Fort Morgan Public Library

" A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night he is woken by...

In 1468, the von Speyer brothers journey across the Alps to Venice, where they introduce Guttenberg's movable type. With competition on his heels, Wendelin von Speyer accepts his wife's advice and tempts the fates by publishing the first printed edition of Catullus's erotic verse, a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change lives forever.

Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from the neighborhood library and hanging out with other local black men at the corner store. When a white married...