Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman.

"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant.Raised...

You know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, or do you? Did you know that Snow White was a secret agent? Or that the seven dwarfs were sled dogs in the Arctic? Navigate through three versions of the classic fairy tale. In these stories YOU CHOOSE how they end.

This is a story that explores the complications of a woman marrying into a ready-made family, and the true meaning of motherhood.

In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

While still grieving for her mother and unable to accept her stepmother, a girl clings to the memories represented by forty-three buttons on a string.

Snow White is forced to run away from home when her evil stepmother grows jealous of her beauty. The girl wanders alone through the dark forest and soon spots a curious little house. When she knocks at the door, seven little dwarves welcome her in! Snow White lives happily with them for a time. Then, one day, the evil stepmother learns about the girl's new home. She has evil plans for her stepdaughter.

Fairy Godmother is reluctant to help Queen Cinderella's evil stepmother and stepsisters until she sees their story from a different perspective.