Fulcrum Publishing: 108 books
Life In New York
How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters, and Subway Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller Play Money and award-winning Buffalo Gal, serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, NY, friends thought the seventeen year old was suffering from blizzard delirious when she left Buffalo for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences...
by Christopher Priest, Sheena Howard
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black...
Colorado's Legendary Lovers
Historic Scandals, Heartthrobs, and Haunting Romances
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This collection of 28 vignettes of famous lovebirds from Colorado's past includes such incendiary historical characters as Baby Doe and Horace Tabor, Molly Dorsey and Byron Sanford, and Cort Thompson and Mattie Silks. The couples were chosen because of their impact on the state's evolution and their...
Our Stories Remember
American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
An illuminating look at Native origins and lifeways, a treasure for all who value Native wisdom and the stories that keep it alive.
A Ditch in Time
The City, the West and Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Tracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation, raises questions about the complex relationship among cities, suburbs, and rural areas, allowing us to consider this precious resource and its past, present, and future with both optimism and realism.
On the Clean Road Again
Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
For more than 40 years, Willie Nelson has been a national treasure, contributing many memorable songs to our musical canon. His impact, however, extends far beyond the scope of his music. A champion of family farms, Nelson has helped mobilize support for the American farmer, both as a founder of Farm...
Every Day Is a Good Day
Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.
by Howard Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Surviving the Death of Your Baby
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis...
Boxing for Cuba
An Immigrant's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.
The World We Used to Live In
Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used to Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country,...
by Dick Kreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Take a trip back in time to revel in the scandal, murders, infidelities, financial misdeeds, and just plain bad behavior from Colorado's past. Public respectability does not always translate into tidy private lives, and our interest in the naughty behavior of the rich and famous will never be satisfied....
The New Eldorado
The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
For forty years they flooded Colorado—gold diggers, silver miners, outlaws, gamblers, and pioneers—looking for another Golden Fleece. Colorado comes alive in this classic overview of the gold and silver rushes, where fortunes were won and lost. Phyllis Flanders Dorset has re-created a lusty frontier...
Rez Salute
The Real Healer Dealer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Since 2001, Indian Country has seen great changes, touching everything from treaty rights to sovereignty issues to the rise (and sometimes the fall) of gambling and casinos. With unsparing honesty and a good dose of humor, Jim Northrup takes readers through the last decade, looking at the changes in Indian Country, as well as daily life on the rez.