Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book

Erik Weihenmayer Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. No Barriers is the moving story of his journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal […]

The author’s powerful and moving work describes how refugee students at a Denver public high school learn English and become Americans in the care of a compassionate teacher. “The Newcomers” follows the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015–2016 school year as they land at South High School in Denver, in […]

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly clever, “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore” is a heart-pounding mystery that perfectly captures the intellect and eccentricity of the bookstore milieu […]