If you have never seen a flash flood, you will in this book. Meet the survivors whose stories explain such a paradox.

The Deser

Desert Solitaire (hardcover)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Edward Abbey
Price: $39.95
Beautiful hardcover University of Arizona edition of Ed Abbey's classic environmental epic.

Desert Solitaire (Paperback)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books, Essay, Local Interest, Natural History
by Edward Abbey
Price: $7.99
Noted author Edward Abbey's classic account of his seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park, and reflections on a changing American Southwest.

Desert Solitaire (Trade Paperback)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books, Essay, Natural History, Regional
by Edward Abbey
Price: $14.00
Noted author Edward Abbey's classic account of his seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park, and reflections on a changing American Southwest.

Dolores River Guide
Found in: Guide Books, River Running
by Ralph DeVries & Stephn G. Maurer
Price: $16.95
Mile by mile waterproof guide of southeast Utah / southwest Colorado's Dolores River

Done in a Day MOAB ! - 10 Premier Hikes in the Moab Area
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Kathy and Craig Copeland
Price: $15.95
The Opinionated Hikers: Kathy & Craig Copeland have created the new Done in a Day series to show hikers with limited time where to enjoy the greatest scenic rewards.

Down the River
Found in: Edward Abbey Books, Essay, River
by Edward Abbey
Price: $16.00
A favorite Ed Abbey collection of autobiographical, philosophical and humorous essays about wilderness, rivers, deserts and mountains, written between 1978 and 1982

Eating Stone
Found in: Natural History
by Ellen Meloy
Price: $14.00
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah's canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majsetic creatures through travels across the southwest.

Escape
Found in: Biography, Mormon History/Issues
by Jessop, Carolyn and Laura Palmer
Price: $14.95
Jessop offers this dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond For Beauty
Found in: Adventure, Biography, Regional
by Rusho, W.L.
Price: $16.95
Everett Ruess, the young poet and artist who disappeared into the desert canyonlands of Utah in 1934, has become widely known posthumously as the spokesman for the spirit of the high desert. Many have been inspired by

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
Found in: Adventure, Biography, Current Affairs, Memoir
by Ruess, Everett (Author), Rusho, W L (Editor), Nichols, John (Introduction by), Abbey, Edward (Afterword by)
Price: $29.95
Everett Ruess--a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer--tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the

Everybody Needs a Rock
Found in: Childrens
by Baylor, Byrd and Peter Parnall
Price: $6.99
Baylor provides ten rules for finding a rock. "Not just any rock, Baylor is careful to note, but 'a special rock that you find yourself and keep as long as you can--maybe forever.' . . . As fresh as Baylor's concept are Parnall's striki

Exploration of the Colorado River and it's Canyons
Found in: Adventure, Expeditions, Regional, River, Western Americana
by John Wesley Powell
Price: $16.00
One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.

Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado
Found in: Expeditions, Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides, Natural History, Regional
by Madsen, Steven K.
Price: $34.95
The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for de

Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
Found in: Rock Art Guides
by Patterson, Alex
Price: $17.50


Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Found in: Natural History
by Williams, Terry Tempest
Price: $26.00
"Mosaic" is a meditation on how the natural and human worlds connect in both ugliness and beauty, and how they combine to produce both tumult and peace. It is Williams' most beautifully written and powerfully moving book yet.

Fool's Progress
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Edward Abbey
Price: $17.00
When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia.

Freedom & Wilderness - Edward Abbey Reads From His Work (CD)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Abbey, Edward
Price: $29.95
New! Four CD set of Edward Abbey reading from selected works, this was available previously only in cassette tape format.

Geology of the Moab Area
Found in: Guide Books, Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides
by F. A. Barnes
Price: $15.00
Fine geology guide specifically targeting the Moab, Utah area written by long-time resident Fran Barnes.

Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah ( Geology Underfoot #5 )
Found in: Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides
by Orndorff, Richard L, Robert W. Wieder, and David G. Futey,
Price: $18.00
Standing before any of southern Utah's enigmatic landforms, it's clear, there's a story here. This reference explores the stories behind 33 sites, some world-famous, others off the beaten path. Includes 146 black-and-white photographs,

Grand Canyon River Guide
Found in: Guide Books, River, River Running
by Buzz Belknap
Price: $22.95
111 waterproof, tear resistant pages detailing the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry through the Grand Canyon to South Cove Boat Ramp of Lake Mead.

Guide To Moab, UT Backroads and 4-Wheel Drive Trails
Found in: Guide Books
by Charles A. Wells
Price: $27.95
Guide to Moab, UT Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails 2nd edition is a NEW book from Charles A. Wells. All the trails in this book have been redriven plus an additional 10 new trails were added that are not included in the previous book.

Guide to Moab, UT Backroads and 4-Wheel Drive Trails (Spiral Bound)
Found in: Guide Books
by Charles A. Wells
Price: $33.95
A spiral bound edition of the new Charles Wells Guide to Moab, UT Backroads & 4-wheel Drive Trails.

Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - Lees Ferry to South Cove
Found in: Guide Books, River, River Running
by Tom Martin & Duwain Whitis
Price: $26.95
Grand Canyon river guide that is large format, waterproof and spiral bound. This is the only guidebook to the Canyon with USGS topographic map backgrounds printed at their original scale, with additional details in an easy-to-read format.

Guide To the San Juan River - Montezuma Creek to Clay Hills Crossing, Utah
Found in: Guide Books, River Running
by Duwain Whitis and Tom Martin
Price: $23.95
San Juan River guide that is large format, waterproof and spiral bound, with USGS topographic map backgrounds printed at their original scale, with many additional details in an easy-to-read format.

Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Found in: Memoir
by Rubin, Gretchen
Price: $25.99


Hayduke Lives!
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Edward Abbey
Price: $14.99
Sequel to Ed Abbey's wildly popular classic, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives! follows the same protagonists through more adventures and mischief while imparting Abbey's environmental and social values.

Hiking and Exploring Utah's San Rafael Swell
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Kelsey, Michael
Price: $12.95
This all-new 3rd Edition of the book that first came out in 1986, has been expanded from 160 to 224 pages, and there are about 90 more photographs than in the 2nd Edition.

Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, 2nd (2ND ed.)
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking, Local Interest, Regional
by Schneider, Bill
Price: $16.95
A comprehensive guide to the trails and backcountry roads of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Tassoni, Peter Francis
Price: $19.95
Describes 63 routes, ranging from quarter-mile walks to fifteen-mile day hikes, loops and multiday backpack trips on southeast Utah's Cedar Mesa.

House of Rain
Found in: Native Americana
by Childs, Craig
Price: $14.99
In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people.

Illuminated Desert
Found in: Art and Photography, Childrens, Regional
by Terry Tempest Williams & Chloe Hedden
Price: $21.95
Beautifully illustrated by local Moab artist Chloe Hedden with poetic words by Terry Tempest Williams, this is an elaborate Colorado Plateau ABC book for all ages.

In Search of the Old Ones
Found in: Native Americana
by Roberts, David
Price: $14.00
The Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo people, inhabited the Southwest for at least 5,000 years. David Roberts' extensive interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people.

In the Land of Moab
Found in: Art and Photography
by Till, Tom
Price: $30.00
Beautiful, soft-cover coffee table book by celebrated Moab, Utah photographer Tom Till, it contains photographs and essays championing the endangered Canyon Country of the Southwest.

Inner Gorge Metaphors
Found in: Art and Photography
by Supplee, Serena
Price: $29.95
This book is a collection of 52 color plates of Moab, Utah's own Serena Supplee's most recent watercolor and oil paintings from the perspective of the Grand Canyon's Inner Gorge.

Into the Mystery - Driving Tour of Moab Area Petroglyphs & Pictographs
Found in: Guide Books
by Lowe, Janet
Price: $2.99
Anciet Rock Art - Who made it, and why? How old is it? What does it mean? Along with information about the different cultures that were in the Moab area, this book includes mileage and driving times, site-by-site discussion, and illustrations of rock art.

Into the Wild (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Found in: Biography
by Krakauer, John
Price: $13.95
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is t

Labyrinth Canyon River Guide
Found in: Guide Books, River Running
by Thomas G. Rampton
Price: $12.95
Green River guidebook covering the flatwater stretch from Green River, UT to Mineral Bottom through Labyrinth Canyon. Mile by mile descriptions. NOT waterproof.

Last of His Kind
Found in: Expeditions, Adventure, Biography
by Roberts, David
Price: $25.99
Roberts pens an exciting narrative of mountain climbing in the 20th century, witnessed through the life of a legendary mountaineer and photographer--Brad Washburn. Nobody writes better about mountaineering than David Roberts.--Jon Kraka

Little Bee
Found in: Fiction
by Cleave, Chris
Price: $14.00


Moab Classic Hikes
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Fagan, Damian
Price: $12.99
This guide to hikes in the Moab area concentrates on local favorites and

Moab Country Day Hikes - 40 1 Day Hikes in the Moab Vicinity
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Barnes, F. A.
Price: $6.00
An economical guide, there are forty day hikes well described by local author Fran Barnes. See companion book below, More Moab Country Day Hikes.

Moab Story - From Cowpokes To Bike Spokes
Found in: Western Americana
by McCourt, Tom
Price: $17.00
Factual and fascinating tales of adventures and life in the town of Moab.

Monkey Wrench Gang (Hardcover)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Abbey, Edward
Price: $25.00
Edward Abbey's comic masterpiece - including the previously deleted chapter "Seldom Seen At Home" and featuring for the first time all of the artwork drawn for the book and calendar by R. Crumb.

Monkey Wrench Gang (Trade Paperback)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books, Fiction
by Abbey, Edward
Price: $14.95
Four irate rebels join forces to wage war on the stripminers, clear-cutters, and the highway and dam and bridge builders who are turning their natural habitat into a wasteland.

More Moab Country Dayhikes - 40 more 1 day Hikes in the Moab Vicinity
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Barnes, F. A.
Price: $6.00
Companion and follow-up hiking guide to Moab Country Day Hikes, this piece describes dozens more hikes

Mountain Biking Moab
Found in: Guide Books
by Bridgers, Lee
Price: $16.95
Inside you'll find: detailed mile-by-mile ride descriptions; GPS-quality, digitally designed shaded relief maps; elevation profiles; ratings for physical and technical difficulty.

Mountain Biking Moab Pocket Guide
Found in: Guide Books
by Crowell, David
Price: $10.95
A handy pocket-sized guide to mountain biking in Moab, Utah. Detailed ride descriptions make it easy to find the trailheads and follow the routes, helping mountain bikers stay on track with accurate distances keyed to easy-to-read maps...

National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah ( Audubon Field Guide )
Found in: Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides
by Alden, Peter (Author), National Audubon Society (Author), Friederici, Peter (Joint Author)
Price: $19.95
Explore the plants, animals and habitats of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah with the help of this informative, portable guide. 1,200 color photographs. 200 maps, diagrams & drawings.

National Parks of Utah: Journey to the Colorado Plateau
Found in: Art and Photography
by Leach, Nicky
Price: $9.95
This stunningly beautiful, oversized (10x13) book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by American's leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region.

Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country
Found in: Guide Books, Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides
by Williams, David
Price: $22.95
Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated trailside refernce to plants, animals, and geology of an area that includes nine national parks and monuments.

Naturalist's Guide to the White Rim Trail
Found in: Guide Books, Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides, Hiking
by David Williams & Damian Fagan
Price: $9.50
This is an ideal addition to any hiking, mountain biking or jeeping trip on the White Rim. The detailed log will guide you across canyons and through history.

New Moon
Found in: Fiction
by Meyer, Stephanie
Price: $10.99
Star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward face new obstacles in this vampire love story--the second installment of Meyer's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Twilight saga.

Non-technichal Hiking Guide To The Colorado Plateau
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Kelsey, Michael
Price: $19.95
This is a canyon hiking guide to the Colorado Plateau, which covers the southeastern half of Utah, the northern half of Arizona, the western 1/5 of Colordo, and a small part of NW New Mexico. This new 4th Edition has been significantly updated.

Photographing the Southwest Vol. 1 - A Guide to the Natural Landmarks of Southern Utah
Found in: Art and Photography, Guide Books
by Martres, Laurent
Price: $24.95
Our best-selling photography guidebook, this book forcuses on the beauty of southern Utah and how to capture it on the camera.

Photographing the Southwest Vol. 2 - A Guide to the Natural Landmarks of Arizona
Found in: Guide Books, Art and Photography
by Martres, Laurent
Price: $24.95
Volume 2 of Photographing the Southwest guidebook series takes you on a grand tour of Arizona, from Grand Canyon to Coyote Buttes and beyond.

Photographing the Southwest Vol. 3 - A Guide to the Natural Landmarks of Colorado & New Mexico
Found in: Guide Books, Art and Photography
by Martres, Laurent
Price: $24.95
Volume 3 of the Photographing the Southwest guidebook series takes the reader throughout western N.M. and Colorado, with an added look at Big Bend N.P. in Texas.

Rider Mel's Mountain Biking Guide To Moab
Found in: Guide Books
by Howe, Malcolm
Price: $14.95
This all started in 2000 with Rider Mels first edition of the Moab book. With only a few copies left (not counting the copies friends and relatives have been re-gifting), Mel put on his thinking cap and cranked out the new 3rd edition...

Roads Through Time - A Roadside History of the Moab Area
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking, Regional
by Sam Lightner, Jr.
Price: $19.95
Mile by mile road guide that details natural features, historic events and more in the Moab area.

Roadside Geology of Utah
Found in: Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides
by Chronic, Halka
Price: $20.00
Informative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary.

San Juan River Guide - Sand Island to Clay Hills Crossing
Found in: Guide Books, River, River Running
by Kearsly, Lisa
Price: $17.95
This guidebook on the San Juan River in Southeastern Utah is interesting, comprehensive, and well-illustrated. It gives you a feel for the river and its surrounding environment - from archeological sites to the plants and animals - as well as its...

Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge
Found in: Native Americana, Natural History
by Roberts, David
Price: $24.95
Three friends bound by love of the Southwest's canyonlands undertake the first traverse of the Comb Ridge in southeast Utah, in search of the lost civilization of the Anasazi.

Secret Knowledge of Water
Found in: Natural History
by Childs, Craig
Price: $14.99
Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning.

Shadow Tag
Found in: Fiction
by Erdrich, Louise
Price: $25.99


Sheep in a Jeep (board book)
Found in: Childrens
by Shaw, Nancy E (Author), Apple, Margot (Illustrator)
Price: $5.95
What could be better than a misadventure in board book format from that rambunctious flock of sheep? In "Sheep in a Jeep", the hapless flock goes for a drive in the country. Full color.

Sheep in a Jeep (paperback)
Found in: Childrens
by Shaw, Nancy
Price: $5.95
Our best selling children's book, this paperback book can be read anywhere but is perfect for Moab! A flock of hapless sheep drive through the country in this rhyming picture book.

Soul of Nowhere
Found in: Natural History
by Childs, Craig
Price: $18.99
In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. An intrepid adventurer, Childs tracks a broad territory: the Sierra Madre Mountains in northern Mexico...

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni
Found in: Native Americana
by Hayes, Allan
Price: $10.00
An art book, a history book, and a reference book showcasing more than 1,100 pots. There isn't a more complete southwestern pottery guide.

Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
Found in: Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides, Science
by Williams, David B.
Price: $26.00
Within the fabric of every stone building is a wondrous story of geological origins, architectural aesthetics, and cultural history.

You probably don't expect to make geological finds along the sidewalks of a major city, but when natural history writer

Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau 2nd Ed.
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking
by Kelsey, Michael
Price: $19.95
New! 2nd Edition of popular slot canyon guide to canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Back in print in summer 2008

The Journey Home
Found in: Edward Abbey Books, Natural History
by Abbey, Edward
Price: $15.00
Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works.


The Last Season
Found in: Biography
by Blehm, Eric
Price: $14.99
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, "The Last Season" examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada--mountains as perilous as th

The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green
Found in: Natural History, River
by Aton, James M
Price: $34.95
"In a word, The River Knows Everything is invaluable. Jim Aton has revealed the stories, the characters, and the long-forgotten history of the area. There are no books that even come close to the level of detail on the subject and depth of research that t

Third Wish - A Novel in Five Parts
Found in: Fiction, Robert FULGHUM Titles
by Robert Fulghum
Price: $29.95
New, 5 part novel by Moab and Seattle "locals" Robert Fulghum, with music companion CD by Cosy Sheridan and Barbara Lamb, and artwork by Peg Dougherty.  Classic love story spanning 3 continents. 

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Found in: Biography
by Mortenson, Greg and David Oliver Relin
Price: $16.00
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibanas backyard.

Too Much Happiness
Found in: Fiction
by Munro, Alice
Price: $25.95


Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Found in: Biography
by Roselle, Mike and Josh Mahan
Price: $24.99
Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the envi ronment.

Trespass - Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Found in: Western Americana, Local Interest
by Irvine, Amy
Price: $25.00
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to...

Twilight
Found in: Fiction
by Meyer, Stephanie
Price: $10.99
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. When she meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen--a vampire--her life takes a thrilling and terrifying roman

Under the Banner of Heaven
Found in: Western Americana, Mormon History/Issues
by Krakauer, John
Price: $14.95
Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who insist God commanded them to kill.

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Found in: Geology, Plant & Wildlife Guides, Regional
by Zoellner, Tom
Price: $26.95
The fascinating story of the substance that can sustain life--or destroy it--"Uranium" illustrates how the use of this mineral has shaped the modern world order.

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World
Found in: Natural History, Regional, Science
by Zoellner, Tom
Price: $16.00


Utah Canyon Country: 90 Trails to the Wonder of Wilderness ( Hiking from Here to Wow )
Found in: Guide Books, Hiking, Local Interest, Regional
by Copeland, Kathy and Craig Copeland
Price: $29.95
"Utah Canyon Country" describes precisely where to find the redrock cliffs, slickrock domes, soaring arches, and ancient ruins that make southern Utah unique, in a refreshing style--honest, literate, entertaining, and inspiring.

Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)
Found in: Edward Abbey Books
by Edward Abbey
Price: $11.95
Collection of Abbey's observations and comments on many things important to him, completed just before his 1989 death.

Voices of the American West
Found in: Biography, Western Americana
by Platt, Corinne and Meredith Ogilby
Price: $29.95


Way Out
Found in: Natural History
by Childs, Craig
Price: $14.95
In this taut, intensely dramatic narrativethe record of a perilous excursion into a remote and unmappable labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwesttwo men confront immutable forces of nature and the limits of their own sanity. As a chronicle of...

Where God Put the West - A Moab to Monument Valley Movie History
Found in: Western Americana
by Bette L. Stanton
Price: $17.99
The film industry has given southeast Utah history a bog dose of glamour. Explore th Hollywood connection to Moab and SE Utah through this fine account full of photos, stories and stars.

Worst Case
Found in: Fiction
by Patterson, James
Price: $27.99