COMPULSIVE follows the journey of Don Curtis from secure family man and business owner to compulsive gambler. The extreme highs and lows he experiences and the lengths to which he goes to attain them. Although a work of fiction, many readers will recognize their own feelings and emotions; the daydream of winning a lottery dances through many of our heads. However, the compulsion to win is a nightmare.

Compulsive

Nelson, Jim

Literature & Fiction

Western Reflections Pub Co

This stunning book of poetry and black and white photography will bring the awe-inspiring San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado to you in a way you have never before experienced. The poetry flows like the sparkling mountain streams that Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer so vividly describes. By use of a specially designed printing process, the magnificent photographs of Eileen Benjamin are so sharp and clear that every little detail can be seen. This volume makes a perfect gift or a wonderful remembrance of one of the most beautiful spots on earth.

If You Listen: Poems & Photographs of the San Juan Mountains

Arts & Photography

Trommer, Rosemerry Wahtola

Photography & Video

America's first National Scenic Highway, this breathtaking seventy-mile section of the San Juan Skyway winds along former stage roads, railroad grades, and pack trails as it crosses the heights of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. Learn how the road was carved out of the cliffs, as well as the history of the ghost towns along the highway.

The Million Dollar Highway: Colorado's Most Spectacular Seventy Miles

Gregory, Marvin

Smith, P. David

The Awesome 'Dobie Badlands (the locals never call them "adobe") skirt the base of mountain ranges in Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, but the most fascinating area is found along the Gunnison River in Colorado. Here they push and twist in "pure abstract art form." Author Muriel Marshall explains the geology, gives photographic hints, describes the flora, tells us of people who lived here and makes us aware that much more has happened than we could ever imagine in what some would call "wasteland."

The Awesome 'Dobie Badlands

History

Marshall, Muriel

Americas

Marshall has created the definitive book on Grand Mesa, the large table-top mountain which dominates the Grand Junction, Colorado skyline. She shares details about Grand Mesa's geological origins and history, covers the edible as well as the just plain beautiful plants, the big and little beasts and the people -- including the man who brought a herd of only bulls to the mesa and then complained when he didn't get any calves. The mesa, dotted with more than 300 lakes, offers fishing and boating in the summer as well as skiing and snowmobiling in the winter.

Island in the Sky: The Story of Grand Mesa

Poetry

A Man to Cross Rivers With is a historical novel based on Gunnison Sheriff "Doc" Shores. Raised on a Michigan farm, Doc Shores moved west as soon as he was old enough. He became a frontiersman, gunman, and eventually one of the most noted and respected lawmen in Gunnison County. This fictionalized novel describes adventures on the frontier from Montana to Kansas and Texas and Doc Shores move to Gunnison with his beloved wife.

A Man to Cross Rivers With

Biographies & Memoirs

Davis, Richard

Regional U.S.

A master of the subtleties of light and the art of composition, Kathleen Norris Cook presents awesome displays of the mountains that many call the most beautiful in the world. Spirit of the San Juans contains many of the most spectacular and unforgettable photographs that you will ever view as well as portraits of a few of the resilient people who have come to live in this remote and rugged area of the Rockies. This is a treasure to add to any collection.

Spirit of the San Juans: Photography

Cook, Kathleen, Norris

Individual Artists

Blown to Bits in the Mine charts the evolution of the use of explosives for mining and quarrying in North America from the Industrial Revolution into the twentieth century. The art of blasting was of prime importance to mining because explosives enabled miners to move through solid rock as no other technology could. This book presents a detailed look at the whole process of using explosives, from drilling blast-holes to setting off the charges, with an emphasis on technology, material culture, and the impacts to the mine as a work environment. Everyone with a penchant for mining history will enjoy this book.

Blown to Bits in the Mine

Science & Math

Twitty, Eric

Technology

Kent Nelson's varied and entertaining stories draw the reader to explore the difficult landscape of human emotions. The stories have been described as intense and intellectually honest. "The dramas spring from authentically cautious people caught between heart and mind, between understanding and mystery, lyricism and realistic experience. In Discoveries there are no blind weaklings or self-righteous heroes, but rather people in between - alive, alert, and struggling with the dilemmas of their everyday lives. The persistent wisdom of the natural landscape teaches, controls, and sometimes heals." 
In Spirit of Animals an enigmatic Indian woman confounds three elk hunters and reveals a life beyond the knowable. In Discoveries a man if forced to examine himself when he tries to find the secrets in his wife's journal. A woman in Encounters reaches a new level of awareness through chance meetings with people she imagines she's seen before.

Discoveries: Short Stories of the San Juan Mountains

NELSON, Kent

Genre Fiction

IDA: HER LABOR OF LOVE is the true expanded biography of a woman living in Colorado during the late 1800s. Rich in the details of pioneer life, this story enchants, amazes and illuminates the woman's role in civilizing the then raw wilderness of the American West. The reader will be facinated by the life of this frontier woman, experiencing her joys and sorrows along the way.

Ida:Her Labor of Love

McManus, Carol Crawford

McManus, Carol, C.

Community & Culture

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