On the shelves - Jan. 19

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.

“Some Die Young” by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone. Everyone deserves a second chance. Even someone like John Bannack. He took the fall for his bank-robbing brother. Served time in a Texas State Prison. And saved the life of Judge Wick Justice when their prison wagon was ambushed. The judge was so grateful, he decided to release the hard-fighting man from Waco and employ him as his own private bodyguard. It’s an offer Bannack can’t refuse. But freedom isn’t free. Turns out the judge has an awful lot of enemies and most of them want him dead. The worst of the bunch is a rival judge named Raymond Grant, who hates everything Justice stands for. Grant wants to put Bannack behind bars again. He has the law on his side, the hatred in his heart—and the deadliest hired guns money can buy. Even so, Bannack doesn’t scare easily. But when the shooting starts, the Man from Waco will know the true face of fear.

“What the Wife Knew” by Darby Kane. Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric surgeon, an infamous tragedy survivor, and a national hero. He’s also very dead. His neighbors angrily point a finger at the newest Ms. Dougherty, Addison. The sudden marriage to the mysterious young woman only lasted ninety-seven days, and he’d had two suspicious “accidents” during that time. Now Addison is a very rich widow. As law enforcement starts to circle in on Addison and people in town become increasingly hostile, sides are chosen with Kathryn, wife number one, leading the fray. Despite rising tensions, Addison is even more driven to forge ahead on the path she charted years ago. Determined at all costs to unravel Richmond’s legacy, she soon becomes a target—with a shocking note left on her bedroom wall: You will pay. But it will take a lot more than faceless threats to stop Addison.

“The Memory Library” by Kate Storey. For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle. Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return home. She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow. All you have to do is turn the page.

“A Watershed Moment” by Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, & Luther Propst. The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions acknowledge. This collection of essays, A Watershed Moment, reveals tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself.

“Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures” by Katherine Rundell. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world’s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes.

“Ambrosia Lake” by R.D. Saunders’ daily life and those of his fellow uranium miners come alive in these delightful stories-as we lose ourselves in the action and narrative in this world of the not-too-distant Old West. These authentic accounts are refreshingly human, restoring readers’ faith in the kindness of true, well-told stories that give life and voice to a part or American West that has been, if not covered up, too long overlooked.

— Summaries provided by library staff