Bring the whole family to Weller Book Works for a witch-themed scavenger hunt! Authors Brandon Greer (The Clandestine Queen) and Elizabeth Drysdale (Out of Time) will read and sign books and celebrate the launching of Greer's new book, Liam Lewis and the Summer Camp Curse.
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Thirteen-year-old Liam Lewis is a troublemaker. When he gets detention on the last day of sixth grade, his parents decide to put a stop to his mischief by signing him up for a three-week-long behavioral summer camp that is said to have a 100 percent success rate in rehabilitating kids like him. If anyone asked Liam, he'd say it sounded more like brainwashing. Too bad no one asked. Furious about this unfair decision, Liam is determined to withstand whatever mind tricks the camp could throw at him. After arriving at the camp, however, he realizes that things aren't as bad as he expected. No, they are much, much worse. First, the camp director claims to be a wizard. Second, the camp isn't even on Earth. Third, the only way for Liam and the three other campers to get back home is by recovering a stolen gem and stopping a curse from destroying the world. Facing a treacherous landscape, dangerous beasts, and—worst of all—the frustrations of teenage cooperation, Liam must race against time to find the gem and return home before this three-week camp becomes permanent.
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For twenty years, Loravain, a slave to a demon bent on world domination, has dreamed of winning his freedom. To do so, he has become the demon's assassin, hunting down witches and other creatures. Finally, the day comes when the demon offers it if he completes one task. Kill a young witch who will one day be his downfall.
Maggie is an orphan who doesn't know who she is or where she comes from. The only thing she does know is that she isn't like the others in her village. When a hidden letter, written before her birth by her mother, turns up, she is called home to take her rightful place as queen of the witches. Setting off on the adventure of a lifetime, Maggie hopes to learn who she is and what she can do, if she lives long enough.
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Brandon J Greer is second and third oldest in a family of ten. (He was second oldest until a new marriage brought a new child that bumped him to third.) To set himself apart from so many siblings, he discovered the arts. Drawing, acting, and writing pulled him in at a young age. His first book, Around the World in About a Year, was completed in the sixth grade and was complete garbage but it won him a place in an arts competition at the local university. Now living in northern Utah with his wife and daughter, he travels as much as he can. |
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Out of Time is a young adult fantasy that chronicles a young girl questioning her strength, her motivations, and what it means to love. Soph, a third-generation witch, only has one magical gift to her name and her family needs her to use it to break a curse. Her gift is the ability to travel through time. The problem is that she's not accurate. The thought of traveling back in time hundreds of years scares her to death, but death is what she faces if she doesn't succeed. Coerced into attempting what Soph thinks is impossible, the young witch learns that she must save the life of the son of the man who cursed her family. It's the only way the curse can be broken and her family spared from their fate. But jumping through time isn't all it's cracked up to be. Surviving a shipwreck and being accused of witchcraft in seventeenth century New England complicates things for Soph. If she can't save the man she's looking for in time, she risks getting stuck in the past. Success for Soph will mean breaking the curse and freeing her family to find true love, while failure offers only death, and not just for her.
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Elizabeth A. Drysdale won her first writing award at the age of seven and has followed it up with more awards, including 1st Honorable Mention in the category of YA First Chapters in the Quills League of Utah Writers Competition. Elizabeth is an active member of the League of Utah Writers and an advocate for NaNoWriMo. She spent much of her childhood roaming through woods and climbing trees creating adventures to be someone else in. These childhood daydreams often find their way into her many novels, although with much more finesse and a lot less hanging upside down. After graduating from Excelsior College, she’s kept her nose in a book, either writing or reading, ever since. Elizabeth has a love of travel which often inspires her heroines to end up in places very different from where they started. Originally from the back woods of Massachusetts, she lives in a small town in Northern Utah with her husband, three sons, one dog, and eight chickens. Each day is filled with noise, more than a little dirt, and enough chaos to fill a hundred pages. |
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Join us for a literary Kaffeeklatsch! Books, coffee, snacks, and chats every Tuesday morning at MyAmour Café, located directly across from our first floor entrance.
HELD WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS
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Join us on our YouTube channel for a discussion with Mary Dixie Carter, author of the psychological thriller The Photographer, and fellow crime writer Aggie Blum Thompson, author of All the Dirty Secrets, as we celebrate the paperback release of Carter's book!
As the titular character in The Photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City’s elite: snapping photos of their children’s birthday parties, transforming images of stiff hugs and tearstained faces into visions of pure joy, and creating moments these parents long for. But when Delta is hired for Natalie Straub’s eleventh birthday, she finds herself wishing she wasn’t behind the lens but a part of the scene—in the Straub family’s gorgeous home and elegant life. That’s when Delta puts her plan in place, by babysitting for Natalie; befriending her mother, Amelia; finding chances to listen to her father, Fritz. Soon she’s bathing in the master bathtub, drinking their expensive wine, and eyeing the beautifully finished garden apartment in their townhouse. It seems she can never get close enough, until she discovers that photos aren’t all she can manipulate.
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Mary Dixie Carter’s writing has appeared in TIME, The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Sun, The New York Observer and other print and online publications. She worked at The Observer for five years, where she served as the publishing director. In addition to writing, she also has a background as a professional actor. Mary Dixie graduated from Harvard College with an honors degree in English Literature and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young children. The Photographer is her first novel. |
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Aggie Blum Thompson worked as a newspaper reporter, covering cops, courts, and trials, with a healthy dose of the mundane mixed in. Her writing has appeared in newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. A native New Yorker, she now lives just over the Washington D.C. line in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband, two children, cat, and dog. All the Dirty Secrets is her second novel. |
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Join Catherine and the crafters of WBW in the store for casual bookish chinwags. All crafts and crafters welcome.
HELD EVERY 2ND & 4TH WEDNESDAY
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Weller Book Works Collectors' Book Salons feature libations and treats, social time for conversation and a special deal on rare books that is only available to guests. Books are bridges across the divides of time and space and like they embrace the diversity of the human experience, we try to keep our treats, speakers and deals diverse which is maybe another word for unpredictable.
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About the Presenter
John Sillito will provide our Collector’s Chat this month. Sillito is Emeritus Professor at Weber State University, and a member of the board of editors of the Utah Historical Quarterly. He has been a book collector for sixty years, mostly on American history, and remembers his first purchases as a teenager at Zion’s on Main, Wilson’s on East Second South, and Earl Marshall’s shop on West Temple. He is the author of B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena (Signature Books, 2021), and the editor of History’s Apprentice: The Diaries of B. H. Roberts, 1880-98 (Signature Books, 2004). His book, co-authored with John S. McCormick, A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic and Decidedly Revolutionary, published by Utah State University Press, received the Francis Armstrong Madsen Award for the Best Book in Utah History in 2011 from the Utah State Historical Society. |
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A message from Tony Weller
I believe in the power of environment and consider costume a piece of it. In that spirit I use our salons to play with attire and encourage guests to dress up, or down, or weird, or playfully, to help our sensibilities out of predictable zones.
Glasses filled at 6:30 and we muster for the Collectors’ Chat at 7:15 in our Rare Book Room. The event has no digital component.
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