Faith A Colburn: 5 books

"A Family Like a Prairie." Our families and communities serve as the threshold we cross into our lives. Whether it’s a metaphorical threshold or the actual physical threshold that marks our front door, the crossing informs who we choose to become. This memoir is a series of eighteen stories,...

A mash-up of Ted Kooser's Local Wonders, Roger Welch's Shingling the Fog and Ms. Colburn's lifetime as an environmental journalist. Prairie Landscapes represents the ramblings of one mind prowling the Great Plains. With its focus on families and landed communities, it brings you face...

Our families and communities serve as the threshold we cross into our lives. Whether it’s a metaphorical threshold or the actual physical threshold that marks our front door, the crossing informs who we choose to become. This memoir is a series of twenty stories about one ordinary American family’s...

Bobbi Bowen lives in Cleveland. It’s 1937 in the second dip of a double-dip depression. When she leaves the apartment, she passes the Holy Rosary soup kitchen, with its straggle of shuffling men and women in their bedraggled coats. Most days she hums the new swing tunes—Cream Puff or Sing, Sing,...

Second-place winner in the Nebraska Press Women's adult nonfiction book category. If you want to know how a newspaper can serve a community, here is how it is done. This family memoir reveals a family of early adopters who used technological innovation to keep a mid-sized daily newspaper in business...