so consequential. In the years since Reagan left office, he has been cast in marble by the Republican Party and dismissed by the Democrats. Weisberg shows why we need to move past these responses if we wish truly to appreciate his accomplishments and his legacy."--Jacket.

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A warning

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.933

"An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital"--Dust jacket.

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Putting California on the map: von Schmidt's lines

By Carle, David

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.4 CAR

When A.W. von Schmidt lived in California, from 1849 through 1906, the young state developed a reputation as a society of innovators and energetic problem-solvers. Von Schmidt’s life story is at the core of the “anything is possible” legend that became associated with California and its citizens. He was a surveyor and civil engineer, an involved citizen of San Francisco, a father and husband, and a pioneer whose personal triumphs and tragedies enlarged the California Dream. A.W.'s energetic efforts to give shape to California, to devise long-distance water delivery systems and astonishingly creative engineering solutions for challenges faced by the young state, have been nearly forgotten. This biography is the first comprehensive telling of his life and of his leadership in the shaping of 19th century California. Includes 45 photos and sketches, and 13 maps. - (Booksurge)

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Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters

By Beaty, Andrea

Publishing Date: 2018

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.

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Famous friends & foes

By Chlebowski, Rachel

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Introduces some of the most popular Pokemóðn and describes their evolved forms and what they are like in Alola.

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Louisiana's way home

By DiCamillo, Kate

Publishing Date: 2018

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home.

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The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread

By DiCamillo, Kate

Publishing Date: 2006

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

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Trouble at the arcade

By Dixon, Franklin W.

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Frank and Joe Hardy plan to compete in the local arcade tournament, agreeing the winner will get to move into the cool new room built by their dad, and when money goes missing from the competition, they work together to solve the mystery.

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Mr. Lemoncello's great library race

By Grabenstein, Chris

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--

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The strangers

By Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids share their same first and middle names. They're the same ages. They even have identical birthdays. Who, exactly, are these strangers? Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. Morales and her daughter, Natalie. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down.

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Sweeping up the heart

By Henkes, Kevin

Publishing Date: [2019]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"After an eventful spring break, seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life changes forever"--

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Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo

By Scieszka, Jon

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"--

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Frank Einstein and the electro-finger

By Scieszka, Jon

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--