West Routt Library District

D.H. Dayne's mission is to become a recognized writer. By following a travel chart crated by his librarian sister, Dayne is spun back into incredible past lives, mystery and romance; all for the chance to live in the present.

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building. The young men did not say a word as the police officers watched them nervously, their eyes fixed on the shotguns....

Chronicles the life and career of twentieth-century American author Sandra Cisneros and describes her early childhood in Chicago, growing up between two cultures, languages, and customs, and her work as an activist for Mexican-American causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson became a Unitarian minister when he was twenty-five years old, but soon began to question his commitment to the denomination's beliefs. Eventually, he resigned his ministry, choosing instead to write and speak about his own ideas. In the process, he became the most influential writer and philosopher in the United States of his day. Emerson's life was marked by ill health and family tragedies that challenged his commitment to his...

Katie's school assignment is to pick a topic and write a research paper on it, and when she picks butterflies as her subject she learns that even small animals can be very interesting.

"Do you want to successfully self-publish? There are thousands of new books being published every day, but many self-published books quickly sink to the bottom of the pile. Many authors are frustrated because there are so many options for self-publishing, and they don't know which one to choose or what will be best for their book. Others spend thousands of dollars to publish and end up broken-hearted with the result. But it doesn't have to...

Writer's apprentice Lena London is back and better than ever when her friend, bestselling suspense novelist Camilla Graham, needs help solving a town murder that hits a little too close to home . . . It's summertime, and Lena and Camilla are busy working away while a town vandal runs amok. Things get even more complicated when Jane Wyland pays Camilla a not-so-friendly visit and gives her an ultimatum: reveal Camilla's husband James's family secret,...