Current Book List

Two cousins pack 40 years of comedy into a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated volume that skewers the advertising culture we currently inhabit. The Rhodes and Rose Lifestyle Digest also features many of Noel’s beloved characters including intrepid outdoors-man Steve Climber, the unlucky crooner Lorb Lorbson, cranky amateur scientist Stu Cranstence, and world-class athlete Steg Prongsten. This is their second book together published by Hardy Perennial Press, the first being MY Findings by Stu Cranstence in 2018.

Noel Rhodes and Owen Rose are first cousins who attended the same high school in the late 1970s where they started doing comedy projects together. They have continued ever since even though they live in different states. This volume brings together over 200 color and b&w illustrations that document some of their many different audio, video and photographic outings from four decades of work. Much of this material is drawn from their popular YouTube videos - like the Flextrek Whipsnake and Stryreechlinstral - that skewer the advertising culture we currently inhabit. The Rhodes and Rose Lifestyle Digest also features many of Noel’s beloved characters including intrepid outdoorsman Steve Climber, the unlucky crooner Lorb Lorbson, cranky amateur scientist Stu Cranstence, and world-class athlete Steg Prongsten. This is their second book together published by Hardy Perennial Press, the first being MY Findings by Stu Cranstence in 2018.

October 8th, 2019

$19.95 Trade Paper, Perfect Bound

6x9 inches -  164 pages 

187 color & b/w photos

ISBN 978-1-7325402-5-5

A local artist and botanist gives a guided tour of the Santa Catalina Mountains Southern Arizona.

Frank S. Rose takes us on a tour of the Santa Catalina Mountains of Southern Arizona. The book includes 180 original watercolors along with descriptions of each stop and portraits of flowers you may see along the way.

“Artist and author Frank Rose has not only trekked the magnificent Catalina Mountains from cactus canyons to fir-forested Mount Lemmon, he has captured the splendor of the range in this book brimming with his evocative words and brilliant watercolors. You’ll find no better introduction to the Catalinas — and no more contemplative study of their wonders.”

— Doug Kreutz, newspaper and magazine writer specializing in the outdoors

Published January 29th, 2019

$19.95 Trade Paper, Perfect Bound

6x9 inches -  100 pages 

180 color photos

ISBN 978-1-7325402-3-1

More than merely a scientific volume, this book is a look inside the mind of a man who sees the world as “my own large area. A huge display case full of MY ideas, MY discoveries...MY findings.”

Published September 18, 2018

$12.95 Trade Paper, Perfect Bound

 6x9 inches - 56 pages

77 Color photographs

ISBN 978-1-7325402-1-7 

Southern Arizona botanist documents tiny blooms of the Santa Catalina Mountains.

 Frank S. Rose takes a close look at over two hundred species of plants found in Southern Arizona. Using a powerful close-up camera, he’s taken over 1,000 color images to allow the viewer to see flowers not normally seen, that regularly get trampled because the entire plant looks so plain, or that get overlooked because the flowers are nearly invisible to the naked eye.

Published September 2018

$21.95 Trade Paper, Perfect Bound

6x9 inches -  220 pages 

1077 color photographs

ISBN 978-1-7325402-0-0