4TH ANNIVERSARY SALE & CELEBRATION!
 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15

​Please join us as we celebrate The Printed Garden's 4th year as Sandy's newest Independently owned family bookstore!

If you're reading this, you've become a part of our little bookstore family in one way or another, and we'd like to say thank you for your support by offering 30% off of everything store-wide (sole exception:  Kit Carson socks). And just to sweeten the deal a little bit, if you pick up 4 or more hardcovers or 6 or more paperbacks, you'll enjoy a 40% discount on your entire purchase.  Sale prices are in effect from open to close, and will be applied to all transactions where payment is made by cash, card, or check. Sale prices are good only on books, shirts, games, etc. that are currently in the store, but I'm afraid cannot be applied to items that have been or will be special ordered.

We're so grateful for your ongoing support of our little bookstore, and hope you can stop in on this special day to celebrate. Light refreshments will be served between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.

READING & SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
JILL
ARMIJO
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17TH
7:00 P.M.

Our veterans were willing to die for freedom. Thankfully they came home. Families are grateful for the safe return of their heroes. Until they see the changes. Many couples struggle to stay together through substance abuse, mental illness, depression, PTSD, physical injury and illness.

Our veterans and their caregivers are paying "the other ultimate sacrifice" of learning to love each other again, finding purpose and joy in their new paradigm, and refusing to give in to judgment, shame and hopelessness. Jill married the man of her dreams, but thought something had gone terribly wrong. She thought the answer to their pain was to fix all his problems, and make him be the man she knew before the war. She learned that true love has nothing to do with similarities, chemistry or needing each other.
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In her deeply personal account, Jill teaches: 1) Principles of emotional and spiritual recovery and health, 2) Self-care techniques that will get you from overwhelm to clarity, and 3) How to negotiate circumstances that are out of your control. Starting now, experiencing the "other ultimate sacrifice" can be your springboard to creating the life you want and deserve as you learn these tools.

Join us as we welcome Jill Armijo to The Printed Garden to read from, discuss, and sign copies of her new book, Home of the Unknown Soldier.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
SHERMAN ALEXIE
ISABEL ALLENDE
JULIA ALVAREZ
RUDOLFO ANAYA
MARGARET ATWOOD
CLIVE BARKER
PEARL S. BUCK
JIM BUTCHER
JOHN W. CAMPBELL
TRUMAN CAPOTE
JIMMY CARTER
MICHAEL CHABON
BILLY COLLINS
SUZANNE COLLINS
ROBERT COOVER
LARRY CORREIA
ELVIS COSTELLO
KATE DICAMILLO
ANTHONY DOERR
IVAN DOIG
ANDRE DUBUS III
UMBERTO ECO
DAVE EGGERS
BRET EASTON ELLIS
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
JONATHAN EVISON
EDNA FERBER
VINCE FLYNN
LOUISE GLUCK
GUNTER GRASS
JOHN GRISHAM
KRISTIN HANNAH
​JIM HARRISON
KENT HARUF
CHRISTIAN HEIDICKER
PETER HELLER
TONY HILLERMAN
S. E. HINTON
NICK HORNBY
JOHN IRVING
ADAM JOHNSON
STEPHEN KING
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
TED KOOSER
ANNE LECKIE
HARPER LEE
TRICIA LEVENSELLER
THOMAS MANN
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
LARRY MCMURTRY
W. S. MERWIN
STEPHENIE MEYER
JAMES MICHENER
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
BRANDON MULL
ALICE MUNRO
VIET THAN NGUYEN
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
ANNE PATCHETT
JAMES PATTERSON
GARY PAULSEN
MICHAEL POLLAN
​RICHARD POWERS
​PHILLIP PULLMAN
DAN RATHER
WILSON RAWLS
ANNE RICE
RICK RIORDAN
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
PAT ROTHFUSS
ARUNDHATI ROY
SALMAN RUSHDIE
RICHARD RUSSO
ROBERT SABUDA
BRANDON SANDERSON
CAITLIN SANGSTER
JOHN SCALZI
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
MARK STRAND
ELIZABETH STROUT
AMY TAN
DONNA TARTT
COLM TOIBIN
PETE TOWNSHEND
ANNE TYLER
JOHN UPDIKE
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
OCEAN VUONG
ALICE WALKER
COLSON WHITEHEAD
MO WILLEMS
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
JACQUELINE WOODSON
HERMAN WOUK
TIMOTHY ZAHN
AND MANY OTHERS

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CAMPAIGN ENDGAME
​AT
THE PRINTED GARDEN

January game time(s) will post in this space when available.
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
(inquire at contact email below)

Marwyven, the elven tribe leader, shows up with the whole tribe at the gate.  They report that they had to flee their homes in the forest to the south and that our party of gnomes and adventurers should join them.  The adventurers determine it best and safest for the elves and gnomes to get a head start with the party of adventurers performing rear-guard actions. New elf member of party joins and finds fast friendship with fellow druid. Refugees flee northward along the coastline.  Party delays and searches the castle. Faces dozens of small but fierce enemies.  They face a vrock in the plain outside the city walls, and it says (in a voice only one of the party can understand) “We have only one command - move north and destroy. Join us or die.” Several ghostly figures materialize around the vrock. Wisely, the party avoids combat at this juncture and heads north along the coast. They soon overtake the party of refugees and make their way all together to Waterdeep. They’re met by an honor guard, but it quickly becomes apparent that the guard doesn’t know what to do. They’re there to greet the party but have no idea what to do next. The leader of the guard reports that the Regent hasn’t made contact in three days. No one has ever seen the Regent (still!), but the guard takes the party to the castle to see what they can do. There are dozens of magically imbued suits of armor guarding the castle - around the castle, shoulder-to-shoulder. The party tests the defense system and finds it unlikely that they’ll survive if they attempt to pass the guards. Nala uses her shapeshifting abilities to investigate the highest tower among the three. There she finds a circular room matching the outward appearance of the tower. It has no stairs leading to it, and inside the room are a black rug (“very tasteful”) and a stone pedestal with a large crystal resting on top of it. Upon the bird Nala’s return to the party, a shadow appears in the window. A suit of armor takes a single step forward, and a voice emanates from its faceless depths: “Return tomorrow.”

Although this is an open group, new players interested in participating should RSVP with Steve Capone, the acting Dungeon Master, at stevecaponejr@gmail.com to check this group's playing schedule and aid in incorporating your character into the story.

READING & SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
MARIANNE MONSON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH
7:00 P.M.
at PROVO CITY LIBRARY
550 N. UNIVERSITY AVE

An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America’s first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century.
 
As a young girl traveling to Utah by wagon in 1861, Martha, or Mattie as she was called, was deeply influenced by the early struggles her family endured as frontier pioneers, including the premature deaths of her baby sister and father. From those early experiences, she found her calling. Alleviating physical suffering and healing became her goals, and Mattie worked with astounding dedication and resolve to achieve those goals. She began teaching school at age fourteen and worked as a typesetter for the influential Women’s Exponent newspaper to pay for college where she graduated with a degree in chemistry.
 
In 1880, Mattie stepped into the lecture hall of the University of Michigan medical school, the only woman in the class and one of a handful of women to attend the school in its history. The room erupted at her entrance—laughter, scoffing, voices calling out, and more than one person muttering about the “hen medic.” Many male professors, thinking it indelicate, refused to discuss anatomy if women students were in the room, and they were often forced to observe from an annex area outside the regular classroom.  
 
Resolved and single-minded, Mattie graduated from medical school at the age twenty-three, the only female in her class. As a doctor, she returned to frontier Utah, set up a medical practice, and established classes for midwives where she lectured on obstetrics. As a suffragette, she was outspoken at the Columbia Exposition of Chicago, where she delivered a rousing speech on behalf of women’s rights. She married in secrecy at age twenty-seen, and later lived in exile for two years because her husband practiced plural marriage, which was illegal, and she didn’t want to testify against him.
 
She returned to Utah in 1888 and took an active part in politics and women’s suffrage. She ran for office as a Democrat against the Republican candidate, who was her husband and won, becoming the first woman ever elected as a state senator in the US.
 
This is the first historical fiction novel based on the real life of Martha Hughes Cannon, a woman whose extraordinary life as a pioneer woman paralleled the life of the nation, struggling to grow and expand westward, wrestling with the rights and freedoms guaranteed to all its citizens, including women, and overcoming tremendous odds and roadblocks by forging the uniquely American spirit of the west: independence, innovation, dedication, and stick-to-itiveness which defined her generation and this chapter in American history.

We're proud to partner with Provo City Library in welcoming Marianne Monson, author of Frontier Grit and Women of the Blue and Gray, back to talk about and sign copies of her newest work!  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

READING & SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
DANIEL CURATON
& THE UTAH CHAPTER OF HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION
FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH
7:00 P.M.

We're excited to welcome the Utah Chapter of Horror Writers Association back to The Printed Garden to launch their new collection of horror fiction by Utah writers!  If you were here for the release of their previous collection, The Peaks of Madness last year, you know that something good (and creepy) is coming!  Join us for an evening of chilling fiction as a few of the contributors to the new collection They Walk Among Us, read their terrifying selections, and sign copies of the anthology.

Daniel Curaton, the editor of They Walk Among Us, will also be reading from his new book, Monster Brain.

Enter a world where anxiety rules and compulsion is the tool. Like fighting a dragon with a tooth pick, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder takes many forms and has many techniques to torture and abuse its victims. It feeds on fear, dread, and suffering. To relieve the pain, sufferers develop habits, called compulsions, deflecting OCD's obsessive gaze for a while, before it breaks through and returns with a vengeance. This book is a work of art, on public exhibition. You will find 50 original poems and writings dealing with OCD, it's affects, and rediscovering that there is life after diagnosis. Travel alongside one man's journey as he falls into the dark recesses of his mind, finds inner strength, and is reborn in this narrative of the inner worlds. Allow yourself to experience the beauty and terror of Monster Brain.

This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

READING & SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR/HISTORIAN
TOM
CLAVIN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
7:00 P.M.
at THE CITY LIBRARY
MARMALADE BRANCH
280 WEST, 500 NORTH

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill.

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.

The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill each other as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday.

Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town.

We're proud to partner with Utah Humanities and the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Library to welcome author/historian Tom Clavin back to Salt Lake City to read from, discuss, and sign copies of his newest book, Tombstone:  The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From Hell.  Light refreshments will be served.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

DISCUSSION & SIGNING
WITH CALDECOTT MEDAL-WINNING ARTIST
SOPHIE BLACKALL
MONDAY, MARCH 9TH
7:00 P.M.
at PROVO CITY LIBRARY
550 N. UNIVERSITY AVE

Winner of the 2016 & 2019 Caldecott Medals

A beloved picture book from two-time Caldecott Medal award-winner Sophie Blackall that transports readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!

Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.

Step back in time and through the door of this iconic lighthouse into a cozy dollhouse-like interior with the extraordinary award-winning artist Sophie Blackall.

We're proud to partner with Provo City Library to welcome award winning artist Sophie Blackall to Provo for what is likely to be an unforgettable evening!  Born in Australia and now based in Brooklyn, Sophie Blackall has illustrated more than thirty books for children, including the wildly popular Ivy and Bean series.  She won the 2016 Caldecott Medal for Finding Winnie:  The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear and the 2019 Caldecott Medal for Hello Lighthouse.

READING & SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
ALMA
KATSU
THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH
7:00 P.M.
at SANDY LIBRARY
10,100 PETUNIA WAY

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic.

Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the Titanic from the moment they set sail. The Titanic's passengers expected to enjoy an experience befitting the much-heralded ship's maiden voyage, but instead, amid mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, find themselves in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone. While some of the guests and crew shrug off strange occurrences, several—including maid Annie Hebbley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim—are convinced there's something more sinister going on. And then disaster strikes.

Years later, Annie, having survived that fateful night, has attempted to put her life back together by going to work as a nurse on the sixth sailing of the Britannic, newly refitted as a hospital ship to support British forces fighting World War I. When she happens across an unconscious Mark, now a soldier, she is at first thrilled and relieved to learn that he too survived the tragic night four years earlier. But soon his presence awakens deep-buried feelings and secrets, forcing her to reckon with the demons of her past—as they both discover that the terror may not yet be over.

Featuring an ensemble cast of characters and effortlessly combining the supernatural with the height of historical disaster, The Deep is an exploration of love and destiny, desire and innocence, and, above all, a quest to understand how our choices can lead us inexorably toward our doom.

We're proud to partner with Penguin Publishing Group and Salt Lake County Library to welcome Alma Katsu to the Sandy Library to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of her new book, The Deep.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
​ STORYTIME
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS
at 5:00 p.m.

The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks have been combined in one volume, Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton.  These are the original exploits of the three Wilson children; Miss Price, the apprentice witch; and the flying bed.  A tale of a witch-in-training and trouble of the most unforgettable kind.

Young readers, ages 8-12 are invited to join us for this read-aloud storytime and discussion group.  We'll be reading two chapters of the book at each meeting.  Participants will read 1-2 chapters on their own at home, and we'll talk a bit about all of them.  New members should read through Chapter 5 before our next meeting.
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CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
1924-2020

TONI MORRISON
1931-2019

ANDREA CAMILLERI
1925-2019

GENE WOLFE
1931-2019

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SPACES FOR BOOK CLUBS, ORGANIZATIONS, OR EVEN JUST A FEW FRIENDS

Looking for a quiet, comfortable meeting space for your book club?  There might be distractions at home, but there aren't any in this room!  Let us do the work so you can enjoy your time together.  Order and purchase your selections through our store and use our Reading Room, with our compliments!  We'll keep things organized so your members can pick up the following month's books at the current month's meeting, and save you a special trip to pick it up later in the month!

Looking for an inexpensive night out of the house?  Meet a couple friends at The Printed Garden for a friendly (or not-so-friendly) board game, and enjoy one of our complimentary hot beverages.  We also have chess, checkers, Monopoly, Jenga, and a couple decks of cards - or feel free to pack your own game in if you'd like!  If you've come by yourself to study, just let us know and we'll turn the music down or off