Cañon City Public Library

Presents a cartoon version of Twain's story about Hank Morgan, who was cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut and wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England, and features essays on the author, background, themes, characters, and significance of the work.

Claire McKenna knows about loss. The bullet wound that ended her promising professional tennis career drove her to make a quiet life for herself working with fabric samples, chatting with her book group, and spending time with her parents in her sleepy coastal Connecticut hometown. There was a boyfriend who dumped her to pursue her adventurous childhood friend. Claire's business has hit a financial snag, but she's up to the challenge. After all, she...

Poets Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson tell the story, through sonnets, of Prudence Crandall's school for African American girls opened in 1833.

On December 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure: she lost her son Jesse in an act of unimaginable violence. The day started just like any other, but when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett’s life changed forever. However, this isn’t a story about a massacre. It’s a story about love and survival. It’s about how to face the impossible, how to find courage when you...

In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.

Captain Carmine Delmonico must find a brilliant killer hiding out in the prestigious and cutthroat world of academia.

In the third book of the Newbery Honor-winning series, the author takes readers back to his childhood once more, sharing stories of his starring in the dance recital, praying for his new baby sister to get over pneumonia, and finally learning to read.

"Teresa Giudice, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, has seen it all, but nothing--not even Real Housewives scandals--could compare to the media firestorm that ensued after she was convicted on federal fraud charges. The infamous, fun-loving Jersey mom of four was sentenced to fifteen months in the same prison where Piper Kerman--the real-life inspiration behind Orange Is the New Black--did her time. Her tiny prison cubicle in Connecticut...