"Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona's natural monuments through the eyes of an author who has called Arizona home for most of his life. In David Yetman's new book, he shows us how Arizona's most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on more recent histories of these landmarks as well"--

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately...

"In this inspirational travel memoir you'll find stories about taking a leap of faith, meeting the muse and discovering new meaning and purpose. At the second half of life, Melanie Lee and Louis Michalski moved to Sedona, Arizona, a beautiful and hospitable place with artistic roots and a vibrant sense of creative possibility. Here they learned to see with fresh eyes by rekindling an old love affair with the muse as they found other creative spirits...

"The human story has always been one of perseverance--often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...

"From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. "I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living." So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a...