The poems and prose pieces of "Blossom as the Cliffrose" celebrate the beauty and nature of the Mormon faith. The cliffrose is a beautiful but perhaps unlikely plant that blooms... Read More

Clever prose and gifted storytelling enliven Eli J. Knapp’s "Dead Serious", a weighty book about how species are being steamrolled toward extinction that nonetheless argues... Read More

In Erik Raschke’s lean, taut novel "To the Mountain", a father races to find his lost autistic son during a blizzard. In a remote juvenile center in Colorado, twelve-year-old... Read More

Challenging dominant narratives, R. E. Burrillo’s playful, fierce, reverent, and sarcastic book covers twelve thousand years of the history of the Bears Ears area, revealing... Read More

In Susan M. Gaines’s intricate and informative novel "Accidentals", a twenty-three-year-old, Gabriel, takes an unexpected voyage with his mother, Lili, back to her native... Read More

Intertwined with American history, the bison has long been a symbol of the American West. Kurt Repanshek’s "Re-Bisoning the West" traces the development of the prehistoric... Read More

Karin Anderson’s "Before Us Like a Land of Dreams" is a narrative extravaganza that ponders the bristled roots of ancestry, unbroken by time or place, and the muddled truths... Read More

Rebecca Lawton’s powerful and poetic "The Oasis This Time" celebrates water as a precious natural resource. Though its essays focus primarily on water in the western US, the... Read More

Eli J. Knapp’s "The Delightful Horror of Family Birding" trots the globe with humor, insight, and deep-seated appreciation for nature and bird-watching. The essays jaunt... Read More

On August 5, 2015, EPA staffers were investigating a portal of Gold King Mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado when an excavator set off a gush of water. Within... Read More

Ward’s humorous book uses the American Southwest and its inhabitants to tell a beautiful story about a place, people, and time. A small town in the American Southwest and its... Read More

Encompassing wisdom and grace, "Edge of Morning" is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human. Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears... Read More