On the Shelf – 10/1

What’s New on the Shelves of the Downieville Library

A plethora of books have newly found their way to the shelves of the library. Here’s what’s new to us:

Fiction books

• The Water Hole, by Graeme Base (easy reader)

• The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford (juvenile)

• Little Bee, by Chris Cleave

• Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich

• A Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich

• The Black Stallion and Satan, by Walter Farley (juvenile)

• The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn (thriller)

• Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall (easy reader: 1980 Caldecott Medal)

• The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach

• Lucifer’s Shadow, by David Hewson (thriller)

• Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman (mystery)

• Listening Woman, by Tony Hillerman (mystery)

• The Ghostway, by Tony Hillerman (mystery)

• The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

• A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Award)

• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle (young adult: 1963 Newbery Medal)

• Circe, by Madeline Miller

• The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

• Rascal, by Sterling North (juvenile: 1964 Newberry Honor Book)

• Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak

• The Phoenix Crown, by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang

• There are no cats in this book, by Viviane Schwarz (easy reader)

• Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

• Etna, by Paul Yoon

Non-fiction books

• A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen Armstrong

• The Tanners, by Leonard Everett Fisher (juvenile)

• Robert Frost’s Poems, by Robert Frost (poetry)

• What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man, by Art Garfunkel (autobiography)

• 12 Poets, by Glenn Leggett (poetry)

• Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters (poetry)

• A Child’s History of Hawaii, by Edward J. McGrath, Jr. (juvenile)

• Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, by Kathleen Norris

• When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris (essays)

• The Theban Plays, by Sophocles

• The Alaska Gold Rush, by David B. Wharton

Audio-books

• Bitterroot, by James Lee Burke

• The Tenth Justice, by Brad Meltzer

• Private L.A., by James Patterson

All of these — and others — are waiting for you to come check them out. They really do want to see something of life beyond the walls of the library.