These wide-ranging recommendations from staff at Poor Richard’s Books in Colorado Springs point us toward an outsider’s view of America, the history of the clothes we wear and a clever mystery.
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What the staff at Old Firehouse Books suggests for your next great read
If you love science fiction and fantasy, these three selections from Old Firehouse Books will check all the boxes — “Legends & Lattes,” “This Is How You Lose the Time War” and “Even Though I Knew the End.”
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“Striking Range” steers a murder investigation into chilling territory
In “Striking Range,” the seventh Mattie Cobb mystery, author Margaret Mizushima launches a cold-case investigation that hits close to home for her protagonist.
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Margaret Mizushima chose puppies to help power this Timber Creek K-9 mystery
In “Striking Range,” author Margaret Mizushima continues to weave the thread of Deputy Mattie Cobb’s past into her narrative. Babies, and puppies, were her agent’s idea.
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What the staff at BookBar suggests for your next great read
The folks at BookBar in Denver have recommended four books aimed at readers of varying ages and interests, from middle grade to adult.
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A prisoner in a dystopian world introduces “Rise of the Red Hand”
“Rise of the Red Hand,” the young adult novel by Olivia Chada, seeks to put the threats posed by climate change into a global context through science fiction/fantasy.
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For author Olivia Chadha, the story came easily. Creating the right world was hard.
When she wrote “Rise of the Red Hand,” author Olivia Chadha tried two different genres before she settled on a sci-fi-/fantasy world of YA fiction.
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What the staff at Out West Books recommends for your next great read
With the holiday book buying season upon us, Out West’s experts suggest four murder mysteries — three of them by Colorado authors.
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“Borderlands Curanderos” traces impact of two faith healers and revolutionaries
Jennifer Koshatka Seman’s scholarly history examines the impact of 19th-century faith healing practices and radical politics of two curanderos in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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Jennifer Seman’s graduate research led to her book “Borderlands Curanderos”
Author Jennifer Seman had to dig deep for documents referencing her two main characters, who left little in terms of primary documents for “Borderland Curanderos.”