Berthoud Community Library District

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.

Daniel, an alien hunter, targets intergalactic criminals preying on the human race, and has the ability to create anything he can imagine to help him, including the family that was murdered when he was three.

After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

The reflections of the inhabitants of Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of a 21 year old gay man named Matthew Shepard.

The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.

Graphic novelizations of five short stories by nineteenth-century American horror and mystery author Edgar Allan Poe.

When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...

Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

"The volatile Andrew hijacks Jake for a mysterious late night road trip away from his typewriter and poisonous relationship. The two men are halfway to Ohio before Andrew reveals the purpose of their journey. Jake and Andrew befriend a young girl at a rural filling station and a single mother at a local diner while en route to the funeral of Andrew's father. This is the story of a lost generation emerging from the ashes of post-9/11 New York, and...