Other Books By D. A. Brockett
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2003 CIPA Award Winner!
STAINED
GLASS ROSE
2003 Finalist for American Library Association, Best Books For Young Adults 2003 Pennsylvania School Library Association, Top 40 List Nominated for Missouri's Gateway List |
Stained Glass Rose is the product of three years of interviews and research into what became known as, “The Apron String Murder.” Most of the people, places, and flavor of 1937 Grand Junction are portrayed as realistically as research allows, but I have fictionalized the sensational Depression-era killing. The ending is of my own imagination, based on unsolved aspects of the murder and legitimate questions raised by trial lawyers and family members.
Read the prologue and first chapter of Stained Glass Rose
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OUR
DARLING Nominated
for: 2005
Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award Colorado
Book Award |
It
was Christmas break, 1971, and Barbara Grandbouche’s three boys were driving
her crazy. She sent them outside for the day to explore the surrounding hills
and caves overlooking the Gunnison River. Nightfall came, and so did three
excited boys. Their news? They’d discovered a baby buried in a cave! Her only
identification was a small metal plate inscribed, “Our Darling.” When no one
claimed her remains after five months, the boys collected enough money for
“Our Darling” to be reburied in the local cemetery. Her identity remained a
mystery until Grand Junction author, D. A. Brockett, determined to tell the
baby’s story. Her research took her to Grand Junction during the Roaring
Twenties. There, she discovered a pioneer town torn between the desire for
progress and the fear of change.
Read
the first chapter of Our Darling