Akron Public Library

"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...

Relates the stories of some three dozen women who, from the 1850s to the 1980s, ventured into the Colorado Rockies pursuing their own aims largely independent of male guidance or assistance.

On t.p.: A field guide to Rocky Mountain wildflowers from northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia.

Born in 1831, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel.

Haunted by painful memories, pediatric surgeon Sage Anderson gives up medicine and moves to Eternity Springs, where she finds a place to call home. Yet even her newfound success as a gifted artist isn't enough to keep her nightmares at bay. Colt Rafferty is about to change all that. Eternity Springs is a refuge for Colt when the stress of investigating tragedies takes its toll. He's come for a lttle R & R. But instead of relaxing, Colt finds himself...