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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Brimming with bordertown corruption and blame-ridden recollections, this powerful literary debut opens at a turning point for college professor Kevin McNally, whose personal and professional lives have run aground, haunted by a violent border clash from his youth. Now, McNally must journey back to southeast Arizona's chaparral country to face the loss and trauma of his past. Treiber sets a rapid thrilling pace.--THE UTAH REVIEW A thrilling and elegantly wrought debut about the far-reaching effects of our decisions, and our irrepressible desire to undo the worst of them. Treiber is a writer of enormous talents, and Spirit Walk will leave you breathless until the final page.--JONATHAN EVISON, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving At once gritty and lyrical, Spirit Walk is a haunting tale of the modern American West. Out of the explosive violence, hard living, and stark beauty of the Arizona borderlands, Jay Treiber has woven a gripping story of remembrance and redemption, beautifully painting the place and giving voice to its people. I can't stop thinking about it.--JENIFER CAREL, author of Haunt Me Still and Interred with Their Bones The borderland setting of Spirit Walk only appears empty. This landscape is inhabited by commingled cultures, criss-crossed jurisdictions and colliding values--where a rancher wouldn't leave a bottle cap, traffickers litter bodies. Depicting an episode of violence as confounding in memory as the day it erupted, Jay Treiber shows the corrosive costs of the drug trade--and of burying the past. In the vein of Philip Caputo's Crossers.--CHARLIE QUIMBY, author of Monument Road There's a wonderful sense of authenticity and place here.Jay Treiber has given us a rich, well-written, multi-layered book to satisfy wide reading appetites.--ROBERT HOUSTON, author of Bisbee 17. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. With tough women and sensitive men, desert-dry humor, hot-springs sensuality, heartbreaking secrets, escalating suspense, and a 360-degree perspective on the battle over water, Richman's twenty-first-century western is riveting, wise, and compassionate.--BOOKLIST, starred review A] compelling story of a ranching family divided by a proposed water pipeline that would draw water from western Utah to Las Vegas.--THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Richman helps readers understand and feel deeply each side of a complex story.--DESERET NEWS Richman's] narrative account of the impact of climate change on those that live in the worst affected areas--human and animal alike--is an emotional prophecy of what lies in store for all of us.--15 BYTES With a unique voice, Richman crystallizes how secrets and silences flow through the generations.with depth of characters, beauty of language, and a haunting understanding of the landscapes that define us.--JANE KIRKPATRICK, bestselling author of Where Lilacs Still Bloom The Ordinary Truth tells a page-turner of a story about love and loyalty, loss and regret--and, ultimately, the stunning absolution of the simple truth. Richman writes.with the sure hand of a formidable storyteller.--STEPHEN TRIMBLE, author of Bargaining for Eden When Nell Jorgensen buried her husband, she buried a piece of herself--and more than one secret. Now, thirty-six years later, the rift between Nell and her daughter Kate threatens to implode as Kate, now forty-six and a water manager for the Nevada Water Authority, plans to pipe water from a huge aquifer that lies beneath the family ranch to thirsty Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Nell's twenty-one-year-old granddaughter Cassie intends to unearth those old secrets and repair the resentments that grew in their place. Throughout the novel, sparse and beautiful landscapes surround an emotional wilderness of love, loss, and family. Jana Richman is the award-winning author of The Last Cowgirl (HarperCollins, 2009), which won the 2009 Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. A sixth-generation Utahn, Jana was born and raised in Utah's west desert, the daughter of a small-time rancher and a hand-wringing Mormon mother. With the exception of a few misguided years spent in New York City trying to make a fortune on Wall Street, she has lived her entire life west of the hundredth meridian. She writes about issues that threaten to destroy the essence of the west--and about passion, beauty, and love. Jana lives in Escalante, Utah. Praise for Jana Richman's The Last Cowgirl Richman's mastery of the emotional geography is illuminating.Calls to mind the work of Pat Conroy.--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Jana Richman's Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail Openhearted and uncommonly balanced.--Entertainment Weekly Tartly funny.--Chicago Tribune Surprising and refreshing.--Philadelphia Inquirer Much to admire in this] moving memoir. Richman] can write lyrically and unsentimentally about the most intimate experiences.--Newsday (New York) Beautifully poetic.exploratory.thought-provoking.--New Orleans Times-Picayune Frank and beguilingly unsentimental, Riding in the Shadows of Saints is an honest look at a powerful and wealthy institution and the people who live within its structures.--Tucson Citizen A mixture of road trip musings, quirky adventure tales, and spiritual reflections, with a healthy dose of unresolved family issues.universally compelling.--Publishers Weekly.…

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. With tough women and sensitive men, desert-dry humor, hot-springs sensuality, heartbreaking secrets, escalating suspense, and a 360-degree perspective on the battle over water, Richman's twenty-first-century western is riveting, wise, and compassionate.--BOOKLIST, starred review A] compelling story of a ranching family divided by a proposed water pipeline that would draw water from western Utah to Las Vegas.--THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Richman helps readers understand and feel deeply each side of a complex story.--DESERET NEWS Richman's] narrative account of the impact of climate change on those that live in the worst affected areas--human and animal alike--is an emotional prophecy of what lies in store for all of us.--15 BYTES With a unique voice, Richman crystallizes how secrets and silences flow through the generations.with depth of characters, beauty of language, and a haunting understanding of the landscapes that define us.--JANE KIRKPATRICK, bestselling author of Where Lilacs Still Bloom The Ordinary Truth tells a page-turner of a story about love and loyalty, loss and regret--and, ultimately, the stunning absolution of the simple truth. Richman writes.with the sure hand of a formidable storyteller.--STEPHEN TRIMBLE, author of Bargaining for Eden When Nell Jorgensen buried her husband, she buried a piece of herself--and more than one secret. Now, thirty-six years later, the rift between Nell and her daughter Kate threatens to implode as Kate, now forty-six and a water manager for the Nevada Water Authority, plans to pipe water from a huge aquifer that lies beneath the family ranch to thirsty Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Nell's twenty-one-year-old granddaughter Cassie intends to unearth those old secrets and repair the resentments that grew in their place. Throughout the novel, sparse and beautiful landscapes surround an emotional wilderness of love, loss, and family. Jana Richman is the award-winning author of The Last Cowgirl (HarperCollins, 2009), which won the 2009 Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. A sixth-generation Utahn, Jana was born and raised in Utah's west desert, the daughter of a small-time rancher and a hand-wringing Mormon mother. With the exception of a few misguided years spent in New York City trying to make a fortune on Wall Street, she has lived her entire life west of the hundredth meridian. She writes about issues that threaten to destroy the essence of the west--and about passion, beauty, and love. Jana lives in Escalante, Utah. Praise for Jana Richman's The Last Cowgirl Richman's mastery of the emotional geography is illuminating.Calls to mind the work of Pat Conroy.--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Jana Richman's Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail Openhearted and uncommonly balanced.--Entertainment Weekly Tartly funny.--Chicago Tribune Surprising and refreshing.--Philadelphia Inquirer Much to admire in this] moving memoir. Richman] can write lyrically and unsentimentally about the most intimate experiences.--Newsday (New York) Beautifully poetic.exploratory.thought-provoking.--New Orleans Times-Picayune Frank and beguilingly unsentimental, Riding in the Shadows of Saints is an honest look at a powerful and wealthy institution and the people who live within its structures.--Tucson Citizen A mixture of road trip musings, quirky adventure tales, and spiritual reflections, with a healthy dose of unresolved family issues.universally compelling.--Publishers Weekly. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean-going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self-effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean-going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self-effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.…

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption--grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang. --LAURA PRITCHET, author of Stars Go Blue Kathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures--their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West--and celebrates the animal nature in us all. KATHRYN WILDER's work, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai'i magazines. A past finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.…

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead.…

Zustand: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This book is fierce love in motion. --LIDIA YUKNAVITCH When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine--who had never met--began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another nearly as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.…

Zustand: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Jacqueline Keeler, a master storyteller and reporter, crafts a knotty skein, twining together family traditions, Native and colonial histories, personal experiences, and crackerjack journalism. --BETSY GAINES QUAMEN, author of American Zion Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Oc ti Sak win camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge led by the Bundy family. These events unfolded in vastly different ways, from media coverage to the reactions of law enforcement. In Standoff, Jacqueline Keeler examines these episodes as two sides of the same story that created America and its deep-rooted cultural conflicts.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Young's memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness' painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later.--BOKLISTIn 1855, the landscape painter George Inness began work on his commissioned painting The Lackawanna Valley. A century later, a girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania, looks out over her coal-strewn homeland wishing for beauty and wondering where the artist had stood with his canvas. The interplay between the two stories is at the heart of Catherine Young's memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored By Coal. Young invites readers into a world now vanished, but which lingers in shimmering portraits. A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Earth." --BOOKLIST COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARD WINNER Throughout this clear-eyed collection, Hogan tenderly excavates how history instructs the present, and envisions a future alive with hope for a healthy and sustainable world that now wavers between loss and survival. A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, LINDA HOGAN is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, teacher, and activist who has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Colorado. Her fiction has garnered many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination and her poetry collections have received the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. A volunteer and consultant for wildlife rehabilitation and endangered species programs, Hogan has also published essays with the Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Earth." --BOOKLIST COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARD WINNER Throughout this clear-eyed collection, Hogan tenderly excavates how history instructs the present, and envisions a future alive with hope for a healthy and sustainable world that now wavers between loss and survival. A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, LINDA HOGAN is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, teacher, and activist who has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Colorado. Her fiction has garnered many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination and her poetry collections have received the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. A volunteer and consultant for wildlife rehabilitation and endangered species programs, Hogan has also published essays with the Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Book 9 in Graham's National Park Mystery series. A stunning discovery of century-old evil by archaeologist Chuck Bender in Death Valley National Park may be related to a series of deadly accidents plaguing the world's toughest ultra trail-running race, the Whitney to Death 150. While Chuck's teenage stepdaughter Carmelita races to win the competition, Chuck must race to uncover the wicked intent lying behind the tragedies--before Carmelita becomes the next victim.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Sleuths will have to figure out who done it, but the real crime is the backdrop here: the endless heating of a fragile planet." --BILL MCKIBBEN, author of Falter A thrilling contribution to the new wave of cli-fi hitting the shelves, Cold Blood, Hot Sea pits climate change scientists against big-energy conspirators. When a colleague is killed aboard the research vessel Intrepid, oceanographer Mara Tusconi believes it's no accident. As she investigates, Mara becomes entangled in a scheme involving powerful energy executives with much to lose if her department colleagues continue their climate change research. Mara's career--and life--is on the line, threatened by intrigue as big and dark as the ocean. Marine ecologist and award-winning environmental educator CHARLENE D'AVANZO studied the New England coast for forty years. As a scientist, D'Avanzo sees firsthand the effects of climate change, and as a college professor, she knows the importance of storytelling in bringing ideas to life. Today she uses mysteries to immerse readers in Maine waters' stunning beauty and grave threats. An avid sea kayaker, D'Avanzo lives in Yarmouth, Maine.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.