On the shelves — June 12

The following books are available for checkout at:

Portales Public Library

End of Watch by Stephen King

In the third and final installment of Stephen King's trilogy that started with Mr. Mercedes and continued in Finders Keepers, retired police officer Bill Hodges finds that six years after the Mercedes Massacre-when Brady Hartsfield caused the death of eight people and injured a great many more-the survivors of the massacre have started to commit murders and suicides, dying one after another, as though they are being marked off of a list. However, Brady still lies in the hospital in a supposed vegetative state, from the brain injury he received from Bill's partner, Holly Gibney, but Bill suspects that Brady may have been faking it all this time, and is somehow linked to the unexplainable deaths. Little do Bill and Holly know, Brady has not only awoken from his coma, but has woken up with mental powers due to an experimental drug treatment, abilities that have made him more dangerous than ever before and ready for revenge.

The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg

Hazel Nash's father, Jack Nash, is famous for being the host of the television show "The House of Secrets", a show that investigates American conspiracies, and when she was six years old, her father told her one mysterious tale about a Bible that was found inside of a dead body during an autopsy. Even stranger, the Bible was supposedly the property of Benedict Arnold. Years later as an adult, Hazel ends up in a car accident with her father and brother Skip, and wakes to find that she is not only the sole survivor of her family, but she also cannot remember who she is. When the FBI appear, asking Hazel questions about Benedict's Bible and a corpse, Hazel doesn't remember her father's story, or anything else about him, and as she starts investigating her father's identity as well as her own, she realizes that she needs to solve the mystery of who the corpse was, and how the book wound up inside it. However, the closer Hazel gets to the truth, the less she wants to learn about the dead man, her father, and herself.

All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank

Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour are as opposite as they can be-Olivia is a successful interior designer and Nick is an English professor and historian-but they have been happily married for over fourteen years while living in New York. However, Olivia promised Nick that when he retires from teaching, she will move with him to his home state of South Carolina, and now that the time is here, Nick is excited but Olivia isn't so sure about the slower pace. She also hasn't told Nick yet that her business hasn't been making as much money as it used to, and she is worried about their cash flow and whether or not a move is what they need at the moment. As the next step in their lives and marriage comes closer, Nick and Olivia travel on a yacht with their rich socialite friends-whose problems are very different from their own-and as Olivia's own doubts come to the surface, she must decide what to do and how to keep her husband, and herself, happy.

— Summaries by library staff