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Right as Rain

When Molly Carter finally gets hired at a small school on the plains of Colorado, she couldn’t be more thrilled to declare her independence. Now that she’s hours away from friends, family, and the amenities of the big city, she embarks on an emotional roller coaster as she realizes that not everyone in the close-knit town is ready to welcome her with open arms.
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The Zxap Jacket

When gumshoe New York City detective Joe Zinski hunts his partner’s killers, he finds his 2047 acid rain world has more dangers than even a top of the line, rain neutralizing Mark IV Zxap Jacket can fend off. As gangs gather in the Toxic Box across the Hudson, Zinski follows his one piece of evidence, an orange Mark IV decorated in ODDS gang graffiti.
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Crossing Purgatory

In spring of 1858 Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father’s estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief.
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Slave Camp Nightclub

Slave Camp Nightclub is a humorous novel about three college students hired off the streets of Boulder, Colorado in the summer of 1976 to work at a rock quarry. Once on the job, they encounter a variety of interesting characters that live and work there during the week and attend the quarry nightclub each night.
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System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed

This is the first comprehensive Operations Manager 2012 technical resource for every IT implementer and administrator. Building on the author’s bestselling OpsMgr 2007 book, three Microsoft System Center Cloud and Data Center Management MVPs thoroughly illuminate major improvements in Microsoft’s newest version–including new enhancements just added in Service Pack 1.
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Coin: The Irreverent Yet Practical Guide to Money Management for Recent College Graduates

Coin: The Irreverent yet Practical Guide to Money Management for Recent College Graduates is a hilarious yet practical guidebook geared toward those entering the real world that need the skills and information to handle finances. Author Judy McNary (Econ, Geog’81, MBA’91) walks students through all they need to know to build a solid financial foundation in two hours or less — and have fun doing it.
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Prelude, A Novel, and The 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe

A book in two parts, Prelude, A Novel and The 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe by Richard B. Davidson (PhD Engl’73) and Helen Davidson combine research and interpolation in a genealogical study that casts new light upon the interior lives of young women in nineteenth-century America.
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College Cooks

Taylor Stephan (Bus’12) uses his experience of living with five other young men while at CU to compile their experiences with food and cooking meals in College Cooks. The book explains how the six college cooks and roommates were able to shop, prep and cook for themselves while at school.
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May This Be the Best Year of Your Life

Based on a private journal, memories and a blog that chronicled her adventure to India, Sandra Bornstein (MEdu’05) wrote May This Be the Best Year of Your Life to serve as a resource and guide to help others overcome the challenges of living outside of their comfort zone. When her husband accepted a job that required extensive international travel, Sandra was living her version of the American dream in Colorado, never imagining she would be faced with several dilemmas that left her feeling uncertain.
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Sam no es mi tío (Sam, You Are Not My Uncle)

Twenty-four emblematic authors have participated in this unique anthology by Aileen El-Kadi (PhDSpan’07), Sam no es mi tio. They are Latin American writers, reporters or members of the academia whose purpose is to write about the Americas. For them, reality is composed of millions of stories like theirs, and these stories are part of our societies.
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