Jumping on the bandwagon of local gift giving -- how about books by local authors? Add yours here. Mine is America's Great Hiking Trails (Rizzoli International) , which was a NYTimes best seller in travel, a Lowell Thomas gold award winner, an IndieFab gold award winner, and made a bunch of "best of lists" in nature, travel, and adventure when it came out. I believe the Shaker Dan Cafe/Stanmeyer Gallery in W. Stockbridge has copies.... and they do a lot to support local authors, so it would be nice to get it there. If you can recommend local authors' books, please add them here!