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Back of Beyond Books

Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang.  We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.

Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River
The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition (Revised and Updated)
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert Desert Solitaire Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
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Desert Southwest Literature

Best Easy Day Hikes Moab
The Moab Story: From Cowpokes to Bike Spokes
Best Climbs Moab
Mountain Biking Moab
Best Moab & Arches National Park Hikes
Moab and Grand County
A Complete Guide to the Grand Circle National Parks: Covering Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Mesa Verde, and Grand Canyon Nation
A Family Guide to the Grand Circle National Parks: Covering Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches, Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon
Canyonlands National Park Map (Revised)
Maze District: Canyonlands National Park Map (Revised)
Needles District: Canyonlands National Park Map (Revised)
The Cottonwood Tree
Bright Star
The Moon's Tear: A Desert Night's Dream
Slow Down, Tumbleweed!
The Dirt Book: Poems about Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet
Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug
B Is for Bison: A National Parks Primer
Rainbow of Emotions: Making Friends with Your Emotions
Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book)
Sheep in a Jeep
We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
I Am Love: A Book of Compassion
Seeing Stars: A Complete Guide to the 88 Constellations
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of
Awakening: #Metoo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Red Clocks
The Cider House Rules
Jane of Battery Park
Ladyparts: A Memoir
My Mom Had an Abortion
Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment
Fascism: A Warning
Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Mercy Street
The Handmaid's Tale
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Crazy Brave
Code Talker
Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Ceremony: (Penguin Orange Collection)
Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
House Made of Dawn
A History of Kindness
The Night Watchman
Sundown
The Book of the Hopi
There There
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Hummingbirds of North America
Stan Tekiela's Birding for Beginners: Southwest: Your Guide to Feeders, Food, and the Most Common Backyard Birds
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition
Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure
Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why
Heartstopper #1: A Graphic Novel: Volume 1
Abuela, Don't Forget Me
Hell Followed with Us
A Snake Falls to Earth: Newbery Honor Award Winner
Out of Darkness
They Both Die at the End
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Foul Lady Fortune
Iron Widow (Book 1)
She Is a Haunting
Wildblood
Fable
One of Us Is Lying
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Immortality: A Love Story
Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)
Wildoak
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A Rover's Story
Leeva at Last
When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner)
The Last Cuentista: Newbery Medal Winner
Across the Desert
The Canyon's Edge
Rez Dogs
The Graveyard Book
Guts: A Graphic Novel
Odder: The Novel
A First Time for Everything
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