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Fires of Invention: Volume 1 (Mysteries of Cove #1) By J. Scott Savage Cover Image

J. Scott Savage

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

J. Scott Savege has been hunting for and writing about monsters for as long as he can remember. His mother believes his first word might have been "lycanthrope," and the first thing he bought with the money he earned delivering newspapers was a six-foot plastic Frankenstein monster.

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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force By Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz Cover Image

Dan Schilling

Adult

Dan spent more than 30 years in special operations, primarily as a Combat Controller and Special Tactics Officer.

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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force By Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz Cover Image

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Whoppers: History's Most Outrageous Lies and Liars By Ms. Christine Seifert Cover Image

Christine Seifert

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Christine Seifert has a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University. She is a professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where she teaches professional writing and rhetoric.

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Whoppers: History's Most Outrageous Lies and Liars By Ms. Christine Seifert Cover Image

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Ever the Hunted (A Clash of Kingdoms Novel) By Erin Summerill Cover Image

Erin Summerill

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

After completing a B.A. in English, I had aspirations to knock out the next great American novel. Mom always taught me to dream big. Well writing proved tougher than I first thought. Tougher than chewing on a two-year-old gummi-worm that's been hiding under a car seat. Plans changed.

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Fazal Sheikh & Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon Is Behind Us By Fazal Sheikh (Photographer) Cover Image

Terry Tempest Williams

Adult

Terry Tempest Williams grew up within sight of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Remake By Ilima Todd Cover Image

Ilima Todd

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Ilima Todd was born and raised on the north shore of Oahu and dives for octopus with her dad every time she visits—otherwise she’s diving into books in the Rocky Mountains where she lives with her husband and four children.

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Cages By Sylvia Torti Cover Image

Sylvia Torti

Adult

Past president of Writers@Work, Sylvia's novel, The Scorpion's Tail won the 2005 Miguel Marmol Prize, awarded annually by Curbstone Press for the best debut work in fiction by a Latino/a writer.

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Utah Impressions By Steve Mulligan (Photographer), Stephen Trimble (Photographer) Cover Image

Stephen Trimble

Adult

STEPHEN TRIMBLE was born in Denver, his family's base for roaming the West with his geologist father.

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Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins (Women of Action #19) By James W. Ure Cover Image

James Ure

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

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Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins (Women of Action #19) By James W. Ure Cover Image

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Bluescreen (Mirador #1) By Dan Wells Cover Image

Dan Wells

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Dan Wells is the author of the bestselling Partials Sequence as well as the John Cleaver series. He has been nominated for the Campbell Award and has won a Hugo Award and three Parsec Awards for his podcast Writing Excuses.

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Dead Zone (Blackout #2) By Robison Wells Cover Image

Robison Wells

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Robison Wells is the author of the young adult thriller Variant, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2011. He lives in Holladay, Utah, with his wife and three kids.

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Natalie Whipple

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

Natalie Whipple, sadly, does not have any cool mutations or magical powers like her characters. Unless you count the ability to watch anime and Korean dramas for hours on end. Or her uncanny knack for sushi consumption.

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Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet By Brooke Williams Cover Image

Brooke Williams

Adult

Brooke Williams has spent the last thirty years advocating for wilderness. He is the author of four books, including Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness.

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Gem & Dixie By Sara Zarr Cover Image

Sara Zarr

Children, Middle-Reader and Young Adult

A transplant to Utah, Sara Zarr was raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, with her husband. Zarr is the acclaimed author of four novels for young adults. Her first novel, Story of a Girl was a 2007 National Book Award finalist.

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