The following books are available from the Tucumcari Public Library. For more information call 461-0295.

 Fiction

“The Spy” by Clive Cussler. In 1908, a detective investigates spies who are trying to keep America from developing dreadnought battleships.

“Innocent” by Scott Turow. Turow revisits the characters from “Presumed Innocent”.

“The Bourne Objective” by Eric Van Lustbader. Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne matches wits with a vicious Russian mercenary.

 “Blockade Billy” by Stephen King. A tale about the dark side of baseball, circa 1957.

 “The Passage” by Justin Cronin. More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America.

Nonfiction

“The Big Short” by Michael Lewis. The people who saw the real estate coming and made billions from their foresight.

 “War” by Sebastian Junger. The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of Perfect Storm.

 “Hitch-22” by Christopher Hitchens. The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir.

 “The Promise” by Jonathan Alter. A detailed look at President Obama’s decision-making process on issues like health care and the Afghanistan war offers a sense of what it’s like to work in his White House.

 “To Save America” by Newt Gingrich. How to reverse President Obama’s policies, by the former speaker of the House of Representatives.