WATERFORD — New books have been announced for December at the Waterford Library.

Fiction

“Ape House,” Sara Gruen; “Bound,” Antonya Nelson; “By Nightfall,” Michael Cunningham; “Compass Rose,” John Casey; “The Confession,” John Grisham; “Daniel,” Henning Mankell; “Driving on the Rim,” Thomas McGuane; “The Elephants Journey,” Jose Saramago; “The False Friend,” Myla Goldberg; “Full Dark, No Stars,” Stephen King.

Also, “The Good Daughters,” Joyce Maynard; “Great House,” Nicole Krauss; “How to Read the Air,” Dinaw Mengestu; “Legacy,” Danielle Steel; “Madame Bovary,” Gustave Flaubert; “My Name is Mary Sutter,” Robin Oliveira; “Nemesis,” Philip Roth; “Painted Ladies,” Robert Parker; “Room,” Emma Donoghue.

Also, “Rose in a Storm,” Jon Katz; Russian Winter, by Daphne Kalotoy; The Scarlet Contessa: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance,” Jeanne Kalogridis; “Sunset Park,” Paul Auster; “To The End of the Land,” David Grossman; “Trespass,” Rose Tremain; “Wicked Appetite,” Janet Evanovich; “The Wolves of Andover,” Kathleen Kent.

Nonfiction

“At Home, A Short History of Private Life,” Bill Bryson.

Audio books on CD

“Complications,” Atul Gawande; “Friend of the Devil,” Peter Robinson; “Strangers in Death,” J.D. Robb; “This I Believe.”

Children and young adults

“Art and Max,” David Wiesner; “Bats at the Ballgame,” Brian Lies; “A Bedtime for Bear,” Bonny Becker; “Bink and Gollie,” Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee; “Brontorina,” James Howe; “City Dog, Country Frog,” Mo Willems; “Clockwork Angel,” Cassandra Clare; “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Ugly Truth,” Jeff Kinney.

Also, “The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall,” Mary Downing Hahn; “Halo,” Alexandra Adornetto; “It’s a Book,” Lane Smith: “Ladybug Girl at the Beach,” David Soman and Jacky Davis: “The Lost Hero,” Rick Riordan; “The Night Fairy,” Laura Amy Schlitz; “Olivia Goes to Venice,” Ian Falconer.

Also, “The Quiet Book,” Deborah Underwood; “Revolution,” Jennifer Donnelly; “Scumble,” Ingrid Law; “The Three Little Dassies,” Jan Brett; “Touch Blue,” Cynthia Lord; “The Wonder of Charlie Anne,” Kimberly Newton Fusco; “Word After Word After Word,” Patricia MacLachlan.

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

A homebound delivery program is available. Books will be delivered to residents  who are unable to travel to the library for any reason. A volunteer will deliver books to participants approximately every three weeks, and books will be renewable by telephoning the library or the volunteer.

To sign up for the program, residents may call the library at 583-2050 to arrange for the service.

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