Alamosa Public Library

"When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired...

"Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003...

This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give...

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, family life, and eating habits of both African and Asian elephants.

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the cells, tissues, and organs of the human body"--Provided by publisher.

"The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. It's a compilation...

"These are stories of events in a fictitious university community in the Rocky Mountain foothills. They are loosely woven about the life of a 'Model University Professor', environmental scientist Paul Mandryka, affectionately known simply as Prof by students and friends. Fellow faculty member, Jedediah Williams, has chosen him for the 'professor I would have liked to have become', and has asked for descriptive contributions from other faculty members,...

Born in 1926 to a struggling West Texas cowboy, Elmer toils beside the last generation of horse-riding cow-punchers. Nearsighted and convince he'll never be the cowboy his dad is, Elmer determines to become a writer. But as he struggles to persuade a disappointed father to let him attend the faraway University of Texas--and see writing as legitimate work--the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and trigger events that carry bashful Elmer to the Austrian...

In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker—both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot...

"A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding Romeo from the streets of Washington, D.C., who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle - not because he yearned for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the United States Army during World War II." "An African American GI assigned to a segregated labor battalion, Perry was shipped to South...