On the shelves - Feb. 25

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.

“Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld” by Cathrine Lloyd. Lady Caroline is happy to be back amid the swirl of London society, guiding her employer’s daughter, Dorothy Frogerton, through her first Season. Mrs. Frogerton, meanwhile, finds her own diversions, including spiritualist gatherings at the home of Madam Lavinia, and begs Caroline to come along. Caroline is skeptical of Madam’s antics. Even as Caroline tries to discern whether the spiritualist’s powers are real, a much darker mystery presents itself: Madam Lavinia is found lifeless in her chair. In her desk is a note addressed to Caroline, entreating her to find her murderer. Caroline needs no psychic abilities to determine a motive, for it seems that Madam was blackmailing clients and has left a trail of aggrieved aristocrats behind. But as Caroline and Mrs. Frogerton investigate further, they find other suspects, some very close to home. Now Caroline must keep all her wits about her if she is to stop others from joining Madam Lavinia in the afterlife.

“The Traitor Beside Her” by Mary Anna Evans. Arlington Hall, a former women’s college in Virginia has been taken over by the United States Army where hundreds of men and women work to decode countless pieces of communication coming from the Axis powers. Justine Byrne works among them, handling the most sensitive secrets of World War II―but she isn’t there to decipher German codes―she’s there to find a traitor. Justine keeps her guard up and her ears open. Justine tries to befriend each suspect, believing that the key to finding the spy lies not in cryptography but in understanding how code breakers tick. When young women begin to go missing at Arlington Hall, her deadline for unraveling the web of secrets becomes urgent and one thing remains clear: a single secret in enemy hands could end thousands of lives.

“The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club” by Julia Bryan Thomas. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge, and she turns that sad little shop into the charming bookstore of her dreams. Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt become fast friends in the sanctuary of Alice’s monthly reading club at The Cambridge Bookshop, where they escape the pressures of being newly independent college women in a world that seems to want to keep them in the kitchen. But they each embody very different personalities, and when a member of the group finds herself shattered, everything they know about each other will be called into question.

“Anxiety: Practical About Panic” by Joshua Fletcher. Do you suffer from anxiety and panic? So did Joshua Fletcher, but he treated his own condition successfully, went back to school, became a counsellor and emerged as one of the country’s leading experts. Anxiety: Practical About Panic is a complete, easy to read and hugely practical book about anxiety from someone who knows how to recover.

“Welcome Home 30-Minute Cookbook” by Hope Comerford. You want to put a delicious home-cooked meal on the table but you don’t have a lot of time. Welcome Home 30-Minute Cookbook has your back! Each of the 127 recipes take 30 minutes or less from prep to food on the table. Whether you prefer to use your stovetop, oven, Instant Pot, or slow cooker, there are plenty of options in this book for you.

“The Home Edit: Stay Organized” by Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin. It’s one thing to get organized, but how do you make those systems stick? The Home Edit Stay Organized takes the intimidation and hesitation out of the maintenance involved to prevent you from abandoning your once-tidied systems or maybe help you to get organized in the first place!

— Summaries provided by library staff