On the shelves - Jan. 18

The following books are available from the Tucumcari Public Library:

Fiction

• “The Whistler,” by John Grisham. A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.

• “The Award,” by Danielle Steel. A Frenchwoman who worked with the Resistance but was accused of collaboration finally has her name cleared.

• “Turbo Twenty-three,” by Janet Evanovich. The bounty hunter Stephanie

Plum juggles the investigation of a crime in an ice cream factory and

the two men in her life.

• “Commonwealth,” by Ann Patchett. Five decades in the lives of two families — parents, children, siblings, stepchildren — remade by divorce.

• “Escape Clause,” by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must deal with the theft of tigers from

the local zoo.

• “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads

toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.

For information, call 575-461-0295.