Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.

"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...

In 2002 and 2003, 823 women in Colorado participated in a special survey of African American/Black women who had recently given birth. African American/Black women who gave birth between July and December of 2002 were sent the survey. This report shows the results of this study.

A new resident moves to town to take over his late grandfather's veterinary business. Dawson and Julie find out some disturbing news about their son. Janine and William anxiously wait for a birthmother to choose them. Tabatha is almost finished with her pregnancy, but she still hasn't decided whether to keep her baby or pursue adoption. Celeste gets an amazing surprise from Ben as he tries to woo her.

Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing; his best friend Monk's wife, Kat, is unconscious on the kitchen floor, and Kat's two daughters have vanished. Kat is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak-- until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock" her mind long enough to ask a few questions. Soon Sigma Force is on a frantic quest for answers to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition...

"April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...

"Georgie ... impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef Pierre has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns Eynsleigh, is back from his latest expedition. It's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to celebrate his return and show off her new chef. ... Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of creepy Gothic horror novels--is one of the guests. He recently purchased a nearby Elizabethan manor...