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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
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A Cherokee girl grows closer to her brother and a secret admirer in the aftermath of abduction
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When an Ivy League chemistry professor agreed to move West, the mining industry changed forever
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The story of a dismal chapter in U.S. history didn’t end with internment camps
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A love triangle, a randy robot and a kid trying to get her parents back together create a unique genre: the sci-fi rom-com
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A Florida swamp guide gets launched on a mystery by discovery of a hat — and a very unusual pair of shoes
Co-authors Carl and Jane Bock pull the reader into a world of natural beauty, fish, birds and crocodiles as they set up events for their protagonist and part-time sleuth
How women took to the skies to become little-known heroes of the U.S. effort in World War II
In "BJ Erickson: WASP Pilot," author Sarah Byrn Rickman tells the story of one flier who became a leader of the group that ferried planes across the U.S.
A summer hire to manage a drilling operation finds his job complicated by intrigue, murder — and interns
In "The Hole Truth," author J.A. Turley draws on his decades of experience in the oil and gas industry to create a fictional conspiracy that powers his murder-mystery
From a vantage point far in the future, Colorado author’s “A Once-Dead Genius” examines the human condition
When an emissary arrives from another star system, how will the few remaining humans perceive it? How will it perceive itself?
On a picturesque coastal camp site, a Hearst heir wanted to build a vacation home. He hired Julia Morgan.
California's first female architect spent more than two decades designing and building what would be known as the Hearst castle at San Simeon
Money and desperation drive nobility under cover in a Colorado author’s book, setting stage for romance
In this excerpt from "The Desperate Duke," a conversation with the executor of an estate gives this novel all the set-up it needs
The compelling legend of Colorado’s Poker Alice Tubbs pestered an author to launch her pursuit of the unvarnished truth
Some writers didn't let facts get in the way of the Old West figure's bigger-than-life story, but Liz Duckworth felt driven to document the still-fascinating reality
Suddenly a stranger at his own class reunion, a man begins to question reality
When everything -- and then nothing -- is as it seems, how do you explain to your new girlfriend that you're not just another scam artist?
Shifting points of view introduce a suicide, a disappearance and set the stage for drama
In Cynthia Swanson's "The Glass Forest," we get the first scent of mystery surrounding a tragedy bound to play out in betrayal
