On the shelves - June 21

These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library:

“Murder on Marble Row” by Victoria Thompson. When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, the police commissioner presumes that anarchists are responsible and asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenge — but then faces a different kind of ordeal when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed never to see or work with her again. For her part, Sarah is glad to be working with Malloy in his hunt for a dangerous killer — though they clash over his conviction that the murder was politically motivated.

“The Rosie Result” by Graeme C. Simsion finds Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman in Australia about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be himself, and raise some significant questions about his own identity. Meanwhile, there are multiple distractions to deal with — the Genetics Lecture Outrage, Rosie's troubles at work, estrangement from his best friend, and opening a cocktail bar.

“Call Upon the Water” by S.K. Tilyard sweeps into the mid 1600's, after the execution of Charles I, when Dutch engineer Jan Brunt is commissioned to survey the English fenland and devise ways to drain it for crop-growing. The work, undertaken mainly by prisoners of war, threatens the ancient lifestyle of the fen dwellers, yet Jan falls in love with Eliza, one of the prisoners. After their separation by events that Jan recounts years later from the Dutch colony that will become New York, Jan unexpectedly receives word that Eliza, now free, and wealthy, wants to meet with him.

“Project 333: the Minimalist Fashion Challenge That Proves Less Really Is So Much More” by Courtney Carver extends an invitation to create space in your closet, time in your life, and love in your heart. It's a call for less and a chance to completely redefine your relationship with stuff and shopping, especially the stuff you put on your body every day. The challenge? Dress with only 33 items — including clothing, accessories, jewelry, and shoes — for three months!

“Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils” by David Farrier will not only alter how you think about the future; it will change how you see the world today as it explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth, or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century.

— Summaries provided by library staff