New New Really New

We've just refreshed the Just Added to the Database list. The most curious thing on the list is yet another new title by V. C. Andrews, who died in 1986, and whose subsequent career gives the notion of a 'ghost writer' a literal slant. According to Wikipedia, novelist Andrew Neiderman has been writing the V. C. Andrews titles since her death. His own website doesn't mention this parallel career, but only features the thrillers written under his own name. We have a couple of them.

There are a number of local interest titles just added: Jimmy Santiago Baca's Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande ; Strawbale Home Plans ; and Acequia : water-sharing, sanctity, and place by Sylvia Rodríguez. And perhaps Julia Alvarez's book, One Upon a Quinceanera, will also call particularly to New Mexico interests. There are a couple of foodie titles, Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution by Thomas McNamee ; Slow food nation : why our food should be good, clean, and fair by Carlo Petrini ; a great many political titles as there have been continuously for the past several years; and some interesting new fiction.

A lot of the titles on this list are only at Southside Library, and until just now would have been hard to get hold of. But as of Monday you will be able to place holds directly on those titles, and ask to have them delivered to the other two branches.