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  • Desert Chrome
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    Desert chrome

    Kathryn Wilder

    Lost in grief, Kathryn Wilder finds her way back to the Colorado Plateau, where mustangs—whose presence and management remain controversial in the West—help her connect to desert and self.

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  • River of Lost Souls
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    River of lost souls

    Jonathan P. Thompson

    An award–winning investigative environmental journalist digs up the real story behind the Gold King Mine disaster of 2015.

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  • The Delightful Horror of Family Birding
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    The delightful horror of family birding

    Eli J. Knapp

    Exuberant and insightful essays soar to Tanzania, Ecuador, and beyond in search of truth, adventure, and birds of all feathers.

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  • Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight
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    Quiet desperation, savage delight

    David Gessner

    When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner looked to Thoreau for guidance. Here are the lessons he took away.

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  • Tributary

    Barbara K. Richardson

    A courageous young woman flees polygamy in 1870's Utah, but finds herself drawn back to the landscapes that shaped her.

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  • First and Wildest
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    First and wildest

    Elizabeth Hightower Allen

    A century after Aldo Leopold proposed the Gila as the first designated wilderness in the United States, First and Wildest delivers passionate prose from writer–activists who celebrate this vast, rugged landscape—and argue for its preservation.

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  • Before us like a land of dreams

    Karin Anderson

    A disheartened Utah mother travels through the sites of her arid Western ancestry, where the dead speak their stories directly.

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  • Facing the change

    Steven Pavlos Holmes

    Through personal and vivid encounters with climate change, this diverse array of writers inspires readers toward awareness and action.

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  • Red Rock Stories
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    Red rock stories

    Stephen Trimble

    Writer–activists deliver passionate poetry and prose championing America's imperiled red rock wilderness: sacred landscapes that inspire and nurture us all.

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  • Confluence
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    Confluence

    Zak Podmore

    Following his mother's untimely death, paddler Zak Podmore braves flash floods and whitewater as he explores iconic wilderness rivers—and some of the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time.

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  • Nature, Love, Medicine
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    Nature, love, medicine

    Thomas Lowe Fleischner

    Diverse essayists explore how practicing attentive natural history remains an essential pathway to sanity and health, for individuals and societies.

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  • Re-Bisoning the West
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    Re-bisoning the west

    Kurt Repanshek

    Award–winning journalist Kurt Repanshek explores the past, present, and uncertain future of bison, the keystone species of the Great Plains.

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  • Grind
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    Grind

    Mark Maynard

    The gritty realism of Hemingway joins the irreverence of Edward Abbey in the resilient characters of these linked short stories.

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  • Shaped by Snow
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    Shaped by snow

    Ayja Bounous

    Ayja Bounous examines her deep connections to snow and skiing and how climate change threatens the mountains and the relationships that shape her.

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  • Virga & Bone
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    Virga & bone

    Craig Childs

    Writer and adventurer Craig Childs dwells upon desert icons—human, animal, and otherwise—in these contemplative and visceral essays.

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  • Dead Serious
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    Dead serious

    Eli J. Knapp

    A wild and informative romp through the jungle of forces surrounding the imminent extinction of some of Earth's most imperiled and beloved species.

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  • Behind the Bears Ears
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    Behind the bears ears

    R. E. Burrillo

    An archaeologist's personal exploration of Bears Ears, a sacred and imperiled Utah landscape that shapes human lives and redefines the boundaries between tradition and science.

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  • The Oasis This Time
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    The oasis this time

    Rebecca Lawton

    Illuminating essays on the history of water and oases, natural and faux, as barometers of community life in the West.

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  • New World Coming
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    New world coming

    Alastair Lee Bitsóí, Brooke Larsen

    Amid pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate crisis, frontline organizers and writers imagine transformative solutions for a just and thriving future.

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  • Sagebrush Empire
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    Sagebrush empire

    Jonathan P. Thompson

    Award–winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson delves into the spectacular land, rich history, and twisted politics of a remote Utah county.

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  • Howl

    Susan Imhoff Bird

    Bird’s compelling exploration of wolves and the people who care about them reveals profound truths—about herself and about our world.

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  • The story of my heart

    Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams, Scott Slovic

    A nineteenth-century love letter to nature is rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams.

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  • Church of the Graveyard Saints
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    Church of the graveyard saints

    C. Joseph Greaves

    An old boyfriend and a sagebrush militia complicate eco–activist Addie Decker's return home to save her family's ranch from development.

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  • Edge of Morning
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    Edge of morning

    Jacqueline Keeler

    Native writers share their essential perspectives on the sacred Bears Ears landscape and threats to its cultural and natural wonders.

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  • Seasons
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    Seasons

    Ellen Meloy, Annie Proulx

    Twenty–five never–before–published essays by National Book Critic Circle Award finalist Ellen Meloy, full of her signature wit, charm, and illuminations of human connection to nature.

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  • Blossom as the Cliffrose
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    Blossom as the cliffrose

    Karin Anderson, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

    An anthology of strikingly diverse poems and prose from inheritors of Mormon traditions edited by Danielle Dubrasky and Karin Anderson.

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  • A History of Kindness
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    A history of kindness

    Linda Hogan

    Poems from Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth’s living beings.

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  • Desert Cabal
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    Desert cabal

    Amy Irvine

    A fearless, heartfelt essay collection in which Amy Irvine celebrates environmental icon Edward Abbey—and gives him a talking to.

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  • Air Mail
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    Air mail

    Amy Irvine, Pam Houston

    Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Colorado's high country, one on either side of the Continental Divide.

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  • Accidentals
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    Accidentals

    Susan M. Gaines

    When Gabriel accompanies his mother from California to her native Uruguay, he discovers new love, new bird species, and life–altering family secrets.

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  • American Zion
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    American zion

    Betsy Gaines Quammen

    American Zion is the story of the Bundys, a Mormon family famous for their armed conflicts on western public lands.

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  • Processed Meats
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    Processed meats

    Nicole Walker

    Nicole Walker explores how heritage, food, and cooking can change, harm, and sometimes help fix our bodies and our planet.

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  • To the Mountain
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    To the mountain

    Erik Raschke

    During a Colorado snowstorm, 11–year–old Marshall vanishes from a remote juvenile center. His father must ascend a mountain to find his autistic son in this tale of sacrifice, hope, and the bond between parent and child.

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  • Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom
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    Monarchs of the northeast kingdom

    Chera Hammons

    When her husband disappears in the woods near their rural Vermont home, chronically ill Anna conceals what she finds there in a desperate effort to ensure her own survival.

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  • Standoff
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    Standoff

    Jacqueline Keeler

    This compelling analysis of belief and legal systems undergirding the Bundys and Native Americans illuminates cultural battles of our age.

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  • Hawks rest

    Gary Ferguson

    With a new introduction by revered western writer Ferguson, this updated classic explores the wildness, people, and politics of Yellowstone.

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  • Through the woods

    Gary Ferguson

    A conversational journey through America’s forests, introducing readers to people whose lives are intertwined with the soul of the woods.

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