Pines and Plains Libraries

Set in Denver, the separate lives of a school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelors become one small community.

"1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love -- both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing...

In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.

Returning to her beloved one-room school and her adopted community of Rockytop, Colorado, Minta tries to put the terrible and traumatic events of the previous year behind her. However, despite evidence that her abusive husband was killed while being transported from Colorado to Indiana for trial, the young school teacher remains haunted by Edmund's specter of vengeance--and with good cause...--From publisher's description.

A first-grade boy is shocked, then pleased, when he discovers that his teacher has a life away from school.

Colorado, 1910. Quinn Cooper can’t help feeling uneasy. But securing a job as a schoolmarm in a tiny frontier town was the only way to save her family from starvation back in Boston. And her nerves aren’t eased by a stray gunshot that spooks the sleigh horses, casting her into the snow… until she’s rescued by a handsome stranger.

"Claire Caspian is a first-rate professor, teaching even the most cynical student to find beauty in literature. But with her own personal story, she isn't as successful. Having recently lost her husband, Claire returns with her young son to the tiny desert town of Romeo, Colorado, where she grew up. There she settles in with her feisty old Abuelita, the richest woman in the county and attempts to rebuild her life. But love comes searching for Claire...

In search of life after child rearing, a Boston preschool teacher makes a tentative feint at Pikes Peak. The Peak dishes out far more than bargained for: a dying hiker, a lost trail, a fall, and a night out in an electrical storm. In surviving this maelstrom Catherine (Cookie) finds inspiration and confidence to attempt ever more daring forays into the extremes of Colorado:the Royal Gorge rapids, a solitary tube ride down the Colorado River, and a...

Consumed by her cause to help ex-slaves prepare for freedom, Prudence Lincoln must decide whether or not she is willing to give up everything for former Cheyenne warrior Thomas Redstone after he declares his love.