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Clovis-Carver Public Library

“Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans” by Alison Owings takes the reader on a fresh journey across America as men and women from sixteen different tribal nations speak with candor, insight, and humor about what it is like to be Native American in the twenty-first century.

“Rider on the Buckskin: A Western Story” by Peter Dawson centers on Frank Rivers, exonerated after serving four years in the penitentiary for murder, who rides into Ute Springs in search of a witness who can help him track down the man who actually committed the crime, and finds himself in the middle of a range war.

“Mañana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans” by Jorge Castaneda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of the nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States, yet is host to more American expatriates than any country in the world.

“Bury Your Dead” by Louise Penny revolves around Chief Inspector Armand Gamache who attends the Winter Carnival in Quebec City, Canada, only to encounter a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French.

“Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP’s Rise to Power” by Mike Magner presents a searing exposé of a company that went from being a green maverick promising a world beyond petroleum to one of the most notorious corporate villains in history.

“Now You See Her” by James Patterson introduces Nina Bloom, a woman who unearthed a terrible secret that caused her to change her identity and run for her life, but who must confront the killer she thought she had escaped forever in order to rescue an innocent man.

“Ape House” by Sara Gruen opens the animal world to us in a novel about six apes, all capable of reason, deep relationships, and communication through sign language, who escape from a science lab and unleash a media frenzy that sends Isabel Duncan on a desperate search to rescue them.

Portales Public Library

“A Place to Call Home” by Alexis Deacon illustrations by Viviane Schwartz

Seven brothers get too big for their first home and are forced to find a new, safe, and cozy home. They travel the world to find just the right place, and they do it together. It's really a sweet story. Enjoy!

“Fat Vampire” by Adam Rex

If being fifteen isn't hard enough, Doug Lee has to remain fifteen, FOREVER! Attacked by a very desperate vampire at fifteen, has left Doug to remain the same forever. With all the teen, love-struck vampire novels out, this one will surely leave you laughing.

“The Jefferson Key” by Steve Berry

Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated-in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963 - each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were killed for the same reasons?

When an attempted assassination of President Danny Daniels in the heart of Manhattan happens, that same question is being asked by Justice Department operative Cotton Malone. Malone risks his life to protect the president only to find himself in danger of a secret society of pirates called the Commonwealth. In a dangerous exploit, Malone and Cassiopeia race across the nation and take to the high seas, where they discover codes and old documents forged by the Founding Fathers themselves. They may even find something that can stop the Commonwealth.