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Following the Civil War, there was a shortage of men for many jobs that they had traditionally done. Women entered the workforce in new and sometimes unexpected ways. One of the jobs that women were hired to do was to be lighthouse keepers. This is the story of Amy Pritchard, widowed by the war and adrift in her grief, who takes a chance on a new life by becoming one of those keepers. A violent storm changes her life in many ways with its unexpected consequences. As she weathers every adversity, she grows stronger and begins to explore a new life, one she never could have imagined.

"This fiction story is set in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, of a young man, a physician, that seeks freedom by way of a very complicated, psychologically damaging defection to the US"--

On our ranch the rule is, the cattle come first! The cattle are fed before we eat and are bedded down before we go to bed. They are our number one priority. This is something I learned when becoming a cattle rancher. It is not all work though. Have you ever been to a cow patty toss, slept in a barn, pulled a calf from its mother, been excited because your new television lets you watch the cows at night, or been on a pregnant cow chase? Do you truly believe that cows know what you are saying? Then you have lived on a cattle ranch. The life of a cattle rancher is one of learning as you go, especially if you were raised as a city girl. That is exactly what happened when I answered, "Why Not?" when my husband said upon his retirement, "Let's get a ranch."

"The Kingsleys in 1870s Colorado is a tale of international investment intrigue--often with tragic results--an exploration of human relations in the attempts of four people from one family to bring cultural idealism to Colorado Territory. The Kingsleys' presence in Colorado during its formative years has ensured that the history of Colorado and that of England are forever interwoven."--Page 4 of cover

This book begins in 1888 with the first efforts to get wheeled vehicles and their passengers to the summit of Pikes Peak. 15 years earlier, the U. S. Army established a weather station at the top of the mountain and manned it all year round with human observers. These two activities have resulted in the mountain being an attraction for visitors, innkeepers, skiers, hunters, and fishermen. Individuals and corporations have been motivated by the challenge of the highway to get their horseless carriages, automobiles, race cars, motorcycles, bicycles, basketballs, wheelbarrows, peanuts, and pianos to the top of the mountain. People have attempted to get rich by selling a piece of the mountain.The summit has been the site of experiments in meteorology, aircraft engine design, and human physiology. It has been the host of numerous proposals for sheltering those visitors and residents. Over the years five structures have been built for this purpose. There have been several struggles for control including an attempt to homestead the summit. It has been the source of tall tales, stories of hardship, and of failure.The book includes 13 maps and is illustrated with 123 images, most of them vintage photographs, many which have never been published before.

"Alice Elizabeth Nye Sorrell roared as an English Lit teacher in Laredo, Texas, from 1931 through 1980, while performing a dual role as a Journalist for the local Hearst daily newspaper, the Laredo Morning Times. She amazed her Mexican-American pupils, who quickly imparted to her a virtual "rock-star" social status. Vividly she fronted poetry of Anglo-Saxon literary culture from Chaucer, through Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley-this to astonished classrooms packed with Latino-majority student bodies whose first language was Spanish. A widowed social lioness, single parent, and early feminist, her reporting served the citizens of her town and state on a weekly basis (and often daily) for almost 75 years, from 1931 up to July, 2007. Progressive she was-and would be today given current political/cultural standards. A descendant of Norse people who became English dissenters, she is exemplary of the Nye clan in America, who origins trace from 1635, Cape Cod. A genealogical narrative reveals the lady's Viking genes, sent down by grandpa Capt. Thomas C. Nye, the family having pioneered in the Republic of Texas, followed by farming near Laredo at the end of the 19th century. The teacher/journalist's only son, a retired Texas and Colorado lawyer, recounts here his mother's life, lauding her as a Rice University graduate, an early feminist, and a radical humanitarian who 'worked' Laredo, and South Texas, as an influential socialite who expressed undying love of her city and her pupils from a back-bench overview of present culture, stacked on top her Danish, English, and New England ancestry, as a NYE whose world-view was global and not parochial. This tale is one of public service, "overcoming" poverty and family tragedies which were capped by quiet victory, and the embellishing of her nine generation descent from Britannia!"--

On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado's history. During his lifetime, over $250 million worth of gold was mined from the district, which Womack was instrumental in establishing. The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through firsthand accounts from Womack and other legendary figures.

"There is No Such Thing as a Typical Librarian pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day operation of working in both an academic and public library. It is a love letter to the library profession based on the personal experiences of Steve Antonuccio, who worked in libraries for over 30 years. He spent 20 years at Colorado Springs' Pikes Peak Library District creating and operating the Library Channel as the manager of the educational cable access studio. He produced over 100 video portraits and documentaries and was nominated for two Heartland Emmy awards and two national Cable Ace awards for his programming. After retiring from the Pikes Peak Library District, Steve went to work for the Pueblo City-County Library District as a branch manager. He worked on the front lines of public service and tells both poignant and humorous stories about working with the public."--Back cover.

Suddenly a Mortal Splendor, is the chronicle of Hungarian refugee Paul Szabo's unpromising beginnings and varied journey through three continents and thirty-five years. It is a story of shifting identities, of political and personal oppression, and a novel with roots firmly grounded in the picaresque tradition.

A love story that blossoms in the dawn of the atomic age.

The Door of the Sad People is a coming of age story placed against the background of the Colorado coalmining wars long remembered for the Ludlow Massacre of 1914. Visionary, the novel traces the tyrannous countenance of a corporate society to its origins in humankind's "sad" limitations and flaws.

Colorado Noir is a walk on the wild side. Eleven of the best stories in hard-boiled crime from the award-winning pen of John Dwaine McKenna, author of The Neversink Chronicles and The Whim Wham Man. In Colorado Noir, you'll ride along with Elaine, The Aluminum Mistress, as she struggles to survive on the cold streets of Colorado Springs, making her living from trash cans; Hang out with Yazzie and Darrell Lee as they learn to live rough, surviving by petty theft, until one of them commits a capital crime in The Ghosts of Christmas Present; There's merry mischief and pathos in Mosby's Retreat, where you'll meet a four footed usher of death; Experience utter terror at 30,000 feet on a B-17 flying abattoir in The Rising, an unforgettable World War II story; Treat yourself to the second Jake McKern novella in A Mischief of Rats, as you countdown to a crime spree that leaves the reader gasping and blood running in the streets of Colorado Springs. All of these, plus six more of the best noir stories in town. If you love crime fiction and mystery, don't you dare miss Colorado Noir!