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JOIN US FOR THESE TERRIFIC STORE EVENTS!

JOIN US FOR OUR 2ND ANNUAL
UTAH AUTHORS DAY WITH
MIRANDA RENAE
ANNA MARASCO
​STEVE CAPONE, JR.
AND
CHARLES BERNARD
SATURDAY
​DECEMBER 2ND
AT THE PRINTED GARDEN

Drop by your favorite independent bookstore on Saturday, December 2nd, and help us celebrate Utah Authors Day — a special day to encourage Utahns to share their stories and perspectives, strengthen community bonds through the written word, and continue to develop the culture of Utah through literary arts. Participating in Utah Authors Day reminded me how reading and writing provide vital personal connections within communities.

The Printed Garden will be hosting a number of local writers in the store on Utah Authors Day.  Come by and visit with the writers in your community and snag have them sign a book or two for you!  Authors will be posted as they're assigned to our location.

BOOKS SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
MARC J.
GREGSON
FRIDAY
​JANUARY 19TH
7:00 P.M.
AT THE PRINTED GARDEN

Plummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut

Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades.

Hunter, the deadliest of all the Trades, gains a fresh recruit with Conrad. Now he must endure vigorous training, manipulative peers, and the Gauntlet—a brutal final test that yields riches and status to whichever skyship crew kills the most gorgantauns. Forced to serve in the lowest of stations and unseen by all, Conrad overhears whispers of rebellion in the dark. Conrad had never known anything existed below the toxic black clouds of the Skylands . . . until now.

Join us on Friday, January 19th, at The Printed Garden to grab your copy of Book One of the Above the Black trilogy today! This fast-paced series is reminiscent of Attack on Titan and will appeal to fans of Pierce Brown. This event is free and open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m..

SPECIAL AUTHOR STORYTIME FOR KIDS
& BOOKS SIGNING
WITH
MELISSA
RICHARDSON
SATURDAY
DECEMBER 9TH
1:00 P.M.
AT THE PRINTED GARDEN

A hilarious holiday tale about the highs and lows of eating one very special Three Kings Day dessert: the Rosca de Reyes, a sweet bread with a figurine of the baby Jesus hidden inside!

Marta is finally old enough for her own slice of the special, sneaky dessert she loves so much—la Rosca de Reyes.

The colorful crown of sweet bread is so tempting, but Marta knows the truth—there’s a baby hiding in the dessert: el Niño Dios. Marta can’t help but wonder what will happen if she accidentally eats the little figurine of baby Jesus. 

Suddenly, Marta will do whatever it takes to avoid picking the last slice of la rosca—no matter how badly she wants a bite!

This humorous story of one girl’s journey to overcome her fears explores the traditions of Three Kings Day and the importance of family and faith.

join us in welcoming Melissa Richardson to The Printed Garden for a special author storytime for kids.  Melissa will read her new book, we'll have some coloring pages for the little ones, and will finish with an author signing for anyone who wants an author signed copy of The Last Piece!  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin at 1:00 p.m.

GIVE YOUR LOVED ONE THE GIFT OF AN
AUTHOR SIGNED BOOK!

IN OUR STORE NOW ARE
​BOOKS SIGNED BY . . .

SHERMAN ALEXIE
ISABEL ALLENDE
MARGARET ATWOOD
VICTORIA AVEYARD
CLIVE BARKER
GREG BEAR
TOM BROKAW
TERRY BROOKS
JIM BUTCHER
LORD RICHARD E. BYRD
JIMMY CARTER
MICHAEL CHABON
BILLY COLLINS
JUNOT DIAZ
E. L. DOCTOROW
ANTHONY DOERR
IVAN DOIG
SARAH DUNANT
UMBERTO ECO
DAVE EGGERS
JAMES ELLROY
JONATHAN EVISON
CHRIS EWAN
SALLY FIELD
JAMIE FOXX
NEIL GAIMAN
AL GORE
CLAUDIA GRAY
JOHN GRISHAM
TOM HANKS
S. E. HINTON
NICK HORNBY
JOHN IRVING
JEFF KINNEY
TED KOOSER
CAMILLA LACKBERG
JOE LANSDALE
ERIK LARSON
STAN LEE
WANGARI MAATHAI
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
STEVE MARTIN
CORMAC MCCARTHY
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
MARISSA MEYER
LARRY NIVEN
TEA OBREHT
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
TOMMY ORANGE
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
ROSA PARKS
JAMES PATTERSON
GARY PAULSEN
SIDNEY POITIER
RICHARD POWERS
DAN RATHER
JOSH RITTER
MARILYN ROBINSON
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
RAINBOW ROWELL
RICHARD RUSSO
BRANDON SANDERSON
JOHN SCALZI
MARIA SEMPLE
MARK SPRAGG
KATHRYN STOCKETT
MARK STRAND
GRAHAM SWIFT
MARGARET THATCHER
COLM TOIBIN
JEFF TWEEDY
ANNE TYLER
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
BRADY UDALL
JOHN UPDIKE
ALICE WALKER
COLSON WHITEHEAD
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
BERNIE WRIGHTSON
AND OTHERS . . .

BOOKS SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
STEVE
KOZAK
THURSDAY
​DECEMBER 14TH
7:00 P.M.
AT THE PRINTED GARDEN

Bea Arthur as the owner of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Long scenes entirely of Wookies bleating at each other, without subtitles. Harvey Korman, in drag, as a four-armed Space Julia Child. Six minutes of Jefferson Starship performing for Art Carney and a bored Imperial Guard. Mark Hamill, fresh from his near-fatal motorcycle accident, slathered in pancake makeup. A salacious holographic burlesque from Diahann Carroll.

Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day?

To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared—a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today. Kozak explains how the Special was one piece of a PR blitz undertaken by Lucas and his colleagues as they sought to protect the emerging franchise from hostile studio executives. He shows how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product. He gives entertaining accounts of the problems that plagued production, which included a ruinously expensive cantina set; the acrimonious departure of the director and Lucas himself; and a furious Grace Slick, just out of rehab, demanding to be included in the production.
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Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on extensive new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, this never-before-told story gives a fascinating look at a strange moment in pop-culture history that remains an object of fascination even today.

Please join us for what may be the most fun we have all year with author Steve Kozak, as he reads from, discusses, and signs copies of his new book, A Disturbance in the Force:  How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened.  This event is free and open to the public, and will begin shortly after 7 :00 p.m.

BOOKS SIGNING
WITH AUTHOR
STEVE
CAPONE, JR.
FRIDAY
​MARCH 8TH
7:00 P.M.
AT THE PRINTED GARDEN

Max Fredericks can time travel. He doesn’t know exactly how it works—just that it does. When it happens again, Max finds himself on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain in 1965 East Berlin. Still queasy from the shock of travel, he witnesses an abduction. The victim is a girl Max later comes to know only as Elsa, and the perpetrators are the Stasi—”the sword and shield of the state” in communist East Germany.
Armed with comprehensive knowledge of the Stasi only someone from the future could possess, and assuming the girl is a damsel in distress, Max decides he’s the hero of this story and sets out to rescue her. But what he doesn’t know can hurt him. The clock is ticking as Max works to outsmart the Stasi, dead-dropping and brush-passing, double-crossing and being double-crossed as he goes. Can Max infiltrate the Stasi HQ without getting himself locked up in a gulag or shot as a spy? Why was Elsa targeted? And how can Max get back across the Berlin Wall and home to the present?

Join us in welcoming author Steve Capone, Jr. to The Printed Garden to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new middle-grade thriller set in Cold War East Germany, Max in the Capital of Spies.  This event is free and open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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WE STILL HAVE FELLOWSHIP OF UTAH INDIE BOOKSTORES MAPS AVAILABLE AT THE PRINTED GARDEN!  THEY ARE AVAILABLE IN AN 8 1/2" x 11" VERSION FOR $4.99 AND IN AN 11" x 17" VERSION FOR $9.99, BOTH ON HEAVY STOCK.

HOLD ONTO YOUR MAP AND HAVE IT STAMPED AT EACH OF THE PARTICIPATING STORES OVER THE COMING YEAR!  PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED ON INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY 2024!

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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
AN ENTERTAINING WINTER READ, WE RECOMMEND
MCU: THE REIGN OF
MARVEL STUDIOS
BY JOANNA ROBINSON, DAVE GONZALES, AND GAVIN EDWARDS

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements?

​Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.

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SOME OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 AND 2024

3/26/2024

AVAILABLE NOW

2/13/2024

1/23/2024

11/14/2023

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CELEBRATING SOME TERRIFIC SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR!

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PRE-ORDER ANY OF THESE TRICIA LEVENSELLER BOOK FROM THE PRINTED GARDEN, AND HAVE IT PERSONALIZED BY THE AUTHOR!

AVAILABLE NOW!

AVAILABLE 6/11/2024

AVAILABLE 7/9/2024

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