On the shelves - June 11

The following are available for checkout at:

Clovis-Carver Public Library

Camp Sunset by the Editors of Sunset Magazine contains everything needed to boost your outdoor skills to the next level - build a fire, take nature photos like a pro, whip up a flawless camp-stove meal, and mix a cocktail to match. Advice, checklists, and ingenious activities will have you navigating the great outdoors with ease and confidence.

Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder conveys the intensity of an improbable journey. In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and financial depression in American history, Sam Babb, coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, traveled from farm to farm, recruiting talented, hardworking young women, offering them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team. A formidable team with passion for the game and heartfelt loyalty to one another and their coach, they won every game, and achieved more than just a winning season.

In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages by Max Adams chronicles the five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great, exploring Britain's lost medieval past by walking its paths. From York to Whitby, London to Sutton Hoo, Hadrian's Wall to Loch Tay, each of the ten walk narratives form a wider portrait of Britain's fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone.

The Memory of You by Catherine West finds Natalie Mitchell forced to return to the family winery in Sonoma, something she's avoided since the summer her sister died, the awful summer her nightmares began. As Tanner Collins tries to convince Natalie to keep the winery open, he realizes she must face her past to find freedom from the dark secrets she carries.

The Inheritance by Charles Finch compels Charles Lenox to investigate a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter, he finds that his friend has suddenly disappeared, soon after receiving a generous bequest from a mysterious benefactor. When someone close to the bequest dies, Lenox must delve deep into the past to discover the identity of the person who is either his friend's savior - or his lethal enemy.

The Imposter, The Quieting, and The Devoted trilogy by Suzanne Woods Fisher invites readers to the small Amish community of Stony Ridge where its citizens find their dreams deferred - and the promise of hopes fulfilled. Offering tender romance, humor and plenty of surprising twists, the characters deal with real life, modern-day situations. In The Imposter, Katrina Stoltzfus struggles with a broken engagement and starting new business, while the town finds their little Amish church turned upside down by an imposter in their midst. The Quieting finds minister David Stoltzfus expected to fix problems at home and church, when his mother arrives uninvited with matchmaking plans for everyone in the family. Multiple sclerosis, alcoholism, and oil grants are challenges that must be faced in The Devoted, and Ruthie, stuck in a sea of indecision about whether to stay Amish or leave, is courted by two suitors.

Portales Public Library

The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick

The exclusive Burning Cove Hotel is a hub for Hollywood stars and movie royalty, a place of privacy away from prying eyes where the staff will meet all of their needs, but when reporter Irene Glasson discovers the body of a famous actress drowned at the bottom of the hotel's pool, she suspects that the hotel provides more than just privacy. Upon investigation, Irene finds out that the actress had been hiding a terrible secret about Nick Tremayne, a new up-and-coming leading actor, and Irene realizes that this might be the scoop that can prove her worth as a journalist. As she goes deeper into the story and starts digging into the persona that has been built around Tremayne, she soon finds out that there are powerful people in Hollywood that don't want her to find out the truth, and so Irene turns to Oliver Ward, the owner of the hotel, for help. Oliver is an ex-magician whose career fell apart and can't afford to have another fail through scandal, and he will do anything, including trusting and aiding Irene, to save his reputation, and as they work together, they find discover a dark history to the hotel.

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Castle Rock has been the setting for several of Stephen King's most memorable stories-including The Dead Zone, Cujo and The Body, the basis for the film Stand By Me-and King now returns to his fictional town for a new scary story that has yet to be told. The small town of Castle Rock in Maine can be reached by one of only three ways; by taking Route 117, Pleasant Road, or the Suicide Stairs. The “Stairs” were built up the rocky cliffside to the town, held together by strong iron bolts, and twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken them up to town every day during the summer of 1974, with nothing unordinary happening, until one day when a strange man calls her over from a bench. The man wears black pants, a white button-up shirt, a black suit coat and small black hat on the top of his head, and when Gwendy meets him, she unwittingly entwines herself in the darkness of a person that soon gives her terrible nightmares.

Come Sundown by Nora Roberts

In western Montana Bodine Longbow runs the Bodine ranch and resort, a property of thirty thousand acres that has been in the family for four generations, and although most things in the family and business have never changed, the Longbows wonder what happened to Bo's aunt Alice, who ran off before she was born. When Bo and Callen Skinner, a new hire at the ranch, discover the body of a bartender from the resort in the snow and the police suspect Cal, Bo isn't sure what to think-until another woman is killed and Alice suddenly reappears, telling horrible stories of her life during her missing years. While her family believed her to be dead, she had really been living in captivity nearby with another family against her will, and who were not keen to have Alice escape. Despite the police's interest in Cal, Bo can't help trusting him and believing that he is innocent, turning to him for safety and support in the wake of the second murder, and as she and Bo grow closer, she and her family must also stand together against the threat that still follows Alice.

— Summaries by library staff