Childhood friends Gordon Walker and Leigh Ransom plan to attend college together in the fall, but over the summer, unsettling events in the dying Colorado plains town of Lions ruin those plans. Businesses close and residents leave for a better life elsewhere. The derelict sugar beet factory and the rusted grain elevator prompt the few […]
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Nina Borg was doing a favor for a friend, just retrieving a suitcase from a Copenhagen train station. “You’re always so keen on saving people, aren’t you? Well, here’s your chance.” Inside the suitcase was a small, drugged, naked boy, and Nina panics. Soon she’s on the run with the boy, being pursued by the thugs […]
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Larry Watson’s stunning novel of the Sidey family is set in the turbulent sixties in the prairie town of Gladstone, Montana. Crusty old Calvin lives off the grid outside of town, staying away from anyone who might remember his mix-up with the law. Calvin’s son Bill runs the family real estate business. Despite their precarious […]
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June is the American Library Association‘s GLBT Book Month, which is described as “a nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.” To find a diverse range of young adult fiction with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and/or questioning characters, check […]
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If you are a road tripper who always wants to stop at historical markers, you must read 50 Great American Places by Brent D. Glass. Mr Glass is the Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, colloquially known as America’s Attic. His book is more than a list of travel destinations. Rather, […]
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On November 13, 1837 Antoine Robidoux would have been traveling near the border of Utah and Colorado. There was a good chance that he was transporting trade goods between one of the trading posts that he established in the region. One of those trading posts was Fort Uncompahgre, which was located outside of what is […]
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Clifton was an interesting place when I was a kid. In the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s, my neighborhood around 32 1/8th Road and others in the area had many abandoned houses with overgrown weeds, broken fences, and other features that might capture a child’s imagination. Who left that gate open? What’s inside the […]
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It’s London, the sixties, Cold War paranoia is at its peak. Who is spying for the enemy? Who are the innocent bystanders? In Exposure by Helen Dunmore, no one is quite who they seem as Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, long-time friends and colleagues working for the Admiralty, tragically find out. A misstep in his […]
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In The Do-Right, by Lisa Sandlin, it’s 1973 in Beaumont, Texas, and Delpha Wade is out of prison after 14 years. She was in because she killed one of the men who was raping her. She’d have killed the other one, too, but he got away. She’s out now, and all she needs is a quiet […]
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Early May Bank Holiday, which falls on May 2nd this year, kicks off the start of the summer season in England. Timed to coincide with the more traditional May Day, it is a day for Britons to head outdoors. To help you celebrate vicariously, we offer three books about walking in England. The first is […]
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