Lost City Radio, a novel by Daniel Alarcon tells the story of Norma, the voice of Lost City Radio, a popular program in a nameless South American country that broadcasts the names of missing people in the aftermath of a civil war.

In the novel, The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff, Willie Upton explores her family’s genealogy in an attempt to learn the truth about her father and discovers secrets buried over the span of two centuries.

Susan Gregg Gilmore’s first novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is set in Ringgold, Georgia in the 1970s.  The first pages of this novel find Catherine Grace Cline plotting to get as far away from her small hometown as possible, but just when she thinks that this will actually happen, events change the way she looks at her world.

Another first novel, And Sometimes Why by Rebecca Johnson, explores the profound impact that family members have on each other.

Winner of the Booker Prize, author Pat Barker has written a new novel titled Life Class about World War I and the impact in terms of human devastation and psychic damage on all levels of British society.

Southern mystery writer, Mary Kay Andrews’ newest novel is titled Deep Dish.  Andrews is the author of Savannah Breeze.

Also new in the mystery section is Murder Melts in Your Mouth, A Blackbird Sisters Mystery by Nancy Martin.

Other new fiction titles available at the library are Beginner’s Greek by James Collins; Swallow the Ocean, a first novel by Laura M. Flynn; and Falling Man by Don DeLillo.

March events at the library include Learn to Knit, Lapsits for Preschoolers, and the Scholastic Book Fair on March 26-29.  Call the library for details on these programs or to reserve a book.  The library is open Monday through Thursday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm; and Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.