Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

A famous true story about a devoted dog.

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...

A chance photograph taken for the school Camera Club draws Charlie into the emotionally troubled lives of his classmate Jennifer's family, especially that of her younger brother who harbors an astounding secret.

In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling. In this sequel to "The Sight," Larka is dead, and her twin brother Fell must face life without his sister and the rest of his pack. Hes an outcast who shares his sisters fatal gift for seeing the future. But the gift...

Pi is a small boy bound by ship to America with a boatload of animals. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a bengal tiger.