Torrey House Press: 38 books

What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970’s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains.Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological...

In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America’s remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.

Brimming with bordertown corruption and blame–ridden recollections, this powerful literary debut opens at a turning point for college professor Kevin McNally, whose personal and professional lives have run aground, haunted by a violent border clash from his youth. Now, McNally must journey back to...

Regional appeal--Monument Road winds through western Colorado. Monument Road addresses the difficult topic of suicide with thoughtful insight. Author was a bookseller for B. Dalton for two years and maintains connections in the book world.

Athletic, book–loving, uprooted Charlotte provides a likable protagonist for snowboarders and/or bookworms, as well as anyone who has had to make a difficult move—and learned to love their new home. Introduces younger readers to environmental concerns wrapped in an interesting story of...

"The first book in Bishop's Tate McCoy series will have readers eager to hear more from her pragmatic, sarcastic, yet sweet 16-year-old heroine. Tate's ability to compartmentalize her fears and emotions, her attempts to preserve her optimism through small gestures, and the tension and mystery surrounding...

"Utah has been my home for over half a century. Native Americans have inhabited these landscapes since time immemorial. The writers in Red Rock Stories capture that connection in essays and poems that run as deep as the canyons of the Colorado River." —ROBERT REDFORD, actor, director,...

Book four in the National Park Mystery Series, which places each mystery in a distinctive and breathtaking US national park. Each title in the series has a unifying easily recognizable design despite the different settings for each mystery. Book one in the series, Canyon Sacrifice was well-received,...

"Graham's clever tale is tailor–made for those who prefer their mysteries under blue skies…" -KIRKUS "Description and dialogue balance to bring both the rounded characters and the Rocky Mountain setting alive in this tale of danger, death, and intrigue…Scott Graham has created a satisfying...

•Book five in Scott Graham's National Park Mystery Series, which places each mystery in a distinctive and breathtaking US national park. Each title in the series has a unifying, easily recognizable cover design. •Author has established himself as an expert outdoor adventurer and writer with his...

"In Nature, Love, Medicine, nearly two dozen writers, poets, scientists, and healers reflect on what loving and needing nature really means to them. Read it, and you'll be stirred to ask the same of your own reflection-in the clearest, quietest pool you can find." -Alan Weisman, author of...

Two university professors set out to repeatedly bike the Great Western Trail, observing and writing about its variations with every season. The accounts of their adventures, however, refuse to be limited to flora and fauna. In Wild Rides and Wildflowers, Abbott and Rushforth share their deeply personal...

"Among the many pleasures of re–reading Gary Ferguson's Hawks Rest, is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again."-MARK...

Nell Walker, an L.A. executive who believed she had everything and learns she had nothing, finds herself boarding a bus rolling away from bitter loss toward a fiercely beautiful landscape, an impossible love affair, and a fight for the earth that brings her back to a past richer than anything she...