Saugerties Tarot scholar Place traces the cards' historical origins as medieval Italian playing cards, exploring their ancient, mystical, and Jungian imagery and offering interpretations of each card in the Major and Minor Arcana. See Out & Aloud for local workshops.

A delightful memoir by a maverick bookseller who set up shop in Mormon Utah, crammed with juicy author-tour anecdotes, insights into an increasingly corporatized publishing industry, and dozens of reading lists from fellow Book Sense independents, including Ariel Booksellers.

Subtitled "Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 Into Winning Progressive Politics," this diverse and inspiring anthology is an action-oriented wake-up call for disenchanted progressives. Contributors include Howard Dean, Arianna Huffington, Jim Hightower, Robert Greenwald, Tom Hayden, Barack Obama, and others.

Lyn Mayo, a Woodstock psychotherapist and former teacher at SUNY New Paltz, describes self-realization as an ongoing process, akin to the flow of a wave. She offers gentle support and meditative wisdom for spiritual seekers of many paths.

Koeppel's father is a rara avis among birdwatchers, one of a handful who has collected more than 7,000 species worldwide. Koeppel explores the subculture of "Big Listers," the thrill of the chase, and the human cost of single-minded obsession.

Stunning images of the wilder mountains north of our own, by celebrated outdoor photographer Truesdale, with graceful essays by his Hudson River Journey collaborator Michaels. Photo exhibition through July 20 at the Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz Plaza, (845) 255-1241; Book signing at Ariel Booksellers, New Paltz, 7/2 at 7pm.