There are new books on the shelves again this week...

Below are the titles of just a few of the books recently donated to the Silver City Volunteer Library:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1998) The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India

Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell (2010) this thriller by the author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries is set in the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen. A resident of the town soon learns that not only have members of her family in Sweden been among the victims, but that some of her relatives living in Nevada have also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.

In Memory of David’s Buick by Bob Saar (2011) If you've followed Bob Saar's work at the Burlington Hawkeye Newspaper over the last ten years, or read any of his other work online, you'll be glad he wrote a novel. This is classic Bob Saar.

New mysteries by George Pelecanos, C.J. Box, Jonathan Kellerman, and Lee Childs, including Echo Burning

Devil’s Exile by Chuck Hogan (2010) When Neal Maven and a crew of fellow Iraq War veterans begin ripping off Boston-area drug dealers for profit, their lives are quickly put into jeopardy

Third Rail by Michael Harvey (2010) The city of Chicago is under siege, and Michael Kelly, cynical cop turned private investigator, just happens to be on the scene when all hell breaks loose

Degrees of Freedom and Theories of Flight by Simon Morden (2011) Featuring the character Samuil Petrovitch

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy (2010) by Carlos Eire: in this memoir, Carolos Eire takes up where he left off in Waiting for Snow in Havana: as an eleven-year-old, Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands of other children—to begin their new life in Miami in 1962.

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain (2010) Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain pulls back the curtain—but never pulls his punches—on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can. And always he returns to the question "Why cook?" Or the more difficult "Why cook well?"