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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/Fantasy & Thriller Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nScience Fiction/Fantasy Finalists\nConscious Designs\nNathaniel White\nEugene\, a wealthy paraplegic\, must decide whether to preserve his consciousness forever in a digital utopia or suffer the pain tormenting his existence. Yet the more he learns about digital replication\, the more deeply he understands personhood\, empathy\, and the value of suffering. Nathanial White grew up in Maine and has lived in Mexico\, Brazil\, and Ecuador. His speculative fiction explores the human psyche\, physical disability\, culture\, technology and consumerism. He currently teaches high school English in the Rocky Mountains of Western Colorado. \nDemon Riding Shotgun\nL.R. Braden\nPossessed by a demon since she was a child\, Mira Fuentes maintains a fragile alliance with the snarky soul who shares her body. Together they hunt down unstable Rifters—demon-controlled humans sowing chaos in the mortal realm. But when a routine hunt leads to a powerful Rifter with plans for Baltimore\, Mira finds herself in over her head and at the top of the city’s Most Wanted. Recently retired from the PTF after losing his partner\, Ty Williams now works for the Baltimore PD and keeps his distance from cases involving magic. But when a person dies of clearly magical causes and the PTF doesn’t have any agents to spare\, Ty is the closest thing the department has to an expert. Saddled with a partner he doesn’t want and a mountain of self-doubt\, it’s his job to track down a suspect who looks suspiciously like the one-night-stand he brought home from the bar last night. Between the two of them\, Mira and Ty have enough emotional baggage to choke an ox\, but if they can get their act together\, they just might be able to prevent the human race from becoming meat puppets for the denizens of the Rift. L.R. Braden is the bestselling author of the Magicsmith urban fantasy series\, the spin-off novel Demon Riding Shotgun\, and several works of short fiction. Her writing has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Sci-fi/Fantasy\, the First Horizon Award for debut authors\, the Imadjinn Award for Best Urban Fantasy\, and the Colorado Authors League Award in multiple categories. She and her family live in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies\, where she spends her time writing\, playing\, enjoying the great outdoors\, and weaving metal into intricate chainmail jewelry that she sells in her Etsy shop\, WimsiDesign. \nDenver Moon: The Thirteen of Mars\nWarren Hammond and Joshua Viola\nIt’s been more than two years since Denver Moon discovered that alien shapeshifters infiltrated Mars Colony. Their attempts at human mind-control have failed\, but when Denver opens a vault beneath a terraforming facility\, she discovers what they really want: to exterminate all inhabitants of the Red Planet. Tatsuo Moon—Denver’s grandfather and the co-founder of Mars City—has been gravely injured. To save him\, Denver will need the help not only of her friends\, Smith\, Nigel\, and Navya\, but also of humanity’s archenemy\, Doctor Werner. To save Mars\, she’ll need a miracle. Joshua Viola is a Denver Post bestselling author\, Colorado Book Award winner\, and the owner of Hex Publishers. \nThriller Finalists\nDark of Night\nBarbara Nickless\nA recent murder is ancient history in a breathtaking novel about a sacred lost treasure and poisonous retribution by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of At First Light. When esteemed historian Elizabeth Lawrence is found in her car\, killed by a cobra’s bite\, only a brilliant professor of semiotics\, Dr. Evan Wilding\, can see the signs around her strange death. As he helps homicide detective Addie Bisset decipher the scene\, the puzzles left behind offer Evan chilling passage into the mind of a killer. Evan’s investigation merges with that of an Israeli agent\, who claims Elizabeth was close to acquiring an invaluable artifact. She was also drawing the attention of unsavory treasure hunters\, forgers\, and thieves. Was someone desperate to expose the truth of Elizabeth’s astonishing discovery? The deeper Evan and Addie delve into the case\, the darker it gets. A murderer’s archaic crimes are just the beginning. In a race where there can be only one winner\, the final victim might be Evan. Barbara Nickless is the bestselling author of At First Light in the Dr. Evan Wilding series as well as the Sydney Rose Parnell series\, a Suspense Magazine Best of 2016 selection\, and winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Writer’s Digest and on Criminal Element\, among other markets. She lives in Colorado\, where she loves to cave\, snowshoe\, hike\, and drink single malt Scotch—usually not at the same time. \nDeep Waters of Destiny\nPeter Carlson\nIt’s the late nineties and rival drug cartels are looking to collaborate in the Caribbean. At the center of this dangerous chaos\, Gunner\, an experienced captain\, agrees to pilot a mega-yacht from Palermo to the Caribbean so the Italian and Russian mafia bosses can oversee and celebrate the arrival of the coalition’s first large shipment of drugs. Palmer\, a pretty DEA agent\, is inserted as a crew member of the “Destiny” to stop the first shipment from Odesa\, Ukraine\, and arrest the leaders\, but she makes friends with the captain. Uncertain of Gunner’s motives\, Palmer becomes torn between her growing love for Gunner and her duty to take him down\, along with the cartel. During the sail from the Mediterranean to Aruba\, they struggle in the grey area between good and evil. This is riveting romantic suspense with a surprising conclusion. Pete Carlson’s debut novel Ukrainian Nights won the Finalist Award in the General Fiction of the Eric Hoffer Awards 2020 program. Carlson’s second novel Tearza was published in December 2020 in the romance/women’s fiction genre. Tearza was selected as a finalist for the Colorado Authors League Book Award and the Annual Midwest Book Award. \nThe Wrong Woman\nLeanne Kale Sparks\nSole survivor of Denver’s notorious “Reaper” serial murders\, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She’s neck deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams—but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate\, Gwen\, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake. Devastated by the death\, Kendall teams up with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer. Gwen’s fiancé\, Ty\, is being evasive about the last time he saw Gwen\, and as the evidence mounts against him\, he’s arrested for the murder. With every new clue\, Kendall questions how well she really knew her friend. And when Gwen’s secrets begin spilling out\, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude of her murder. The Reaper has returned to Denver—and he’s not stopping at just one victim. As the trauma of Kendall’s past comes roaring back\, she and Adam have no time to spare before more bodies start piling up. And then Kendall makes a shocking discovery that reveals the horrifying truth behind Emily Williams’s disappearance. Kendall must confront her darkest fears as she and the Reaper face off one more time. After a brief career in criminal law\, Leanne Kale Sparks is returning to her first love—writing about murder and mayhem. Currently\, she is working on a new series featuring an FBI agent hunting down her best friend’s murderer. The backdrop is the Rocky Mountains of Colorado\, the playground of her youth\, and the place that will always be home. When not writing\, she and her husband spend time reading\, mountain biking\, and spoiling their German Shepherd\, Zoe. And drinking wine.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/science-fiction-fantasy-thriller-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:Rockrimmon Library\, 832 Village Center Dr\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80919\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:Anthology\, Literary Fiction\, & Poetry Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nAnthology Finalists\nBizarre Bazaar\nRocky Mountain Fiction Writers\nWelcome to the Bizarre Bazaar – a collection of seventeen speculative stories that invite and beguile the reader to examine at fictions new and old in a fresh light. Fairy tales are reborn as sci-fi romps. Silly folklore matures with the weight of tradition to approach truth. And ghost stories teach us all we need to know about love. Moving from tale to reimagined tale\, these deft transformations are mirrored in our hearts as we become the change we read. Join us as we guide you through a bewitching bazaar of stories you’ll find breathtaking and enchanting as we once again celebrate the best of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is a non-profit\, volunteer-run organization dedicated to supporting\, encouraging\, and educating writers seeking publication in fiction. \nDenver Noir\nCynthia Swanson\nEven a city that boasts three hundred days of sunshine a year has its sudden\, often violent storms—and writers have long taken advantage of that metaphor. Renowned authors Katherine Anne Porter\, Jack Kerouac\, Stephen King\, Rex Burns\, Robert Greer\, Michael Connelly\, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine—among many others—have brilliantly portrayed this picturesque but often merciless city. Today\, Denver is home to a thriving literary scene\, with writers of all stripes finding inspiration in its people and streets. The authors and stories featured in Denver Noir are no exception… Cynthia Swanson writes literary suspense\, often using historical settings. Her debut novel\, The Bookseller\, was a New York Times best seller\, an Indie Next selection\, and the winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Swanson’s second novel\, the USA Today best seller The Glass Forest\, was noted in Forbes as being one of “Five Novels with a Remarkably Strong Sense of Place.” She lives with her family in Denver\, Colorado.  \nThe Long Devotion\nEmily Pérez\, Nancy Reddy\nThe Long Devotion is a collection of poems\, essays\, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space\, as poet Molly Spencer has written\, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.” The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive\, foster\, and step-parenting; life with chronic illness\, mental illness\, and disability; and the choice to remain childless. The book is divided into four parts. “Difficulty\, Ambivalence\, and Joy” considers the wonder and challenges of parenting-including infertility\, pregnancy\, miscarriage\, and life with children-and trying to write in the midst of those demands. “The Body and the Brain” explores the cerebral and bodily labor of caregiving and writing. “In the World” brings parents and their children into contact with the natural and political landscape. Finally\, “Transitions” looks at how parenting and writing change as children grow up. Poems range from linear narratives and imagistic lyric to poetry comics\, speculative futures\, and experimental forms. Essays and poems suggest ways to write through the disruptions and chaos of family life. Emily Pérez is an English and gender studies instructor and grade-level dean at Colorado Academy. She is the author of What Flies Want\, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar\, House of Stone; and the chapbooks Backyard Migration Route and Made and Unmade. She lives in Denver\, Colorado. Nancy Reddy is associate professor of writing and first-year studies at Stockton University. She is the author of Pocket Universe\, Double Jinx\, a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series\, and the chapbook Acadiana. She lives in Collingswood\, New Jersey. \nLiterary Fiction Finalists\nAny Other Family\nEleanor Brown\nThough they look like any other family\, they aren’t one—not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings\, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the heart of the family\, the adoptive mothers grapple to define themselves and their new roles. Tabitha\, who adopted the twins\, crowns herself planner of the group\, responsible for endless playdates and holidays\, determined to create a perfect happy family. Quiet and steady Ginger\, single mother to the eldest daughter\, is wary of the way these complicated not-fully-family relationships test her long held boundaries. And Elizabeth\, still reeling from rounds of failed IVF\, is terrified that her unhappiness after adopting a newborn means she was not meant to be a mother at all. As they set out on their first family vacation\, all three are pushed into uncomfortably close quarters. And when they receive a call from their children’s birth mother announcing she is pregnant again\, the delicate bonds the women are struggling to form threaten to collapse as they each must consider how a family is found and formed. Eleanor Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris\, and the editor of the anthology A Paris All Your Own. An adoptive mother herself\, Eleanor lives with her family in Colorado. \nBratwurst Haven\nRachel King\nLinked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory. It’s almost a decade after the Great Recession\, and in Colorado\, St. Anthony Sausage has not recovered. Neither have its employees: a laid-off railway engineer\, an exiled computer whiz\, a young woman estranged from her infant daughter\, an older man with cancer who lacks health care. As these low-wage workers interact under the supervision of the factory’s owner and his quietly rebellious daughter\, they come to understand that in America’s postindustrial landscape\, although they may help or comfort each other\, they also have to do what’s best for themselves. Over the course of these twelve interrelated stories\, Rachel King gives life to diverse\, complex\, and authentic characters who are linked through the sausage factory and through their daily lives in a vividly rendered small town in Boulder County. The internal and external struggles of Bratwurst Haven’s population are immediately and intimately relatable and resonant: these people seek answers within the world they inhabit while questioning what it means to want more from their lives. Rachel King is the author of the novel People along the Sand. Her short stories have appeared in One Story\, North American Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Northwest Review\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Oregon and West Virginia University\, she lives in her hometown of Portland\, Oregon. \nConfessions\nSean Eads\nNathan Ashcraft knew this morning wasn’t going to be easy. After all\, he’s the town funeral director\, and he’s coming to work early to meet two grieving parents whose baby was stillborn. The meeting fills him with dread and anticipation because the baby’s father\, Steve\, was his high school crush\, and they haven’t seen each other in almost thirty years. What Nathan doesn’t know is how the child’s death connects him to other people in town\, especially Tim Sawyer\, the local dentist and Nathan’s recent infatuation\, and Sarah Lawrence\, a retired high school biology teacher whose good intentions almost destroyed his life decades ago. These three people will face their own moment of crisis today\, sparking self-reflection and self-doubt\, despair and regret that drive them toward their own drastic resolutions and confessions. But in the end\, is confession really good for the soul? Sean Eads has published three novels and a short story collection\, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award\, Lambda Literary Award\, and Colorado Book Award. His stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. \nPoetry Finalists\nI|I\nKatherine Indermaur\nKatherine Indermaur’s full-length debut\, I|I\, is a serial lyric essay that explores the mirror’s many dimensions—philosophical\, spiritual\, scientific\, mythological\, historical—alongside the author’s own experiences. Anyone who has struggled with the disconnect between their outward appearance and their inner self knows how fraught and fragmentary it can be to behold one’s own reflection. Indermaur’s essay\, however\, does more than merely problematize the contested space where the face and the mirror meet. There is also affirmation to be found here. This is a book that thinks so keenly it breaks into song. Katherine Indermaur is the author of two chapbooks and an editor for Sugar House Review. She is the winner of the Black Warrior Review 2019 Poetry Contest and the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize\, runner-up in the 92Y’s 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest\, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alpinist\, Coast|noCoast\, Ecotone\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins with her family. \nWhat Flies Want\nEmily Pérez\nIn What Flies Want\, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members’ mental health\, a marriage falters\, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills\, #MeToo\, and increasing political polarization\, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected. The speaker\, who grew up in a bicultural family on the U.S./Mexico border\, learns she must play a role in a culture that prizes whiteness\, patriarchy\, and chauvinism. As an adult she oscillates between performed confidence and obedience. As a wife\, she bristles against the expectations of emotional labor. As a mother\, she attempts to direct her white male children away from the toxic power they are positioned to inherit\, only to find how deeply she is also implicated in these systems. Tangled in a family history of depression\, a society fixated on guns\, a rocky relationship\, and her own desire to ignore and deny the problems she must face\, this is a speaker who is by turns defiant\, defeated\, self-implicating\, and hopeful. Emily Pérez is author of House of Sugar\, House of Stone and coedited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She works as a high school teacher and dean\, and lives in Denver\, Colorado. \nYou Better Be Lightning\nAndrea Gibson\nYou Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer\, political\, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world\, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness\, from space to climate change\, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades\, Andrea Gibson’s trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning\, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are. Andrea Gibson (they/them/theirs) is a queer author of five full-length collections of poetry\, including Lord of the Butterflies which sold over 20\,000 copies worldwide. Winner of The Independent Publishers Award in 2019\, Andrea is also a three-time Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist. In 2017\, Penguin Books published Take Me With You\, an illustrated collection of Gibson’s most beloved quotes\, and in 2019\, Chronicle books published their first non-fiction endeavor\, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam\, Gibson has gone on to be featured on BBC\, Air America\, CSpan\, and regularly sells out large capacity venues all over the world. Gibson has also released seven full length albums of spoken word.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/anthology-literary-fiction-poetry-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:Library 21c\, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80920\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:Creative & General Nonfiction Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nCreative Nonfiction Finalists\nA Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings\nWill Betke-Brunswick\nDuring Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college\, their beloved mother\, Elizabeth\, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together\, which Will documents in evocative two-color illustrations. But as we follow Will and their mom through chemo and hospital visits\, their time together is buoyed by laughter\, jigsaw puzzles\, modern art\, and vegan BLTs. In a delightful twist\, Will portrays their family as penguins\, and their friends are cast as a menagerie of birds. In between therapy and bedside chats\, they navigate uniquely human challenges\, as Will prepares for math exams\, comes out as genderqueer\, and negotiates familial tension. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings is an act of loving others and loving oneself\, offering a story of coming-of-age\, illness\, death\, and life that announces the arrival of a talented storyteller in Will Betke-Brunswick. At its heart\, Will’s story is a celebration of a mother-child relationship filled with unconditional devotion\, humor\, care\, and openness. Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and a recent graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s work has appeared in the new print edition of Trans Bodies\, Trans Selves\, How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition and the websites INTO and Autostraddle. A former high school math teacher\, Will lives in Boulder\, Colorado. \nFinding Querencia\nHarrison Candelaria Fletcher\nWith its roots in the Spanish verb querer—“to want\, to love”—the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging\, that which we yearn for when we yearn for home. In this striking essay collection\, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher shows that querencia is also a state of being: the peace that arises when we reconcile who we are. A New Mexican of mixed Latinx and white ethnicity\, Candelaria Fletcher ventures into the fault lines of culture\, landscape\, and spirit to discover the source of his lifelong hauntings. Writing in the persona of coyote\, New Mexican slang for “mixed\,” he explores the hyphenated elements within himself\, including his whiteness. Blending memory\, imagination\, form\, and language\, each essay spirals outward to investigate\, accept\, and embrace hybridity. Ultimately\, “Finding Querencia” offers a new vocabulary of mixed-ness\, a way to reconcile the crosscurrents of self and soul. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship\, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize\, Colorado Book Award\, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award\, Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal\, Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Memoir pick\, Best American Essays Notable selection\, and Pushcart Prize Special Mention. He also has been a finalist for the International Latino Book Award\, National Magazine Award and Bakeless Literary Prize. A native New Mexican\, he is a former columnist\, feature writer and beat reporter at newspapers throughout the West. He teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Colorado State University. \nTell Me Everything\nErika Krouse\nErika Krouse has one of those faces. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this\,” people say\, spilling confessions. In fall 2002\, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her\, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she’s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault\, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway\, inspired by Grayson’s conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could\, too. Erika Krouse is the author of Come Up and See Me Sometime\, a New York Times Notable Book\, and Contenders. Erika’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, One Story\, and more. She teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and lives in Colorado. Her debut memoir\, Tell Me Everything\, has been optioned for TV adaptation by Playground Entertainment. \nWestern Journeys\nTeow Lim Goh\nTeow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences while building on the longer history of immigrants from Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, bringing new insights to places\, the historical record\, and memory. These vital essays consider how we access truth in the face of erasure. In exploring history\, nature\, politics\, and art\, Goh asks\, “What does it mean for an immigrant to be at home?” Looking beyond the captivating landscapes of the American West\, Goh uncovers stories of the Chinese people who came to America during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Indigenous peoples who have been written out of popular narratives\, among many others. She examines the links between the transcontinental railroad\, the cowboy myth\, and the anti-Chinese prejudice that persists today. These essays explore the early efforts to climb Colorado’s highest peaks\, the massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs\, Wyoming\, and the increasingly destructive fire seasons in the West. Goh’s essays create a complex\, varied\, and sometimes contradictory story of people and landscapes\, a tapestry of answers and questions. Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books\, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays\, poetry\, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, PBS NewsHour\, and The New Yorker. \nGeneral Nonfiction Finalists\nEcosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies\nJohn Giordanengo\nHumanity could not overcome its most basic health crises until discovering the inner workings of the human body\, and the nature of diseases that threaten it. We lack the equivalent understanding of our economies\, jeopardizing not only humanity’s health\, but that of the very ecosystems we depend on for survival. Atop thirty years of work and research in ecology\, economics\, and business\, Giordanengo explores the elusive structure of our global market economy with sharp clarity\, and presents fresh clues to the resilience and productivity of our national economies. As informed by John’s depth of experience in ecological restoration\, this book outlines a path for restoring our economies to a sustainable state. It is through economic restoration that we may fortify our collective resistance to future global turmoil\, while mending the fabric of our communities. Growing protests against globalization motivated John to write Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies\, integrating thirty years of research in ecology\, business\, economics\, and conservation. Building atop his experience in ecological restoration\, John now turns to a deeper conservation need—economic restoration. This includes his lecture series at universities and public venues across the US\, and creating sustainable solutions for industry. \nTracing Time\nCraig Childs\nCraig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders\, tiny spirals in stone\, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light\, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity\, humility\, and love of the arid\, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest\, Childs sets these ancient communications in context\, inviting readers to look and listen deeply. Craig Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books\, including The Secret Knowledge of Water\, Atlas of a Lost World\, and his most recent Virga & Bone. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly and his work has appeared in the Atlantic\, New York Times\, and Los Angeles Times. He lives in southwest Colorado. \nVisual Thinking\nTemple Grandin\nWith her genius for demystifying science\, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed\, she reveals\, and a more varied one\, from the purest “object visualizers” like Grandin herself\, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving\, to the abstract\, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers\, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts\, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation\, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating\, parenting\, employing\, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world\, this important book helps us see\, we need every mind on board. Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation\, Animals Make Us Human\, The Autistic Brain\, and Thinking in Pictures\, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/creative-general-nonfiction-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:East Library\, 5550 N Union Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80918\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:General Fiction\, Mystery\, & Romance Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nGeneral Fiction Finalists\nA Light in the Forest\nMelissa Payne\nVega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is an Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies\, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low\, feel safe\, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of. Vega warms to the town and to new acquaintances like Heff\, the young deputy and artist who prefers his yard art to actual policing\, and empathetic Eve\, a local farmer whose near-death experience gave her more than just her life back. But even in this welcoming community\, there’s an undercurrent of something unsettled\, talk of a tragedy that unfolded in the woods years ago\, and a mystery connected to Vega in ways she couldn’t have anticipated. As a mother on the run and following a path of mounting risks and illuminating secrets\, Vega discovers that even during the darkest of times\, there’s light in unexpected places. For as long as she can remember\, Melissa has been telling stories in one form or another—from high school newspaper articles to a graduate thesis to blogging about marriage and motherhood. But she first learned the real importance of storytelling when she worked for a residential and day treatment center for abused and neglected children\, where she wrote speeches and letters to raise funds. The truth in those children’s stories was piercing and painful\, written to invoke a call to action in the reader: to give\, to help\, and to make a difference. Melissa’s love of writing and sharing stories in all forms has endured. She lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three children. \nA Quick Trip to Moab\nKevin T. Jones\nAnti-wilderness protesters have taken over a portion of eastern Utah. Stan Watson\, driving to Moab\, stops by the highway to walk his dog Speck\, and encounters a woman who begs him for help. When he offers Lily and her injured husband a ride\, they are confronted by armed men\, and Stan is in for a nightmare he had not anticipated. Chased through the wildlands by ragtag extremists riding all terrain vehicles\, Stan\, Lily\, and Frank\, a lost reporter\, face dehydration\, starvation\, and murder at the hands of their pursuers. When Stan and Frank become incapacitated\, Lily and Speck lead them through the wilds in search of help and a way out of the hell that engulfs them. Kevin Jones is an archaeologist and writer who lives and works off-grid in the rugged canyon country of southwestern Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Utah\, and served as Utah state archaeologist for seventeen years. He is the author of The Shrinking Jungle\, an anthropological novel\, and Standing on the Walls of Time\, essays about and inspired by Native American rock art (with photographs by Layne Miller). \nThe Immortal King Rao\nVauhini Vara\nIn a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations\, King’s daughter\, Athena\, reckons with his legacy—literally\, for he has given her access to his memories\, among other questionable gifts. With climate change raging\, Athena has come to believe that saving the planet and its Shareholders will require a radical act of communion—and so she sets out to tell the truth to the world’s Shareholders\, in entrancing sensory detail\, about King’s childhood on a South Indian coconut plantation; his migration to the U.S. to study engineering in a world transformed by globalization; his marriage to the ambitious artist with whom he changed the world; and\, ultimately\, his invention\, under self-exile\, of the most ambitious creation of his life—Athena herself. The Immortal King Rao is a resonant debut novel obliterating the boundaries between literary and speculative fiction\, the historic and the dystopian\, confronting how we arrived at the age of technological capitalism and where our actions might take us next. Vauhini Vara has worked as a Wall Street Journal technology reporter and as the business editor for The New Yorker. From a Dalit background\, she is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an O. Henry Prize winner. This is her first novel. \nMystery Finalists\nAunt Dimity & the Enchanted Cottage\nNancy Atherton\nIt’s early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows\, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage’s newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives\, no one knows what to make of him: he repels every welcoming gesture and appears uninterested in being a part of the community. Soon\, the townspeople have all but dismissed him. Only Lori and Tommy Prescott\, a young army veteran who recently moved to Finch\, refuse to give up. They orchestrate a chance meeting that leads to a startling discovery: a set of overgrown ruins. They are\, Aunt Dimity shares\, the remains of a Victorian woolen mill that once brought prosperity to Finch. As they explore\, they stumble upon the unmarked graves of children who died working at the mill. Heartbroken\, Lori\, Tommy\, and Mr. Windle get to work on the task of identifying the children to give them a proper burial. And as Mr. Windle works tirelessly to name the forgotten children\, he slowly begins to open up–giving the romantic cottage a chance to heal his heart as well. Nancy Atherton is the bestselling author of twenty-four Aunt Dimity mysteries. The first book in the series\, Aunt Dimity’s Death\, was voted “One of the Century’s 100 Favorite Mysteries” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. She lives in Colorado Springs\, Colorado. \nThe Chimera Club \nChuck Greaves\nIt isn’t entirely shocking that a man like film producer Ari Goldstone would be found murdered in his hotel suite\, naked and tied to the bedposts. Goldstone\, after all\, had a reputation for sexual misconduct and was already facing lawsuits brought by a dozen aggrieved starlets. But the brutality of the crime takes even veteran homicide detectives aback. More unsettling still are the DNA test results\, which point conclusively to disgraced financier Jimmy Kwan\, the so-called “Chinese Bernie Madoff” and father of one of Goldstone’s accusers. Unsettling that is because Kwan\, seven thousand miles away in Hong Kong on the night of the murder\, has an iron-clad alibi. When Kwan’s daughter Mae\, a fashion model turned nightclub owner\, hires attorney Jack MacTaggart to defend her father\, Jack must solve the mystery of how the only possible suspect in a sensational murder cannot possibly have committed the crime. But when the next body falls\, Jack must solve an even more urgent mystery — how to stay alive long enough to bring the real killer to justice. Chuck Greaves spent 25 years as an L.A. trial lawyer before turning his talents to fiction. He has been a finalist for most of the top awards in crime fiction including the Lefty\, Shamus\, Macavity\, and Audie\, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona\, Oklahoma\, and Colorado Book Awards\, the CAL Award in Fiction\, and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. “The Chimera Club” is his seventh novel\, and the fourth installment in his critically acclaimed Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries.  \nWhere’s Mary Bergen?\nCraig Marshall Smith\nBestselling\, alcoholic author Peter Du Cane hires Granby\, Colorado\, semi-retired private eye Frank Elgin\, hoping to reconnect with an Arizona State University classmate he hasn’t seen in twenty years. Emeritus professor of art\, Craig Marshall Smith taught drawing at three universities in three states for over thirty years. Marshall is an Abstract expressionist painter whose works are in numerous public and private collections in the United States\, as well as Spain and Japan. Graduated with BA and master’s degrees from UCLA\, Marshall has been an opinion columnist for 24 metro Denver weekly newspapers for nine-and- a half years. \nRomance Finalists\nAll the Flowers of the Mountain\nChristina Holbrook\nIn a Paris art gallery\, Dr. Michael Pearce comes upon a sculpture by the artist Katherine Morgan. His discovery sends Pearce reeling back into his past. Devastatingly lifelike\, the sculpture evokes memories of a summer many years earlier when Michael and Katherine–Kit–met as teenagers by a lake in New Hampshire. He was a small-town boy who skied\, played guitar\, and was destined to run his father’s hardware store; she was the restless\, troubled daughter of a wealthy New York family. All the Flowers of the Mountain is the story of a pivotal summer for Michael and Kit. Michael’s ambitions are ignited by this young woman—he grows determined that their future will be together. But Kit dreams of becoming an artist and her struggle with a mysterious event from the past leads to a deadly showdown by summer’s end. Holbrook captures the dark complexities of family secrets and the painful choices we face when the need to set one’s own course in the world opposes the demands of the heart. A haunting exploration of trauma and the abuse of privilege\, of desire\, and of the enduring power of love. A native of New York and the White Mountains of New Hampshire\, Christina Holbrook now lives in Colorado with her husband\, Alan Dulit. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Political Theory from Wellesley College. Holbrook’s column “Lark Ascending” ran in the Summit Daily in Frisco\, Colorado from 2016 through 2020. More recently her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. \nHope is Built\nDavalynn Spencer\nShe’s running from a planned future. Mary McCrae flees the life her brother oversees on the dairy and heads West to Colorado only to learn her aunt and uncle have died and left their farm to her. But there’s more on the land than orchards and good grazing\, and others will do anything to get it. That is\, if a cantankerous neighboring cowboy doesn’t get to them first. He wants the land himself\, but Mary keeps falling into danger and he keeps coming to her rescue. He’s hiding from a broken life. Hugh Hutton buried one good woman who left him with three sons and a ranch to run. The flame-haired eastern filly who shows up on a neighbor’s farm is not what he planned to spend his future on. She’s inherited the grazing land he wants for his family’s herd\, but danger dogs the gal. He doesn’t have time for a woman who’s after the same thing he is\, and he doesn’t have time for second chances. Especially not at love. As a child\, Davalynn Spencer fell in love with horses. As a teen\, she fell in love with a cowboy. That’s how she became the wife and mother of professional rodeo bullfighters and an award-winning rodeo journalist. Today she writes cowboy romances because the Western way of life is down to earth\, honest\, and God-fearing—even in this contemporary world. She is a two-time Will Rogers Medallion winner who lives along Colorado’s Front Range with mouse detectors Annie and Oakley\, and she can’t stop loving the cowboy. \nThe Duke in Question\nAmalie Howard\nThis lady won’t let a savvy duke sway her from her mission. The Duke of Thornbury\, retired agent of the Crown\, has never lost a target. In a flirty game of cat and mouse\, a spy must keep his enemy close to unravel the secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Lady Bronwyn Chase is far from the paragon of society that her mother expects her to be. Which is why she’s on her brother’s passenger liner bound for America with a secret packet of letters that could get her into trouble. Serious trouble—the kind that a duke’s sister shouldn’t be in; the kind that puts spymaster Valentine Medford\, the Duke of Thornbury\, on her trail. But as the duke gets closer to Bronwyn and the secrets she’s keeping\, he’ll have to decide between the mysterious woman who calls to him\, or his allegiance to the Crown. Amalie Howard is the author of the Publishers Weekly bestseller\, The Beast of Beswick\, which Entertainment Weekly touted as “bursting with shrewd banter\, inventively sexy interludes\, and emotion with a capital E.” She is the co-author of the #1 bestsellers in regency romance and Scottish historical romance\, My Hellion\, My Heart and What A Scot Wants\, and has also penned several award-winning young adult novel. Of Indo-Caribbean descent\, she has written articles on multicultural fiction for The Portland Book Review and Ravishly magazine. She currently resides in Colorado with her husband and three children.
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LOCATION:Sand Creek Library\, 1821 S Academy Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80916\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:Children’s\, Juvenile\, & Young Adult Literature Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nChildren’s Literature Finalists\nIf Tigers Disappeared\nLily Williams\nWhat would happen if tigers disappeared? Find out in this fifth book in the award-winning If Animals Disappeared series that imagines the consequences of a world without tigers. There are nine subspecies of tigers\, but three are now extinct. They play a very important role in keeping nature in balance\, but due to expanding human populations\, poaching\, and more\, they’re in danger. Join Lily Williams as she tracks the devastating reality of what our world might look like without tigers. Lily Williams is the author and illustrator of If Sharks Disappeared\, If Polar Bears Disappeared\, If Elephants Disappeared\, and If Bees Disappeared. She grew up in Northern California where she received her BFA from California College of the Arts. Lily seeks to inspire change\, engage audiences\, and educate people of all ages with her artwork. She lives west of Denver. \nSwim\, Jim! \nKaz Windness\nJim the crocodile is scared of swimming—or rather\, of sinking. His family’s swamp is just too deep\, too dark\, and too big. But maybe he could swim\, if only there were a smaller swamp where he could try it on his own terms. Jim wiggle-waggles far and wide until he finds the perfect place. With the help of some floaties and his sisters\, Jim just might find the courage to face his fear and show everyone—including himself—that Jim can swim! Kaz Windness is an author-illustrator who loves to make her readers laugh. When she’s not writing or illustrating books\, Kaz teaches illustration at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. She’s the author of 15 picture books\, including Bitsy Bat\, School Star\, and Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends. Kaz lives in Thornton. \nSylvie\nJean Reidy and Lucy Ruth Cummins\nOne small spider takes a big risk to bring together the people she watches over in her apartment building in this charming picture book from the celebrated author and illustrator of Truman. Jean Reidy’s bestselling and award-winning picture books have earned their spots as favorites among readers and listeners of all ages and from all over the world. Her books include Truman and Sylvie\, both illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins. She is a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award\, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner\, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor winner\, and recognized on “Best of” lists by School Library Journal\, The New York Times\, NPR\, and Amazon. Jean lives in Greenwood Village. \nJuvenile Literature Finalists\nDad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties\nKellye Crocker\nDad hasn’t even been dating his new girlfriend that long\, so Ava is sure that nothing has to change in her life. That is\, until the day after sixth grade ends\, when Dad whisks her away on vacation to meet The Girlfriend and her daughter in terrifying Colorado\, where even the squirrels can kill you! Managing her anxiety\, avoiding altitude sickness\, and surviving the mountains might take all of Ava’s strength\, but at least this trip will only last two weeks. Right? Kellye Crocker is a journalist who has written for Better Homes and Gardens\, Parents\, and Glamour. She holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in news-editorial from the Missouri School of Journalism. She lives in Denver. \nMiddle School: Safety Goggles Advised\nJessica Speer and Lesley Imgart\nYes\, there are cool things about middle school\, like more independence\, new friends\, and new activities. But there’s baffling stuff too\, like harsh judgment\, the whole “popularity” thing\, and\, of course\, drama. Jessica Speer is the award-winning author of BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)? A Girls Guide to Happy Friendships. Blending humor\, a dash of science\, stories\, and insights\, her writing unpacks the social stuff that peaks during adolescence. She has a master’s degree in social sciences and explores topics in ways that connect with kids. Jessica is regularly featured in and contributes to media outlets on topics related to kids\, teens parenting\, and friendship. Lesley Imgart is an illustrator/artist/writer based in Edinburgh. In her autobiographical work\, Lesley documents sincere observations\, funny conversations\, and anything else that feels important. \nSisterhood of Sleuths\nJennifer Chambliss Bertman\nMaizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother\, Jacuzzi. So\, when a box full of vintage Nancy Drew books gets left at her mom’s thrift store\, Maizy is surprised to find an old photo of her grandmother and two other women tucked beneath the collection. Determined to learn the truth — and inspired by the legacy of Nancy Drew — Maizy launches her own investigation with the help of new friends\, Nell and Cam. This intergenerational mystery filled with literary history\, friendship\, and family secrets delivers a captivating tribute to the world’s most famous girl detective. Jennifer Chambliss Bertman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Book Scavenger series and the picture book A Good Deed Can Grow\, illustrated by Holly Hatam. Jennifer holds an MFA in Creative Writing and lives in Erie. \nTotality! An Eclipse Guide in Rhyme and Science\nJeffrey Bennett\nThis book features a unique combination of rhyme and science that makes it suitable for a wide range of ages. The book includes a glossary\, suggested activities\, and an eclipse science summary — features that will add particular value for parents and teachers learning along with their students or kids. Astrophysicist/educator Jeffrey Bennett is the author of numerous books\, including college textbooks in astronomy\, astrobiology\, mathematics\, and statistics\, books for the general public\, and six previous books for children. All six children’s books have won numerous awards\, including the American Institute of Physics Science Communication award and have been read by astronauts aboard the International Space Station for the Story Time From Space program. Dr. Bennett lives in Boulder. \nYoung Adult Literature Finalists\nAzar on Fire\nOlivia Abtahi\nFourteen-year-old Azar Rossi’s first year of high school has mostly been silent\, and intentionally so. After a bad case of colic as a baby\, Azar’s vocal folds are shredded—full of nodules that give her a rasp the envy of a chain-smoking bullfrog. When she hears about a local Battle of the Bands contest\, it’s something she can’t resist. Azar loves music\, loves songwriting\, but with her vocal folds the way they are\, there’s no way she can sing her songs on stage. Growing up in the DC area\, Olivia devoured books and hid in empty classrooms during school to finish them. Her debut novel\, Perfectly Parvin\, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Putnam Books for Young Readers\, receiving the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor\, and YALSA Odyssey Honor\, and numerous starred reviews. She lives in Denver. \nBright Ruined Things\nSamantha Cohoe\nThe only life Mae has ever known is on the island\, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island’s magic and its spirits. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family\, where her best friend\, Coco\, will see her as an equal\, and her crush\, Miles\, will finally see her. As Mae and her friends unravel the mysteries of the island\, and the Prospers’ magic\, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on. Samantha Cohoe writes historically-inspired young adult fantasy. She was raised in San Luis Obispo\, California and divides her time among teaching Latin\, mothering\, writing\, reading\, and deleting adverbs. A Golden Fury is her debut novel\, and she lives in Denver. \nCold the Night\, Fast the Wolves\nMeg Long\nA lone girl determined to survive. The feral wolf she must learn to trust. Only one chance to escape their icy planet: a race across the deadly tundra. As the girl and the wolf forge a tenuous bond and fight to escape ice goblins\, giant bears\, and the ruthless gang leader intent on trapping them both\, one question drives them relentlessly forward: Where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide? Meg Long was born and raised in Louisiana and taught middle and high school for eight years before jumping to the tech industry as a content writer. Cold the Night\, Fast the Wolves is her debut novel\, and she lives in Lakewood.
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LOCATION:Ruth Holley Library\, 685 N Murray Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:Historical Fiction\, History/Biography\, and Pictorial Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com.\n\nHistorical Fiction Finalists \nLittle Souls  \nSandra Dallas \nWorld War I is raging overseas\, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu\, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals\, churches and funeral homes are closed\, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents’ deaths. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar\, Little Souls is a tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most. Sandra Dallas\, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” in Vogue Magazine\, is the author of over a dozen novels\, including Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass\, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award\, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 25 years covering the Rocky Mountain region. She lives in Denver and Georgetown. \nThe School for German Brides  \nAimie K. Runyan \nGermany\, 1939. As the war begins\, Hanna Rombauer\, a young German woman\, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother’s death. Thrown into a life of luxury she never expected\, Hanna soon finds herself unwillingly matched with an SS officer. The independence that her mother lovingly fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer\, and she is sent to a “bride school.” There\, in a posh villa on the outskirts of town\, Hanna is taught how to be a “proper” German wife. The lessons of hatred\, prejudice\, and misogyny disturb her\, and she finds herself desperate to escape. Aimie K. Runyan has been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection\, as a three-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards\, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. Aimie is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond. She lives in Estes Park. \nWoman of Light  \nKali Fajardo-Anstine \nLuz “Little Light” Lopez\, a tea leaf reader and laundress\, is left to fend for herself after her older brother\, Diego\, a snake charmer and factory worker\, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930’s Denver on her own\, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins\, how her family flourished\, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end\, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, the PEN/Bingham Prize\, The Story Prize\, and winner of an American Book Award. She has written for The New York Times\, Harper’s Bazaar\, ELLE\, The American Scholar\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere\, and has received the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts. She lives in Arvada. \n  \nHistory/Biography Finalists \nLife is a Game: Adventures of a World War II Interrogator and U.S. Soccer Pioneer  \nG.K. Guennel & Flint Whitlock \nG.K. “Joe” Guennel was born in Germany and came to the U.S. as a teenager just as the Nazis were taking over the country. He joined the U.S. Army while in college\, and because German was his native language\, he was assigned to be an interrogator of German prisoners-of-war—both during the war and prior to the Nuremberg war-crimes trials. After returning to the U.S.\, he became involved in starting soccer programs wherever he lived while he worked on earning his Ph.D. in paleobotany and was later inducted into both the U.S. and Colorado Soccer Halls of Fame. Before his death\, Dr. Guennel gave his voluminous notes\, photos\, and artwork to his friend and fellow soccer enthusiast\, Flint Whitlock\, a few years before he died in hopes that Flint\, the award-winning author of 15 books (four of which have been finalists in the Colorado Book Awards) and a 2021 inductee into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame\, could complete his autobiography. Flint lives in Denver. \nThe Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina \nLori Peek & Kai Erikson \nThe final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. The authors expand the view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view\, the authors argue\, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Kai Erikson is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Wayward Puritans\, Everything in Its Path\, A New Species of Trouble\, and The Sociologist’s Eye. Lori Peek is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Behind the Backlash\, coauthor of Children of Katrina\, and co-editor of Displaced and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Lori lives in Boulder. \nThe Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse\, Sitting Bull\, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation  \nMark Lee Gardner \nCrazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic\, their significance in American history undeniable. Together\, these two Lakota chiefs\, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man\, delivered a crushing defeat to George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives. Based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources\, The Earth Is All That Lasts chronicles these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Mark Lee Gardner is the author of Rough Riders\, To Hell on a Fast Horse\, and Shot All to Hell\, which received multiple awards\, including a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Gardner has appeared on PBS’s American Experience as well as on the History Channel\, AMC\, the Travel Channel\, and NPR. He has written for National Geographic History\, American Heritage\, the Los Angeles Times\, True West\, and American Cowboy. He lives in Cascade. \n  \nPictorial Finalists \nIn Pursuit of Happenstance  \nBarbara Ford & Roberta Smith \nIn this 68-page book\, Smith’s imagery square dances with Ford’s poetry. The poems serve as both counterpart and counterpoint to Smith’s paintings\, collages\, altered books\, found objects\, and mixed media assemblages. The creation of this collaboration was founded in the serendipity of two bodies of work frolicking\, laughing\, frowning\, and wiping away tears together. Smith’s and Ford’s two worlds come together and create a third\, called Happenstance\, rife with ravens\, bicycle rides\, whales\, Adam and Eve\, turtles\, chickens\, eggs\, and jesters. Roberta Smith has worked as a graphic artist\, children’s book illustrator\, jewelry designer and muralist before becoming an award-winning mixed media artist. She has exhibited in galleries and invitational shows\, and her work is represented in public and private collections throughout the country. Barbara Ford’s work has been published in a variety of publications\, and she has presented her poetry at festivals and conferences throughout the state. Her radio program\, Poets and Minstrels\, has aired for 17 years in Salida\, where they both live. \nTo Aspen and Back: An American Journey   \nPeggy Clifford\, David Hiser\, and Daniel Joseph \nJournalist Peggy Clifford’s account of the town she called home for 26 years was published in 1980 and considered an insightful history and deep examination of the social and cultural forces that both shaped this Shangri-La in the Colorado Rockies and threatened to destroy its ideals. Republished in 2022\, To Aspen and Back comes more vibrantly to life with curated photographs and the original introduction written by Hunter S. Thompson. Peggy Clifford was a copywriter and reporter in Pittsburgh and New York City before moving to Aspen in 1953. Beginning as the sole editorial employee for the daily Aspen Flyer\, she became managing editor of The Aspen Times and managed Hunter Thompson’s campaign for sheriff. She died in 2017. David Hiser has won multiple awards\, including the 2015 Pictorial Colorado Book Award for High Road to Aspen\, and Daniel Joseph Watkins won the 2012 Pictorial Colorado Book Award for Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist. David lives in Carbondale\, and Daniel lives in Aspen. \nVibrant Interiors  \nAndrea Monath Schumacher \nThe author’s debut interior design book explores her creativity and ability to transform interior spaces into something unique for each client. Regardless of location or style\, the skillfully designed homes are layered with a well-balanced mix of complexity and simplicity; sophisticated yet playful; layered but minimal. This dynamic interplay is compelling\, unexpected\, and creates conversation. Andrea Monath Schumacher started her company in 1999 and has built Andrea Schumacher Interiors into the premiere residential interior design firm in Denver\, Colorado that has recently expanded to Santa Barbara\, California. The award-winning firm consistently appears on the Luxe Gold List and in House Beautiful\, Luxe\, The Wall Street Journal Off Duty\, Colorado Homes\, Mountain Living\, and Western Art & Architecture\, while ranking #1 on the Best of Houzz for 5 consecutive years.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/historical-fiction-history-biography-and-pictorial-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:East Library\, 5550 N Union Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80918\, United States
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