On the shelves - Aug. 16

The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library:

“One Fatal Flaw” by Anna Perry. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body. Daniel is sure that science can absolve him-and Miriam Ford Croft is the best scientist he knows. However, Adwell's case seems to be linked to a larger plot for revenge, with victims accumulating in its wake.

“Old Lovegood Girls” by Gail Godwin. When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with Merry Jellicoe as roommates in 1958, she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Ten years later, Feron and Merry haven't spoken since college. Life has led them into vastly different worlds. When each one later finds herself in need of the other, that spark — that remarkable affinity, unbroken by time — between them is reignited, and their lives begin to shift as a result.

“The Queens Secret” by Karen Harper. The time — 1939. Elizabeth, “the queen mother,” wife of King George VI and the mother of the future queen, shows a warm, smiling face to the world. Elizabeth holds many powerful cards; she's also hiding damaging secrets about her past and her provenance that could prove to be her undoing. Harper's riveting novel of royal secrets and intrigue lifts the veil on one of the world's most fascinating families, and how its “secret weapon” of a matriarch maneuvered her way through one of the most dangerous chapters of the century.

“The Boy Who Felt Too Much” by Lorenz Wagner. Raising Kai made Henry Markram question all that he thought he knew about neuroscience, and then inspired his groundbreaking research that would upend the conventional wisdom about autism, expressed in his now famous theory of Intense World Syndrome. He became convinced that the disorder, which has seen a 657% increase in diagnoses over the past decade, was fundamentally misunderstood. Bringing his world class research to bear on the problem, he devised a radical new theory of the disorder — those with autism don't feel too little; they feel too much.

“Mister Rogers and Philosophy” edited by Eric J. Mohr and Holly K Mohr, shares the thoughts of thirty different philosophers on the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood phenomenon. Beginning as The Children's Corner in 1953 and terminating in 2001, the Neighborhood left its mark on America. While its message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, it also provoked criticism, such as by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it supposedly created an entitled generation.

“What It's Like to Be a Bird” by David Allen Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often — can birds smell, do robins hear worms, and many more. Birders and nonbirders alike will be excited and inspired with a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing — and why.

— Summaries provided by library staff