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Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More By Dustin Hansen Cover Image

Dustin Hansen

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Dustin Hansen was raised in rural Utah, surrounded by the great outdoors. But even the beautiful mountains couldn’t keep him away from his passion, video games. His love of pixels and controllers led him into a career in video games.

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Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence By Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, Cherstin Lyon (Foreword by) Cover Image

Lily Havey

Adult

Lily Havey was born in Los Angeles in 1932.  Ten years later, along with 120,000 other people of Japanese descent (many native-born American citizens), she was incarcerated in American prison camps, first at Santa Anita Assembly Center and then at the Amache Relocation Center.  After Wo

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Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence By Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, Cherstin Lyon (Foreword by) Cover Image

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The Accidental Marriage By Annette Haws Cover Image

Annette Haws

Adult

Following a packed book signing launch in June 2008 at the King's English (one of the largest ever at the book store for a first-time author), Annette Haws reached her publisher's one-year sales goal in just five months.

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Skies Like These By Tess Hilmo Cover Image

Tess Hilmo

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Tess Hilmo grew up belting out classics like Amazing Grace and Swing Low Sweet Chariot in the shower.

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Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir By Allison Hong Merrill Cover Image

Allison Hong Merrill

Adult

Allison Hong Merrill is a Taiwanese immigrant and the author of the multi-award-winning memoir, Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops.

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For Time and All Eternities (A Linda Wallheim Mystery #3) By Mette Ivie Harrison Cover Image

Mette Ivie Harrison

Adult

Mette Ivie Harrison is the author of numerous books for young adults, including The Princess and the Hound and Mira, MirrorThe Bishop's Wife is her first adult mystery and the first in the Linda Wallheim series set in Mormon Utah, which includes&nbs

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To Kill a Curse By Jennifer Jenkins Cover Image

Jennifer Jenkins

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

With her degree in History and Secondary Education, Jennifer Jenkins had every intention of teaching teens to love George Washington, the Napoleonic Wars, and Ancient Sparta … until the writing began.

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Searching for Super (Almost Super #2) By Marion Jensen Cover Image

Marion Jensen

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

By day I’m a mild-mannered instructional design manager at American Express. By night, I write books. Superhero books.

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Cut Me Free By J. R. Johansson Cover Image

J.R. Johansson

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

J.R.  Johansson's books have been published in a dozen languages and more than twenty countries worldwide. She has a B.S. degree in public relations and a background in marketing.

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Edenbrooke (Proper Romance) By Julianne Donaldson Cover Image

Julianne Donaldson

Adult

Julianne Donaldson grew up as the daughter of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. She learned how to ski in the Italian Alps, visited East Berlin before the wall came down, and spent three years living next to a 500-year-old castle.

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The Hundredth Queen By Emily R. King Cover Image

Emily R. King

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Emily R. King is a reader of everything and a writer of fantasy. Born in Canada and raised in the USA, she has perfected the use of “eh” and “y’all” and uses both interchangeably. Shark advocate, consumer of gummy bears, and islander at heart, Emily’s greatest interests are her four children.

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A Taste for Monsters By Matthew J. Kirby Cover Image

Matthew Kirby

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

I was born in Utah, but with a father in the Navy I’ve lived all over – Rhode Island, Maryland, California (twice), and Hawaii.  As an undergraduate at Utah State University, I majored in history.  I then went on to earn M.S and Ed.S degrees in 

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The Legend's Daughter: Idaho Stories By David Kranes Cover Image

David Kranes

Adult

For the past four decades, David Kranes has been one of the most influential and sustained forces for writing and fostering writers in Utah. Throughout his career he has been a prolific writer, producing stories, plays, novels, screenplays, and lectures.

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Princess Wannabe By Leslie Lammle, Leslie Lammle (Illustrator) Cover Image

Leslie Lammle

Illustrators

Leslie Lammle is a Canadian born picture book author and illustrator. Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and various magazines.

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Warriors of Wing and Flame (Sisters of Shadow and Light #2) By Sara B. Larson Cover Image

Sara B. Larson

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

I love writing, reading, and dessert--but the order varies by the day. I wrote my first book in second grade about a woman who had a premature baby, complete with a "to scale" drawing of the baby's size--while my mom was pregnant. To say I was a bit precocious is putting it lightly.

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North of Supernova By Lindsey Leavitt Cover Image

Lindsey Leavitt

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Lindsey Leavitt is the author of over a dozen books for kids, tweens, and teens. She is a former elementary school teacher and present-day writer/mom/speaker/party animal (not to be confused with her spirit animal, which is a lion).

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