Crowley County Combined Library

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....

"Josie is approached at her shop to appraise a very rare item--a complete charm string. In Victorian times, girls strung buttons on long strings to make the charms. Once the string reached 1,000 buttons--no two alike--the legend was that the owner would meet her beloved. But the owner of this charm string is not looking for love--she's desperate to donate the piece to a museum and be rid of it. She believes the string is far from charmed--it's cursed....

Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she...

Meredith Worthington is returning to Angel Falls, Montana. She's escaped the matchmaking and scheming of her East Coast finishing school to follow her dream of becoming a teacher. And perhaps get to know the intriguing new wrangler on her father's ranch... Shane Connelly had a bellyful of "eligible ladies" back East. So he left them and his high-society family behind. Meredith reminds him of everything he'd like to forget, yet he can't resist her...

Fasten-up for the first delightful mystery in national bestselling author Kylie Logan’s Button Box series.
Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has quietly become one of the country’s leading experts on buttons—antique buttons,  jeweled buttons, artistic buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons for her made-to-order wedding...

Fiona O'Rourke doesn't believe in love - certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. Even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motives ... or the attraction between them? Ian McPherson didn't come to Montana to take a wife. But he's instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect her - even if that means pretending that they're engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there's nothing he won't give...

Approaching a scary house while treat-or-treating, a reluctant monster warns readers not to ring the doorbell or the monsters that live there may gobble them up. -Ingram

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Now, malignant forces...

"In the newest board book in Cotter's bestselling series, it's almost Easter and Larry can't wait! Readers can share in his excitement, but they're warned: "Don't Push the Button!""--Publisher's description.

A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better...