Family owned since 1928, our love of reading spans four generations. Like larger bookstores, we carry the latest bestsellers and publications. What makes us unique is our exclusive selection of Rocky Mountain regional books and featured local authors all sold at our unique and historic store.
Come in and explore a bit of Rocky Mountain history and old-fashioned hospitality.
Many of us spend a great deal of our time dreaming about our next trip to the mountains, whether for a weekend getaway or our yearly vacation. We hear within that deep inexplicable pull toward the wilderness and would agree with John Muir, who said: "The mountains are calling and I must go." We sense that in the wild we are touching the edge of something that is both wonderful and mysterious.
In this new hardcover book, author and photographer Erik Stensland reflects on his own experience of wilderness and how it seems to call all of us towards healing and wholeness. Through short articles paired with stunning imagery he uses nature to help us connect with our inner self.
Macdonald Book Shop
10:00-5:00 pm
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Join us on Saturday, April 28th, 2018 for the celebration! We are planning prizes, author visits and giveaways.
Authors D. J. Steele and Chuck Barrett will be joining us from 1:00-4:00. They are super-cool and have been here for the last 2 years on IBD! We will be giving away one of each of their books during the day.
Chuck Barrett is the award-winning author of the Jake Pendleton series—Breach of Power, The Toymaker, The Savannah Project, and his latest 2016 release, Disrupton, as well as his 2015 award-winning blockbuster, Blown, the first book in his new Gregg Kaplan series.
DJ Steele, a graduate of the University of Georgia, was one of the first female foresters hired in the private sector where she worked in the timber industry for over twenty years. Prior to writing her own thriller, Declared Dead, she edited five award-winning novels for her husband, also a thriller writer.
May 17th, 2018, 7:00-8:30 pm
Estes Valley Library, Hondius Community Room
Jane Parnell’s Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies is an inspiring memoir about surmounting challenges, including the highest peaks in the Colorado Rockies, personal trauma, and constrictive gender roles. Parnell will be giving a presentation and readings from her book.
Parnell begins her story as a recreational thrill seeker who has played it safe in her personal life. Unmoored by her divorce, she chooses to boldly chart her own course. Her personal journey dramatizes evolving gender roles from the 1950s to the present and her quest to overcome a family history of mental illness and past trauma. In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Tracy Ross’s The Source of All Things, Parnell’s mountaineering memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.
Contact Macdonald Book Shop or Estes Valley Library for more information.
Macdonald Book Shop
July 14th, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
“If you just read one book this year, read How to Walk Away.”
—Nina George, New York Times Bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP
“Katherine Center writes about falling down, growing up, and finding love like nobody else. You can always see yourself and the people you love in her characters and their stories.”
—Brené Brown, author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, Daring Greatly
How To Walk Away contains laughter in the face of tragedy, hilarity in black moments, and one of the most unforgettable love stories you will encounter. It is Katherine Center at her very best: an utterly charming, hopeful, and romantic novel that will capture reader’s hearts with every page.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: KATHERINE CENTER is the author of several novels, including Happiness for Beginners, The Bright Side of Disaster, Everyone Is Beautiful, Get Lucky, and The Lost Husband. Her books and essays have appeared in Redbook, People, USA Today, Vanity Fair, and Real Simple, as well as the anthologies Because I Love Her, CRUSH, and My Parents Were Awesome. Katherine is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Houston with her husband and two sweet children.