Ayumi’s Violin
In 1959 when her mother dies, twelve-year-old Ayumi leaves her home in Japan to find her American father.
Books by Alums
The Road Back From Broken
Four months after surviving an IED blast in Afghanistan, Army sergeant Jacob Fitzgerald has recovered from his physical injuries but his invisible wounds continue to fester.
Apprehensions & Convictions: Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop
What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer?
One, Two, Family
One, Two, Family tells the story of one family comprising of a mother, a girl and a boy. This particular family is very much like most, in which more often than not there are two parents and one or more children, but it differs from most in that this is a single parent family.
Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater: A Stage-by-Stage Guide to Setting Your Child on the Path to Adventurous Eating
Pediatrician Nimali Fernando and feeding therapist Melanie Potock (aka Dr. Yum and Coach Mel) know the importance of giving your child the right start on his or her food journey — for good health, motor skills and even cognitive and emotional development. In Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater they explain how to expand your family’s food horizons, avoid the picky eater trap, identify special feeding needs and put joy back into mealtimes.
Crested Butte . . . Love at First Sight
Crested Butte . . . Love at First Sight is a sequel to Sandra’s first book Crested Butte Stories . . . Through My Lens. She blends her experiences of more than 40 years as a photojournalist with true tales of Crested Butte, its foibles, goofiness, tragedies, and resilience. Her rich vignettes chronicle a few of the natives, second and third generation Europeans and Slavs, who remained in their homes after the coal mines closed in 1952, and many who arrived later, drawn by the beauty of the mountains, but captured by the love of the people and tightly knit community.
Mountains: A Very Short Introduction
Martin Price outlines why mountains matter at the global level, and addresses the existing and likely impacts of climate change on mountain, hydrological and ecological systems.
A Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman (Civil War in the North Series)
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands around that abolitionist hellhole, Ripley, Ohio.
Edgar Heap of Birds
For over three decades, contemporary Native American artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disciplined practice in multiple media, having shown his paintings, drawings, prints and text-based conceptual art throughout numerous national and international galleries and public spaces.
Radical Distortion: How Emotions Warp What We Hear
Our social unity is under attack from extremists on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Often the loudest and most influential public voices today are also the most divisive.
Why Is She Acting So Weird? A Guide to Cultivating Closeness When A Friend is In Crisis
Are you at a loss for how to help your friend? Do you worry that you’re going to say the wrong thing? If you’ve ever tried to help a friend cope with a difficult and painful time in her life, then this book is for you.
Misplaced Talent: A Guide to Better People Decisions
Misplaced Talent takes a hard look at the cluttered field of Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making better people decisions in any organization.
People Before the Park: The Kootenai and Blackfeet before Glacier National Park
Step out of a world governed by clocks and calendars and into the worldview of the Kootenai and Blackfeet peoples. Fo r countless years, they made their seasonal rounds in the landscape that is now Glacier National Park.
Daughters of the West Mesa
2009 eleven female remains and an unborn fetus were discovered on the West Mesa outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Irene Blea has synthesized what she experienced while living in the region and introduces us to Dora, a single mother, and her two daughters, Luna and Andrea.
Charlie’s Pride
Charlie, the proud hero of this strong and gripping story, is known to his fellow truckers, loggers, and fishermen as Hawk. His father, a full-blooded Hupok, taught him his Indian heritage; his Scots-Irish mother gave him a lifelong love of reading.
Patriotic Betrayal
Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used — often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly — as undercover agents inside America and abroad.
The Romeo Boys
Pumping gas in a small Colorado town in the summer of 1964 is hot, grimy work — especially if you want to be a rock ‘n roll star, like Bobby Masters and the members of his struggling band.
Spirituals: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography for Research and Performance
Spirituals originated among enslaved Africans in America during the colonial era. They resonate throughout African American history from that time to the civil rights movement, from the cotton fields to the concert stage, and influenced everything from gospel music to blues and rap.
Boy on Ice
The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports.
Hostile Takeover
Professional assassin John Lago faces off against his deadliest adversary yet—his wife—in Hostile Takeover, the exciting sequel to Shane Kuhn’s bestselling debut The Intern’s Handbook.
It Is What It Is: A True Manhattan Real Estate Nightmare with a Silver Lining
Colin Rath (Econ’86) has published It Is What It Is: A True Manhattan Real Estate Nightmare with a Silver Lining.
Make Yourself Indispensable
Make Yourself Indispensable is a practical, compelling guide to career success. It addresses the key behaviors and techniques to assure that you maximize your chances of attaining success
The Intern’s Handbook
John Lago is a very bad guy. But he’s the very best at what he does. And what he does is infiltrate top-level companies and assassinate crooked executives while disguised as an intern.
Ready to Write!
Most 21st-century children don’t get enough daily exercise and enter school lacking the basic strength and coordination they need to be successful at simple tasks, such as gripping a pencil or sitting upright at a desk.
Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory
Prostitution, gambling and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns.
The Birthday Problem
The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir
Justin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift — he’s jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain a faltering long-distance relationship.
American Baroque
In the summer of 1835, a mysterious stranger wanders into the sleepy burgh of Mohawk, Ind. With his prophet’s beard and coffee sack frock, bearing a mad gleam in his eyes ignited either by glory or cider, the man seems an errant saint.
Justina Ford, Baby Doctor/Justina Ford, La doctora de los bebés
Justina Ford, Baby Doctor/Justina Ford, La doctora de los bebés details the life of Colorado’s first African American female physician. In times of segregation and racial discrimination, Justina Ford served people of all colors and nationalities regardless of their ability to pay
5 Senses/Los 5 sentidos
The 5 Senses/Los 5 sentidos introduces children to reading in Spanish and in English. This book contains a bilingual collection of nonfiction mini books on the human five senses and animal senses.