By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – With the hottest days of the summer here, it's time to find a cool spot and enjoy a great read. Doug gets the details on favorite books from Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, Catherine Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore and The King's English owner Betsy Burton and children's book manager Margaret Brennan-Neville.
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From Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 South 200 East in Salt Lake City, 521-3819.
- Bagley, Pat: Clueless George is Watching You
- Bowden, Charles: Shadow in the City Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior. With the identity of Joey O'Shea revealed and a new afterword by the author.
- Bowden, Charles. Photographs by Michael Berman: Inferno
- Caldiero, Alex and Theta Naught: Sound Wave
- Harrison, Jim: Saving Daylight
- Harryhausen, Ray and Tony Dalton: The Art of Ray Harryhausen
- John Dunning: The Bookwoman's Last Fling
- Kimball, Gary: Death and Dying In Old Park City
- Kimball, Gary: Of Moths and Miners and other tales of old park city
- McKay, Winsor: Little Nemo in Slumberland
- Moody, Rick: The Diviners
- Peacock, Doug and Andrea: The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears
- Phillips, Utah: Starlight on the Rails - A Songbook
- Rusho, W.L.: Glen Canyon Remembered
- Stegner, Wallace: Clarence Edward Dutton -- An Appraisal
- Temple, Eric: Edward Abbey A voice in the Wilderness
- Thompson, George: Some Dreams Die - Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures
- Thompson, George: Faded Footprints - A History of the Lost Rhoades Mines
- Traub, Barbara: Desert to Dream A Decade of Burning Man Photography
- Trillin, Calvin: A Heckuva Job - More of the Bush Admisistration in Rhyme
- Trillin, Calvin: Obliviously On he Sails, The Bush Administration
- Alexander, William: The Sixty-Four Dollar Tomato
- Brockman, John: What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Science in the age of Certainty
- Iweala, Uzodinma: Beasts of No Nation
- Pollen, Michael: Omnivore's Dilemma
- Roberts, Gregory David: Shantaram
- Styengart, Gary: Absurdistan
- Troost, J. Maarten: Getting Stoned with Savages
- Bagley, Pat: Clueless George is Watching You
- Dean, Debra: Madonnas of Leningrad
- Doig, Ivan: The Whistling Season
- Fesperson, Dan: Prisoner of Guantanamo
- Fountain, Ben: Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
- Goddard, Robert: Into the Blue
- Goldsby, Robin Meloy: Piano Girl
- Gruen, Sarah: Water for Elephants
- Hart, John: King of Lies
- Moehringer, JR: The Tender Bar
- Riddell, Edward and Terry Tempest Williams: Range of Memory
- Trimble, Stephen: Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
- Updike, John: Terrorist
- Picture Books - Fiction
- Knudsen, Michelle: The Library Lion
- McElligott, Matthew: Backbeard and the Birthday Suit
- Schneider, Christine: I'm Bored!
- Picture Books - Nonfiction
- Clements, Andrew: A Million Dots
- Spinelli, Eileen: Hero Cat
- Bear Books for all ages
- Martin, Bill Jr and Eric Carle: Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
- Friends of the National Zoo: Panda Cam - A Nation Watches Tai Shan the Panda Cub Grow
- Ryder, Joanne: A Pair of Polar Bears - Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo
- Children's Poetry/Song
- Boynton, Sandra: Dog Train- book w/cd
- Transitional Readers, 7 and up
- Keane, Dave: The Haunted Toolshed and The Neighborhood Stink (Joe Sherlock Kid Detective series)
- Greenburg, Dan: The Secrets of the Dripping Fang, Book One The Onts
- Middle Readers
- Sage, Angie: Septimus Heap Book One Magykand Book Two Flyte
- Kladstrup, Kristin: The Book of Story Beginnings
- St. Anthony, Jane: The Summer Sherman Loved Me
- Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters and Percy Jackson & The Olympians
- Young Adult
- Pearson, Ridley: Kingdom Keepers
- Westerfeld, Scott: Uglies
- Meyer, Stephanie: Twilight and New Moon
- Murdock, Catherine Gilbert: Dairy Queen
- Zusak, Marcus: The Book Thief
- Middle Reader Non-Fiction
- Fleming, Candace: Our Eleanor A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life
- Oppenheim, Joanne: Dear Miss Breed True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
From Andy and Aubrey at Arches Book Company in Moab
From Annemarie
"Historical" Fiction
Middle East Fiction
Epic Cold War Novel
From Nancy in Salt Lake City
From Brad in Salt Lake City