By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – Whether you're shopping for the bibliophile on your gift list, or just looking for a good read for a snowy winter's day, we've rounded up Salt Lake's book experts for their suggestions. Doug is joined by Catherine Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Betsy Burton and Margaret Brennan-Neville of The King's English .
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Betsy Burton of The King's English
Poetry
Strand, Mark: Man and Camel: Poems
Fiction
Haddon, Mark: A Spot of Bother
Atkinson, Kate: One Good Turn: A Novel
Unsworth, Barry and Nan A Talese: The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century
Allende, Isabel: Ines of My Soul: A Novel
Powers, Richard: The Echo Maker: A Novel
Nonfiction
Lopez, Barry and Debra Gwartney (Editors): Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
Mitchell, Stacy: Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Thomas, Evan: Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
Williams, Brooke and Chris Noble: Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing (Desert Places)
Mystery
Le Carre, John: The Mission Song: A Novel
Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel
Boyd, William: Restless: A Novel
Catherine Weller from Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore
Non-fiction
Johnson, Steven: The Ghost Map
Sides, Hampton: Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Philbrick, Nathaniel: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Jacobsen, Sid and Ernie Colon: The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Lewis, Michael: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Cahill, Thomas: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
Fiction
Brooks, Max: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Frazier, Charles: Thirteen Moons: A Novel
Hillerman, Tony: The Shape Shifter (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
Danielweski, Mark: Only Revolutions: A Novel
Photography
Greenberg, Jill: Monkey Portraits
Murphy, Chuck: Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour
Children's
Buckley-Archer, Linda: Gideon the Cutpurse: Being the First Part of the Gideon Trilogy
(Juvenile 8 -12)
Skelton, Matthew: Endymion Spring
(Juvenile 8 -12)
Murdock, Catherine: Dairy Queen
(Young Adult)
Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books
Trapped By The Mormons (DVD)
Bagley, Pat: Clueless George Presidential Library (Clueless George)
Buehner, Caralyn and Mark: Snowmen Pop-Up Book
Vance, Del: Beer in the Beehive - A History of Brewing in Utah
Thompson, George: Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures
and Faded Footprints The Lost Rhoades Mines and Other Hidden Treasures of the Uintahs
van Kempen, Carel: Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding: The Art of Carel Pieter Brest Van Kempen
Bliss, Anna Campbell: Art For A House of Mathematics
Bateman, Ronald: Wendover Winds of Change: A History
Briggs, Alice Leora: Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues
Tim Palmer: Rivers of America
McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
Henricks, Steve: The Unquiet Grave : The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
Abbey, Ed: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Lee, David et al: A Song for Ken Brewer
Brewer, Ken: Small Scenes
Brewer, Ken: Why Dogs Stopped Flying
Williams, Brooke: Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing (Desert Places)
Frazier, Charles: Thirteen Moons: A Novel
Margaret Brennan-Neville of The King's English
Children's
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol read by Jim Dale
Boynton, Sandra: Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Can You Hear It?
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Holiday Books
Buehner, Caralyn and Mark: Snowmen Pop-Up Book
(picture book format for younger set)
Funke, Cornelia: When Santa Fell To Earth
(chapter book for 8 and up)
Lupica, Mike: Miracle on 49th Street
(chapter book 10 and up)
Recommended Chapter Book Titles
Boyce, Frank Cottrell: Framed
(10 and up)
Haarmsa, PJ: The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 (Softwire)
(10 and up)
Levine, Gail Carson: Fairest
(10 and up)
Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
and The Sea of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 2 (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
, (chapter book series, 11 and up)
Picture Books
Weisner, David: Flotsam
LaMarche, Jim: Up
Agee, Jon: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Himmelman, John: Chickens to the Rescue
Hanukkah Books
Krensky, Stephen: Hanukkah at Valley Forge
Heiligman, Deborah: Celebrate Hanukkah: With Light, Latkes, and Dreidels (Holidays Around the World)
Listener Suggestions
Brian from Murray: Recycled books, with newly handpainted covers. Visit purplevw.com
Mark in Salt Lake City:
Vowell, Sarah: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Benrik: This Book Will Change Your Life
Weschler, Lawrence: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
John in Salt Lake City:
Burgess, Thornton: The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Reynolds, Quentin: The Battle of Britain, (World landmark books)
Rob from Provo:
Norris, Leslie: Leslie Norris - Unpublished and Uncollected Poems
John by E-mail:
Nix, Garth: Lady Friday (The Keys To The Kingdom)