Spanish Peaks Library District

The summer days are winding down and Charlottes grandchildren are heading back to school, but she feels unsettled. Charlotte knows she should be glad for peaceful autumn days, but she cant stop wondering what it will be like when the kids grow up and leave for good. What will she do with herself? She has always been interested in nursing, and decides to volunteer to help out at the local home. Her surprising friendship with one of the residents teaches...

"When ten-year-old Katie O'Brien and her little brother arrive in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1882 on the "Orphan Train," they are tragically split up between two different families. Mrs. Neal picks Katie and eventually takes Katie to Denver where she has acquired a job caring for a well-known black woman, Aunt Clara Brown. The story shares many of Katie's extraordinary experiences: making a Christmas tree out of tumbleweeds, tasting her first ice cream soda,...

"School is out for the summer, and Charlotte is doing her best to keep the kids occupied and out of trouble. After much prodding, Sam gets a job at a day care, but it's his part-time gig at the airport that captures his interest--and has his grandparents worried. Christopher is hard at work trying to teach an old dog new tricks, and Emily and her friend Ashley get roped into visiting an elderly woman in town who needs a little help around the house....

"In 1959, Hollywood ingenue Mercy Welles seems to have the world at her feet. Far removed from her Nebraska roots, she has crafted herself into a glamorous Oscar-nominated actress engaged to an up-and-coming director . . . Until she shockingly vanishes without a trace, just as her career is taking off. Almost sixty years later, Kit O’Neill, a junior television producer in Manhattan, is packing up her recently deceased grandmother’s attic, only...

Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

"From award-winning journalist and first-time novelist Derek Catron comes a historical Western and love story set on "the bloody Bozeman," the trail that sparked the only Indian war that ended with the army's defeat. In the spring of 1866, Annabelle sets out with her extended family to the gold fields of Montana. Guiding the wagon train is Josey Angel, a cavalryman said to have killed more men than any soldier in the Union army. His reputation frightened...

Love finds you in Charm. Young Emma Miller would appear to be the luckiest girl in Indiana: An Amish beauty with a loving family and a marriage offer from the community's most eligible young man, Emma's future seems right on track. Yet she yearns for adventure and romance and when given the opportunity to spend the season helping her widowed cousin's market business in scenic Charm, Ohio, she jumps at the chance to see what else the world has to offer. Love...