Las Animas - Bent County Library District

In February of 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which forced more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans and people of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast, to be forced from their homes and moved inland to ten various camps. One of the camps was called Camp Amache and is located in southeastern Colorado. For three years, Japanese-Americans and people of Japanese ancestry were confined at Camp Amache behind barbed...

Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz,...

Thirteen-year-old Dahlia's reluctance about attending Camp Arava changes to wonder as strange things begin to happen, and soon she is connecting with David Schank, a student of the kabbala, and the maze he built at the camp in the 1930s.

As almost thirteen-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER.

"'Bloom where you're planted,' is the advice Christine Bölz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations....

The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well fed. Her teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband, Thomas, struggles to keep the farm going while their son, and most of the other local men, are fighting in Europe. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade...

A brief guide to the forgotten towns of Las Animas County. Filled with history of the towns, photographs, and maps.

Six adolescent boys staying at a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world.

Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.

Set in and around a Slovakian factory, European students are kidnapped, tortured, and killed by rich businessmen who pay enormous amounts of money to experience death firsthand. All tattooed with a bulldog insignia, an international elite, bid on young people to slaughter in a trade catering to those with a death fetish. Three girls from studying in Rome, Beth, Whitney and and Lorna, are lured to Slovakia by a sultry European woman who modeled for...