On the shelves - Jan. 22

The following books are available for checkout at:

Clovis-Carver Public Library

The following three titles have recently been donated in memory of Judy Lubera: Blankets and Booties and Crochet Bouquet are each filled with numerous patterns for crochet buffs to create beautiful keepsakes as well as functional pieces, practical for everyday use. 2017 Christmas with Southern Living overflows with inspiring recipes and decorating ideas to make holiday entertaining easy, organized, and memorable.

No Hero by Mark Owen recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, accounts from the training ground to the battlefield missions that never made headlines, including the personally meaningful operations where he learned the most about himself and his teammates in both success and failure. This close-up view shares the experiences and values that make Owen and the SEALs he served capable of executing the missions that make history.

7 Minutes to Fit: 50 Anytime, Anywhere Interval Workouts by Brett Klika shares the scientifically studied exercise routine that's quick, efficient, and delivers powerful results, through fifty all-new high-intensity interval circuit workouts requiring only a chair and a timer. Step-by-step explanations of basic exercise movements paired with illustrations enable readers to immediately perform circuits devoted to full body, arms, legs, and core all wrapped up in a portable package, perfect for busy parents, traveling professionals, or time-strapped students.

Hester Takes Charge is the third volume in Linda Byler's “Hester Hunts for Home” series, continuing the story of Hester, a beautiful Native American woman, rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, but later driven from the troubled family gone awry. The passage of time leaves Hester to face not only her long buried anger and bitterness, but also the tempting thrill of spending time with the steady, sensitive Noah, the birth son of her adoptive family.

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon takes place in West Hall, Vermont where some secrets never die. In 1908 Sara Harrison Shea was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. In present day, Ruthie, who lives in Sara's farmhouse, wakes up one morning to find that her mother Alice has vanished without a trace. After finding a hidden copy of Sara's diary, Ruthie realizes she is not the only one looking for someone they've lost, but may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron is a heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the bonds between man and man's best friend. In Bailey's countless adventures through many lives, he joyously discovers how to be a good dog while learning that love never dies, true friends are always with us, and every creature on earth is born with a purpose.

Portales Public Library

Never Never by James Patterson and Candice Fox

Harriet “Harry” Blue is at the top of her department as a Sex Crimes investigator who is sent reeling in both her career and her personal life when her own brother is arrested for the brutal murders of three young women. In order to remove her from taking part in his investigation, she is reassigned to a small Western Australia mining town in the middle of nowhere where illegal activities and dirty money abounds, complete with a new partner who may or may not have been assigned to Harry simply to keep an eye on her. Unable to move past her conflicted emotions about her brother, she isn't sure who to trust or where to turn, but she is determined to do what she can to try to clear his name. As she gets closer to the truth however, and gets entangled in the secrets sounding the mining business, she finds that she may be closer to danger than she was before.

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

In a faraway galaxy, the planet of Thuvhe is inhabited by two warring nations, the peaceful native Thuvhe people and the separate brutal nation of Shotet. Akos is from the Thuvhe people, but he is thrust into the political rift when he and his brother Eijah are abducted by Shotet soldiers. Cyra is the sister of the Shotet dictator, Ryzek Naovek, who exploits her current gift-special individual abilities given to all of the people on the planet by an electromagnetic force in space-of feeling and causing pain to threaten and control his people and their enemies. Cyra, however, is much smarter and stronger than Ryzek knows and plans for a way to escape him, while Akos, on the other hand, tries to think of a way to get him and his brother back home. Akos's current gift is that he can disrupt the current itself, so that when he meets Cyra and then touches her, she no longer feels the pain that possesses her body. Both quickly realize that they have only two options for survival-to either destroy each other, or help each other, which could end up making the conflict between their people much worse.

The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams

After defeating Ineluki the Storm King, leader of the undead Norns, at the end of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, an army of mortals led by Duke Isgrimnur pursue the remaining Norns to the mountain refuge of Stormspike, intent on completely ending the Norns once and for all, as well as their Queen, Utuk'ku. Porto and Endri are two soldiers in the mortal army who joined for the exact purpose of vanquishing the Norns, but the more they see of war and magic, the less sure they are about being far away from home. Meanwhile, a leader of the Norns' military engineers, Viveki, is desperately trying to get his people to Stormspike safely, but as soon as they reach it, Duke and his mortals arrive and both armies find themselves in a battle so severe that both sides are in dangerous of being wiped out in their entirety. Trapped in the mountain as the battle rages and focused on making sure the mortals don't get in, Viveki discovers dark secrets about his own people that could turn the tide of the war.

— Summaries by library staff