On the shelves - July 28

The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. 

“Look on the Bright Side” by Kristan Higgins. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents’, and build a rewarding career as an oncologist. Things aren’t going so well. For one, the guy didn’t work out. Two, she’s just been transferred out of oncology for being too emotional. Three, her parents just split up. Deviating from the plan was…well, not in the plan. A potential solution comes from the renowned surgeon Lorenzo Santini. He needs a date this summer for his sister’s wedding. His Noni wants to see him settled. In exchange, he could make a few introductions for Lark. As a sucker for old people and fake relationships, Lark agrees. Teeny problem—she instantly falls for his big, warm family. Especially his estranged brother.

“The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare” by Kimberly Brock. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in the contents of her book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the generations of daughters. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy. In the waning days of World War II, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell, her abandoned family home. Determined to sell the property, Alice returns to Savannah with her own daughter, Penn, in tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone of the old house, Alice is forced to reckon with the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare.

“Husbands & Lovers” by Beatriz Williams. New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption in 1952, and her romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood friend and one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters, Monk Adams. Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life after marrying a wealthy British diplomat. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel leads to an affair. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself committing an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations.

“A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations” by Jason Strykowski. A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations offers a “call sheet” to explore many of the Land of Enchantment’s most iconic film locales, such as those from Easy Rider or Terminator Salvation.

“Here Not There” by Andrew Nelson. Let’s face it. These days, many of the world’s most beloved places have become expensive and overcrowded, making their celebrated allure that much harder to enjoy. But fear not: Here Not There helps you create a more robust, off-the-beaten path vacation by revealing 100 alternative destinations to the standard travel playbook.

“Women in the Valley of the Kings” by Kathleen Sheppard. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.

— Summaries provided by library staff