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Clovis-Carver Public Library

A to Z of Sewing: The Ultimate Guide for Beginning to Advanced Sewing by Kathleen Barac was given by Glenda Horner in memory of Kathy Pitts. Packed with over 180 sewing techniques and illustrated by easy step-by-step photos and directions, this comprehensive guide covers all stages of sewing from understanding sewing machines and fabrics to building a collection of supplies, working with patterns, and fitting garments.

Reverse Diabetes: A Simple Step-by-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Health by the editors of Reader’s Digest eliminates all guesswork for patients and caregivers, showing you exactly what to do to reverse your insulin resistance and lower your blood sugar for good.

The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry moves from Denmark to England, to France as Cotton Malone uncovers the insidious plans of a cabal of multimillionaires that is bent on manipulating the global economy, and must match wits with a terrorist-for-hire in order to foil a catastrophic attack.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox describes the hard-won perspective that helped the author to see challenges as opportunities — an outlook that has served him well throughout his struggle with Parkinson’s disease.

Red, Green, or Murder: The Posadas County Mysteries by Steven Havill centers on Gill Gastner, a New Mexico Livestock Inspector who becomes involved in the investigation of an unattended death that may be related to the disappearance of a ranch hand along with his employer’s $40,000 truck and stock trailer.

Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Prisoner of War by Angelo M. Spinelli contains a hundred photographs that offer a never-before-seen portrait of World War II as experienced by the tens of thousands of Russian, French, and American prisoners, along with first-hand accounts that tell even more of this remarkable story from those who lived it.

Crawl Space by Sarah Graves mixes home repair and homicide as a mystery author interrupts her renovation of an 1823 house to unravel the murder of two wealthy women in a cold case that reopens old wounds, stirs up new suspicions, and unearths a string of deadly secrets.

Portales Public Library

Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

The author has created one of the best new urban fantasy series around. Heroine Mercy Thompson is not just another cookie-cutter tough chick; she’s got a lot of style and substance, with an intriguing backstory. This is a highly recommended story. It is immensely enjoyable and hard to put down. An excellent read that will leave you wanting more.

Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

Being the world’s only female werewolf has its advantages, such as having her pick of the Otherworld’s most desirable males. And Elena Michaels couldn’t have picked a more dangerously sexy and undyingly loyal mate than Clayton Danvers. Now their bond will be put to the ultimate test as they follow a bloody trail of gruesome slayings deep into Alaska’s frozen wilderness.

Fragile Beasts by Tawni O’Dell

When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town’s matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman hears the boys’ story and is compelled to offer them a home.

From the muted, bruised hills of Pennsylvania coal country to the colorful, flamboyant bull rings of southern Spain, Tawni O’Dell takes us on a riveting journey not only between two completely different lands, but also between seemingly incompatible souls, casting us under her narrative spell in which characters and places are rendered with fragile tenderness.