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Celestial Trilogy: Full Moon Maxi, Lucy’s Shooting Star, and Clayton and the Planets

Celestial Trilogy: Full Moon Maxi, Lucy’s Shooting Star, and Clayton and the Planets by Carrie Wismer Yakola ’93 Yakola’s celestial trilogy for children age 3 through 7 celebrates the joy and innocence of childhood, filling three children’s books with the love, energy, and charisma that come with learning new things as a child. Yakola, who…

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A Peak at the Springs

A Peak at the Springs edited by Courtney Arnstein, CC alumni and parent relations office; photos contributed by Jessica Feis ’98 and Andrea Pacheco, CC annual giving office More than a cookbook, this book includes a tour of Colorado Springs, with beautiful photography, visitor information, and a unique recipe collection from Junior League friends, family,…

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Law and the Humanities

Law and the Humanities edited by Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson ’92, and Cathrine O. Frank Anderson, associate professor and chair of the department of English and language studies at the University of New England, brings together scholars from law schools and an array of disciplines in the humanities. This book is a stock-taking of different…

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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing

Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing by Rosemary Barnes ’70 and Susan Schellenberg Psychologist Rosemary Barnes and artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art…

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Blessing’s Bead

Blessing’s Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson ’74 Set in a little-known part of Arctic Alaska, this young-adult book tells the multigenerational tale of an Iñupiaq family torn apart by tragedy and reunited by the power of story and tradition. The book was selected by the Junior Library Guild as a book of the month and…

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Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare

Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare by Dennis Showalter, CC professor of history Showalter, a World War II scholar, presents a comprehensive study of Nazi Germany’s armored forces and their influence on the role of the army in the Third Reich. Panzers, self-contained armored units able to operate independently, became the nucleus of…

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Olio Aglio

Olio Aglio by Annie Whetzel ’09 Olio Aglio, translated, means literally “oil, garlic.“ This gluten-free cookbook is the result of a venture grant Whetzel received while at Colorado College. She spent the summer of 2008 traveling through Italy and collecting recipes while working on organic farms. The final product is a gluten-free recipe collection that…

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What’s so Great About Granite?

What’s so Great About Granite? by Jennifer H. Carey; photographs by Marli Bryant Miller ’82 Miller started photographing rocks as a geology major at CC, and her passion for geological photography grew as she spent additional time in the field while attending graduate school at the University of Washington. Her photos help illustrate this geologic…

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This Awkward Art

This Awkward Art by Conrad Hilberry and Jane Hilberry, CC professor of English This volume of poetry features works by both father and daughter. The poems are each an individual response to a shared subject, seen from different points of view. Perhaps the most poignant poems are those that focus on the shared loss of…

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The Black Book: Select Lines from Grand Teton National Park

by Conor Miller ’05 The premise of “The Black Book” is simple — a collection of high-quality photos of skiing lines in the Grand Teton National Park. Miller’s inspiration for the project was the lack of photos in the Jackson Hole Ski Atlas depicting the national park. The resulting book is an addition to the Teton…

Issue: August 2010 • Tags:
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