Devoted Abbey fans along with readers just discovering his work will find a mother lode of treasures here: generous chunks of his best novels, including The Brave Cowboy, Black Sun, and his classic The Monkey Wrench Gang; and more than a score of his evocative, passionate, trenchant essays -- a genre in which he produced acknowledged masterpieces such as Desert Solitaire. There is even an excerpt from a novel he was working on in 1984, eventually...

When Marget reaches the orderly house of her Dutch-Indonesian grandmothers, she learns that if she only pays attention to them, then she can go unnoticed herself. And that is exactly what she needs. Marget is pregnant and alone. With her dancing career over and her mother absent, as always, Marget must decide for herself whether it is wise to continue the raveling line of her extended family. Like Amy Tan before her, Dressler tells a powerful story...

In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means...

Twenty-nine-year-old Margaret Stuart is happy to have her sister Elspeth come to live with her and her husband Alec on their prosperous Iowa farm, but when the friendship between Elspeth and Alec ripens into passion, it changes the course of the rest of all their lives.

Twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo — a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. He has written a new preface and twenty-five essays, which add even more potency to a common, though no less relevant, piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life...

Traditional black and white photography has a special appeal that never goes out of style. Even in the digital age, photographers remain endlessly fascinated by its creative possibilities--and this richly illustrated guide offers them a comprehensive introduction to both the art and craft of creating fine monochrome prints. Throughout, it emphasizes ways to master the necessary camera and darkroom techniques and achieve a personal vision every time...

Once again, Robert Fulghum, the man who has been a working cowboy, IBM salesman, professional artist, folk singer, parish minister, bartender and, of course, #1 best-selling author, offers us a delightful, eye-opening collection of essays that deal with the extraordinary wonder in ordinary, everyday life. Reflecting on everything and anything from meatloaf to the smell of a good cigar, Fulghum approaches the familiar with his characteristic joie de...

A history of the town of Moab and Canyon Country as seen through a Coyote's eyes. Do you want to know ... : where Moab's name really came from? ... why Moab wasn't founded by Mormon settlers like the rest of Utah? ... who made Moab an atomic boomtown? ... when Moab hosted a concentration camp? ... when Moab was almost submerged by a major dam? ... when Moab declared war on wilderness? ... who put Moab on the literary map?

For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world--from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete--looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected. Here is an armchair tour of everyday life as seen by one of America's great essayists, a man who has two feet planted firmly on the earth, one eye on the heavens and, at times, a tongue planted firmly in his cheek.--From publisher description....