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Summary: "Discover the true story of a man who lived alone in the mountains with a hobby of measuring snowfall that led to groundbreaking data tracking in climate change studies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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Summary: A detective from Colorado Springs details some of the most gruesome murder cases he has worked on in his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 KENLowery, Linda
Summary: A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.8 FRECotter, John
Summary: "A devastating account of the author's experience with the debilitating condition known as Ménière's Disease that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COTTER, JOHN COTConover, Ted
Summary: In May 2017 Conover went to Colorado to explore a rural way of life cheaply, on his own land-- and keeping clear of the mainstream. But along with independence and stunning views can come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. This is his story of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. In their struggles to survive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.2 CONHouston, Pam
Summary: "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: Sharing his manufacturing misadventures, the best-selling author of The Long Haul takes us on a rollicking ride through the hemp growing and processing boom as he follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FINN MURObmascik, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 796.522 OBMFedarko, Kevin.
Summary: The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.132 FEDPrendergast, Alan
Summary: An award-winning journalist presents the story of Philip Van Cise, a rookie District Attorney who fought the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption in Denver in the 1920s and how his experiences still resonate one century later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9788 PREJett, Philip
Summary: In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 JETLowrey, Jim
Summary: A brief description of some of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's students, activites, and teachings from 1968-1973, by a member of the Pygmy Farm, a hippie commune in Boulder, Colorado.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horse 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOWSmith, Matt
Summary: "Travel with Matt and Karen as they float down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. In September 2016, they experienced the trip of a lifetime with 14 friends and a crew of 10 while traveling in wooden dories through the canyon. Dories, Ho! is a story of their adventure and discovery. Similar to their first travel memoir Dear Bob and Sue, this book is as much about their relationship as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt and Karen Smtih 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 SMIDimock, Brad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fretwater Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 DIMSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.8 KESMoody, Ralph
Summary: The story of a pioneer family in the half-tamed wilds of Colorado.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1991
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Summary: "The mother of one of the two shooters at Columbine High School draws on personal recollections, journal entries and video recordings to piece together what led to her son's unpredicted breakdown and share insights into how other families might recognize warning signs,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 PETRoss, John F.
Summary: "When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: The veterinarian author relates stories revealing that llamas do not enjoy having their toenails trimmed, Scottish Highland cattle prefer each other to their medical caregivers, and amorous burros need to be neutered expediently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 WELDolnick, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.91 DOLDungy, Camille T.
Summary: "Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogeneous policies that limited the possibility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023