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Thursday 31, Summer Reading

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT –

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Join Utah book sellers Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, Janet Lund and Betsy Burton of King's English Bookstore, and Kathryn Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Books as they talk about their favorite reading for the summer.

King's English
Picture Books
George Washington's Teeth Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora, illustatrations by Brock Cole
Wishes for You Tobi Tobias, illustrated by Henri Sorensen
Animal Action ABC Karen Pandell
I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs Alan Katz, illustrated by David Catrow
Kids Books
Sahara Special Esme Raji Codell
Middle Readers
Tales from the Odyssey: Book Three, Sirens and Sea Monsters Mary Pope Osborne
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 1, The Field Guide Book 2 The Seeing Stone Tony Di'Terlizzi and Holly Black
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code Eoin Colfer
Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz
The Signers Dennis Brindell Fradin
Imagine a Time Rob Gonsalves
Junei B, First Grader Cheater Pants Barbara Park
The Queen's Progress Celeste Davidson Mannis
Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver
Young Adult
The Speed of Light Ron Carlson
The Life of Pi Yan Martel
Non-Fiction
All the World's a Stage Rebecca Piatt Davidson
Tooth and Claw: Animal Adventures in the Wild Ted Lewin
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile Isabel Allende
Fiction
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
The Colour Rose Tremain
Mystery/Thriller
Shutter Island Dennis Lehane
The Light of Day Graham Swift
Sam Weller's
Letters to Henrietta Isabella Bird
Red Stockings and Out of Towners: Sports in Utah Stan Layton
Coal: A Human History Barbara Freese
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 S.M. Celeste Galilei
Songbook Nick Hornby
Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green Ellen Meloy
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
Carnival Undercover Bret Witter
Ken Sanders
Gentle Madness, Patience and Fortitude Nicholas Basbanes
Among the Gently Mad Nicholas Basbanes
Krakatoa Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
Various Atmospheres Alex Caldiero
Sum of Accidents: New and Selected Poems Ken Brewer
Running After Antelope Scott Carrier
Passions We Desire William Studebaker
Blue Deer Thaw Jaime Harrison
Libby, Montana Andrea Peacock
Red Water Judith Freeman
Slow Food: The Case for Taste Carlo Petrini
Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Fiver Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde Brad Dimock
The Doing of Things: The Brief Brillant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom Vince Welch
The Doing of the Things: The Brief Brillant Whitewater Career of Buzz Homstrom Welch, Vince, Cort Conley and Brad Dimock
Every Rapid Speaks Plainly: The Salmon, Green and Colorado River Journals of Buzz Holmstrom Including the 1938 accounts of Amos Burg, Philip Lundstrom & Willis Johnson Brad Dimock
The Brave Ones: The Journals & Letters of teh 1911-1912 Expedition Down the Green & Colorado Rivers Ellsworth L. Kolb and Emery C. Kolb
Listener Call-Ins
Summerland Michael Chabon
Animal Farm George Orwell
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
Shame Salaman Rushdie
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
The DaVinci Code Dan Blaum

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