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-- The Rite of Spring It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka’s love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in “one year” histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he...
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Ruby and Maude adventures volume 1
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2011
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In 1896 Ruby Mae Oliver, her father, and her best friend, Maude, the donkey are stranded in Cripple Creek when Ruby's father decides that she need a proper upbringing and sends her to school.
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2019.
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A fun-filled social history about the evolution of a once tiny, working-class, ethnic, mining town, Crested Butte, Colorado, into one of today's major destination tourist towns and recreation communities that cater to the recreation needs of both its upper-middle class visitors and residents alike. The book focuses on the early stages of transformation, from the late 1960's to the latter part of the '70's -- the days that were the most racous, wild,...
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March 2021
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"Wild Times & True Tales is a collection of short stories and essays about the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Fast-paced and entertaining, Matt Vincent's first book takes the reader on a backroad tour of an overlooked and underappreciated part of the Great Plains where the buffalo once roamed- and where the deer and antelope still play. With a penchant for descriptive writing, the author puts us inside the bitter conflicts involving...
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2006
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Following in the wake of what one noted scientist called 'transients who neither revered nor cared for the ruins as symbols of the past, ' the Wetherill family became the earliest students of Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping helped preserve key information, leading to a deeper understanding of the people who built and occupied the cliff dwellings. As devout Quakers, they felt they were predestined to protect the historic sites...
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