Jon Turk, whose life is a tapestry of writing, public speaking, expeditions, and living, presents The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness, which will be released by St Martin's Press on January 19, 2010.

Presentation will be at the Gore Auditorium on the Westminster College campus.

For more information, visit Jon Turk's website.

Labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early just published Embedded with Organized Labor. In the trenches at the Communication Workers of America for twenty years, Steve has published articles in The Nation, The Progressive, The New York Times, and CounterPunch, to name a few. One reviewer says: "Early combines a realistic understanding of union functioning with the passionate outrage of a union reformer." His passion will help forge the link between social justice and a healthy planet.

The Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the University of Utah English Department / Creative Writing Program, resumes on Thursday, February 11, 2010 with poet Jessica Garratt and poet Peter Gizzi (rescheduled from October 29) at the Finch Lane Gallery /Art Barn (1340 East 100 South in Reservoir Park). The reading begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow to meet the writers.

Tyler Volk presents his new book, CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge, and answers questions. Booksigning to follow.
Volk is the director of the environmental studies program and an associate professor of biology at New York University. For more than 20 years his research has focused on the global carbon cycle and the dynamics of the biosphere. He is a systems thinker, authoring Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, and Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth.

This second event in our new series (the second Friday of each month) of storytime and crafting events for children has a Valentine's theme: sweet stories and treats, then kids 3 and up will decorate their own Valentine's mailboxes. 

RSVP by calling the store or CLICK HERE.

$15 fee includes storytime, snack and a take-home snack and other goodies and must be paid at time of reservation.

Two-day conference with speaking guests, readings and signings at Orson Spencer Hall and the adjacent University Union Building at the University of Utah Campus. Conference speakers include: Scientist and philosopher, keynote speaker Tyler Volk; labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early; speaker and freelance journalist, Alison Weir; Rand Wilson, a labor movement luminary; and SLC author Barbara Richardson who will conduct a book reading and signing about the novel Guest House.
The Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee initiated this conference in cooperation with the Campus Committee for Peace and Justice at the Univ. of Utah and with the support of Utah Jobs with Justice and the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice. Other campus sponsors include the Univ. of Utah’s Office of Sustainability, the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and the Economics Department.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Please visit this website for the complete conference schedule and maps to the event

Experienced outdoorsman and author Robert Birkby will sign Mountain Madness, a personal biography of his late friend and Everest mountaineer Scott
Fischer.

Robert Birkby brings a lifetime of wilderness experience to books energized with a depth of first-hand knowledge. He is also the author of Lightly on the Land and The Boy Scout Handbook. Birkby’s subjects are the people, places, and skills of the outdoors.

Two-day conference with speaking guests, readings and signings at Orson Spencer Hall and the adjacent University Union Building at the University of Utah Campus. Conference speakers include: Scientist and philosopher, keynote speaker Tyler Volk; labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early; speaker and freelance journalist, Alison Weir; Rand Wilson, a labor movement luminary; and SLC author Barbara Richardson who will conduct a book reading and signing about the novel Guest House.
The Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee initiated this conference in cooperation with the Campus Committee for Peace and Justice at the Univ. of Utah and with the support of Utah Jobs with Justice and the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice. Other campus sponsors include the Univ. of Utah’s Office of Sustainability, the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and the Economics Department.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Please visit this website for the complete conference schedule and maps to the event

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

University of Utah history professor Eric Hinderaker will read from and sign The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery.

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Chris Cleave, novelist and columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London, reads from Little Bee, to be released in paperback February 16, 2010. Booksigning to follow.

"There are books that make you think, and books that make you feel. Then
there are those that do both. Little Bee not only does this, but does
it on a level beyond high. This book just about tore my heart out, and the twisting,
turning, edge-of-your-seat one moment then sighing-with-relief the next
ending left me staring blankly at the last page, trying to process it
all. Its parts are
great -- immigration, identity, love, loss, family, atrocity, hope,
despair -- but the sum is so much greater. What I can tell you is that
this book will shift your perspectives, tickle your funny bone, light
up dark corners of society, then pull you into further darkness before
finding the light again." --Jenn Northington

Cleave's debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Little Bee is Chris Cleave's second novel.

Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor, a teacher of marine navigation, an internet pioneer and a journalist. He is 35 and only 5′7″ tall. He lives in London with his French wife and two mischievous Anglo-French children. 

George Schaller is one of the world’s most famous
conservation biologists. Profiled in Peter Mathiessen’s classic The
Snow Leopard, he has done research in 23 countries, spending much of
his
time during the half past century in the wilds of North and South
America,
Africa, and Asia. He has studied and helped protect species as diverse
as snow
leopard, tiger, mountain gorilla, giant panda, Mongolian gazelle,
Tibetan
antelope, and Marco Polo sheep.  His scientific and popular writings
number over 200 articles and 16 books, including The Year of the
Gorilla,
The Serengeti Lion, The Last Panda, and Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe.
He
is a senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and
vice
president of Panthera, an organization devoted to the conservation of
wild
cats. 

Schaller will discuss seven of his field studies
that
illustrate his research and conservation efforts on behalf of some of
the
world’s most beautiful species, from mountain gorillas and giant pandas
to lions and jaguars.  He will also discuss his long-term efforts to
help
protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the wildlife
of the
Tibetan Plateau.

Free and open to the public. No registration
required. 

Presented by the Wallace Stegner Center.

Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is very good at weaving together entertaining, often hilarious stories with life lessons while never losing his sense of humor. He has won numerous awards including the Scott O’Dell for River Between Us, the Newbery Award for A Year Down Yonder, and a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago for which he was also the National Book Award finalist. We will also have copies of A Season of Gifts, Here Lies the Librarian, Fair Weather, Teacher’s Funeral and others on hand.

Polly Horvath will be at the bookshop to sign copies of  Northward to the Moon, a sequel to My One Hundred Adventures and her other books will be available as well.

In her newest book, Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he doesn’t speak French), the family packs up and Jane embarks on a series of new adventures.

Polly Horvath is the author of many children’s books, including The Canning Season, winner of the National Book Award, and The Pepins and Their Problems, published by Square Fish in Winter 2008. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Thursday, March 4th

Time:  6.30 - 9 pm (lecture starts at
7.00)

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION!

U of U Marriott Library

Gould Auditorium (level one)

295 South and 1500 East

Please see the map  

This is a free event

All mental health
professionals are eligible to receive ONE COMPLIMENTARY CEU

For more information about this event
visit our website Jung Society of Utah

Phyllis Barber describes her latest memoir, Raw Edges, as "a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story; the account of a bright-eyed young
Mormon couple ([her]self and [her] husband David) who went through an
agonizing process in [their] thirty-three-year marriage, sparked by
differing matters of faith and subsequent infidelity."

Author of How
I Got Cultured, A Nevada Memoir, as well as other fiction titles, Barber was born in Nevada and grew up in Boulder City and Las Vegas. She can
trace her family's Nevada roots to the 1860s. Trained as a classical
pianist, she has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Symphony, among other achievements.

Patrick Madden will read from his recently published collection of essays, Quotidiana. In Quotidiana, Madden illuminates  common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.

Patrick Madden is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young
University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit his web site www.quotidiana.org.

2010 David P. Gardner Lecture

"Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and America in the Middle East"
with Aaron David Miller
Woodrow Wilson Foundation

Aaron David Miller is a Middle East
analyst, author, and negotiator. Miller published his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land:
America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace in 2008.

The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School. The Gardner Lecture was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguished scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternating years.

The lectures are free and open to the public. The lectureship is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

Ahoy, Mateys!

This third event in our series (the second Friday of each month) of storytime and crafting events for children has a pirate theme, Avast!

Kids will go on a treasure hunt, read all about pirates and their adventures, have some treats–then kids 3 and up will create a take-home craft project.
Registration required, $15 per child, please call 801-484-9100.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

Editor Beth Conover and local contributors Stephen Trimble and John Daley present How the West Was Warmed: Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies, an entertaining and enlightening collection of essays that develops a portrait of the wide range of responses to climate change in the Rocky Mountain West.

UPDATE: Local contributor Chip Ward is unable to attend.

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 (GWS).

PERCIVAL EVERETT, author of sixteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels are The Water Cure (2008), Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, American Desert, For Her Dark Skin, Zulus, Cutting Lisa, Watershed, and God's Country.

KAREN VOLKMAN‘s first book, Crash’s Law (1996), was a National Poetry Series selection and her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She recently authored her third book, Nomina.

The readings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Meet two talented western authors in one evening: Mark Spragg and Laura Bell.

Spragg’s new work Bone Fire continues the truthful and compassionate story of the characters who peopled Spragg's bestselling novel An Unfinished Life which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Laura Bell’s debut memoir, Claiming Ground, is a stirring portrayal of a woman making her own stamp as a sheepherder in remote Wyoming.

The event will feature a reading by both authors, followed by Q & A and booksigning.

Co-sponsored
by the Stegner Center.

Venue updated Feb. 25, 2010

Lindsey Leavitt reads from and signs Princess For Hire, her hilarious, winning debut about one girl’s dream of glamour and how it transforms into something bigger: the desire to make a positive impact.
Leavitt grew up in Las Vegas and now lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and two little girls. She is hard at work on the next book in the Princess for Hire series. Check out her BLOG.

Marilyn Bohn will be here to sign copies of her book, Go, Organize: Conquer Clutter in 3 Simple Steps.

Poet and critic Nicole Walker will read from and sign her debut book of poetry, This Noisy Egg

Join us at the Foothill library for a reading, discussion and slideshow with Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, complete with some of the actual gear they used on their journey.

Erin and Hig are environmental explorers with a taste for off the grid
adventure. Erin’s new book, A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot,
Raft and Ski, chronicles their harrowing 4,000 mile expedition
from Seattle to the first Aleutian Island on foot in early 2007. This was an incredible expedition, and we learn about the people they
met along the way, and the conservation issues they set out to explore -
from dwindling salmon populations to unsustainable logging and pebble
mining.

They finished their trek in 13 months, with a lifetime of photographs and experiences behind them, and the anticipation of their first child.  They decided to start a new life where their journey ended - in a remote fishing village in Alaska, where they run their online environmental non-profit, groundtruthtrekking.org.

Here is a clip from their journey, so that you can see a bit of what they were up against in order to complete their intended goal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mHJAd92zI

New York Times article in the Home and Garden section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/garden/31yurt.html

University of Utah English Professors François Camoin and Lance Olsen join us for a literary evening.
François André Camoin (born 1939 Nice, France) is an American short story writer.
Lance Olsen is author of ten novels, one new-media text, four critical studies, four short-story collections, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction.

UPDATE: As of Thursday, March 11, this event has been cancelled. We will try and reschedule at a later date.

The Jung Society presents: Process Work: Dreaming While Awake

Randee Levine, Dipl.PW and Matt Stella, LCSW

Process Work is an awareness practice that supports people in getting along with themselves and the world. Developed by Jungian Analyst Arnold Mindell, Process Work expands Jung's potential-oriented approach to dreams by showing us how to follow the "Dreaming Process" through our waking as well as our sleeping perceptions. When we approach our experiences with awareness and curiosity, they transform and become meaningful and creative. Please join Randee Levine and Matt Stella to acquire specific tools for following the unique approach of Process Work and dreaming while awake.

Randee Levine, Dipl.PW began Process Work training in 1990, and in 1998 received her Process Work Diplomate from the Process Work Institute in Portland Oregon. Originally from New York, she now lives in SLC here she maintains a private Process Work practice for individuals, couples and groups, she teaches classes and workshops, and consults with organizations. Randee is also an esteemed local artist.

Matt Stella, LCSW is a psychotherapist and group facilitator and has been in private practice at Red Rock Counseling & Education in Salt Lake City since 2001. He is a Process Work Diplomate, and uses the Process Work approach in his healing and awareness work with individuals, couples and groups.

This is a free event!

All mental health professionals are eligible to receive ONE COMPLIMENTARY CEU.

For more information about this event, visit their website: Jung Society of Utah

The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to present the 2010 World Leaders Lecture Forum with Dr. James Orbinski, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Doctors Without Borders.

Dr. Orbinski is former president of the medical aid organization “Doctors Without Borders,” accepting a Nobel Peace prize for the organization in 1999.  He has provided humanitarian aid, protection and medical assistance for thousands of people as Doctors Without Borders' chief of mission at the genocide in Rwanda and the civil war in Zaire, and advocates for access to essential medicines, global health governance and humanitarian crisis management.

All events are free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For more information, please contact the Tanner Humanities Center at (801) 581-7989 or by email.

Join us for the second installment of our quarterly "Local Author Showcase" event. We'll be joined by five local authors, each with a unique new book to share. This month's authors include Becca Wilhite (Bright Blue Miracle, My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions), Todd Robert Petersen (Rift), Richard Landerman (The Man Fisher), and Jennifer Mosher (The Smile on My Forehead: Memoir of My Life With a Brain Injury).

UPDATE April 6: Travis
Poulson (I am Tom Morrow) will not be attending event.

Meet Salt Lake City playwright Kathleen Cahill, presented in conjunction with the Salt Lake Acting Company.

She will read from and discuss her new play: the magical, surreal, and transcendentally goofy CHARM begins its World Premiere on April 14th and runs through May 9th.

For tickets, call 801.363.7522 or go online to Salt Lake Acting Company. 

As part of the Middle East Mosaic Series, author Haleh Esfandiari will be at the I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center to discuss her book, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran. This is a great opportunity to meet and listen to this incredible woman's story.

This program is sponsored by I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center and the Middle East Center in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah and with the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center.

For more information, contact: Carla  Cantor at 801-581-0098 or ccantor@slcjcc.org or visit their website, www.slcjcc.org.

Due to requirements for pre-registration not being fulfilled, this month's Friday Fun for Kids will be canceled.

Join us for the next Friday Fun for Kids, our storytime and crafting event for children, Friday, May 14, 4 p.m.

Two incredible poets in one evening...Chris Green and Elise Paschen will read from and sign their latest works of poetry, Epiphany School and Bestiary, respectively.

Chris Green is the author of two books of poetry: Epiphany School and The Sky Over Walgreens. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Verse, Black Clock, North American Review, and RATTLE. He edited the anthology, A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration. He teaches poetry at DePaul University and is a Visiting Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center.

Elise Paschen is the author of Bestiary, Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic, The Hudson Review, and TriQuarterly. Former Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, she is the editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am and co-editor of Poetry Speaks, Poetry Speaks Expanded, Poetry in Motion, and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast. Please visit:  ElisePaschen.com

Professor Wilfred Samuels and the University of Utah present author Martha Southgate as part of the "Writers Like Us: Contemporary African American Writers" series.

Southgate will speak and sign copies of her books.

With a reading and slideshow, Howard Frank Mosher presents his epic Civil War tale, Walking to Gatlinburg.

Mosher is the author of 10 books. His novel A Stranger in the Kingdom won the New England Book Award for Fiction, and he is a recipient of the Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Save the date for the event of the spring!

We are so very excited to bring Gary Paulsen, one
of America's most popular writers for young people, to Salt Lake City
for his newly released books, Woods Runner and Lawn Boy Returns.

Get your copy of either Woods Runner
or Lawn Boy Returns today to save your spot in the signing line.

Gary Paulsen
is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed
books mainly for a young audience, but also for adults. His previous
books include Hatchet,
Lawn
Boy, Winterdance, and Dog Song.

Please join us at a launch party for:

Becoming Pablo O'Higgins
by Susan Vogel

6:30 p.m. during the Friday, April 16, Gallery Stroll, which is from 5-9 p.m., at Williams Fine Art.

Author Susan Vogel will speak about the book and Donna Poulton, Ph.D., of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, will speak about the influence of Utah artists, including LeConte Stewart, on O'Higgins's art.

Becoming Pablo O'Higgins is the first biography of Utah artist-turned Mexican muralist Pablo O'Higgins (1904-1983).

Research for Becoming Pablo O'Higgins was funded in part by a grant from the Utah Humanities Council.

Join us for the launch of local author Sarah DeFord Williams debut book Palace Beautiful. Set in Salt Lake City, it's the story of two girls who find a journal in the attic of their new home, and begin an adventure that will change their lives forever.

Salt Lake City Film Center in conjunction with University of Utah and Foundry Workshops presents this screening and lecture.

Schedule for the evening:

6:30 Lecture by Lauren Greenfield
7:00 Screening of THIN (runtime 102 minutes)
8:42 Book signing and post film Q & A with Lauren Greenfield and one of the subjects of the film.

www.slcfilmcenter.org or www.laurengreenfield.com for more information. Or call (801) 746-7000.

We’re having a party to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of High Country News!

Please join fellow High Country News supporters and enthusiasts this same week, across the American West, as 40 fundraising parties are being held to bring in necessary funds in support the outstanding independent journalism of High Country News.

Our party is part of that huge community effort. We'll have local authors, environmental activists, and dignitaries on
hand. Please join fellow High Country News supporters and enthusiasts.
Enjoy libations, hors d’oeuvres, lively conversation and more! 

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini will read from and
sign her latest novel in the Elm Creek Quilts series, The Aloha Quilt.

Pre-order your copy of The Aloha Quilt today by buying it online (see below) or calling The King's English at 801-484-9100.

Presented in partnership with Greater Salt Lake Area Quilters.

Donations of quilts for Helping Hands for Haiti may be
dropped off at the event.

For details, visit http://www.utahquiltguild.org

The Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the University of Utah English Department / Creative Writing Program, continues on Thursday, April 22, 2010 with fiction writer Carole Maso and poet Elise Partridge at the Finch Lane Gallery /Art Barn (in Reservoir Park).

The reading begins at 7:00 p.m.

Carole Maso’s literary career can only be described as meteoric. Among the various awards she has received are the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction (1993), National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant (1988), National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant (1987), New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1987) and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (1985). Works she has published include The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), Pandora’s Box, a screenplay (1993), Ava (1993), The Art Lover (1990) and Ghost Dance (1986), among others.

Elise Partridge‘s Fielder’s Choice (2002) was shortlisted for the Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poems in Canada. Her second book, Chameleon Hours (2008) was featured in the “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post. Chameleon Hours was nominated for the British Columbia Book Prize in poetry and won the 2009 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, which recognizes “poetry that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.” Partridge’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in American, Canadian, British, and Irish journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Her work has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and on CBC radio, and has appeared on Poetry Daily as well as on the Vancouver and Toronto transit systems.

The Salt Lake Acting Company has invited prominent women to take part in a panel discussion on "The Margaret Fuller Problem: Women in a Man's World" directly following the Sunday matinee. TKE owner Betsy Burton will be among the panelists.

The discussion will take place in the upstairs theatre at SLAC and is free to the public.

"Charm," by Kathleen Cahill, has been described as a "magical, surreal, and transcendentally goofy" work. The world premiere is April 14th in Salt Lake City and the play will run through May 9th.

For more information, visit the SLAC website or call 801-363-7522.

Local author Lynn Kilpatrick presents her new novel, In the House. In this collection of shorts, Kilpatrick reveals the often conspicuous, yet frequently overlooked, dangers of relationships gone awry. Lynn Kilpatrick's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Tin House, Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, and Creative Nonfiction.

Directly following the 15th & 15th: Observing Authenticity Jane's Walk (which begins at 1 p.m. in front on the store), Stephen Goldsmith will present and discuss What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, a new book about Jane Jacob’s ideas edited by Goldsmith.

The Jane's Walk begins in front of the bookshop and will go throughout this iconic Salt Lake City neighborhood and meet many of those who have helped ensure that authenticity anchors this inviting district. You will hear about the successes, current challenges, historic battles, and especially about the commitment of these small business owners whose sensibilities and love of excellence has made the 15th and 15th district of Salt Lake City a favorite destination.

The Jane's Walk begins at 1 p.m.

For more information about this walk and other Salt Lake City walks, please visit the Jane's Walk website.

Christy Karras and Stephen Zusy will discuss and present a slideshow on their new book, Motorcycle Touring in the Southwest: The Region's Best Rides. The book features maps, details about services and attractions, and specific recommendations for routes.

Karras is a regular contributor to the Seattle Times and has written for The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City Weekly, and The New York Times. This is her fourth book. She divides her time between Seattle and Salt Lake City. Steven Zusy has worked in commercial photography and as a photojournalist at the Park Record and the Salt Lake Tribune. He lives in Park City.

As part of Water Week 2010, author Craig Childs will be speaking about his many adventures.

Craig Childs is a writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and mind-blowing journeys into the wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside and Orion. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet.

The event is FREE and open to the public. The King's English Bookshop will be selling Craig's books at the event.

To read more about Water Week 2010, visit their website at www.waterweek.org

Brady Udall visits the King's English Bookshop to celebrate the release
of The Lonely
Polygamist.

How can a man with four wives be lonely? The old adage, "Two's company,
three's a crowd" has never been truer than in this uproarious, and
improbably touching tale of Golden Richards, construction boss, man of
God, and bewildered soul. This hapless father of 28 is continually
befuddled: he doesn't understand his kids, his wives, his boss, or his
employees. And then he discovers Huila, who is kind, gentle, and, thank
heavens, soft-spoken. She is also his boss's wife. Every chapter
(sometimes every paragraph) is a vignette, and each is by turns
hilarious and moving. Truly, Brady Udall is our modern-day Charles
Dickens. 

Udall is also the author of Letting Loose the Hounds as well as The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, an international bestseller. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Playboy, GQ and Esquire, and his stories and essays have been featured on National Public Radio’s This American Life. He teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University, and lives in Boise, Idaho and Teasdale, Utah with his wife and children.

A ticket is required for book-signing portion of this event. Customers who purchase a copy of The Lonely Polygamist from The King's English Bookshop will receive two signing-line tickets. Seating is general admission.

Author photo credit: Hector Udall

Jung, Vocation, and Individuation
Your Career and the “Sense of Calling”

Following one’s true vocation is a call to individuation. In this practical workshop, we will be following
the approaches of C.G. Jung to access the archetypal narrative realm within you. By undertaking a series
of exercises and through processing a series of gestalts, you will (re)discover your higher motivations
and visions for taking up a specific career. Consequently, not only will you become more capable
to deal with stress, job loss, and burnout, but you will better understand your own sense of calling.

Dr. Mark R. Grandstaff, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, award winning scholar
and former Presidential Adviser, is a pioneer in bringing archetypal reflectivity to businesses and the professions. He
is professor of institutional culture at Brigham Young University.

Dr. Clifford Mayes is a founder of Reflectivity Movement in education and author of seven nationally recognized books
in educational psychology, including Jung and Education, the first book-length study of the educational implications of
Jungian psychology. He is a professor of educational psychology at Brigham Young University.

This is a free event with THE JUNG SOCIETY OF UTAH.

For more information about this event and the Jung Society of Utah visit www.jungutah.com.

Kathryn Stockett is coming to The King's English Bookshop!

Author of the New York Times #1 bestselling novel, The Help, Stockett will read from and sign this incredibly moving novel. In pitch-perfect voices, she has created three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. The Help is her first novel.

A ticket is required to attend reading and book signing. Customers who purchase a copy of The Help from The King's English Bookshop will receive one ticket; otherwise, tickets are $5. Seating is general admission and the ticket represents your place in the signing line.

Deb Caletti will read from and sign her latest, Six Rules of Maybe, a novel about the necessity of dreams, as
well as the necessity of facing reality and speaking the truth.

Deb Caletti is an award-winning author and a National Book Award finalist whose books are published and translated worldwide. Some of the accolades for her books, mainly written for a young adult audience, include: for her first novel was The Queen of Everything earned a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly; her second book, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, was a finalist for the National Book Award; and her third book, Wild Roses, won acclaim with starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Rachelle Rogers Knight, author of Read, Remember, Recommend and Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens, will sign journals, take questions, and discuss how the Read, Remember, Recommend journals came about. She will also share her list of Best Books for Mom.

Rachelle is a passionate reader who has enjoyed books her entire life. She self-published Read, Remember, Recommend and Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens in 2007, and earned the Bronze Medal for “Independent Publisher of the Year” from Independent Publisher Online Magazine in 2008. Sourcebooks, Inc. is releasing new and improved editions of the self-published hit this April.

Jacob Paul will read from and sign his debut novel, Sarah/Sara. An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem café.

Jacob Paul is an associate professor of English at the University of Utah. A 9/11 World Trade Center survivor, he won the 2008 Utah Writers' Contest, and the 2007 Richard Scowcroft Prize.

New York Times bestselling author, Sandra Dallas returns to read from and sign her new book, Whiter Than Snow, a moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating
avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live
there.

SANDRA DALLAS is the author of nine novels, including Prayers for
Sale, Tallgrass and New Mercies. 

Aprilynne Pike will read from and sign Spells, the sequel to her New York Times best-selling debut, Wings, which continues the story of a not-so-ordinary girl named Laurel.

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper-active imagination. At the age of twenty she received her BA in Creative Writing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. When not writing, Aprilynne can usually be found at the gym; she also enjoys singing, acting, reading, and working with pregnant moms as a childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne recently returned to Arizona with her husband and three kids; she is enjoying the sunshine.

Registration is required, along with a $5.00 fee to cover material costs. Call 801-484-9100 to register or for more information.

Meet brother-sister creative team—Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm!

They will read from and discuss their latest collaborations as well as Jennifer's new historical novel for younger readers, Turtle in Paradise.

Brother-sister team Matthew “Lightning” Holm and Jennifer “Watch out!”
Holm created the hugely-popular Babymouse graphic novels for children.

Today, Jennifer L. Holm is the author of
several highly acclaimed novels, including two Newbery Honor winners, Our
Only May Amelia and Penny from Heaven. Matthew Holm is a
graphic designer and freelance writer. 

Sean Connolly will visit the store with his all-new collection of amazing yet simple experiments that demonstrate key scientific principles: The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science. By letting kids stand on the shoulders of Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, the Wright brothers, Marie Curie, Darwin, Watson and Crick, and more, this book is an uncommonly engaging guide to science, and the great stories of the men and women behind the science.

Sean Connolly has written more than 50 books for children and adults. A father of three, he's ideally suited to explain the nuts and bolts of these fantastic experiments.

Salt Lake City-based author Kristen Chandler visits The King’s English to launch her debut novel Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me. Chandler’s refreshing and insightful voice shines in this coming-of-age story set in Yellowstone National Park. Heroine KJ Carson’s face-to-face encounter with a wolf changes the way she thinks about wolves, and her new found passion for protecting these controversial animals inadvertently ignites the fuse of the anti-wolf sentiment in the community.

Kristen Chandler has spent summers and vacations since she was a child at her parents fishing cabin just outside Yellowstone National Park. She has four children and is involved in many outdoor activities like marathoning, hiking, fly fishing and wasting time in any kind of water.

Heather Lende will read from and sign her new book Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs. In it, Lende shares the stories of the eccentric, fiercely independent, always fascinating community of Haines, Alaska and how they helped her get back on her feet after a horrible accident.

As the obituary writer for the local paper in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), Heather Lende knows a thing or two about life and death and dealing with the unexpected. Her first book, If You Lived Here I’d Know Your Name, painted a beautiful and honest picture of small-town life and drew raves from reviewers.

Now, with the publication of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs, Lende catapults herself into the canon alongside Anne Lamott. With beauty and conviction, she conveys the importance of spirituality and community in life’s lessons. Heather Lende will be here to read from and sign her latest book.

Heather Lende has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Alaska magazine. Her column in the Anchorage Daily News was awarded the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award by the Alaska Press Club.

Salt Lake City native Adam Bradley visits the store to discuss his new book, Ralph Ellison in Progress. This is the first critical study to interpret Ellison's literary career as a whole, surveying the grand geography of his unfinished novel and re-imagining of Invisible Man.

Adam Bradley is a scholar of African-American literature and a writer on black popular culture. His commentary has appeared in the Washington Post and The New York Times. Bradley is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, June 3 through Sunday, June 6

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

As local author Wendy Paul would say, " There's always a reason to bake!"

Paul will present her cupcake recipe collection, 101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes and have scrumptious cupcake samples on hand for you to try. With 101 Gourmet Cupcakes, it won't be long before you're wowing your friends and family with elaborate, delectable creations worthy of any bakery!

Wendy Paul has long been known among family and friends for her cooking prowess. Now she shares her secrets of success so that everyone can enjoy baking as much as she does.

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, June 3 through Sunday, June 6

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, June 3 through Sunday, June 6

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Tracy McMillan presents I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway.

Tracy McMillan is a television writer and memoirist, most recently on the Emmy Award–winning AMC series Mad Men. Previously, she wrote on Showtime’s United States of Tara, ABC’s Life on Mars, and NBC’s Journeyman. I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway is Tracy’s first book.
 

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, June 3 through Sunday, June 6

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Poet Joel Long and painter Dave Hall present their new work, Knowing Time by Light.

Joel Long, an English teacher at Rowland Hall and a recipient of a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Utah, and Dave Hall, a landscape artist and former Rowland Hall teacher who left teaching to paint, have come together to create a unique look at how poetry and painting inform one another. Knowing Time By Light is Long's second book of poetry and the inspiration behind the show, Seven Poems and Seven Paintings, a collaboration between Long and Hall.

Long will read from a selection of work based on Hall’s paintings and featured in his new book, which will be available at the event.

Long’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, and his book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.  He received the 2009 Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts.

Hall’s tonalist landscapes hang locally at Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake and Meyer Gallery in Park City.  

The poet and artist have roots in the Missouri River country of southwest Montana – an area that has inspired both.

The King's English Bookshop will be on hand to sell books at the Salt Lake City Library's presentation of Farm City: Author Novella Carpenter on Urban Farming.

When Novella Carpenter moved into a ramshackle house in a gritty
Oakland, California neighborhood, she eyed the weed-choked,
garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door. She had dabbled with growing her
own food in the past, but here was an opportunity to take it to the
next level—to experience both the culture and energy of the city along
with a connection to the land and access to inexpensive, well-grown
food. Amidst the commonplace sights of the inner city—gunfights,
squabbles among street denizens, the comings and goings of colorful
characters galore--Carpenter planted a garden and installed a beehive.
But it was only after she added livestock to her lot (first egg-laying
chickens; then turkeys, geese, and ducks; then rabbits; and finally two
300-pound pigs) that she realized she had become a full-fledged farmer.
With Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, this former
student of Michael Pollan takes the concept of "local food" to the
extreme and delivers an edgy, charming, hilarious memoir about starting a
farm in the toughest of urban environments.

A book signing will follow; and as mentioned Carpenter's book will be available for
purchase the night of the program.

We are pleased to welcome Snailpeople! for a very special storytime!

As a duo, Snailpeople!
play a wide variety of instruments and combine musical sophistication,
harmony vocals, and an exuberant sense of fun.  They will inspire with
their mixture of electric energy, welcoming presence and originality.

Music from the Snail-Trail can be heard here.

Mindy Dillard is a musical performance
artist originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. She trained as an actress,
receiving a B.F.A. in Theatre at the University of Utah before moving to
Portland and discovering she wanted to be writing songs and making
music! She's been performing theatre and music for over fifteen years
and teaching children in many capacities for over six years. She
currently teaches theatre and yoga classes and guitar lessons and
performs as a singer-songwriter around the Portland metro.

Eric
McEuen is a multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter originally
from near Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He started playing rock and folk
guitar in high school and received a B.A. in music from Brandeis
University in Massachusetts.  His fifteen years of performing experience
includes rock, folk and bluegrass bands, choral singing, Renaissance
music groups, and entertaining both children and adults as a solo
artist.  He currently teaches guitar lessons and performs around the
Portland area as a solo artist and backup musician.

Sign up today for
Friday Fun for Kids
at the King’s!
◊
Friday, June 11, 4 p.m.
◊
Create a fabulous Father’s Day gift!
Enjoy a special storytime!
Eat a delicious snack!

Please R.S.V.P. by Tuesday, June 8
Sign up at front desk or call 801-484-9100
$5 per child, paid in advance
Space is limited, for ages 3 and up

The King's English Bookshop is pleased to present local author Jessica Day George for the release of her new book for middle readers, Princess of Glass, the engrossing companion novel to Princess of the Midnight Ball. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way.

Jessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and young son.

The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop brings
together writers, illustrators, agents, and editors to explore craft,
genre, and current publishing practices.

Full-day participants spend their mornings in small workshops led
by award-winning faculty. Both full- and half-day participants enjoy
afternoon plenary sessions by national children's book editors and an
agent, as well as breakout sessions by our workshop faculty and guest
presenters. The keynote address and book signing are open to all
conference attendees.

Join us June 14 - 18 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah for
a better than ever conference experience.

Registration is now open–visit this website for more information!

The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop brings
together writers, illustrators, agents, and editors to explore craft,
genre, and current publishing practices.

Full-day participants spend their mornings in small workshops led
by award-winning faculty. Both full- and half-day participants enjoy
afternoon plenary sessions by national children's book editors and an
agent, as well as breakout sessions by our workshop faculty and guest
presenters. The keynote address and book signing are open to all
conference attendees.

Join us June 14 - 18 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah for
a better than ever conference experience.

Registration is now open–visit this website for more information!

The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop brings
together writers, illustrators, agents, and editors to explore craft,
genre, and current publishing practices.

Full-day participants spend their mornings in small workshops led
by award-winning faculty. Both full- and half-day participants enjoy
afternoon plenary sessions by national children's book editors and an
agent, as well as breakout sessions by our workshop faculty and guest
presenters. The keynote address and book signing are open to all
conference attendees.

Join us June 14 - 18 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah for
a better than ever conference experience.

Registration is now open–visit this website for more information!

The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop brings
together writers, illustrators, agents, and editors to explore craft,
genre, and current publishing practices.

Full-day participants spend their mornings in small workshops led
by award-winning faculty. Both full- and half-day participants enjoy
afternoon plenary sessions by national children's book editors and an
agent, as well as breakout sessions by our workshop faculty and guest
presenters. The keynote address and book signing are open to all
conference attendees.

Join us June 14 - 18 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah for
a better than ever conference experience.

Registration is now open–visit this website for more information!

Local author and photographer Ann Torrence presents, complete with slideshow, her book, U.S. Highway 89: the Scenic Route to Seven Western National Parks.

U.S. Highway 89 is a visual guide to seven of America’s favorite national parks, hometown events and quirky roadside attractions linked by U.S. 89. Scenic Highway 89 traces the stories of legendary trappers, missionaries and homesteaders. Widened in the Roaring Twenties to satisfy America’s motoring enthusiasts, but bypassed by modern interstates, the 1,600 mile route from Canada to Mexico retains its back-roads charm. From Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, beauty queens to working cowboys, Ann Torrence’s stunning images and engaging text capture the enduring spirit of the west.

Salt Lake City writer and photographer Ann Torrence drove over 15,000 miles to research and photograph U.S. Highway 89. Her documentary style explores the interplay of the human element and landscape; transformations of culture–what is kept, lost, and reinvented; and the iconography of the American West. U.S. Highway 89 is her first book.

The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop brings
together writers, illustrators, agents, and editors to explore craft,
genre, and current publishing practices.

Full-day participants spend their mornings in small workshops led
by award-winning faculty. Both full- and half-day participants enjoy
afternoon plenary sessions by national children's book editors and an
agent, as well as breakout sessions by our workshop faculty and guest
presenters. The keynote address and book signing are open to all
conference attendees.

Join us June 14 - 18 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah for
a better than ever conference experience.

Registration is now open–visit this website for more information!

The Wasatch Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America presents Monica Ferris at the 2010 Rocky Mountain Region Seminar “Mystery by Design.”
Meet author Monica Ferris, who brings both needlework and mysteries together. Ms. Ferris, USA Today best-selling author, will be available to sign her books on June 18th.

The classes at the seminar feature wonderful designs and teachers. The boutique, bookstore, and merchandise night will be full of things that you won’t be able to resist, plus you can expect a number of fantastic surprises!

Mystery by Design seminar registration is now open. Visit their website for more information and to register.

Monica Ferris is the author of thirteen novels in the Betsy Devonshire needlework mystery series. Her stories are set in the little town of Excelsior, Minnesota, and center around the owner of a needlework shop who knits while she ponders clues.

Radio host and regular on Good Things Utah, Joy Bossi presents Joy in Your Garden: A Seasonal Guide to Gardening. The expertise and wisdom provided in this book will help you master the art of gardening, from using the correct tools for your garden to choosing a ripe watermelon.

Join us on our back patio for a gardening demonstration with Joy, as well as a book signing and a chance to meet the author.

The King's English Bookshop will be the booksellers at "An Evening with Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations."

Anthony Bourdain, chef and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and restaurant exposé Kitchen Confidential, will share the fascinating, hilarious, and sometimes shocking stories behind his life, books, travels, and his Emmy-nominated Travel Channel TV Show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

In his new book, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Bourdain is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and losers, and many more. If Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about the restaurant business, it could have been Medium Raw.

For tickets to the show, call artTix at 355-Arts or go to their website: www.arttix.org.

Jen Yates presents her very funny book Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong.

In Jen's own words..."A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places."

The evening will start with a slideshow of, yes, hilarious cake wrecks, then a Q&A period and then the judging of the cupcake contest. That right: you make a cupcake version of your favorite Wreck, bring it in, they'll judge it, and you could win fabulous prizes, fame, and the adulation of Wreckies everywhere.

And then Jen will sign books.

Check out her blog: cakewrecks 

Come early and stay late! Seating is general admission and limited. Doors to the 15th Street Gallery, where the book talk portion of the event will take place, will open at approximately 6:30 p.m.

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Tina Savas, co-author of Women of True Grit, presents collected stories of extraordinary women of vision and determination.

Two of the women, with ties to Salt Lake, profiled in the book will also on hand for this event: Lorraine Miller, local business woman and founder of Cactus & Tropicals, and June Morris, co-founder of Morris Air, a low-fare airline based in Salt Lake City.

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 4-8 p.m. as the 15th &
15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official
SLC neighborhood business district.

The entire community is invited.

Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local
businesses that give it it's character.

We are delighted to have Ann Edwards Cannon, local author extraordinaire, and the illustrator of her latest book for young readers, Julie Olson, both here for the publication of The Chihuahua Chase.

A. E. CANNON lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has written several
books for children and is also a humor columnist for the Deseret News. 

JULIE OLSON has been a freelance illustrator since 1998. She lives in Spanish Fork, Utah.

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We are so excited to have James M. Tabor present and read from his new book, Blind Descent. Booksigning to follow.

Long after every other ultimate goal had been achieved — both poles by 1911, Everest in 1953, the Challenger Deep in 1960, the moon walk in 1969 — the deepest cave on earth remained an unclaimed prize. As late as 2000, the “Mount Everest of caves” had not yet been discovered, despite numerous attempts. In Blind Descent, James M. Tabor chronicles the daring journeys of two explorers, American Bill Stone and Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk, and their teams as they risk everything to make the last great terrestrial discovery.

James M. Tabor’s last book was the international award winner Forever on the Mountain.  The writer and on-camera host of the acclaimed national PBS series The Great Outdoors, Tabor was also co-creator and executive producer of the 2007 History Channel special Journey to the Center of the World.  Tabor is a former contributing editor to Outside magazine and Ski magazine; his writing has also appeared in Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, and many other national publications. 

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine will visit the store to sign copies of her new children’s book, Fairies and the Quest for Never Land.

Infused with magic and feeling, and bursting with excitement, this is the third tale in the celebrated series of illustrated novels from Levine and renowned illustrator David Christiana.

Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a 1998 Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include Fairest; Dave at Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and the picture book Betsy Who Cried Wolf, illustrated by Scott Nash. Gail, her husband, David, and their Airedale, Baxter, live in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley of New York State.

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Creator of the Walt Longmire mysteries, Craig Johnson will be here to read from and sign the latest continuation of the series: Junkyard Dogs.

Johnson's award-winning Walt Longmire mysteries continue to find new fans, and Junkyard Dogs is sure to create many more devotees. The sixth book in the series is filled with Johnson's signature blend of wisecracks, Western justice, and page-turning plot twists, as the beloved sheriff finds himself star-deep in the darker aspects of human nature, in a story of love, laughs, death, and derelict automobiles.

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

Local First Utah is pleased to announce 2010's Independent's Week, a celebration of locally-owned, independent businesses that give our communities jobs, financial stability, and their unique charm.

Schedule of Events

6pm Thurs.June.24th [Trolley Square Atrium, SLC]
Stacy Mitchell / Indie Week Kickoff Night
Welcome & Introduction by Mayor Peter Corroon
>Educational Presentation & Panel Discussion : Free to the Public. www.newrules.org

2pm Fri.June.25th [Ogden]                                              
Stacy Mitchell Presentation
>Educational Presentation : Open to Public

9pm  Fri.June.25th [W Lounge / SLC]                                                    
Indepen.Dance Party
>A Local First benefit dance party for all – local DJs & drink specials.

Sat.June.26th [15th & 15th, SLC]
15th & 15th Neighborhood Business District Kickoff Party
>Food, drinks, music, and fun to be had from 10-4pm as the 15th & 15th neighborhood celebrates their formal organization as an official SLC neighborhood business district. The entire community is invited. Come help celebrate a fantastic SLC neighborhood and the local businesses that give it it's character.

Mon.June.28th [State Room / SLC]
Local Showcase Night & Film Screening
>A night of all local art & music for the community. Film Screening of ‘Independent America : Rise From the Ruins’ presented by The Salt Lake City Film Society

Thurs.July.1st [Ogden]
Jazzed on Local
>A benefit for Local First Ogden. Jazz & good local vibes.

Sat.July.3rd [Pioneer Park, SLC]
Downtown Farmers Market / Indie Week Cookoff
Featuring a chef's challenge made of all-local ingredients, an art wall, and fun promotions all day. Don't miss it!

Sun.July.4th [International Peace Gardens, SLC]
People's Market
Join us for the event that caps it all off on the 4th of July - People's Market!

Be sure to visit the Local First Utah website for more detailed and current information about these and other events planned for Independents Week!

www.localfirst.org

We are so pleased to welcome Kimberley Griffiths Little for the launch of her book for middle readers, The Healing Spell.

Newbery Medalist Richard Peck describes The Healing Spell as an “incantational tale of Cajun magic and gators on the bayou
and of the love and silence between mother and daughter.”

Set in the lush bayou of Louisiana, Kimberley Griffiths Little brings Livie's story to life with power and grace. Twelve-year-old Livie is living with a secret and it's crushing her. She knows she is responsible for her mother's coma, but she can't tell anyone. It's up to her to find a way to wake her momma up.

Stuck in the middle of three sisters, hiding a forbidden pet alligator, and afraid to disappoint her daddy, whom she loves more than anyone else, Livie struggles to find her place within her own family as she learns about the powers of faith and redemption. Livie's powerful, emo-tional, and sometimes humorous story will stay with readers long after the last line is read.

Kimberley Griffiths Little is the recipient of the Southwest Book Award and the author of several novels which have been chosen for many state reading lists. She lives on a dirt road in a small town by the Rio Grande with her husband, a robotics engineer and their three sons. Kimberley is a favorite speaker at schools around the country, presenting “The Creative Diary”, a highly successful writing workshop and has also been a keynote speaker at the NMLA conference. She is a co-founder of  SPELLBINDERS: a national newsletter for Educators and Librarians to create life-long readers.

Friday Fun for Kids at the King’s continues with “Camp King’s English!” 

Children will enjoy a hands-on “camp craft” project! A snack will also be provided. Registration is required, along with a $5 fee to cover materials. Call 801-484-9100 to register or for more information.

Join us for the release of the 5th issue of Enormous Rooms, an undergraduate literary journal for the students of the University of Utah.

Editors and contributors will be on hand to read.

Enormous Rooms provides an opportunity for undergraduate students at the
University of Utah to publish creative or critical writing as well as
showcase art and photography.

Local author Sheila A. Nielson presents her new book for young adults, The Forbidden Sea, a powerful and lyrical story of a girl who must choose between having everything and having those she loves.

Born in San Jose, California, Nielson received her BFA in children's illustration from Brigham Young University. She currently is enjoying her dream job as a children's librarian.

Join us as we commemorate the 50th anniversary edition of one of the best-loved books in American
history: Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a
Mockingbird. Featuring some of the most memorable characters in
literary history—attorney Atticus Finch, his children Scout and Jem, and
of course Boo Radley—To Kill a Mockingbird is the indelible
story of race, class, and growing up in the Deep South of the 1930s.

Details and time of event to be confirmed shortly. (June 9, 2010)

Join us for the third installment of our quarterly “Local Author Showcase” event.

We’ll be joined by five local authors, each with a unique new book to share. This quarter’s authors include Paige Shelton (Farm Fresh Murder, already a New York Times best seller!), Amy O’Grady (Managing Money, Managing Life), Jonathan Langford (No Going Back), M.R. Bunderson (The Mark), and Nancy Miles (In Good Taste).

Join us for a very special storytime with children's book author, Lezlie Evans.

Lezlie will read and sign books, including her new book, Who Loves the Little Lamb.

Lezlie Evans is the author of many children's books, including Can You Greet the Whole Wide World?: 12 Common Phrases in 12 Different Languages, Bunnies' Trip, Sometimes I Feel Like a Storm Cloud, and The Bunnies' Picnic.

Elizabeth Partridge will read from and sign her latest book Marching for Freedom:
Walk Together Children and Don't You Get Weary. This award-winning nonfiction book for children tells the story of the fight for the right to vote, covering three months of protests that culminated in the landmark march from
Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

Elizabeth Partridge is the award-winning author
more than a dozen books. She’s a National Book Award finalist, and has
received the ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn
Book Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite. Elizabeth
has chaired the National Book Award committee for Young People’s
Literature and is a frequent speaker at national conferences for
teachers, librarians and writers.

Jerry Delaney will read from his book, Where Have you Gone Billy Mayfair?

Delaney tells the story of the lawless West of the 1860s and the legend of the Montana vigilantes, drawing on contemporary research to reveal how the official history got twisted for personal and political purposes.

Jerry Delaney grew up in Polson, Montana, graduated from Georgetown University and has worked as a freelance writer, editor, teacher and public affairs director.  His play, “The Fall,” based on an Albert Camus novel, was presented in Santa Fe in 2000. He lives in Santa Fe with his companion, Deon Hilger.

Cynthia Peterson, local Physical Therapist and the educational director at Canyon Rim Physical Therapy, presents The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieving Persistent Jaw,
Neck and Head Pain—a comprehensive healing plan for TMJ,  or Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, which afflicts so many people. Her goal is to help TMJ sufferers to find a new way to
alleviate their discomfort, offering tips of on posture, tongue
placement, and simple physical therapy exercises that can reduce,
relieve, and even eliminate TMJ-associated pain.

Peterson graduated in 1990 from the University of Utah Physical Therapy Program and specializes in Outpatient Orthopedics.  She is a member of the APTA and the Orthopedic Specialty Section. For 18 years, Cynthia has taught and developed a Back School, Neck School and Jaw School. These schools empower patients by teaching them pertinent anatomy, postures, body mechanics, ergonomics, how to start an exercise and stretching program and apply core stabilization, nasal diaphragmatic breathing, how to identify and eliminate trigger points in muscles and their possible causes, first aid and problem solving techniques.

Local author Mette Ivie Harrison visits the King’s English to read from and sign her new book for teens, The Princess and the Snowbird.

This final book in the trilogy captures all the fantasy and romance that readers have come to expect from Harrison’s captivating tales.

Booklist says, “Once again, a strong female protagonist, romance, magical adventure, and provocative questions will capture teens.”

Harrison holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a former university professor and the author of The Princess and the Hound, The Princess and the Bear, Mira, Mirror, and The Monster in Me.

Come to a discussion and signing with New York Times
bestselling author J. A. Jance on Saturday, July 31, 2 p.m. in the
Whitmore Library auditorium.

The author will discuss and sign her latest
book, Queen of the Night (available for purchase at the event
courtesy of us, The King's English Bookshop). J. A. Jance is author of the
J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, three interrelated
thrillers featuring the Walker family, and Edge of Evil. This
event requires registration: click here
to register.