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HOBBS PUBLIC LIBRARY |
LIBRARY FOCUS - January 14, 2007
by Cris Adams
LIBRARY ADDS NOVEL BY NEW MEXICO'S DAVID AND AIMEE THURLO
New Mexico authors David and Aimee Thurlo have a new novel starring Navajo state police officer Lee Nez. In Surrogate Evil, Lee and FBI agent Diane Lopez go undercover to catch Newton Glover, a criminal who says he has a secret government background and is protected by the Powers That Be.
The Hamiltons by Catherine Cookson is actually two novels. "Hamilton" is the name of an imaginary horse that Maisie has seen since she was a lonely seven-year-old. She couldn't talk about him to anyone, but she wrote about him. "Goodbye Hamilton" picks up the story when Maisie reaches her early thirties and escapes a disastrous marriage, only to find a man whose love for her knows no bounds.
Orson Scott Card's new one is Empire. Here he provides a chilling look at a near-future scenario of a new American Civil War. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone...and to return to more peaceful days.
Author Mark Arsenault's courtroom drama Gravewriter introduces a new suspense series. Billy Povich used to be a journalist. He lost his wife because of a gambling habit, and then she died in a car crash. Now he writes obituaries and plans to kill the man who was at the wheel the night of his wife's death. But Billy suddenly finds that he's the prey.
The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders by Mignon Ballard stars Augusta Goodnight, heavenly sleuth and guardian angel. Now her divine intervention is needed more than ever. The local college is the kind of safe place where students don't even lock their doors. At least it used to be, until girls started mysteriously disappearing.
Philippa Gregory's epic novel is about three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance. In a court ruled by the gallows, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Jane Rochford have positions that brought them wealth and power as well as deceit and betrayal.
When your father is a man of expensive tastes but very little money, you soon learn to make do. So when Captain Fortune, a well-meaning but wasteful ex-soldier in Regency England, tells his daughter Caroline that they are ruined, she starts seeking employment as a governess. But her father has other plans. This one is Indiscretion by Jude Morgan.
Helen Keller said, "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
Remember that the library will be closed on Monday, January 15, in honor of Martin Luther King's birthday.
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