4/15: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Rick Steve's Italy--8 episodes from the public television series Rick Steve's Europe
• Off the map
• Lady and the Tramp

Books:

• Chiefs / Stuart Woods —spans fifty years of racial tension, politics, and murder in the small Southern town of Delano, Georgia, where a depraved killer claims his innocent victims even as three very different generations of policemen seek to stop him.
• She's come undone / Wally Lamb —Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.
• The human stain / Philip Roth —It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist.
• Reader's digest complete do-it-yourself manual
• Mr. Darwin's shooter / Roger McDonald —As a boy, Syms Covington was watched over by the beckoning image of Christian, John Bunyan's pilgrim, in the stained-glass window of his Bedford chapel - and at thirteen he left home and went to sea with the evangelical sailor John Phipps. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he entered Darwin's service, an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old.
• Naked came the phoenix : a serial novel / Nevada Barr (and 12 other female mystery writers) —The promise of discretion and pampering - and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother - draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly elected congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa's flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered.
• Monday's child / L. L. Chaikin —A woman faces incredible odds as she searches to understand God's plan for her, in this involving a beautiful model, an international banking scandal, family guilt, and a tragic accident.

Publishers' synopses are quoted from the linked sites.