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 Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins recommends a tale of illicit love turned permanent, efforts to reinvigorate the prairie and one woman’s boundless resilience.
Permanence: A Novel
By Sophie MackintoshAvid Reader Press/ S & S$28April 2026Purchase
From the publisher: Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. For months they have been stealing away from their respective lives, leaving no trace of their relationship behind. Their time together is always excruciatingly sweet and all too short. Until one day they wake up in an apartment neither of them recognizes, with no memory of how they got there.
They find themselves in a new, unnamed city, a self-contained sanctuary where adulterers live openly as couples. Here there are fountains and old town squares and perfect cafes with checkered tablecloths. Ripe fruits wait on the counter each morning, invisible threads bind each lover to the other, and their primary responsibility is to enjoy one another. Contact with the real world is impossible and the city’s whims are mysterious—but now those stolen afternoons never have to end.
From Teresa, co-owner: Clara and Francis are madly in love and want to spend every minute together, forever. Yet, their love is a secret one because Francis is married and they have to sneak away from their lives just to be together. But when forever becomes a reality and the cracks begin to show in all aspects….is forever together what they really want?
Wild On Purpose: The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger
By Sean GerrityTorrey House Press$23.95November 2025Purchase
From the publisher: In 2001, a small team of ordinary citizens set out on an audacious effort to establish one of the largest wildlife reserves ever created —bigger than Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks combined. But founding American Prairie was just the beginning. To succeed, they would have to defy conventional wisdom, win over skeptical Montana neighbors, and restore vast areas of temperate grasslands for returning native bison, elk, pronghorn, birds, pollinators, and predators.
With humor and humility, Gerrity immerses readers in the obstacles, triumphs, and unwavering commitment that propelled this extraordinary journey. “Wild on Purpose” reveals what it takes to make real, lasting change and challenges us to move beyond saving what’s left of nature to making new wild spaces — for animals, the planet, the future, for ourselves.
From Zane, bookseller: It’s time for us to collectively hyperfocus on how gosh dang cool prairie biomes are. The American Prairie Reserve, the conception and creation of which this book is about, is a huge protected chunk of the Northern Great Plains in Montana where bison have been reintroduced, local Indigenous tribes and communities have been respected, and many other feats that no one thought possible have been achieved. Gerrity’s story is a much-needed example of how massive-scale conservation projects can get done by people, as opposed to governments and corporations.
Climbing Through
By Melissa StrongFalcon Guides$19.95March 2026Purchase
From the publisher: Melissa Strong, a rock climber and restaurateur, unveils her remarkable journey of survival and resilience in the face of mortality after being horrifically injured by electricity. Transporting readers back to her early days in New England, Strong vividly recounts her transformation from a self-described “C” student in gym class to a sponsored rock climber. She dismantles conventional expectations, forging a distinctive path that culminates in the realization of her own restaurant venture.
Navigating her uncertainties about parenthood and grappling with the challenges of infertility, Strong rebounds toward her dreams and weaves them into tangible aspirations. The vision of her restaurant takes shape, but in a fateful twist, a near-fatal encounter with a powerful electric current during the renovation process leaves her confronting the stark reality of her altered hands, once the lifeblood of her livelihood and rock-climbing passion. As she navigates the complex realm of medical intervention, enduring multiple surgeries and an arduous recovery, she discovers within herself an indomitable spirit that propels her through adversity.
From Revati, co-owner: We were lucky enough to have author Melissa Strong in the store for an author event, so I got to listen to her talk about her amazing book. Years ago, Melissa was an avid rock climber and just starting to make her vision of a restaurant come together when a near-fatal electrical incident left her in the hospital recovering with only four fingers. Her story of resilience is unlike anything you’ll have ever read.
THIS WEEK’S BOOK RECS COME FROM:
Old Firehouse Books
232 Walnut St., Fort Collins
oldfirehousebooks.com
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