Brave Every Day (HB) by Trudy Ludwig
Category: Children's
From social-emotional learning expert Trudy Ludwig and award-winning picture book illustrator Patrice Barton (co-creators of The Invisible Boy) comes a story about managing anxiety and finding the courage to stand up for yourself and others. Most kids love hide-and-seek, but Camila just wants to hide. H ...Show more
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light - Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo; Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral ...Show more
West - A Translation by Paisley Rekdal
Category: Poetry
National Book Award, 2023 Longlist * "Elegiac and shot through with righteous anger, this essential collection demands a national reckoning."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW* "A must-have for libraries." --Booklist, STARRED REVIEW"A remarkable collection offering history not typically told in textboo ...Show more
Brave the Wild River - The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny
Category: History
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river ...Show more
Holler, Child - Stories by Latoya Watkins
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book AwardShortlisted for the Reading the West Book AwardAn extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness--from a writer whose "spellbinding, buoyant"* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.*Texas MonthlyIn Holler ...Show more
Tracing Time - Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs
Category: Nonfiction
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures ...Show more
The River Between Hearts by Heather Mateus Sappenfield
Category: Young Readers
On an ordinary Monday, Rill Kruse left for third grade with a dad, but when she came home, he'd been stolen. By a river. One year and thirteen days later--on the first morning of summer vacation--Rill still insists he's trudging home. Her mom has become a practical woman. Her older brother, Eddy, now ca ...Show more
Abuela, Don't Forget Me by Rex Ogle
Category: Young Readers | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In his award-winning Free Lunch and Punching Bag, Rex Ogle charted a coming of age marked by poverty and domestic violence. Here, in his debut poetry collection, he pays tribute to his abuela, the woman who gave him unconditional love throughout it all and the one adult he could count on when he was a c ...Show more
Go As a River - A Novel by Shelley Read
Category: Debut Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award * Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love * Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, f ...Show more
Alithia Ramirez Was an Artist by Violet Lemay (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Book
Alithia Ramirez dreamed of studying art in Paris.She drew the world as it should be--full of color and joy, creativity and fun. From her teachers to her family and friends, Alithia shared her gifts with an open heart. Being an artist is never easy, but she drew every day to practice her skills and help ...Show more
Woman of Light - A Novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical" (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina "Sometimes you just step into a bo ...Show more
The Big Texas Cookbook - The Food That Defines the Lone Star State by Editors of Editors of Texas Monthly
Category: cooking
The editors of Texas Monthly celebrate the ever-evolving culinary landscape of the Lone Star State in this stunning cookbook, featuring more than 100 recipes, gorgeous color photos, and insightful essays. When it comes to food, Texas may be best known for its beloved barbecue and tacos. But at more t ...Show more