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Harkening to classic elements of home and office, this charming desk features a sliding tambour door and a series of drawers, shelves, and cubbies. You’ll find this and other unique pieces of furniture at the Gold Mine Thrift store…

…just in time for the Summer Clearance Sale, September 27-October 1, 2024. Discounts start at 20% and increase until they reach 70%.

The Fall/Winter Opening starts Thursday, October 3, with new inventory in sporting goods, fleece, hats & scarves, shoes & boots, electronics, housewares, and more!. Doors open at 10:00 a.m.

Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library.

More about the Gold Mine Stores here.

By Francisco Cantú

For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.

Accolades

NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD

The instant New York Times bestseller, “A must-read for anyone who thinks ‘build a wall’ is the answer to anything.” –Esquire

Find it in print, eaudiobook, and ebook here.

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past.

With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain’s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain’s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, and charting the Pacific coast. During the nineteenth century Anglo-America expands west under the banner of “Manifest Destiny” and consolidates control through war with Mexico. In the Hispanic resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and Boston. The United States clearly has a Hispanic present and future. And here is its Hispanic past, presented with characteristic insight and wit by one of our greatest historians

Find it in our collection here.

Originally published in 1894, Campfires and Battlefields: The Pictorial History of the Civil War (OV 973.73 JOH) has continued to be in print over the years and remains an important historical record of the period. This unique publication includes dozens of pen-and-ink illustrations that depict many of the significant events of the war-time period from 1861 to 1865. The narrative and early photographs make for an impactful first-hand experience for the modern reader. 

This work – including the letters, articles and other documents within – was penned by eyewitnesses to the events. It was published in the first edition in 1894. Rossiter Johnson, one of our foremost writers on American war history, is given the primary credit for authorship. Also credited are John T. Morgan, a Confederate officer and U.S. Senator from Alabama, and George Speil, a printmaker active in the later part of the 19^th century whose illustrations set the work apart. 

Our Library copy of this holding is the 1958 Grey and Blue Press Edition, and the book is housed in the Oversized Collection in the John A. and Carol O. Moran Lecture Hall. Also known as our Mountain of Books, this is a great place to pursue some of our unique holdings, including our out-of-print and rare books holdings that circulate to the public. 

From The Community Library Collection (Gifted June 1977) 

by David Goldblatt

For millions of people around the world, the Summer and Winter Games are a joy and a treasure, but how did they develop into a global colossus? How have they been buffeted by–and, in turn, affected by–world events? Why do we care about them so much?

From the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history through national triumphs and tragedies, individual victories and failures. Here is the story of grand Olympic traditions such as winners’ medals, the torch relay, and the eternal flame. Here is the story of popular Olympic events such as gymnastics, the marathon, and alpine skiing (as well as discontinued ones like tug-of-war). And here in all their glory are Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, Abebe Bikila to Bob Beamon, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.

Hailed in the Wall Street Journal for writing about sports “with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic,” Goldblatt goes beyond the medal counts to tell how women fought to be included in the Olympics on equal terms, how the wounded of World War II led to the Paralympics, and how the Olympics reflect changing attitudes to race and ethnicity. He explores the tensions between the Games’ amateur ideals and professionalization and commercialism in sports, the pitched battles between cities for the right to host the Games, and their often disappointing economic legacy. And in covering such seminal moments as Jesse Owens and Hitler at Berlin in 1936, the Black Power salute at Mexico City in 1968, the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972, and the Miracle on Ice at Lake Placid in 1980, Goldblatt shows how prominently the modern Olympics have highlighted profound domestic and international conflicts.

Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of the Olympics, this stunningly researched and engagingly written history captures the excitement, drama, and kaleidoscopic experience of the Games.

Find it in our collection here.