West Routt Library District

"Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother whose writings The New York Times called "nothing less than a master class in how to be fully human". "I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me." Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn has spent her adult life...

A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction...

In 2007, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss released Raising Sand, one of the most acclaimed albums of the 21st century. It was an unlikely, mesmerizing pairing of one of rock's greatest frontmen with one of country's music's finest and most honored artists, produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett. Now, after 14 years, they return with a dozen songs from a range of traditions and styles that extend this remarkable collaboration in new and thrilling directions....

Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby Stokes is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbies specifically older newbies turn to when they want to become digitally literate. And her book, Is This Thing On?, is as smart, comprehensive, reassuring, and jargon-free as she is: the epitome of user-friendly. And it is now completely revised and updated to keep pace with the fast-changing digital landscape, covering tablets, apps, video streaming,...

Is this a workout book that can give you a toned “Hollywood babe body” in 30 days flat? No. Is it a bodybuilding book full of diet and exercise “hacks” for gaining lean muscle and melting belly fat faster than a sneeze in a cyclone? Absolutely not. But is it an exercise book (and nutrition book) that’ll show you exactly how to eat and exercise to lose up to 35 pounds of fat (or more) and gain eye-catching amounts of muscle definition...

Terry T-Rex and Stegosaurus Stan love playing with the other dinosaurs in Dinoland. Join in the fun and complete in the Reptile Races, go shopping in the Jurassic Jumble and have fun at the Fossil Fair. With over 1000 dinosaur things to spot, from woolly mammoths to Triceratops and cavemen clowns to bone-shaped surf boards, you will love to play in Dinoland!

Perfect for listeners of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial) -- and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These...