WATERFORD — The following new books were added to the Waterford Library collection in October:

Fiction

“Bad Dirt,” Annie Proulx; “Body Work,” Sara Paretsky; “The Cookbook Collector,” Allegra Goodman; “Dog Tags,” David Rosenfelt; “The Fall of Giants,” Ken Follett; “Freedom,” Jonathan Franzen; “The Golden Mean,” Annabel Lyon; “I Curse the River of Time,” Per Petterson; “An Irish Country Courtship,” Patrick Taylor; “The Laughter of Dead Kings,” Elizabeth Peters; “Little Bee,” Chris Cleave.

Also, “The Man in the Wooden Hat,” Jane Gardam; “One Day,” David Nicholls; “Our Kind of Traitor,” John LeCarre; “Red Hook Road,” Ayelet Waldman; “The Red Queen,” Philippa Gregory; “Rich Boy,” Sharon Pomerantz; “Rat,” Fernanda Eberstadt; “The Reversal,” Michael Connelly; “Safe Haven,” Nicholas Sparks; “A Secret Kept,” Tatiana de Rosnay; “The Sisters of Hardscrabble Bay,” Beverley Jensen; “Snakewoman of Little Egypt,” Robert Helenga.

Also, “So Cold The River,” Michael Koryta; “Spider Bones,” Kathy Reich; “The Summer We Read Gatsby,” Danielle Ganek; “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” David Mitchell; “The Tower, The Zoo and The Tortoise,” Julia Stuart; “The Violin of Auschwitz,” Maria Angels Anglada; “The Widower’s Tale,” Julia Glass; “Work Song,” Ivan Doig.

Nonfiction

“Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memory of Friendship,” by Gail Caldwell.

Audio books on CD

“Bait and Switch,” Barbara Ehrenreich; “The Hour I First Believed,” Wally Lamb; “Look Again,” Liza Scottoline; “Moscow Rules,” Daniel Silva; “Paths of Glory,” Jeffrey Archer; “Sons of Fortune,” Jeffrey Archer; “Strangers in Death,” J.D. Robb; “The Teeth of the Tiger,” Tom Clancy.

Children and young adults

“Art with Anything,” MaryAnn Kohl; “At One in a Place Called Maine,” Lynn Plourde; “Big Nate: In a Class by Himself,” Lincoln Pierce; “The Birthday Ball,” Lois Lowry; “Catching Fire,” Suzanne Collins; “Dancing Feet,” Marc Brown; “The Day of the Pelican,” Katherine Paterson; “Deadly Sister,” Eliot Schieffer; “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth,” Jeff Kinney; “Easter Egg,” Jan Brett; “The Eternal Ones: What If Love Refused To Die?,” Kristin Miller.

Also, “Faith, Hope and Ivy June,” Phyllis R. Naylor; “The Familiars,” Adam Epstein; “How Rocket Learned to Read,” Tad Hills; “Julia Gillian (And the Dream of the Dog),” Alison McGhee; “Miss Brooks Loves Books,” Barbara Bottner; “Mockingjay,” Suzanne Collins; “Monsters of Men,” Patrick Ness; “Number One Kid,” Patricia Reilly Giff; “Sand Dollar Summer,” Kimberly Jones; “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” Alvin Schwartz; “The Search for Wondla,” by Tony Diterlizzi.

The Waterford Library is open to all residents of Waterford. Hours are Monday. from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 2 to 6 p.m.

A homebound delivery program is available for Waterford residents. Books will be delivered to residents of the town who are unable to travel to the library for any reason; this includes people with permanent or temporary disabilities or health problems.

A library volunteer will deliver books to participants approximately every three weeks and books will be renewable by telephoning either the library or the volunteer. To sign up for the program Waterford residents may call the library at 583-2050.