Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, June 9, 2007
Pikes Peak Library District, Multimedia and Production Studio
"Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West," the 2007 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, examined the ways in which women who lived in the region helped to shape the politics, economics,...
"Don't look for me. I'll come back when I'm ready." Pandora Madchen wrote those words when she ran off six years ago. In that time she'd become a sensation with the rock group Nemesis, toured the...
In Danielle Steel’s 68th bestselling novel, ancient traditions conflict with the pressures of modern life for a young European princess. Princess Christianna is the only daughter of the reigning...
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream...
For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the...
One morning, Jenny McCarthy sensed something was wrong and ran into her two-year-old son Evan’s room to discover he was having a seizure. In that moment, Jenny was thrust into the midst of a medical...
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000...
Written in the tradition of E. B. White and Dick King-Smith, this Newbery Honor-winning tale is a highly original blend of down-home farm tale and high sea adventure.
The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispered of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. Somehow, American surgeon, Shea...
Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists...
