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Road Shoes

By: Darla Worden

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It starts as a Martha Stewart-style fantasy. When newlywed gardening magazine editor Laura Von Baden and her husband, Thomas, purchase 40 acres of land in northwestern Colorado, Laura envisions a picturesque rural retreat; and discovering she's pregnant only fuels her passion for creating the ideal country home--an escape from city stresses--for her family. But the dream starts to unravel when Laura and Thomas find themselves plagued with absentee landowner responsibilities as a menacing neighbor trespasses, floods their land, and swindles them out of water and mineral rights.As the neighborly dispute degenerates into a full-blown feud, Laura begins to see an explosive, frighteningly irrational side to city-bred Thomas, who starts spending spend more and more time up on their 40 acres, even as a pregnancy complication leaves Laura bedridden in Denver, her career and marriage in jeopardy.A rich cast of characters, including Laura's new-age best-friend Serrine, her career-challenged brother Lester, their eccentric mother, an unusual mountain man, and a Native American high school teacher/deputy sheriff, all play warm and sometimes comic roles as the crises around Laura escalate toward an unexpected but wholly satisfying conclusion.In Road Shoes, author Darla Worden addresses a large number of topics of current interest: the subdividing of the West into "vanity ranches" ; the baby-boomer propelled gardening boom; survivalists; Native American rights and artifacts; the more subtle, verbal forms of domestic violence; career woman pregnancy; "Earthships" (self-sufficient dwellings of the type actor/environmentalist Dennis Weaver built in Colorado); male bonding and "drumming"; and various alternative health practices and new-age ideas. Worden successfully integrates these diverse elements to create a fascinating, deep-textured--and often humorous--environment in which the story's emotional events unfold.Worden has a gift for writing in general, a fresh and appealing voice, and a flair for ironic humor and social satire.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453566023

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9781453566022

Rusty Parrot Cookbook

Recipes from Jackson Hole's Acclaimed Lodge

By: Darla Worden,Eliza Cross

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Rusty Parrot Cookbook

Recipes from Jackson Hole's Acclaimed Lodge

By: Darla Worden,Eliza Cross

Rusty Parrot Cookbook Recipes from Jackson Hole's Acclaimed Lodge Darla Worden and Eliza Cross The Rusty Parrot Lodge & Spa has been known for its fabulous complementary gourmet breakfasts, and now, with The Rusty Parrot Cookbook, any home chef can create The Rusty Parrot's famous and deliciously over-the-top breakfasts as well as their amazing dinners and desserts. Mouthwatering recipes from a Jackson Hole favorite Darla Worden, a Wyoming native, worked at a historic Wyoming inn slinging hash during college summers--which began her love of great Wyoming lodges as well as her appreciation of Western hospitality. She writes travel and lifestyle stories about Wyoming architecture, lodges, artists, and craftspeople for numerous publications and owns a public relations firm in Jackson Hole, where she lives with her family. Eliza Cross writes about cuisine, art, architecture, green living, and other lifestyle topics for numerous publications including Mountain Living, Natural Home and EcoStructure. The author of three books--including "Food Lovers' Guide to Colorado"--she often prepares and styles cuisine for photo shoots and teaches the occasional soup-making class. She lives in Centennial, Colorado.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423603478

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9781423603474

Cockeyed Happy

Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline

By: Darla Worden

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Cockeyed Happy

Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline

By: Darla Worden

Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway's summers in Wyoming—and I can think of no finer compliment."—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish Vogue editor and scorned "other woman" who would give up everything to be with him and, in the end, lose it all. The couple fled Paris in the wake of the huge gossip storm about the American author's affair and abandonment of his wife and son. Escaping to Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains to write while Pauline recovered from the birth of their first child, he finished A Farewell to Arms and fell in love with the land around him. Pauline soon joined him in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole. In Cockeyed Happy Darla Worden tells the little-known story of Hemingway and Pauline during six summers from 1928 to 1939—from smitten newlywed to bored, restless husband and ultimately to philanderer as he falls in love with another woman once again.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641603704

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9781641603706

Road Shoes

By: Darla Worden

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Rusty Parrot Cookbook

Recipes from Jackson Hole's Acclaimed Lodge

By: Darla Worden,Eliza Cross

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