Circa 1988, this brass key chain worked as an adult one-day ski lift pass. The pass was created by BrassWorks in San Francisco and is number 01121.
Center for Regional History, E-0987, Pat and Jim Davies Collection.
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Winter Read: Sabrina & Corina
Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.
—Sandra Cisneros
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.
In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.
Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.
What Light
by Jay Asher
From Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why, comes a holiday romance that will break your heart, but soon have you believing in love again.
Sierra’s family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon–it’s a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other.
Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other.
By reputation, Caleb is not your perfect guy: years ago, he made an enormous mistake and has been paying for it ever since. But Sierra sees beyond Caleb’s past and becomes determined to help him find forgiveness and, maybe, redemption. As disapproval, misconceptions, and suspicions swirl around them, Caleb and Sierra discover the one thing that transcends all else: true love.
What Light is a love story that’s moving and life-affirming and completely unforgettable.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
This holiday classic tells the story of how the calculating, bitter Grinch tries to take Christmas away from the endlessly perky Whos down in Whoville. He makes a Santa Claus suit, uses his dog Max as a reindeer, and sneaks into Whoville and steals all the gifts, decorations, and food he can find. When Christmas morning comes and the Whos are just as happy without their presents, the Grinch realizes Christmas is a state of mind, not just a gift-giving, feasting occasion. And his mean little heart grows three times its size.
Yoto Portable Audio Player
The Yoto Player plays story cards that you check out separately, including a selection from Beatrix Potter and many other story collections. Kids from 3-12+ can use physical cards to explore the best audiobooks, music, activities and educational audio.
Snow Boots at the Gold Mine Thrift
These boots are make for walkin’! And trudging, and working, and playing in the winter snows of the Wood River Valley. They’re also a snug and fashionable fit for an apres ski hot toddy!
As part of the reuse/circular economy, items procured from the Gold Mine are better for your pocketbook and the environment.
More about the Gold Mine Thrift and Consignment Stores here.
