Written thirty years ago and now published posthumously, Adrian C. Louis’s novel "The Ghost Dancers" is about the violence that enables a father-son reunion. The Wilson family descends from a powerful medicine man, but the glory of the... Read More

In Curtis Bradley Vickers’s harrowing novel This Here Is Devil’s Work, two wildland firefighters and a cattle rustler are thrust together when lightning sparks a blaze. Morgan is a brash but effective member of the Ruby Mountain... Read More

Norris Hundley and Donald C. Jackson’s "Heavy Ground" focuses on the events surrounding the St. Francis Dam disaster. On March 12th, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, and twelve billion gallons of silted water crashed through the... Read More

Phyllis Barber’s "The Desert Between Us" is a historical love story about the American West and the need for human connections. Set in the wilds of rural Nevada after the Civil War, the novel focuses on Geoffrey, a road builder tasked... Read More

A refugia is a place where organisms can survive because they are protected in some way from the surrounding inhospitable environment; climate change has rendered the earth one such “flaming wreck.” Quietly political, the book’s... Read More

In Leslie Carol Roberts’s pensive collection of environmentally-oriented essays, the author asks “what is a walk in a forest if not a chance to fully and deeply celebrate the sauntering and reflective mind?” Roberts’s walking... Read More