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I first heard about the supposed valley curse in 1990. A friend had gone away to college and come back before finishing. He said, “It must be the valley curse.” When I asked what that was, he explained that when the Utes were forcibly removed from the Grand Valley in 1881, they cursed the white […]
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The drive-up book return at the Central Library in downtown Grand Junction is temporarily closed for installation of a drive-through service window. The library is installing a drive-through window in order to make Curbside Pick-Up more convenient for patrons and more efficient for library staff to serve. Construction will disrupt the drive-through lane, so the […]
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Here are the most current bestsellers according to Publishers Weekly: Fiction: Billy Summers by Stephen King The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Cellist by Daniel Silva […]
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Here are the most current bestsellers according to Publishers Weekly: Fiction: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Black Ice by Brad Thor The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller The Cellist by Daniel Silva Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Midnight Library by Matt […]
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The library stacks are full of amazing titles you have yet to discover. For some enticing reads, check out the following August recommendations from our staff here at Mesa County Libraries. (Click on any of the book covers to be directed to our catalog.) Allie’s Pick: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix Grady […]
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Here are the most current bestsellers according to Publishers Weekly: Fiction: Black Ice by Brad Thor The Cellist by Daniel Silva The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and […]
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Sometimes there’s no greater satisfaction than drinking a gargantuan cup of coffee and losing yourself in a spread of magazines. If you’re lacking in variety and feel the desire to acquire thousands of different options at your fingertips, turn to Libby for its virtual magazine selection. Libby by Overdrive is a free online app available […]
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Here are the most current bestsellers according to Publishers Weekly: Fiction The Cellist by Daniel Silva The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave It’s Better This Way by Debbie Macomber The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Nine Lives by Danielle Steel The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson Malibu Rising […]
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Mesa County Libraries is home to an excellent trove of old, rare, local and southwest-based books compiled in our Rashleigh History Room. Within the depths of this room, I stumbled across a title sure to intrigue the palette of any fan of both cookbooks and history. Mesa County Cooking with History is a compilation of […]
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With the gruesome discovery of the bodies of First Nations children on the grounds of residential schools in Canada, people are also turning their attention to American Indian schools in the United States. These boarding schools operated in the late 1800’s and 1900’s. They were dedicated to the forced acculturation of Native American children, who […]
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