On the shelves - Feb. 5

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Clovis-Carver Public Library

The Right Prayers for Every Need by Christine Dallman, given in memory of Thelma Taylor, is a beautiful collection of prayers that address a broad range of situations and experiences. In straightforward, simple language, the prayers echo the thoughts and feelings that rise up in everyone from sorrow to gratitude, from loneliness to love.

Who Was… George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank, Joan of Arc, Alexander the Great, the Three Stooges? have been given in memory of Sharon Cowman. These six volumes from the New York Times best-selling “Who Was …” juvenile book series tell the incredible stories of trailblazers, legends, innovators and creators, introducing young readers to important historical people, places, and events.

Born Bright by C. Nicole Mason shares the powerful, true memoir of a girl born and raised in poverty, yet who manages to excel despite the obstacles in her way. Straddling two worlds, one where street smarts, toughness, and the ability to survive win the day, the other, foreign and unfamiliar with its own set of rules not designed for her success, Mason discovers an eagerness to learn and openness to new experiences that guide her to achieve the impossible.

Driftwood Point by Mariah Stewart weaves a romantic tale set in Chesapeake Bay's Cannonball Island, where artist Lisbeth Parker is recording her great-grandmother's stories of the island's rich history and spearheading a fight for its survival. When she goes head-to-head with environmental engineer Alec Jansen, on the opposite side of the debate over the island's future, Alec determines to change his alluring, headstrong rival's mind-and to win her heart.

Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth by Jennifer Chiaverini brings to life the four women integral in the life of John Wilkes Booth and his misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy. Intertwined are the stories of Mary Ann, the mother he revered; sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the secrets of his vengeful wrath; each of whom witnessed a soul in turmoil and a country at the precipice of immense change.

The Candidate by Lis Wiehl questions how far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his beautiful and rich wife Celeste to an unnatural degree. Engineering her husband's meteoric rise, Celeste recognizes the White House is within reach. However, when Erica investigates the Ortizes' strange relationship, everyone material to her probe ends up dead, leaving her to find out in time if the country's beloved candidate is what he seems, or a threat to national security?

Portales Public Library

The Rising by Heather Graham

Alex Chin is a high school senior who once had it all, with a popular reputation as the homecoming king and a football star with lots of scholarship offers. Samantha Dixon is Alex's brilliant tutor, who is trying to keep his grades up enough for him to graduate, and her own future looks bright, with her aiming to be valedictorian and turn her current internship at NASA into a full-fledged career. When Alex suffers an injury during a game and winds up in the hospital, his world down-spirals quickly after his doctor is first murdered, and then his adoptive parents, leaving a recovering Alex to flee for his life and involve Samantha in his problems when she accidentally walks in on his parent's dead bodies. As the two teenagers race to stay ahead of whoever is clearly trying to kill Alex, they find out that the reason for the attack lies in the truth about Alex's past-where he came from, who he is, and why his birth parents abandoned him.

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

Louise is a secretary and single mom who, on a rare night out from her normal every-day routine, meets and kisses a man in a bar, and she is excited that have finally connected with someone again. When she arrives at work the following Monday, she is horrified to find that the man at the bar is her new boss, David, who is not only married, but tells Louise that the kiss was a mistake, despite the fact that she sees him continually staring at her. Then Louise meets a new woman in town named Adele who desperately needs a friend, and Louise is herself happy to have a new friend until she realizes that Adele is also David's wife. Although Louise tries to keep her distance from both David and Adele personally, she finds herself noticing that their marriage may not be as perfect as they both try to project, with David showing more and more signs of a controlling personality, and Adele showing genuine fear of him.

Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones

In the eleventh installment of Darynda Jones's bestselling series, Charley Davidson's plate is as full as ever, with her professional career as a part time private investigator busy with following unfaithful spouses and corrupt business owners and her personal career as a full time grim reaper. Not only does she have to deal with demons, hell hounds, evil gods and more dead people that she can sometimes handle, Charley is now trying to come to terms with the news that she is a powerful goddess and that her small daughter is destined to one day save the entire world from being destroyed, while the forces of darkness are trying to ensure that Charley is banished to another dimension to keep her out of the way. Meanwhile, Charley juggles her marriage with her devoted husband Reyes and takes a case in which she must investigates Reyes's foster parents, a case that Reyes disapproves of and tries to convince Charley to drop to no avail.

— Summaries by library staff