I've been fly fishing all my life and have traveled the world doing it. These are the best guides I've come across.

This guide will save you a lot of time--and you'll catch a lot more fish--with all the tips and key destinations. This book really added to our vacation!

I've been fly fishing all my life and have traveled the world doing it. These are the best guides I've come across.

This is a must for anyone who want to flyfish the Summit County area. The book provides detailed maps, hatches, etc.

I really enjoyed this book. I am an adult beginning/intermediate Spanish student and am always looking for opportunities to practice my limited skills. This books is filled with wonderful folk tales which are a joy to read, and the English translations provide me with immediate assistance.

This is a very entertaining collection of folk tales in bilingual Spanish/English format. The stories range from funny anecdotes of life, to tales that teach the wisdom of the people of the Southwest, to tales of witchcraft.

The translations are sometimes even better than the originals. No wonder because one of the translators, Rudolfo Anaya, is a best selling author and superb writer.

This book offers an opportunity for people who want to improve their Spanish. Read the original Spanish first and refer to the English translation when you get to the parts you don't understand.

The book is great campfire or bedtime reading for kids. Both you and your kids will come out wiser for it.

The second edition of Day Hikes From The River is great! The maps are the biggest change. Though still packed with the same info (and more), the clarity really helps. Thanks Tom for doing this. We used Day Hikes to hike up Vishnu Creek and Kanab Creek to Whispering Falls. Worked great! The resource tips were helpful and not too overbearing. This book is getting real close to a real river guide. The other "guides" give river miles and that's about it. This book ties it all together. I'd sure recommend it for anyone headed down Big Red. The only drawback is that this book is NOT waterproof! I learned the hard way....

We just finished the river trip of our dreams. 18 days to Diamond Creek, my buddy Jim waited 12 years to get his permit. Day Hikes from the River was a must book to have on our trip! We stopped at "Shiver Grotto", Nautiloid Canyon, Nankoweep, Clear Creek, got water at Phantom (easy to find), Shinumo, Elves Chasm, Stone Creek, managed the Thunder River-Deer Creek loop, got aced out at Havasu and thanks to Day Hikes, and had a great time at Tuckup. What a resource. The maps are really clear, and the easy to follow directions made it all work out. Thanks for the great guide!

Death of a Dustbunny was the first book I have read by Christine Jorgensen but it certainly won't be the last! Witty, whimsical and a bit of "woo-woo" (as Stella calls her psychic abilities) woven together to make a wonderful mystery.

While this is not the first book in the Stella the Stargazer series it certainly allows you to read it first and not feel like a stranger. Unlike other series it also doesn't reiterate everything from the pervious novels which I found refreshing.

At the start Stella, who writes a column at her local paper, is upset because her friend and student Elena has not shown up after leaving a particularly disturbing message for Stella. Once Stella begins to worry and have a few psychic interludes she realizes that Elena is not merely late but in trouble and she sets off to find her.

She calls the Holman house where Elena is a housekeeper and nanny to a disturbed little boy Steven, whose mother has died and will only reach out to Elena. Steven is also obsessed with the idea that a vampire has taken Elena and is equally terrified that one will get him as well. Then Stella calls the Dustbunnies, the service that Holman has hired Elena through to no avail.

The owner of the Dustbunnies begs Stella to look after Steven until Elena or a replacement can be found as Steven likes her. She accepts the position to look into Elena's disappearance. Little does she know that no one will help her. Holman and the Dustbunnies refuse to place a missing person's report, the police can't do anything because Elena supposedly left a note and Holman and his friends refuse to answer any questions.

Is this the end for Elena? Can Stella sniff out where she has gone? You can be sure that this book will have a satisfying ending. This was a very quick read but a good one. I guess it is true - good things do come in small packages!

Stella the Stargazer, who writes a weekly astrology column for the Denver Daily Orion, is worried when her friend Elena Ruiz is reported missing by her employer, the Dustbunnies housekeeping and nanny service. Elena was working as the nanny and housekeeper in the home of Grant Holman. Stella believes something nasty happened to Elena. She convinces the owner of Dustbunnies to allow her to replace the missing woman.

At the Holman home, she meets Steven Holman, a frightened child, who firmly believes that Elena has been abducted by vampires. Stella begins to investigate the disappearance of her friend and soon has several viable suspects if foul play has occurred. However, trying to obtain information is difficult amidst Elena's Mexican community and Stella does not yet realize how much danger she has placed herself in from someone who does not want any amateur sleuth to find out the truth.

DEATH OF A DUSTBUNNY is a fun to read cozy that includes bumps in the night elements. Stella and the support cast are an eccentric enough ensemble that readers will take pleasure in their exploits. Though Christine T. Jorgensen's story line is a bit weak (Stella needs to add logic to her repertoire), fans of American cozies with a pinch of woo-woo will relish the latest Stella the Stargazer story.

Harriet Klausner

Deep Black: An Adventure Through The Black Canyon by travel and nature writer Robb Magley is both an extensively researched history and a thrilling saga of personal challenge. Magley recounts the history of Colorado's Black Canyon, a part of the Colorado country whose dangerous rapids were not conquered until 1901. In addition to thorough archival research, the author's own journey on foot through all thirty-three miles of a canyon that is steeper and narrower than the more famous Grand Canyon, the reader is deftly introduced to seventy-six river crossings, and informed of a brush with death that forcefully illustrates the power, majesty, and danger of this great natural resource and wonder.

Told from a refreshingly honest and unjaded viewpoint - unlike many adventure travel writers, this author does not try to impress us mere readers by mentioning other trips he may have taken in exotic foreign countries. The book explores Magley's relationship with the Black Canyon in Colorado and the research he undertakes to find out more about the first explorers there, but Magley takes the reader on many other side adventures - what do we (the paying public) really expect from National Parks? How does that differ from what our ancesters expected from the same area 200 years ago? And, what do the author and his friend do when exploring the river turns life threatening? This is a great read.

I was really pleased with this book. It covers everything you can think of and is easy to use. I recommend it.

Wonderful photography and witty editorial. I highly recommend this book for both newcomers and long time residents. It's a great way to get to get to know or become reacquainted with the city of Denver

In my opinion (and possibly in fact), this is the only field guide worth using. Ms. Komarek pays explicit attention to detail, and has created wonderful keys to quickly and reliably identify whatever plant you may be viewing.

The book also lists many plants found in the lower elevations surrounding the San Juans, such as Durango, Bayfield, Pagosa, Mancos, and Cortez. If you are serious about plants in this area, or if you would simply like to identify them, this is the book that you need.

I take this book everywhere I go when exploring in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. It is well organized and comprehensive, with excellent illustrations.

This is the best collection of photos I have seen on the now drowned Glen Canyon. Unlike some other books covering the area, this collection was clearly taken by a professional photographer. These pictures could easily be mistaken for Ansel Adams and I believe Mr. Nichols lists him as a big influence on his work. If you are like me and a lover of canyon country, it will definitely make you a little wistful thinking that this area has been lost--probably irretrievably. I just wish there were a comparable collection of color photos of Glen Canyon to supplement this wonderful work.

Anyone will find the pictures breathtaking. If you have an interest in the southwest rivers and canyons you will especially enjoy this book. If you are interested in seeing what they stole from us by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam then this book is required reading. Hayduke lives!

Grandfather's Christmas Tree is a beautifully written and illustrated non-fiction book. The story is about the author's grandfather and a tall spruce tree outside his home. The illustrations are done in oil paints. This is a wonderful story about family and should be included in everyone's Christmas reading collection.

Beautifully illustrated story of family 100 years ago moving westward to Colorado and making a new home and battling the elements. Saving a family of geese, one injured, from a rough winter, and staying committed to each other thru rough times makes story engrossing and rewarding.