In a stunning literary debut, A. Rooney has created some of the freshest characters in recent fiction: Hollis, the duck-footed mathophile looking for love; Lowell, who longs to know what might have been had he raised his lost son; James, aching with the memory of a puzzling past and the chances he didn't take; and Percy, a musician whose scandalous days have led to unexpected tranquility. Desire for connection, thirst for reconciliation, the effort required to put one foot in front of the other to make the best of life, this is The Colorado Motet.

The Colorado Motet

Literature & Fiction

Rooney, A.

Contemporary

Ghost Road Pub Group Inc

From a remarkable new talent residing in the high mountain valleys of Colorado, Craig Nielson's Touch of Grace is a passionate celebration of life, emotions, and a modern day Western sensibility. Written with the descriptive language of love, anger, longing, and hope, Grace flows from every page. Nielson's poems are not to be forgotten, his voice not to be ignored.

Touch of Grace

Nielson, Craig, M.D.

Poetry

American Book Award winning poet Aaron A. Abeyta finds beauty in the unexpected, whether it's the melody of a raindrop striking a tin can or the complicated and intensely personal definitions of poetry itself. As Orion Falls, a spectacular and intricate narrative array of poems, exposes and magnifies the constellations of everyday life-with its memory, pain, and joy. Weaving nostalgia, mythology, and wrenching passion, Abeyta crafts language with exceptional care, and his achievement is a collection that speaks the truths we know from our own experience. An accessible entry into a self-contained world of the purest loves imaginable, As Orion Falls is a feast that feeds our secret dreams.

As Orion Falls

Abeyta, Aaron A.

This anthology of poetry, essays, and fiction contains the winning and honorable mention submissions from the Ghost Road Press Creative Writing contest held in 2005; it also has solicited contributions by writers regional to Colorado. Open Windows: 2005 is a mix of wry, touching, and honest pieces that make us think about the notion of change, whether it occurs in a marriage or parental relationship, the physical landscape and our relation to it, or in the fabric of society itself. But no matter what the setting or theme of the individual pieces, the collection as a whole is held together by the liminality of life experience, be it the classic coming-of-age tale, man's self-imprisonment, or the loss of the romantic notion.

Open Windows: 2005

Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air

In Colorado Book Award Winner Chris Ransick's Never Summer: Poems From Thin Air, poetry flows like a stream collecting the debris of love, fear, and frailty. At each eddying current, tiny details of everyday life are exquisitely unfurledand enlarged to reveal a world as familiar as a child falling asleep on her father's shoulder; as whimsical as an afternoon spent watching girls playing rugby; as unnatural as the dead dancing in the snow. Approachable and imaginative, Ransick's authentic collection received accolades upon its original publication. Here it is again in a beautiful hardback edition-with ten new poems-to rediscover or explore anew.

Ransick, Chris

On Christmas night 1776, the American Revolution could have died on Abraham Hunt's doorstep. As George Washington was crossing the Delaware for his attack on Trenton, newly avowed loyalist Abraham Hunt was hosting a Christmas party for the enemy. Hunt could have pulled the pin on America's precarious struggle for independence, but he didn't. Was Washington extremely lucky, or was something more profound taking place? Culled from historic events and a recently discovered document, this book is an intriguing tale about how close we came to not becoming a nation.

The Trial of Abraham Hunt

Davis, Michael A.

The Silverville Swindle

Todd, Mark

O'Connell-Todd, Kym

A family's dark secrets are at the root of this rich novel set in rural Illinois. Alternating between the mysterious past and the unsettled present day, a father and son contend-individually-with complicated loyalties to parents, friends, lovers, and the land itself. What can a young man do? This is the central question of a complex story about love and obligation.

The Pull of the Earth

Teague Bohlen

During the mid-nineteenth century, two prospectors on the outskirts of Gold Creek rape Revered Philip Goodwin's daughters, murdering one and leaving the other for dead. The town sheriff cobbles together a posse of outsiders to hunt down the perpetrators and bring the villains to justice. But more than just a story of retribution, A Killing Fever is a story of discovery. Whether it's a damaged woman finding unlikely salvation on an "excursion outside [her] bed of pain," or a Jewish journalist uncovering the humanity in a "scarred hell-fiend of rage," Cooperman gives us a tale that lets us know that "none in the West/ is what we pretend to be," and the only way to come to terms with our true selves is to push the body and the soul to their furthest limits. A journey into our inner recesses, as well exploring the past, A Killing Fever simultaneously informs, horrifies, and delights.

A Killing Fever

Cooperman, Robert

For Suzannah, an argument over pineapple pizza is just the catalyst she needs to awaken her senses, propelling her from marriage in Ohio to life alone near Wyoming's majestic Teton Range. As she untangles her most important relationships, Suzannah finds herself plopped into an unexpected attachment with a rugged artist.

Crybaby Ranch

Romance

Welling, Tina

Paranormal

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