Because your blog editor is an "absent-minded professor" we bring you the second installment of June releases and Awards!
Throughout
Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main
streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved
from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold
rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons
eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple
Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking
for opportunity.
Alison
L. McLennan, Ophelia's War: The SecretStory of a Mormon Turned Madam (Five Star/ Frontier Fiction) The priceless
ruby necklace secretly given to fifteen-year-old Ophelia Oatman by her dying
mother isn't easily given away-nor is her virginity. But Ophelia must choose
between them.
Kayann Short’s article, “Food
for Bears” appears in the latest edition of the environmental-literary
magazine, The Hopper. “Food for Bears” examines the impact of climate
crisis on the food system for bears and humans along Colorado’s Front Range.
This edition is available on Amazon or through Indiebound.
AWARDS
Heidi M Thomas, Dareto Dream, was named a finalist in the International Book Awards in the Fiction:
Young Adult category. In the spring of 1941, Nettie Moser, now 36, has grieved
the loss of a cowgirl friend in a freak rodeo accident. To regain her heart and
spirit, Nettie is determined to ride again at
a Cheyenne, Wyoming. To her dismay, the male-dominated Rodeo
Association of America (RAA) enforces its rule barring women from riding rough
stock and denies her the chance to ride. Her fury at the discrimination can’t
change things for women—yet.
Linda
Shuler, Hidden Shadows, has been
honored with an Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award. The
novel has also won Pinnacle Book of Achievement Award NABE; Finalist, da Vinci
Eye Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women’s Fiction Writers
Association); Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National
Indie Excellence Awards), and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators
& Editors Readers’ Poll 2015. Cassie Brighton, devastated by the
death of her husband, flees to a remote homestead in the rugged Texas Hill
Country. Alone in a ramshackle farmhouse steeped in family secrets, Cassie
wages a battle of mind and heart as she struggles to overcome the sorrows of
her past, begin anew, and confront the possibility of finding love again.
Lesley
Poling-Kempes, Ladies of the Canyons,
won the Reading The West book award for nonfiction from the Mountains &
Plains Independent Booksellers Association. This is the true story of remarkable women who left the security
and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American
Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. These ladies
imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity
for themselves and for the women who would follow them.
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