Local author Pollyanna Pixton and Niel Nickolaisen present Stand Back and Deliver.

Local chef Stephen Richards presents Delicious Meets Nutritious, a cookbook with a wide range of simple recipes (from Breakfast to Easy Gourmet Meals to Desserts) that utilize Xagave, an all-natural, calorie-saving, low Glycemic Index sweetener.

Margaret Stevens is back at TKE with ParentFix, her guide to successful parenting based on the idea that when parents change, kids change. Stevens will present on parenting techniques, from how to create a safe haven at home to motivating your child.

Mark Karlins presents his new picture book, Starring Lorenzo, And Einstein Too, at a special Storytime. Starring Lorenzo celebrates the power of individuality, the importance of big imagination, and the ways we all fit in-–even when we least expect it.

Celebrate local authors Jenna Cooper, Rachel Geerdes, and Cathlene Smith. Jenna Cooper is the author of Turned, a fantasy that begins when the child of a French immigrant cook meets a millionaire's son with a surprising family secret. Rachel Geerdes is the author of Chasing Demons, a high-stakes adventure story complete with magical intrigue. Cathlene Smith is the author of Slivers of Reality, a psychological thriller.

Jacqueline Berger presents Loves, Lies, and Tears: An Intimate Look at America's First Ladies, which details the glamour, the heartache, and the tragedies experienced by ordinary women who lived extraordinary lives. Berger is an author, guest speaker, and lecturer.

Local author Chris Cokinos presents The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars. Weaving natural history, memoir, and the stories of maverick scientists, daring adventurers, and stargazing dreamers, The Fallen Sky travels from Antarctica to outer space to tell the tale of how the study of meteorites became a scientific passion. Cokinos is an award-winning author, poet, and professor of English at Utah State University.

Treehouse Children’s Museum in Ogden is pleased to announce that it will host the 2nd Annual Writing for Charity Event. This special workshop event features more than 20 published children’s book authors of both picture books and young adult fiction. Authors scheduled to participate include Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Shannon Hale (Princess Academy), Rick Walton (Once There Was a Bull....frog and more than 30 other picture books), and Anne Bowen (What DO Teachers Do (After YOU Leave School). The Writing for Charity Event, a workshop for aspiring children’s book writers (age 13 and up only, please), will provide participants with professional advice and the opportunity to have their work evaluated by one of the event’s participating authors. The event will also include opportunity to purchase books and have books signed.Participants can also purchase drawing tickets for great prizes including signed books and a book bag signed by all of the participating authors. And, all proceeds from the event will benefit the non-profit Treehouse and its award-winning Family Literacy Programs. Registration for the event is $50 per person ($45 for registrations received by Friday, August 21) and includes three workshop sessions, morning snacks and lunch. Registration forms and a complete lists of participating authors are available at Treehouse, Deseret Book, or at www.treehousemuseum.org.

Writers of children’s picture books should bring a full manuscript (fewer than 1,000 words), and chapter book authors should bring the book’s first page for critique.

Please note that because of the length of the workshop and the set-up required, Treehouse will be closed to the public that day (Saturday, August 29.)

Treehouse Children’s Museum is a private, nonprofit organization offering interactive, hands-on exhibits and programs for children and families that focus on family literacy, children’s literature and the arts. Treehouse is supported through admissions, memberships, grants, and donations. The Museum is located in the Elizabeth Stewart Treehouse Museum at 347 22nd Street in downtown Ogden. For more information on this program or any of the Museum’s programs or exhibits, please call 801-394- 9663 or visit www.treehousemuseum.org.

Author Martin Wachs will present a special Storytime!

Violinist, teacher, conductor, composer, and now local author Gerald Elias will present his new mystery, The Devil's Trill, and perform a piece composed for the book at the Main Library. Cosponsored by the Salt Lake City Public Library.

Local author Wooley Cottswold will read his new picture book, Rose & the Bald-Headed Elephant, at Storytime at 11 a.m., and then sign from 11:30 - 12:30. You can also check out a fun YouTube video for the book!

Does digging through the Mayan jungle seem too much like hard work? Well, put your sleuthing skills to work this September in pursuit of clues on the printed page instead! Beginning September 15th, TKE is one of the fifty independent bookstores across the country participating in a treasure hunt in celebration of Michelle Moran’s latest novel, Cleopatra’s Daughter. We have concealed, somewhere on our shelves, a red ribbon bearing the seal of a true literary archaeologist. To find the clues that will lead you to the ribbons, just go to www.michellemoran.com/treasurehunt.htm. The clues will test your knowledge of literature as you attempt to pinpoint the book where the ribbon lies waiting for you. For the lucky winner who finds the ribbon, simply present it at the front counter to claim your treasure chest of prizes, including gold-plated Cleopatra earrings, a Roman artifact with a certificate of authenticity, plus a signed copy of Michelle Moran’s latest novel, Cleopatra’s Daughter. Puzzle through the clues and find them… if you dare! The 50 winners across the country will also be recognized on MichelleMoran.com!

Local historian Gary Topping will sign The Story of the Cathedral of the Madeleine ($16.95,
Sagebrush Press) which narrates the founding and growth of the Roman
Catholic Church in Utah in its first 100 years

Local storyteller Cheryl will present Storytime!

Award-winning local author Shannon Hale will present the newest book in the Bayern series, Forest Born.

Shannon will present and read at the 15th Street Gallery, a couple doors south of the bookshop, and return to The King's English for signing and reception.

Michelle Zink will sign her debut novel for teen readers, The Prophecy of the Sisters. Sixteen-year-old Lia discovers that she and her twin sister, Alice, are part of an ancient prophecy that has turned sisters against each other for generations. 

Acclaimed poets Donald Revell and Claudia Keelan will be reading from and signing new collections of poetry.

Friday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m.

Revell, author of numerous previous collections of poetry, most recently The Bitter Withy (Alice James Books, 2009), was the winner of a 2008 NEA Translation Award, the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry. Revell has also received fellowships from the NEA and the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations.

Keelan is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009), and has published poems widely in magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review. She directs the MFA program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and serves as the editor of Interim, the University's annual literary review.

Local storyteller Cheryl will present Storytime!

Zoe Murdock will read from and discuss her new novel, Torn by God: A Family’s Struggle with Polygamy. 

Inspired by true events, Torn by God, is a riveting family drama that takes place in 1959 in a small Mormon town in Utah.

It chronicles the devastation brought upon the Sterling family when the father has a vision that leads him to become involved with a local polygamist group run by a self-serving fundamentalist. The father comes to believe that the Mormon Church never should have rescinded polygamy. Even though the practice is now against the law and grounds for excommunication, he feels it is something God demands of him. When her father gets more and more involved with the polygamist group, twelve-year-old Beth watches helplessly as her mother sinks into depression and illness. When he leaves town to build a church for the polygamists, the family is cast off by the Mormon community, and it is up to Beth to take care of her sick mother and her little brother.  

Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, and now author will sign his new
collection of essays, false memoirs, and laugh-out-loud strange stories, I Drink For a Reason.

Local author Sara Zarr presents her newest teen novel, Once Was Lost.

Read-aloud favorite Judy Schachner will present her newest Skippyjon Jones book, Lost in Spice!

Local storyteller Cheryl presents Storytime!

One of the most respected names in contemporary American literature--Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo will read from and sign his new book at The King's English Bookshop, Tuesday, October 6 at 7 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

That Old Cape Magic, currently in its sixth week on The New York Times best seller list, accompanies Jack Griffin, a middle-aged professor in a humdrum marriage, on a drive to Cape Cod for the wedding of his daughter's best friend. He's flooded with memories of his annual childhood vacations on the Cape with his parents--bickering, intellectually snobbish academics who are dismissive of each other and the world at large. More than anything, Jack doesn't want to be like them, but with his father's ashes in the trunk (in nearly a year, he hasn't been able to decide where to scatter them), and his demanding mother just a cell phone call away, he's unable to escape their influence.

Calling Russo "A master of the comic quip and the ridiculous situation," the Washington Post said That Old Cape Magic is "a marvelous portrayal of the strands of affection and irritation that run through a family, entangling in-laws and children's crushes and even old friends."

Russo's tragicomic take on life and careful eye for relationships are a trademark of much of his work, which includes seven novels and several screenplays and teleplays. Much of his fiction, like Empire Falls, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, chronicles small town America, fictional down-on-their-luck towns of the industrial Northeast and the blue-collar workers trying to survive in them as they face money, marriage, class and other daunting issues.

Kaleb Nation, author and blogger of The Twilight Guy fame, who turned 20 in 2008, presents the first book in his series, Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse.

Bran Hambric was found locked in a bank vault at six years old,
with no memory of his past. For years, he has lived with one of the
bankers, wondering why he was left behind -- until one night, when
he is fourteen, he is suddenly confronted by a maddened creature,
speaking of Bran’s true past and trying to kidnap him.

Bran finds that he is at the center of a plot which started
years before he was even born: the plot of a deadly curse his mother
created…and one that her former masters are hunting for him to
complete.

Haunted by the spirit of his mother’s master and living in a city
where magic is illegal, Bran must undo the crimes of his
past...before it is too late.

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Pat Bagley and Charles Lynn Frost (standing in for Sister Dottie S. Dixon) will be at the King's English Tuesday, October 13th, signing their book, Mormon Kama Sutra.

One of the most respected names in contemporary American literature--National Book Award recipient Sherman Alexie--will read from and sign his new collection of fiction, War Dances.

Alexie has written three story collections, two screenplays, 12 volumes of poetry (including Face, published last March) and three novels, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the 2007 National Book Award winner for Young People's fiction. True Diary was inspired by Alexie's own remarkable, improbable life, from his birth with hydrocephalus (doctors didn't expect him to live, and certainly not without retardation), to his determined 44-mile daily round-trip walk to a "better" high school off the reservation, to the pinnacle of literary success.

Former Denver Broncos captain and All-Pro, Karl
Mecklenburg presents and signs Heart of a Student Athlete. Karl's pro
career included six Pro Bowl and three Super Bowl appearances.

David Mas Masumoto will present his latest book, The Wisdom of the Last Farmer.

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein presents The Challenge of the Soul: A Guide for the Spiritual Warrior, to help us get beyond our perceived limitations and face life's challenges with fearlessness and fortitude.

At the I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center in Salt Lake City.

Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston present The Tree That Time Built, an anthology of more than 100 poems
celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness.

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Jewish Arts Festival theme this year is “Comics and Comedians.”

On Saturday, November 14, at 6:15 pm, doors open to an evening full of entertainment, starting with JT Waldman, graphic novelist and illustrator, who will speak about his groundbreaking book, Megillat Esther; a Havdallah celebration, followed by a side-splitting comedy show by Michele Balan, who was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing.” Appetizers provided by Mazza Restaurant. Cost: $25/person in advance and $35/person at the door.

On Sunday, November 15, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm the festivities continue for the Festival Day. There will be incredible musical performances by David’s Scattered Seeds, Desert Wind, Klezbros, L’Chaim Russian Jewish Choir and The Tower Trio; hands-on adult workshops by JT Waldman and Pat Bagley, and an Israeli Martial Arts demonstration by Krav Maga; original themed dances performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; caricaturists; storytelling by Ripple Tales; kid’s art yards for all ages; Jewish book fair provided by King’s English Bookshop; comic books by Night Flight Comics and delicious Jewish delicacies to make your mouth water.

Contact Michelle Oelsner @ 801-581-0098 ext: 119 for more information.

The Jewish Arts Festival theme this year is “Comics and Comedians.”

On Saturday, November 14, at 6:15 pm, doors open to an evening full of entertainment, starting with JT Waldman, graphic novelist and illustrator, who will speak about his groundbreaking book, Megillat Esther; a Havdallah celebration, followed by a side-splitting comedy show by Michele Balan, who was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing.” Appetizers provided by Mazza Restaurant. Cost: $25/person in advance and $35/person at the door.

On Sunday, November 15, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm the festivities continue for the Festival Day. There will be incredible musical performances by David’s Scattered Seeds, Desert Wind, Klezbros, L’Chaim Russian Jewish Choir and The Tower Trio; hands-on adult workshops by JT Waldman and Pat Bagley, and an Israeli Martial Arts demonstration by Krav Maga; original themed dances performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; caricaturists; storytelling by Ripple Tales; kid’s art yards for all ages; Jewish book fair provided by King’s English Bookshop; comic books by Night Flight Comics and delicious Jewish delicacies to make your mouth water.

Contact Michelle Oelsner @ 801-581-0098 ext: 119 for more information.

Antonya Nelson teaches at the University of Houston, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of five other short story collections, including Nothing Right (2009), and three novels: Talking in Bed (winner of the Heartland Prize), Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the Rea Award for Short Fiction.

Kathryn Cowles’s first book of poems, Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was published in 2008. A group of her poems and poem-photograph collages was selected by Cole Swensen to receive the Larry Levis Associated Writers and Writing Programs Poetry Prize for 2009. She has recent and forthcoming work in Interim, Versal, Colorado Review, Octopus, and Pleiades, among others. Cowles earned a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she taught in the departments of English, Writing, and Gender Studies. She served as co-editor of poetry for Quarterly West and co-chair of The Working Dog reading series. Cowles is now an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Literature at Ohio Northern University.

In partnership with the University of Utah English Department and Creative Writing Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 2009-2010 season of the Guest Writers Series.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

In this revealing talk about producing a book 40 years in the making, come see how President A. Ray Olpin crafted a massive recruitment campaign that transformed the University of Utah from a provincial college to a first-rate national university.

If you’re a fan of the ’50s, fond of the University of Utah, or simply curious how this university came to play such a vital role in expanding Western minds, you won’t want to miss this provocative telling of tales through photos depicting the mid-century optimism of the A. Ray Olpin era.

This dramatic narrative provides a candid and compelling account of Olpin’s tenure as president, placing him as a central figure in American higher education and convincing us that his legacy belies mere attachment to one of the University’s best-known gathering places. A. Ray Olpin is more than a mere namesake of the University of Utah’s Student Union Building. He’ll mean much more than a Union to readers who have longed for this important chapter in the University of Utah’s history to be published at last.

Featuring a foreword by University of Utah president emeritus David P. Gardner, and a collection of moving archival photos, Years of Promise is a portrait of uncommon leadership and foresight, a work of historical recovery that chronicles how these traits shaped an unlikely university into the internationally respected institution it is today.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Resolved: I will begin 2010 with a visit to the King’s English New Year’s Day Sale to stock up on books.

25% off everything (except special orders)! Enjoy a bit of the bubbly, too, 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.