Fort Morgan Public Library

The eight short stories in this collection by Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Camilo Jose Cela and other writers in Spanish have been chosen both for their literary merit and for being representative of 20th-century Spanish-American writing. The English translations that are printed in a parallel text are literal rather than literary, and there are additional notes on the text.

Illustrates pairs of vehicles that demonstrate the differences between fast and slow, including a car and a bike, a rocket and a hot air balloon, and a truck and a wheelbarrow.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity?

"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still...

The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room.

Discusses how the achievements of the man credited with discovering America led to the present-day celebration of his landing in the New World.

A young girl writes poetry to describe the seashore where she lives.