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Plant Magic: Cures and Concoctions

Curated by: Noelle Nelson

This spooky October collection celebrates the natural world in all its beauty and danger. Plants are everywhere; you can find them entwined in our natural environments, cultures, and imaginations. For millennia, people have cultivated, crushed, brewed, and burned them: healing the sick with tinctures, poisoning rivals with potions, or seeking visions through altered states of consciousness.

Book cover of "What a Mushroom Lives For" by Michael J. Hathaway. Features illustrated orange mushrooms on a navy background with white text.

Book cover of "Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines." Features colorful fungi images around a central white circle with the title. Scientific and engaging.

Cover of "The Mushroom at the End of the World" by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Features watercolor mushrooms and text on a white background, evoking a thoughtful tone.

A person holds an e-reader displaying text next to books and a small potted plant on a white wooden surface.

Discover New Books

October Discover New Books…

Curated by: Noelle Nelson

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the…

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Discover New Books

September Discover New Books…

Curated by: Noelle Nelson

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the…

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Jacque Composanto

Collection Development Librarian

Curated: Solarpunk Futures

Teresa McGinley

Collections Development Librarian

Curated: Illustrating Diverse Voices

Kelsey Brett

Discovery Systems and Metadata Department Head

Curated: The Undocumented Student Experience

Katy DiVittorio

Collection Development and Strategies Department Head

Curated: The Undocumented Student Experience

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Dec 2023

Sawyer / Berson: Houses and Landscapes

Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes

Botanical gardens and their role in plant conservation : General topics, African and Australian botanical gardens, volume 1

December Discover New Books

Curated by: Salahuddin McKloskey, Vanessa De Los Reyes

Sawyer / Berson: Houses and Landscapes

December Discover New Books | Dec 2023

Curated by: Salahuddin McKloskey, Vanessa De Los Reyes

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of December!

Nov 2023

The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)

South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia

Folklore and Social Media

Folklore

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes, Cate Johnson

The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)

Folklore | Nov 2023

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes, Cate Johnson

This month we are exploring fairy tales, myths, legends, fables, and tall tales from around the world.

Nov 2023

A Lab for All Seasons : The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology

Bay lodyans: Haitian popular film culture

Do black lives matter? : how Christian scriptures speak to Black empowerment

November Discover New Books

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes

A Lab for All Seasons : The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology

November Discover New Books | Nov 2023

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of November!

Oct 2023

Lawn boy: a novel

Anne Frank's diary: the graphic adaptation

All boys aren't blue: a memoir-manifesto

Read A Banned Book

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes, Cate Johnson

Lawn boy: a novel

Read A Banned Book | Oct 2023

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes, Cate Johnson

Banned Books Week celebrates our First Amendment freedoms and raises awareness of the persistent threats against free expression in literature and the arts.

Oct 2023

Ballynahatty: excavations in a neolithic monumental landscape

Everyday people: understanding the rise of Trump supporters

October Discover New Books

Curated by: Cate Johnson

October Discover New Books | Oct 2023

Curated by: Cate Johnson

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of October!

Sep 2023

The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism (The New Middle Ages)

A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs

Cheers to Beers: Fermentation…

Curated by: Teresa McGinley, Vanessa de los Reyes

The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Cheers to Beers: Fermentation Fasci | Sep 2023

Curated by: Teresa McGinley, Vanessa de los Reyes

Breweries have called Colorado home since the late 1800's, but In the last few decades, the craft beer industry has exploded.

Sep 2023

Musical psychedelia: research at the intersection of music and psychedelic experience

EMBODIED NOSTALGIA: social dance, communities, and the choreographing of musical theatre

Working with child and adolescent mental health: the central role of language and communication

September Discover New Books

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

Musical psychedelia: research at the intersection of music and psychedelic experience

September Discover New Books | Sep 2023

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of September!

Aug 2023

Practical Stress Management: A Comprehensive Workbook cover with lady meditating on a cliff looking at sunrise

Unraveling faculty burnout: pathways to reckoning and renewal cover book

Leaf Your Troubles Behind cover with plants in pots

Stress Less This Semester

Curated by: Cate Johnson

Practical Stress Management: A Comprehensive Workbook cover with lady meditating on a cliff looking at sunrise

Stress Less This Semester | Aug 2023

Curated by: Cate Johnson

Fall semester kickoff brings campus alive! Reconnect with peers, dive into new classes, and engage in campus activities. Exciting times ahead!

Aug 2023

Polish theory of history and metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk: from Hayden White and beyond

Learning and relearning equipment complexity: achieving safety in engineering complex systems

KEITH PAPERS

August Discover New Books

Curated by: Cate Johnson

Polish theory of history and metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk: from Hayden White and beyond

August Discover New Books | Aug 2023

Curated by: Cate Johnson

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of August!

Jul 2023

Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel

How a Global Pandemic Changed the Way We Travel

The Psychology of Travel

Footprints and Passport…

Curated by: Mariana Prestigiacomo

Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel

Footprints and Passport Stamps | Jul 2023

Curated by: Mariana Prestigiacomo

Traveling, the movement from one place to another, changes depending on the person. People travel for vacation, work, adventure, a better life, and survival.

Jul 2023

Sea Mammals and Oil: Confronting the Risks

Triangle shirtwaist factory girls: A kaleidoscopic account

Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry

July Discover New Books

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes

Sea Mammals and Oil: Confronting the Risks

July Discover New Books | Jul 2023

Curated by: Vanessa De Los Reyes

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of July!

Jun 2023

Indigenous peoples, national parks, and protected areas: a new paradigm linking conservation, culture, and rights

Transcendent summits: one climber's route to self-discovery

Desert Portraits: Tales from the Altiplano

Explore the Great Outdoors!

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

Indigenous peoples, national parks, and protected areas: a new paradigm linking conservation, culture, and rights

Explore the Great Outdoors! | Jun 2023

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

June is National Great Outdoors Month and the library has resources to help you get outdoors and enjoy the trees, the sand, the water,

Jun 2023

Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History image cover

Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks image cover

Ant architecture: the wonder, beauty, and science of underground nests

June Discover New Books

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History image cover

June Discover New Books | Jun 2023

Curated by: Vanessa de los Reyes

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of June!

May 2023

The Art of Cooking with Cannabis: CBD and THC-Infused Recipes from Across America

ilittibaaimpa': Let's Eat Together! A Chickasaw Cookbook

The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Cooking Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods

Cookbooks!

Curated by: Katy DiVittorio

The Art of Cooking with Cannabis: CBD and THC-Infused Recipes from Across America

Cookbooks! | May 2023

Curated by: Katy DiVittorio

Check out our cookbook collection and make something new to celebrate the end of the semester!

May 2023

Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the ... for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas

Teaching and Learning Online: Science for Secondary Grade Levels

May Discover New Books 2023

Curated by: Cathalina Fontenelle, Cate Johnson

Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the ... for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

May Discover New Books 2023 | May 2023

Curated by: Cathalina Fontenelle, Cate Johnson

Auraria Library purchases hundreds of books and ebooks every year. Check out some we've bought for the month of May!