Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Poor Richard’s Books in Colorado Springs recommends the story of a bear come down from the wilderness, an examination of … sticks, and a flower bible.
From the publisher: The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West.
An “ode to wildness and wilderness,” this book tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys…