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Fickle Midwest weather provides the backdrop for a Colorado author’s collection of interconnected short stories
The slow, anxious time before -- and during -- the ritual of descending into a tornado shelter reveals old secrets and tense family dynamics
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A Colorado author set out to paint a picture of the Midwest. He used the ritual surrounding tornadoes as his brush.
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Two women, haunted by tragedy, contend with nightmare voices from the past in a Colorado author’s book
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How a traditional folk tune and five rewrites of a manuscript turned into a Colorado author’s “The Blood of Seven”
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A Colorado author’s book introduces us to a gritty, reluctant superhero whose powers stretch the imagination
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A curiosity about Indigenous rights led a Colorado author to research migration. But a book wasn’t in her plans.
Evenings spent at a local migrant shelter in central Mexico led Kelsey Freeman to combine her many vignettes with immigration research into "No Option but North"
Colorado author’s plans to write a travel memoir took a tragic turn, sent her on a different journey
What Michele Morris initially thought would be a personal story for herself and her family grew into a project she hopes will help others on similar journeys
An unexpected moment in baggage claim sent the Colorado author on her most difficult journey
In the memoir, "Poco a Poco," Michele Morris describes the intensely difficult six months following her husband's brain aneurysm in the Madrid airport
A Cherokee girl grows closer to her brother and a secret admirer in the aftermath of abduction
As a community struggles to overcome the violent abduction, one of the victims struggles with her personal demons as well
Denied Cherokee citizenship, Colorado author Courtney Miller still yearned to preserve tribal culture in his writing
The author's extensive research into Native American culture -- especially Cherokee -- has produced two series of novels, plus a genre he dubbed "geezer lit"
When an Ivy League chemistry professor agreed to move West, the mining industry changed forever
From authentic documents and correspondence, author Ellen Kingman Fisher created a historical novel of Nathaniel Hill's journey to Colorado with his wife Alice
How organizing an archive ignited a fascination that became a Colorado author’s historical novel
As a young Colorado Historical Society volunteer, Ellen Kingman Fisher learned about mining innovator and Colorado politician Nathaniel Hill. Her interest endured.
The story of a dismal chapter in U.S. history didn’t end with internment camps
The history of Colorado's Amache facility outside Granada, like nine others in the U.S., gave rise to many remarkable stories of Japanese-American success and accomplishment
The internment camp story has been told — but these Colorado authors examined what happened after
Denny Dressman and the late John Elliff had collaborated before on World War II history. This time they told the stories of Japanese Americans who built amazing lives after the camps.
