UPCOMING
​EVENTS

COULDN'T GET TO THE FRONT CLIMBING CLUB TO SEE TOMMY CALDWELL?
WE HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES OF THE PUSH LEFT OVER!

GUEST AUTHOR 
RICK
ECKSTEIN
Thursday,
May 24th
​7:00 p.m.

More girls are playing sports than ever before—which, on the surface, is great for girls because sports offer positive and empowering fun for young women. In reality, though, few young athletes report “fun” as a reason they play sports. The rates of concussions and repetitive use injuries are on the rise, and kids are encouraged to specialize in a single sport at earlier and earlier ages, spending much of their free time throughout the year dedicated to the pursuit of a single sport at the expense of friends, other activities, and sometimes, health.

Alarmed by the stories he heard from young athletes in his classes, sports scholar Rick Eckstein set out to investigate youth sports—why young people are playing them, how they have changed over time, and their impact on kids and families. Through three years of extensive research, including surveys, interviews, and more, Eckstein discovered that college athletics are having an alarming impact on youth sports, particularly for girls.

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic—and personal—landscape for girls and young women. Filled with powerful interview excerpts from women athletes of all ages, as well as coaches, league officials, and others, the book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more commercialized, to the detriment of participants. The book looks at a range of sports, with case studies including soccer, field hockey, ice hockey, figure skating, and Ultimate Frisbee. The author celebrates sports’ potential to have a positive impact on a girl’s life, but he recommends changes in how college and youth athletics are structured to improve the experience of young athletes and to give them their childhood back.

Join us in welcoming sports writer Rick Eckstein to The Printed Garden to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new book, How College Athletics are Hurting Girls Sports.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

GUEST AUTHOR STORYTIME WITH
LEAH
 GILBERT
Saturday,
June 16th
at 2:00 p.m.

When a family finds a surprising new home for an old couch, a llama becomes the happiest creature of all. The Lago family really loves their couch. It’s perfect for reading, snuggling, playing, and jumping. But all good things must come to an end, and, one day, the family realizes the time has come to replace it. As they drive home with their brand-new bright-red couch, though, it gets knocked off the top of their car into a field . . . where a llama tries to make sense of this new thing. At first confused—It doesn’t talk! It doesn’t taste good! It doesn’t budge!—the llama soon realizes how comfy the couch is and settles right in. Can the family get its furniture back—and keep llama happy, too? Leah Gilbert has written and illustrated a warm picture book that touches both the heart and the funny bone.

Join us in welcoming author Leah Gilbert to The Printed Garden for a special Children's Storytime and Signing event on Saturday, June 16th. Leah will read her charming book and probably a few of her other favorites, and will Q&A with the kids! There will probably be cookies! This event starts at 2:00 p.m.

GUEST AUTHOR 
CHARLES GANNON
Tuesday,
June 19th
​7:00 p.m.

WHITE AND GANNON RETURN WITH A NEW ENTRY IN THE STARFIRE SERIES, co-created by New York Times best-selling authors Steve White and David Weber.

STAND AGAINST THE ALIEN INVADER APOCALYPSE!

The war with the profoundly alien Arduans has ended, and the Arduans have come to call humanity their allies. Most of them—the Arduan warrior caste refuses to accept defeat. Now known as the Kaituni, they are waging a war of extermination against all members of the pan-Sentient Union, human and Arduan alike. What’s more, the Kaituni have an unexpected weapon in their arsenal: the alien Arachnids, once thought driven to extinction. The Kaituni drive the Arachnid fleet ahead of them, inflicting untold damage.

The war has been marked by retreat on the side of the pan-Sentient Union. It seems the best they can do is minimize their losses. But now the Arachnids and the Kaituni are at the doorstep to the Heart Worlds, Sol, and Earth: Alpha Centauri. The odds look bleak. But Admiral Ian Trevayne and Commodore Ossian Wethermere have faced down long odds in the past. It’s time to take a stand, for Earth, for humanity . . . and for the pan-Sentient Union!

Join us in welcoming Dr. Charles E. Gannon to The Printed Garden for an event featuring the most recent book in the popular hard science fiction series, Starfire! Dr. Gannon will read from and sign copies of his books, and answer questions about the Starfire series, writing, and pretty much anything else you're curious about! This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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URSULA K. LEGUIN
1929-2018

JOIN THE ONGOING

ADVENTURE AT
THE PRINTED GARDEN

Saturday
​May 26th
Noon to 4:00 p.m.

Looted from Castle: the Elixir of Health, picked up by Rahk, a Figurine of Wondrous power (in the form of a green owl) picked up by Alron, a Lantern of Revealing picked up by Roscoe, a Pariapt of Health picked up by Nala (turns out that this belonged formerly to Hazdrugal who refused Nala’s offering it to him – it was his before the redbrand and goblins took it (he makes no distinction between the two)).

The group came to a clearing after leaving the castle, and found an herbalist's tent.  It was there that they met Tiefling (Hazdrugal, a prophet) Paladin.  At Hazdrugal's tent, they were shown a passageway (secret to those who didn't examine the space carefully, and revealed by its occupant) to Phandalin and to the hills to Phandalin's east ("to the black spider").  The group pushed forward at warp speed into Phandalin and, in fact, into the Redbrand's lair.  It appears that Sindar is in charge now, though he's nowhere to be seen.  The group of adventurers make it into Gundren's former office.  He picks up some papers - one with the image of a circled owl and one with an inky X, and says to them, "We're in a bit of trouble . . ."​

Although this is an open group, new players interested in participating should contact Steve Capone, the acting Dungeon Master, at stevecaponejr@gmail.com to aid in incorporating your character into the story.  Likewise, Steve also appreciates a heads-up from existing players who may not be available on a given day so the story can be plotted around your character's absence.  Sessions will always begin and Noon, and end at approximately 4:00 p.m., although end times may vary based upon the day's adventure.

Players all have the following map, available at
http://media.wizards.com/2015/images/dnd/resources/Sword-Coast-Map_HighRes.jpg
​and are unfamiliar with any territory that lies outside the lands represented on it.

GUEST AUTHORS AT THE 2018
FYRECON
 AUTHOR
PANEL
Wednesday,
June 20th
at 7:00 p.m.
at the
Veridian Event Center
8030 South 1825 West
West Jordan

Join us at Salt Lake County Library's Viridian Event Center for the Free Preview Night with Fyrecon's Master Guest Authors and Artists!  They'll be holding a 7:00 p.m. panel discussion titled Heroes and Villains, which will be followed at 8:00 p.m. by an author signing.  This year's panel discussion will feature:

Shawn Carman
Creative Director for Kyoudai Games.

Dave Dorman
Science Fiction, Fantasay, and Horror Illustrator, best known for his Star Wars artwork.  He earned an Eisner Award for his work on Alien: Tribes.

Dr. Charles E. Gannon
New York Times Bestselling Author, best known for his Caine Riordan series, and his work with Eric Flint and Steve White on the Ring of Fire series.

David Farland
New York Times Bestselling Author of the Runelords series and author, under the name Dave Wolverton, of Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia.

Preston Stone
Artist and Art Director for Fantasy Flight Games.

Chad Hardin
Artist for DC Comics, probably best known for his work on the character Harley Quinn.

Christie Craig
a.k.a. C. C. Hunter
New York Times Bestselling author of the Shadow Falls series, the Divorced and Desperate series, and the Texas Justice series.

Fyrecon is a three day conference on the Art and Writing of Science Fiction and Fantasy that offers over 180 workshops and classes facilitated by published authors and working artists.  Fyrecon also features four and eight hour master classes by bestselling authors and nationally recognized artists.

Fyrecon 2018 will be Thursday, June 21st, through Saturday, June 23rd at Weber State University - Davis Campus - 2750 University Park Boulevard in Layton.  For more information about Fyrecon 2018, registration, the 2018 class schedule, the venue, the presenters, or anything else, please visit www.fyrecon.com.

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

Bring the little ones in any Wednesday afternoon in May for a story time featuring some of our very favorite picture books!  We've recently enjoyed reading Leah Gilbert's wonderful new picture book A Couch for Llama.  We're working on offering a special Storytime with author Leah Gilbert early this summer - watch this space for details!

The third Wednesday of the month will be a special Dr. Seuss storytime!

GUEST AUTHOR
JACQUELINE CAREY
Thursday,
June 14th
​7:00 p.m.

Jacqueline Carey is back with an amazing adventure not seen since her New York Times bestselling Kushiel's Legacy series. Lush and sensual, Starless introduces us to an epic world where exiled gods live among us, and a hero whose journey will resonate long after the last page is turned.

Let your mind be like the eye of the hawk…
Destined from birth to serve as protector of the princess Zariya, Khai is trained in the arts of killing and stealth by a warrior sect in the deep desert; yet there is one profound truth that has been withheld from him. 

In the court of the Sun-Blessed, Khai must learn to navigate deadly intrigue and his own conflicted identity…but in the far reaches of the western seas, the dark god Miasmus is rising, intent on nothing less than wholesale destruction.  If Khai is to keep his soul’s twin Zariya alive, their only hope lies with an unlikely crew of prophecy-seekers on a journey that will take them farther beneath the starless skies than anyone can imagine.

We're proud to welcome Jacqueline Carey to The Printed Garden on Thursday, June 14th, to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of her new book, Starless.  This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.  Light refreshments will be served.

JOIN OUR
SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR BOOK CLUB
FOR A BOOK DISCUSSION ON
HOW TO STOP TIME
​by Matt Haig
Thursday,
​June 7th,
​at 4:30 p.m.

Join our new Science Fiction & Horror Book Group as they meet on the first Thursday afternoon in June to talk about How to Stop Time by Matt Haig.

Tom Hazard has just moved back his to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.
​
Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.

How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
 
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
This group will meet on Thursday, July 5th to discuss American War by Omar El Akkad, and to create a reading list for the next few months!

GUEST AUTHOR
 JOSI S.
KILPACK
Wednesday,
July 18th
at 7:00 p.m.
at Provo City Library at
550 N. University Ave., Provo

A follow-up to Josi S. Kilpack's bestselling Proper Romance, The Vicar's Daughter.

Lenora Wilton has spent her life hiding behind the keys of her beloved pianoforte and the vibrancy of her younger sister, Cassie. But Lenora is ready for a change and travels to Bath to live with her Aunt Gwen and teach music at an all-girls’ boarding school. She is different in Bath—more comfortable with herself—and enjoys the freedom and independence of her new life there.

When Lenora meets Aiden Asher, she finds herself attracted to him, but her unexpected feelings become more complicated when she learns that Catherine—Lenora’s newest and most troublesome student in the school—is Mr. Asher’s niece. Catherine is a difficult student, and Lenora works hard to make progress with the girl.

When the chemistry between Lenora and Aiden increases, they share a passionate kiss by the River Avon, and Lenora feels it is the beginning of a new forever—until she learns that Aiden has withheld an important detail about his life that changes everything.  Lenora closes her heart to him, and Aiden, caught between his obligation and his heart, must do what he can to make amends. And Lenora, after years of hiding from everyone and everything, faces a decision only she can make.

Join us Wednesday, July 18th, as we welcome Josi Kilpack to The Provo City Library at Academy Square.  This event will be held in The Ballroom, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

​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