Colorado Authors discussed on December 1st.

Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots, falls in with a ranching family and charges himself with guiding the family's teenage son on his path to manhood. While Spoon's checked past includes a prison stint and a navy tour of Vietnam, it is his tenacity, wisdom and charm that ends up defining this quintessential western man.

Two nights before his seventh birthday, Peter Ney and his family were awakened by the sounds of breaking glass and shouting. Kristallnacht was just the beginning of Nazi violence against the Jews. Two months later Peter's parents put him on a train to England. He and his parents were reunited in London just before the start of WWII and they immigrated, as a family, to the United States. GETTING HERE, a memoir spanning seventy years, tells of Peter's journey; from Germany, through adolescence and art school, to his marriage to Betty, and follows his diverse careers as an industrial designer, a human engineer in the space program, a trial lawyer, and a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. In 1940, Peter and his family arrived penniless in the United States. GETTING HERE not only describes his journey, but rejoices in the fulfilling of the American dream - from a seat on a refugee train to a seat on a judge's bench.

Everyone loves babies, and John Denver's love song For Baby (For Bobbie), interpreted as a children's picture book by award-winning illustrator Janeen Mason, reminds us that these feelings are universal. Captivating images lead us around the globe, from Sri Lanka to the Arctic, and deepen the experience of John Denver's enduring song, a legacy of love.