Books with author Dw Roberts

An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans―Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans―occupied the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Just before AD 1300, they abandoned their homeland in a migration that remains one of prehistory's greatest puzzles. Northern and southern neighbors of the Ancestral Puebloans, the Fremont and Mogollon likewise flourished for millennia before migrating or disappearing. Fortunately, the Old Ones, as some of their present-day descendants call them, left behind awe-inspiring ruins, dazzling rock art, and sophisticated artifacts ranging from painted pots to woven baskets. Some of their sites and relics had been seen by no one during the 700 years before David Roberts and his companions rediscovered them.In The Lost World of the Old Ones, Roberts continues the hunt for answers begun in his classic book, In Search of the Old Ones. His new findings paint a different, fuller portrait of these enigmatic ancients―thanks to the breakthroughs of recent archaeologists. Roberts also recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in the backcountry with the verve of a seasoned travel writer. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, illuminating the mysteries of the Old Ones as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.Roberts calls on his climbing and exploratory expertise to reach remote sanctuaries of the ancients hidden within nearly vertical cliffs, many of which are unknown to archaeologists and park rangers. This ongoing quest combines the shock of new discovery with a deeply felt connection to the landscape, and it will change the way readers experience, and imagine, the American Southwest. 16 pages of color illustrations

Grizzly bears can and will eat just about anything; humans are on that menu, too. When two cowboys are included as one of the courses, their boss and rancher Jack Slade calls for the grizzly to be hunted down and slaughtered. The job is offered to Clint Adams—he’s hunted bears before—but turns it down in favor of helping Charlotte, a comely-looking conservationist who is out to protect the grizzly.Soon the Gunsmith has Matt Kraven and his gang of hunters tracking both him and the grizzly, and Kraven isn’t bothered who he kills first. The question is: can the fabled Gunsmith get himself and Charlotte out of the Big Horn Forest alive?

When his parents surprise Jason with a family vacation to California, he is totally excited. Not only will he get to fly, he’ll have a chance to try out for Masquerade Mania! That’s before he learns that they will be camping cross-country in a sardine can (at least that’s what the contraption looks like). Jason’s willing to do just about anything to get a chance to be on Mania. But isn’t wearing pink underwear, enduring the stares of fellow campers, and putting up with his pain-in-the-neck sister above and beyond the call of duty?From the Trade Paperback edition.

It's lights. . . camera. . . and plenty of action! Movie monsters seem to be coming to life on a horror movie set that is currently filming in Sea City, the home of the Pep Squad Mystery Club. Can the members of the Sea City High School cheerleading squad save the film by catching the evil Monsters On The Movie Set? Pep Squad Mysteries is a series of mystery chapter book adventures aimed at preteen readers and up.

Strange stories of ghostly sightings from members of their own football team lead the Sea City High School varsity cheerleaders to investigate a creepy ghost town at night. Can the Pep Squad Mystery Club unravel the case and survive the TERROR OF THE GHOST TOWN? Pep Squad Mysteries is a series of one shot mystery chapter book adventures aimed at preteen readers and up.

For sixteen-year old Kelly Hobbs, there is nothing more important than to join her fellow Pep Squad Mystery Club members by becoming a Sea City High School Varsity Cheerleader. But before that can happen, Kelly, her sister Kristen and their cheerleader friends, Asia, Miranda, Dinah and Cynthia, must solve a series of semi hijackings and the secret of the Cavern in the hills. Pep squad mysteries is a series of family oriented mystery chapter book adventures aimed at readers of all ages. Each book features easy-to-read mystery-thriller stories with black and white illustrations.

When a terrible storm strands the Sea City High School varsity cheerleaders in the middle of no where, the Pep Squad Mystery Club must seek help for their injured advisor, Ms. Clark, at a rundown old house that appears to be haunted. Can Kristen Hobbs, her sister Kelly, Asia Addison and Miranda Jacobs solve the mystery of The Haunting Of Townsand Hallin time to help Ms. Clark? Pep Squad Mysteries is a series of family oriented mystery chapter book adventures aimed at readers of all ages, especially ages 8 to 12. . Each book features large-print easy-to-read mystery-thriller stories with black and white illustrations.

When the other members of the Pep Squad Mystery Club begin to disappear after a gang of vile criminals escape police custody, sisters Kristen and Kelly Hobbs jump into action. Can they manage to rescue their friends and foil "The Bank Robber'S Revenge?" Pep Squad Mysteries is a series of mystery chapter book adventures aimed at preteen readers and up.