Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Paige McDonald, an avid book collector, discovers a forgotten Bible. When the Bible reveals that she was abandoned on the steps of a fire department, she begins a journey to search for her birth mother. Hamilton Bryant, a Patrol Officer, has sworn off romance, reserving his passion for the town he's sworn to protect. When Paige's arrival in Whitman coincides with random thefts and threats against the mayor, Hamilton is compelled to investigate...

Luthien's blind loyalty to his father turns to contempt when he realizes that his father is powerless against the agents of the evil Wizard-King.

In the sequel to Shadow Moon, the peaceful reign of Elora Danan is once again threatened as the ruthless Thunder Riders battle to expand their dominion. Thorn Drumheller confronts new responsibilities and an omnipotent primal being lurks in the shadows.

A novel on a sugar baron's rise to riches by violence and murder. He is E. J. Watson, a 19th century pioneer who builds a sugar-cane empire in Florida on the back of blacks. Third volume in a trilogy which began with Killing Mister Watson.

Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind.

Much to the amazement of her doctors, Faith Partker awakens from her life-threatening coma, but with no memory of her past. When she learns that her best friend Dinah has disappeared, she begins to remember things. Now horrifying visions of violence and intimacy with a strange man begin to intrude her dreams. Could her accident be connected with Dinah's disappearance? Something terrible is happening, and Faith must find a way to saver her friend before...

Gr 5-7-Luke, a third child, hides quietly in his house, eluding the Population Police because he lives in a society in which families are only allowed two children. Now he has a chance to come out of the shadows by taking on an assumed identity and leaving home. This sequel to Among the Hidden (S & S, 1998) has Luke, now Lee, entering the Hendricks School for boys and a completely new existence where he feels lost and confused by his surroundings....

Young Russian Vladimir Petrovna is always minutes away from disaster. He is a Christian in a pagan country that exacts extreme penalties from believers. His farm is nearly destroyed by blight and he cannot pay the taxes he owes. And he is a husband and father of three whose daughter is secretly in love with a Cossack-one of the very soldiers who persecute families like Vladimir's. Though he may lose everything he loves, Vladimir must trust God as...

Gr 5-9-Haddix continues her science fiction dystopian tale about illegal third children in this sequel to Among the Hidden (1998) and Among the Imposters (2001, both S & S). Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police for being an illegal child. She is given the opportunity to save herself by spying on the other three children who are in the jail cell with her. Nina finds herself both drawn to them and fearful for her own life. When she has a chance...