On the shelves — Dec. 7

Clovis-Carver Public Library

Design Bloggers at Home: Fresh Interiors Inspiration from Leading Online Trend-Setters by Ellie Tennant explores beautiful homes and clever styling ideas from creators of leading online blogs, offering a visual feast of inspiring, yet achievable, interiors with plenty of ideas to use in

your own home.

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta focuses on thirteen-year-old Jace Wilson who witnesses a murder and is plunged into a new life, issued a

false identity, and hidden in the Montana wilderness until he can testify; but the killers are determined to find him before they come to trial.

Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton recounts the harrowing journey of a man who lost his wife, his son, and his freedom until the New York-based Innocence Project brought to light DNA evidence that was collected but never introduced in court, finally setting him free.

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman opens a sprawling tale of an orphan who belatedly investigates the mystery of her origins, beginning a journey that leaps through decades and from Bangkok to Brooklyn as she searches for answers to her own puzzling past.

A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel delineates the aftermath of a deadly distracted driving crash in which a Utah college student fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving, exploring the effect that multitasking gadgets produce on our uni-tasking minds.

The Son by Jo Nesbo addresses the question of what can drive a person to evil as Sonny Lofthus, a convict who agrees to take the fall for the crimes of others in exchange for an unending supply of heroin, learns the truth about his father’s death, escapes from prison, and begins to hunt down those responsible for the crimes against him.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie analyzes the ways in which easy access to information in the digital age hampers our ability to pursue a sustained quest for understanding: a characteristic shared by some of humanity’s greatest minds.

Portales Public Library

The Burning Room by Michael Connelly: When a man finally dies after being shot by a supposedly stray bullet 10 years before, Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch finds himself in the middle of an unsolved case in which the corpse is new but there are no other clues to go on. Not only is Bosch stumped as to how the bullet ended up lodged in the dead man’s spine in the first place, but he soon begins to suspect that the shooting was not random. As Bosch digs up years-old evidence, he and his brand-new partner, Detective Lucia Soto — who has no homicide experience whatsoever — find their investigation pointing to another unsolved case, in which several children died in a fire 20 years before. However, as their investigation gains speed and they get closer to the truth, both Bosch and Soto find their careers and their lives at stake.

Love Without End by Robin Lee Hatcher: After Chet Leonard lost his oldest son in a car accident, his wife left him and their two surviving sons and did not look back. Two years later, Chet is still struggling to rise above his grief while running his family’s horse ranch in Kings Meadow, Idaho, when he meets Kimberly Welch, a widow who has moved with her teenage daughter, Tara, from Seattle after losing her husband three years before. Kimberly and Tara’s relationship is strained at best, and they both know next to nothing about ranch life, so Kimberly is relieved when Chet volunteers to help tame Tara’s new horse. Meanwhile, 84-year-old Anna McKenna moves back to Kings Meadow from Florida after 30 years, and is intent on playing matchmaker for Chet and Kimberly. As Chet and Kimberly get to know each other, they each strive to let go of the past and they wonder if love — and trust — is possible again.

The Escape by David Baldacci: John Puller, combat veteran and special agent for the U.S. Army, is used to being called on to solve the worst crimes against the nation, but this time he is asked to track down and capture a man who is not only dangerous and smart, but also a man whom Puller knows all too well — his older brother Robert. Years ago, Robert was convicted of treason and crimes against national security and was sent to a prison that was reportedly impossible to escape from, but now, Puller is informed that Robert has indeed escaped and is now the most wanted criminal in the country, and it is up to Puller alone to bring his own brother in alive. As Puller races to catch Robert, he realizes that there are others after his brother as well, people who want Robert dead, and Puller is forced to work with Veronica Knox, a U.S. intelligence officer who does not trust Puller and whose own agenda remains unclear. As Puller and Knox work to find Robert before someone else does, they find that details about Robert’s conviction that indicate that somebody was — and is — trying to cover up the real truth.