ALAMOSA — New books are always coming in at the Alamosa Public Library! Here are 10 of our most intriguing arrivals. For more information, or to have a book reserved for you, check alamosalibrary.org or call 719-589-6592.
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ALAMOSA — New books are always coming in at the Alamosa Public Library! Here are 10 of our most intriguing arrivals. For more information, or to have a book reserved for you, check alamosalibrary.org or call 719-589-6592.
Fantasy
Despite Emily’s feelings for fellow scholar and faerie king Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage, especially when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge.
The year is 1815, and Miss Amelia Stonehold has arrived in Axminster. She’s brought with her a list to tick off: find a property, investigate the neighbors and...possibly...find a husband.She soon finds herself contending with some decidedly off-list trouble, including the Honorable Captain Harold Roughtower, whose eyes are fixed on her fortune.
Fiction
A chance meeting with an old classmate leads Ryan Laughlin to an ancient Roman spa where two remarkable events could change the course of history - a new technology that claims to measure the essence of life itself, and the final Dead Sea Scroll.
This is the story of a single day in rural Indiana. The residents of this town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined. This is a symphony of souls, a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community.
Adam goes back to Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time of a family secret that sends him plunging further into danger.
Local
Life Is What You Make It is about the author's experience with God and the universe, on how he accomplished his big dreams in life, and the lessons he learned along the way.
Nonfiction
From mittens made from a malamute's mane to caps created from a collie's crowning glory, this unusual guide offers a creative solution to that vexing problem of shedding. The book includes step-by-step instructions and is fully illustrated.
Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good.
Drawing on extensive new research, Matt Lodder offers a new perspective on the history of commercial tattooing in Europe and the United States.
Recent scientific research now supports what were once anecdotal claims about the benefits of yoga to every system in the body. Science of Yoga provides a detailed insight into variations of key yoga poses and the specific benefits of different styles of yoga on the human body, system by system.