Washoe County Library System

Nevada boasts some of the most diverse and beautiful landscapes in North America and is rich in trails that embrace the state's scenic, geologic, and historic resources. Mike White, renowned outdoors writer and instructor, now offers a guide to fifty of the best Nevada hikes, ranging across the entire state from the Mojave Desert to the Sierra Nevada, from sagebrush basins to the alpine heights of the Ruby Mountains. Here are hikes for every taste...

Shortly before the Autumn Festival at Port Frederick, Massachusetts, a widow seeks Jenny Cain's help in having a nature trail closed where her husband was killed crossing a highway. When Jenny agrees, she is swept into a deadly controversy that threatens disaster for herself and those she holds dear.

"Tucson lies in a saguaro-studded desert basin surrounded by four mountain ranges and book-ended by two national parks. In an hour you can drive from an arid canyon in the Arizona-Sonora desert to a pine-forested mountain at 9000 feet. Hiking trails are plentiful and as varied as the terrain. Five-Star Trails: Tucson by Rob Rachowiecki guides hikers to diverse trails suitable for anyone from wheelchair-using nature lovers to those looking for an all-day...

Bloodshed and bitter hatred--a hatred that bursts into flame in Texas and burns all the way north into Montana's Bear Paw Mountains--because Old Gene Stark and his eight sons refused to be pushed around by Bill Parsons. Caught in the middle is young Brock Parsons. He despises his father's utterly ruthless intention to own more cattle than any other man--and he loves Louise Stark, who is the daughter of his father's sworn enemy. Old Gene Stark and...