Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

On the shelves — March 30

The following books are now available for check-out:

Clovis-Carver

Public Library

Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 by Sarah Thuesen was given by Dr. James B. Moss in memory of Ange Green.

Drawing on archival records and oral histories, this book gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school officials, and civic leaders whose tireless efforts shaped the eventual movement for desegregation in our nation’s schools.

Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse begins as newly-wed Hanna Reilly waits at Heathrow airport for her husband Mark to return from a business trip; but when he fails to arrive and she begins to investigate events that he has not told her about his past, she uncovers secrets that throw into doubt everything she has believed about him.

These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen shows us a side of the original power couple that we have never seen before: a tender, intimate, complex, and at times explosive love story filled with secrets, scandals, and bombshells that could never be fully revealed until now.

Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow takes a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster, leading us to question what we know about truth and memory, about personality and fate, and about one another and ourselves.

My Story by Elizabeth Smart reveals tells how a 14-year-old girl survived her abduction by a religious fanatic and his wife, how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors, how she transformed herself from victim to advocate, and how she forged a new life in the wake of a brutal crime.

Lost Lake by Sarah Allen blends a multi-generational story of Kate Pheris, her daughter Devin, and her great-aunt Elby Pim who gather for one last summer at a lakeside cabin before the developers change it forever.

Parenting Your Powerful Child: Bringing an End to the Everyday Battles by Kevin Leman offers a powerful action plan to redirect your child’s power surges into positive traits that will prepare him or her for a successful, happy, and productive adult life.

 
 
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