To walk into an indie bookstore is to walk into a world of discovery. The fruits of the products of humanity can be plucked from its shelves. Each store is different; each its own world. The books, diversity of thoughts and ideas, readings, events, and knowledge that indie bookstores bring to their communities are well worth celebrating. That’s why independent bookstores across the nation will host celebrations of the wild, woolly, and wonderful institution that is the independent bookstore on Saturday April 29th.

 

This is the 10th Anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day, the national one-day party celebrating independent bookstores across the country. Hundreds of us participate annually. And because we’re independent bookstores, we each do it a little differently.

 

This year Weller Book Works is proud to be listed along with our indie bookstore colleagues throughout the state in the first truly statewide Utah Independent Bookstore Map. It’s a beautiful piece, one you’ll be happy to have guide you in your explorations of the incredible landscape of indie bookstores in Utah. To help you in your journey, each store will stamp or mark your map when you visit it. Visit us all—not all on the same day of course—and get a prize. On April 29 pick up the free map from any participating bookstore and let your fun begin!

 

As always, we’ll have cool book-related merch that can be purchased only on that day, only from indie bookstores. This year’s bounty includes fabulous "Meet me at the Bookstore" and "She Chose Fire" tote bags, a limited printing of the chilling Tales of the Weird: An Uncanny Introduction anthology from the British Library, a 500-piece banned books puzzle, and Heartstopper stickers.

Free audiobooks anyone? Find the Golden Ticket hidden in our store and our audiobook partners at Libro.fm will give you free audiobooks for one year. There’s only one ticket hidden in WBW and it can only be found on Indie Bookstore Day, the 29th of April.

It’s going to be a lot of fun. And it wouldn’t be the same without you. Come, meet us at the bookstore.

Clarence Edward Dutton will forever be associated with his two great geological monographs published between 1880 and 1882. He joined John Wesley Powell’s surveys of the West in 1875 and worked with Powell for the next 15 years. Dutton’s Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah was published in two volumes in 1880 as part of the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region.

In 1882, his Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District was published also in two volumes—a quarto volume for text and smaller images along with a folio volume for maps and amazing, beautiful color renderings of this outrageous landscape by Julius Bien, making this folio among the most desirable and scarce of Grand Canyon rarities.

In 1977, Gibbs Smith made a slightly reduced facsimile of Tertiary History under the imprint Peregrine Smith to satiate the interests of frustrated collectors. Incidentally, we presently are offering an original copy of the amazing folio for $6000. But we also offer an unopened set of the Smith reprint for $525. It contains both the text and the folio volumes. This is a must for any dedicated collector of Colorado River and Grand Canyon books.

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Both a blessing and a curse of bibliophilia is the voracious appetite for knowledge—the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. Well, my friend, I can tell you one thing: I now know a ridiculous amount about bees thanks to The Bees in Your Backyard by Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril.

“Save the bees” and other conversations surrounding pollinator decline have dominated our zeitgeist in the last decade. Bee imagery has graced tea towels and tattoo flash sheets—yet the subject of those pieces and of conversations surrounding the importance of pollinators has been primarily honey bees, a European species brought to this landscape in the 17th century. Ironically, the [honey] Beehive State of Utah is home to the greatest native bee diversity in the nation. The Bees in Your Backyard is Wilson’s and Carril’s rallying cry for us to appreciate the diversity of bees in our country far beyond the non-native honey bee.

This book is the most comprehensive guide to the bees of the United States that I’ve ever encountered, introducing you to the 4,000 different species of native bee species found in the U.S. and Canada. It is an incredible feat of accessible science that allows readers of all ages to go as deep or shallow as they please through a combination of engaging text and the taxonomic and visual depth of a field guide. You’ll fly through sections like “Is This a Bee?” which helps readers to differentiate between bees and other fuzzy flying insects; or the twenty pages outlining what we can do to promote bees in our neighborhoods, filled with plant zoning charts and descriptions on choice bee nesting habitats. The 900 vibrant color photographs alone are enough to keep you engrossed (many of which Wilson and Carril took themselves) as they guide you through the natural history of bees and through every bee family and genus in North America—describing key identification features, their distributions, nesting habits, diets, and more.

There is no better time to familiarize yourself with bees than the eve of spring. This book coupled with my past ecological research forever changed the way I interact with flowers and outdoor spaces. My eyes were suddenly opened to the reality that bees are everywhere, whether you’re walking down the streets of New York City or out in the backcountry. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy and become a steward to and an advocate for our dwindling native pollinators. No matter where we go (Antarctica aside), there will be bees in our backyards—let’s all get acquainted.

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