Old Books, New Light. Photo by Ken Douglas on flickr.com
By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – What would gift giving be without a good book or two to fire the imaginations of the kids - and the big kids - in your life? We've gathered up our local booksellers with their lists of books that might just give you the idea you've been looking for this holiday season.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, hardcover, William Morrow, List Price: $29.95.
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams, hardcover, Pantheon Books, List Price: $26.00
Exodus by Charles Bowden & Julian Cardona, hardcover, University of Texas Press, List Price: $50
Fist Bump Heard Round the World by Pat Bagley, Paperback, White Horse Books, List Price: $12.95
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, hardcover, Random House, List Price: $26.00
Nauvoo Polygamy: . . . but we called it celestial marriage by George D. Smith, hardcover, Signature Books, List Price $30.95
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon handcart Tragedy by David Roberts, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, List Price: $26.00
Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William B. Smart by J Stapley, hardcover with CD, Utah State University Press, List Price: $44.95
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy by Ronald Walker, Richard Turley & Glen Leonard, hardcover, Oxford University Press, List Price: $29.95
Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre by David Bigler & Will Bagley, hardcover, Arthur H. Clark Company, List Price: $45.00
Always A Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad by Will Bagley, hardcover, Utah State University Press, List Price: $34.95
Dead Powell: Lake Powell, Global Warming and the Future of Water in the West by James Lawrence Powell, hardcover, University of California Press, List Price: $27.50
Strangers in Another Country: The Songs of Bruce Utah Phillips by Rosalie Sorrels, Compact Disc, Red House Records, List Price: $15.00
Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels by David Berona, hardcover, Abrams, List Price: $35.00
A Century of Sanctuary: The Art of Zion National Park by Robert Redford, Lyman Hafen, Peter H Hassrick, Deborah Reeder, Leslie Courtright, Roland Lee and Erica Cottam, hardcover, Zion Natural History Association, List Price: $34.95