JOIN US FOR THESE TERRIFIC
UPCOMING ​EVENTS & ACTIVITIES!

BOOK SIGNING WITH
MARK
DOHERTY
Friday,
​June 14th
7:00 p.m.

Creativity, Teaching, and Natural Inspiration follows the evolution of a high school English teacher as he develops a creative and innovative teaching style despite being juxtaposed against a public education system bent on didactic normalizing regulations and political demands.

With his new book, Doherty crafts an engaging nonfiction story that utilizes memoir, anecdote, poetry, and dialogue to explore how mixing creativity and pedagogy can change the way budding students visualize creative writing:  a chunk of firewood placed on a classroom table becomes part of a sawmill, a mine timber, an Anasazi artifact . . . and it also becomes a poem, a song, an essay, and a memoir.  The long, slender feather of a sandhill crane evokes Muir, Thoreau, Audubon, Leopold, Carson . . . and can even become a parable of lore and magic.

Creativity holds the stitches of this book together, and runs through its pages like fragrant wood smoke.

Please join us as we welcome Mark Doherty back to The Printed Garden to celebrate the release of his second book, Creativity, Teaching, and Natural Inspiration.  Mark will be reading from, answering questions about, and signing copies of his new book Friday night, June 14th.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

BOOK SIGNING WITH
DAVID
HABBEN
Wednesday,
​June 19th
7:00 p.m.

It’s the little things that can turn a bad day into a better one. One morning, Sherman’s bad mood takes the form of a literal rain cloud, soaking him and making his mood—and the weather—worse. An unexpected encounter with imaginative children helps Mr. Sherman find the silver lining to his cloud and brightens his day, turning his outlook from pessimism into optimism.
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The expressive graphic art creates an eye-catching and meaningful story. Readers will be empathetic to Sherman’s woes and uplifted when reminded that the sun does eventually come out again after the rain.

Join us in welcoming David Habben to Provo City LIbrary on the evening of Wednesday, June 19th, to discuss and sign copies of his new picture book, Mr. Sherman's Cloud.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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

Bring the little ones in any Wednesday afternoon for our weekly Wednesday Afternoon Storytime.  Each week, we'll select three to four of our favorite picture books from the shelves and read them aloud (sometimes we even do voices!).

The third Wednesday of every month will usually be themed - Dr. Seuss, Curious George, Elephant and Piggy, etc.

Storytime begins at 5:00 p.m.

MY FIRST
BOOK CLUB
Saturdays
​June 15th
July 20th
August 17th
2:00 p.m.

We're launching our first My First Book Club both to keep our younger guests reading through the summer and to give them their very first book club-style experience.  Not necessarily designed as a classroom-style experience, the My First Book Club will be focused simply on creating a positive and fun social experience and getting young readers to talk about what they've read with their peers, focusing on their most and least favorite parts, as well as scratching the surface of their book selections to consider other messages and themes that the author might be conveying.

Participants should arrive at the June meeting having finished John Bellairs's The House With the Clock in its Walls.  Although it's not necessary to have completed the book, guests should try to have read as much of it as possible to avoid the possibility of spoilers from other readers.  We'll be discussing Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton on July 20th and Freya & Zoose by Emily Butler on August 17th.

Each meeting will start at 2:00 p.m. and we'll have cookies or some type of snacks for our readers!

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JOIN THE ONGOING
​CHILD FRIENDLY

CAMPAIGN AT
THE PRINTED GARDEN

Upcoming Sessions:
Saturday, May 18th
Noon - 3:00 p.m.
(inquire at contact email below)

Scene opens with a murder of crows appearing at the city walls of Fort Solace. One of them flies down to Nala and delivers a message: “I bear a message from the King Regent. The elves to the south have thus far been refusing to join the fold. Force a decision. Annihilate them if they refuse.”

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.

BOOK SIGNING WITH
DAVID POWERS KING & MICHAEL
JENSEN
Friday,
​June 7th
7:00 p.m.

Two unlikely allies must journey across a kingdom in the hopes of thwarting death itself.All his life, Nels has wanted to be a knight of the kingdom of Avërand. Tall and strong, and with a knack for helping those in need, the people of his sleepy little village have even taken to calling him the Knight of Cobblestown.But that was before Nels died, murdered outside his home by a mysterious figure.Now the young hero has awoken as a ghost, invisible to all around him save one person — his only hope for understanding what happened to him — the kingdom's heir, Princess Tyra. At first the spoiled royal wants nothing to do with Nels, but as the mystery of his death unravels, the two find themselves linked by a secret, and an enemy who could be hiding behind any face.Nels and Tyra have no choice but to abscond from the castle, charting a hidden world of tangled magic and forlorn phantoms. They must seek out an ancient needle with the power to mend what has been torn, and they have to move fast. Because soon Nels will disappear forever.

Authors Michael Jensen and David Powers King will be at The Printed Garden Friday night, June 6th, discussing and signing copies of their books.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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FRANCOIS CAMOIN
1939-2019

Francois Camoin was the founder of the Creative Writing Ph.D. program at The University of Utah in the 1960s, and the author of Benbow and Paradise, The End of the World is Los Angeles, Why Men Are Afraid of Women, and other works.  He has been called "a comic genius" and "a contemporary Mark Twain."

W. S. MERWIN
1927-2019

BETTY BALLANTINE
1919-2019

Betty Ballantine and her husband Ian helped invent the modern paperback through their Bantam and Ballantine books. Paperbacks in America were not popular until the Ballantines improved the quality of the product and offered better titles.

MARY OLIVER
1935-2019

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MARIA V. SNYDER

BILL FAWCETT

PHILO BARNHART
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AMY WHITE

VISIT OUR TABLE AT FYRECON 2019

Every year, Fyrecon, a craft focused writing conference held at Weber State University's Davis Campus in Layton offers an amazing assortment of seminars on Science Fiction and Fantasy based writing, art, sculpture available to anyone aspiring to break into those fields.  Participants benefit from very small class sizes and brilliantly conceived courses offered by industry professionals.  This year's instructors will have scheduled signings at The Printed Garden's table.  For more details, go to www.fyrecon.com.

LARRY CORREIA

DAVID FARLAND

ERIC FLINT
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JEFF STURGEON

JODY LYNN NYE

BEA JACKSON

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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