Lyman’s new book, A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY, is fresh off the press.

It’s a children’s book for readers of all ages, illustrated by the wonderful artist Ester West who has collaborated with Lyman on three books now.

Grace has travelled all the way from Boston to spend Christmas with her grandparents. How will Santa find her so far from home? Grandpa tells her a long-ago story about his own Christmas journey, helping Grace find comfort in the true meaning of the holiday.

THIS YEAR’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR EVERY FAMILY.

Lyman’s New Book is Fresh Off the Press:

THE WAY TO ANGELS LANDING

It’s a children’s book for readers of all ages, featuring illustrations by the beloved artist Roland Lee, known as “The Painter of Zion.”

It’s the story of a boy who loved his grandfather. Every summer his parents took him on a journey across the dusty desert and through the towering canyons to visit Grandpa.

Then one summer Grandpa said he was going away… to the most beautiful place anyone could imagine.

On the way home they stopped in Zion Canyon where a raven showed the boy the way to the most beautiful place he had ever seen… a place very near to Heaven.

EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THIS BOOK!

Just in Time for Christmas

A new book by LYMAN HAFEN

With illustrations by ESTER WEST

Do you know the seven rules of Christmas tree hunting?

The day is finally here… the first Saturday of December, that glorious day when Julie and her family set out for the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree. But her brothers, and her parents, have different ideas about what “Perfect” means. Will she find it, or will this be the worst day ever?

A CHRISTMAS STORY FOR ALL AGES

Just in Time for Christmas

A new book by LYMAN HAFEN

With Wonderful and Wistful Illustrations by ESTER WEST

How the faith of a child can melt an iceberg of logic into a puddle of possibility.

As a little boy, I felt cheated growing up in a desert where most Christmas songs did not apply… where the tree tops DID NOT glisten and the children DID NOT listen to sleigh bells in the snow. I envied the children of the world who woke up Christmas morning in a winter wonderland.

THEN CAME LAST WINTER…

A half-century later, and now a grandpa, I learned how the faith of a child can change everything.

A CHRISTMAS STORY FOR ALL AGES

I’m happy to report my new book, ON CLOUDY MOUNTAIN, is now available for purchase as an e-book only. That’s the only way you’ll be able to read it until the publisher, Cedar Fort, Inc., sets a date for publication of the print edition. The price is from $2.99 to $3.99, depending on where you get it.

You can get it for your Kindle at Amazon, for your Nook at Barnes & Noble, or for your iPad or iPhone on your iBooks app.

I hope you have a chance to read it and if you like it, please share it with others who might enjoy it.

INTO THE WEST . . .

As summer approaches, 12-year-old Damon McIntyre braces for the torture of another season playing baseball and another hopeless attempt at being the boy his mother’s boyfriend expects him be. All he really wants is to hole up in his bedroom in a Boston suburb and ride out the summer with his computer games. After a cryptic letter from Nevada arrives, he finds himself on an airplane following the ghostly image of a white horse into the west.

On his grandparent’s ranch at the foot of a mysterious mountain Damon is reluctantly enmeshed with a host of characters including his cowgirl aunt, his quirky eleven-year-old cousin Corky, his wise and compassionate grandmother, his ancient grandfather who has suffered a stroke and cannot speak, a native Paiute ranch-hand and his beguiling 12-year-old daughter, and an enigmatic older cousin named Lucas.

During the course of the summer he not only discovers the gifts that made his father legendary, he unwittingly becomes entangled in the family politics of what will become of the ranch. He learns to ride, rope and chase wild horses, and comes face-to-face with a real life that eclipses the virtual one he left back home. Under the spell of the haunting drone of bagpipes he searches summer-long for his father who, along with a majestic grey stallion, disappeared on Cloudy Mountain years earlier.  As the story of his father comes to light, Damon discovers who he truly is.

As much a story of the complicated world of adults as it is the coming of age for a boy, ON CLOUDY MOUNTAIN is a book for all ages.

20th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction and the Novella OVER THE JOSHUA SLOPE

Since it was first published by Utah State University Press in 1995, ROPING THE WIND has found a place in book collections across the country and around the world.  Now, in this 20th Anniversary Edition, the author has included a new introduction as well as the novella OVER THE JOSHUA SLOPE, first published by Macmillan in 1994.  A memoir of Southwestern ranch culture, ROPING THE WIND presents the personal reflections of Lyman Hafen, prominent Southern Utah writer and founding editor of St. George Magazine.  The added story, OVER THE JOSHUA SLOPE, is a fictional account set in the same landscape and featuring characters cut from the same mold.

In ROPING THE WIND, Hafen celebrates the land and cowboys he has known, but he does so by showing a gallery of real people – not romantic stereotypes.  These are straight from life sketches, family stories, and reminiscences of his own youth.  Between chapters, Hafen unfolds the humorous tale of Afton and William – an irascible cowman and greenhorn journalist – as they learn to appreciate each other.

In OVER THE JOSHUA SLOPE, Hafen tells the coming-of-age fictional story of Brian Winsor, a 12-year-old boy on a cattle drive, and his interactions with a cast of older cowboys and a landscape much like the men and place he grew up with.