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HIS ISSUE ALSO IN T e Events -Stor f ite Books o -Our Favor 2015 -DADA wellerbookworks.com facebook.com/WellerBookWorks [email protected] Rare Book Holiday Gifts 1st edition (1952) of Charlotte’s Web by E. Pretty 1873 anthology, Half Hours with B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams. the Poets: A Collection of Choice Poems, In an unclipped jacket with chipped from Chaucer to Tennyson. Gilt lettering, edges that have short tears and creases. decors and edges. Nicely printed in black The book is quite clean. $375 and red. Appears almost new with lightly rubbed edges. $100

Great 1st edition (1953) of the scarce Easton Press leather and beloved children’s story, The Very copies of Scott Adams’ Little Girl by Phyllis Karasilovsky Dilbert: A Treasury of with pictures by Ninon [McKnight]. A Sunday Strips and Flashbacks: 25 Years of nice jacketed copy with a Doonesbury, autographed by Gary contemporary gift inscription. $250 Trudeau. Gilt edges and inlaid color comic strips on front covers. $125 & $100 Very nice 1965 printing of M. Sasek’s small folio, This is Paris. So80s: A Photographic Diary of a The jacket on this scarce Decade, by Patrick McMullan with title is lightly rubbed, has a contributions by some 50 others. few abrasions and a small Thick hardcover quarto published in hole. Nonetheless, it is 2003. Great black & white photos. $80 bright, as are the lovely color illustrations. $125 Excellent 1st edition of Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games. A fine copy in a fine Signed Easton Press 1990 collector’s dust jacket with old pricing mark on flap. edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Published in 1969. $200 Titan in aqua leather with gilt edges, lettering and vignette. Small stain on Scarce Alcoholics Anonymous, 1st signature page. $275 edition 14th printing, in bright jacket that is chipped at edges. With fine copy of the 1922 copy of Down-Adown-Derry: A Book pamphlet, A Guide to the Twelve Steps of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare with of Alcoholics Anonymous. $750 enchanting mostly black & white illustrations and a few color plates by Dorothy Lathrop. Very rare four-page tract by B. H. Roberts Blue cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of a printed circa 1888. Analysis of the Book of fairy on a salamander. Edges are rubbed. $40 Mormon: Suggestions to the Reader. $175 1 In-Store Events AUTHORS FREE PLAY READING: READING AND SIGNING: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1,8 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2 PM Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, and directed by Experience the hope that each of us Mark Fossen. A series of vignettes centered around a wants to feel at this time of the year meeting of cab drivers about a strike. with Joan Boren’s Silent Stars, a Christmas ghost story. A contemporary OUR REGULAR EVENTS: holiday tale in the Dickens tradition

that is certain to be a family favorite for THE BREAKFAST CLUB years to come. Have a cup of coffee and a danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 5 PM morning book news and giveaways. In Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Every Tuesday, 9 to 10 am Life Lessons from the Slopes, Coffee Connection in Trolley Square Kathryn Kemp Guylay, uses stories

from the her personal life as an engaging, and often hilarious, backdrop KIDS STORY TIME for studying wellness and life lessons. It Bring your wee tots and youngins to doesn’t matter whether you’re a pro Story Time with Lila Ann! Held in the skier or have never set foot on the children’s section. Different stories slopes. You’ll learn simple tools and every week. Every Saturday, 11 am even games that make wellness fun. LIT-KNIT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2 PM On December 9 & 23, and January 13 & 27, Sara Fitzgerald with Saving Savanna. join Catherine and her Crafting Circle for Devan can't help but blame God for his casual bookish conversation. wife's death, so the last thing he wants to Every 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 6 to 8 pm do this holiday season is celebrate. But when his daughter, Savanna, makes a special Christmas wish, their little family SALT CITY SLAM will never be the same. Filled with faith On December 28 and January 25, it’s open mic, followed and tenderness, this heartwarming story by a featured poet, then the Poetry Slam! Only $5 cover. is sure to remind you of the real power Every last Monday, 8 pm behind the magic of Christmas. COLLECTORS’ BOOK SALON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 6 PM The first salon of 2016 will occur on Book launch party for C. R. Langille and Friday, January 29th. It will be Consequence. Angels, demons, ancient exciting to resume our Salons after cosmic beings, and even a dimensional- our holiday hiatus. Some of you may traveler clad in a trench coat made of remember that sharing events have duct tape come together in this fast- been our themes at the cusps of the paced novel of magic, darkness, and new years. I have especially enjoyed consequences. these gatherings in which our guests take turns showing and describing SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2 PM most cherished books. Brooke Arnold’s middle-grade novel This year, I am asking you, our bibliophile guests, to Elements of Evil is about a young girl’s select and bring a “beautiful” book to share with other science-filled quest to become a guests. Apply your own definition of beauty, and supervillain. Follow along as Bernice, communicate it to the rest of us. Bring a friend who assisted by her hedgehog Bunsen, finds a likes books! When you open a reader’s mind, there’s no nemesis and sciences her way to infamy. telling what you’ll find. Join us on January 29th in our Event complete with a science rare book room; the Salon begins at 6:30 pm. The experiment by the author! sharing, at 7:15. No salon in December 2015. 2 In Which Zach Is the Computer Whisperer Zach is the youngest (he’ll be turning 18 There's an interesting thing that this month!) and by far the most tech- happens when you take care of the savvy of our staff. He’s leaving the store same pieces of software for a couple soon to focus on college. We’ll miss his of years; you start to think of it as skills, passion and general awesomeness. having a personality. SWIT, our A lot. –ed. recently-multicolored data-entry

gnome, has more of a I'm usually greeted by a flurry of curmudgeonly flavor to its persona notes when I walk into the door -- that's hiding an earnest heart trying littering the eCommerce desk, to do its best. [i]merchant is a big, clipped to my time card, sitting in beefy body-builder piece of software the inbox labeled "Sex Work/Zach's whose thought process is as much Inbox." (Inbox labels are often just of a black box to me as the next old section labels.) Working only bookseller; the block-headed thing three days a week means that is strong enough, though, that we sometimes there's long gaps where don't really question it. The things can break and stay broken software that transmits our data to until the next time I can add another the web, called affectionately (by layer of duct tape to an exciting me, and only affectionately when (read: often-terrifying) amalgam of the thing behaves) as 'fadapter' is a software and hardware that manages flighty; fickle sprite who everyone our inventory. wishes was a bit more grounded.

Said inventory lives in a computer going through an identity crisis. The software we use to catalog used I'm sad to leave the bookstore. I'll certainly miss the books lives in a different consciousness that has taken people -- the conversations and debates, the hushed up residence in the same box as our new-book literary gossip, and the passion for our friends, the inventory (hence, the identity crisis). The server also books -- but there's also a big part of me that's going to talks to lots of websites to make sure that the most up- miss the misfit lines of code that spin into threads to-date copy of our inventory is online for your viewing connecting our store together. They're as much my pleasure (at abebooks.com, alibris.com, or biblio.com!) coworkers as the people I work with. There's a Brady-Bunch-esque family of software -- some coded in-house, some licensed from New Hampshire -- We're hiring! If you're passionate about books and that works together to make sure that our store runs. I happen to have some solid computer knowledge, call, like to think that I am Alice; an occasionally put-upon email, bring in a resume -- we look forward to hearing caretaker of this blended-code family who loves it more from you. (info on last page) than maybe another sysadmin would. -- Zach Zundel

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3 Staff’s Favorites of 2015 Jude, The Obscure - Thomas Hardy The lightest book I read in Fiction 2015. A proto-existential drama that examines the stress of old mores coming apart under the pressures of modern sensibilities. Hardy’s prose is near perfect in nuance and word choice. This biting critique of Best Weller’s Pick December — January culture brought Hardy infamy and ended his writing of novels. -Tony

20% off SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard

Howl: Of Woman and Wolf One of those rare History Susan Imhoff Bird history books that are Torrey House Press both scholarly and 9781937226473 approachable. Beard’s Originally $15.95, now $12.76 New West West New Reviewed by Frank Pester lively prose and obvious love of her topic, along with When the wolf was reintroduced to the American her bottom-up treatment of West, there seemed to be a public enthusiasm for it. Rome (slaves to rulers), For twenty years now we have seen passions run hot combine to make the subject feel fresh. As she says, on both sides. Not only do cattlemen see the animal “Rome still helps to define the way we understand as a threat, but hunters have also joined the fray. Yet, our world and think about ourselves, from high the wolf is a symbol of the remaining wildness of our theory to low comedy. After 2,000 years, it continues West. to underpin Western culture and politics, what we write and how we see the world, and our place in Bird grew up in Park City and went to the University it.”- Catherine of Utah. She now lives in Salt Lake and writes about her cycling within the canyons of the near area. Her Euphoria - Lily King passions for the nature she witnesses spills out in her A marvelous novel based on Fiction writing, sharing her love with the reader. Mixed-in is Margaret Mead’s life. Three her struggle with self-doubt and the shattering loss brilliant anthropologists are of a son with cerebral palsy, a husband who has built involved in a career- a barrier between them and a devastating bicycle threatening love triangle while accident. investigating tribal mores in 1930s New Guinea. For the In parallel, she talks to professional wolf watchers, political and romantic ranchers, hunters and biologists to understand their maneuverings, strong believable love or hate for wolves. The narrative weaves characters, and an excellent between her struggles, the daily life of a wolf pack depiction of New Guinea and its people, this is one and the research she uncovers. With beautiful prose novel that should not be missed. - Bruce and lots of passion, Howl: Of Woman and Wolf shows how wolves, wild All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr places and a willingness to One of the most phenomenal Fiction listen may lead, finally, to storytellers of our time healing. baptizes you in the murky, bloodstained waters of the Torrey House Press based in greatest tragedy in human history, Utah should be on all our experienced through the tight radars by now. They publish focus of two very unusual but too- wonderful books written by real-to-be-imaginary lives. Rarely local authors, that deal with do you receive so much from one topics dear to our hearts. Hooooooowl novel. -José 4 Staff’s Favorites of 2015 Drama High - Michael Sokolove You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Lou Volpe is a visionary Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism - who turned a high school Alida Nugent theatre program into one A wonderful compilation of of the best in the country, essays, paying tribute to where Broadway producers Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist. try out shows like Rent and Nugent further globalizes the Spring Awakening. His feminist movement by passion affected thousands highlighting the intersections of lives and initiated of ethnicity, gender and class.

Biography / Drama / Drama Biography change in a former steel town. Tender, This is the first book I’ve read inspiring, sad, infuriating, and ultimately rewarding. Studies Gender all year that I can’t wait to read again! - Cassady - Lane Mind Wars: A History of Mind Control, The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber Surveillance, and Social Engineering - Marie D. A striking story, told Jones and Larry Flaxman through the eyes of Peter, a While it barely scratches the pastor whose proselytic surface of such a expansive

Fiction Fiction voyage takes him light-years topic, this book explores away from home, and the many aspects of epistles of his devout wife, Bea, manipulation: from simple who is stuck on an increasingly- Mind/Spirit persuasion to trauma-based devastated world with half her mind control and satanic ritual heart galaxies away. This novel abuse; from propaganda to struck a tuning fork in my psyche and raised neuro-linguistic programming and directed energy questions about what distances love can span - and weapons. The rabbit hole is deep and there's a long what distances it can't. - Zach bibliography to keep you hunkered in!! - Mel

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. The Possum Codex - Stephene Russell Martin. Illustrated by Gary Gianni A poem as strange and full of Three hard-to-find novellas in surprises as the trickster of the one gorgeously-illustrated title. A lonely journey after dark volume! Set a century before A Poetry through a shifting landscape of Game of Thrones, it ‘s the tale of memory, always haunted and Fantasy the true but inexperienced wounded. Yet it moves forward and is knight, Dunk, and his young witty ultimately hopeful. Russell weaves the squire, Egg. Medieval adventures and mood, images and words so the intrigues, with a dash of Fantasy and familiar astonishes and the fore-shadowing for A Song of Ice and miraculous becomes inevitable. A trip Fire. Absolutely delicious. - Morgane worth taking. - Donavin

How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance It's the 1990s in England, Elon Musk is the genius who Margaret Thatcher is in upturned two entrenched and office, and Johanna is 14, capital-intensive industries

Fiction Fiction poor, and utterly lost. Her simultaneously. If he gets his family survives on welfare while way, we’ll all soon be driving she longs to join the music electric vehicles before boarding scene. Loud and awkward, she a rocket to Mars. Vance recounts fails to be goth, and lands in the many remarkable anecdotes middle of the U.K. punk scene as from Musk’s family history, his a music journalist. Dealing with sexism, poverty, and rather distressing childhood, and Biography / Physics Biography the struggle of living the life one wants, this coming how he’s built two of the most of age story is touching, relatable, and hilarious. - admired and ambitious businesses of the 21st Lila Ann century. - Tim 5 Dada at Weller Book Works meet poetry. The young art the young artists and wr r formed with the object of be- of object with the formed The Cabaret Volta The Cabaret coming a centre for art w i run on the pr Under th ch are i I r ideas and contr r ideas ll perform the i

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Be A PaRT oF iT! If you are a Dada sculpture, whim or guerrilla and looking for a place to toast your piano, maybe you should toss your hat onto the luggage rack of this bus which goes further sooner than forgiven. You wanna? Contact Tony with your offerings: [email protected] or 801.328.2586.

Lila Weller’s 100 Birthday THANK YOU

Between the release of our We had a great time with friends, family and custom- last Text Block and Lila ers at her party. The great music provided by The Weller’s 100th birthday late Phoenix Jazz and Swing Band made the celebration in October, she took a fall magically exciting. We thank them for making them- and broke the first bone selves available for our big day and for building their she’s ever broken. By the set around Lila’s favorite music. We are also very grate- date of the party she had ful to Crown Burger for supplying half-burgers, vegi- received hip surgery and burgers, little souvlakis and fries. The carrot cake from was recovering well City Cakes was so yummy I don’t think many noticed enough to attend and en- that it contained no sugar. Thanks especially to Deb- joy it. Two weeks ago she returned to work, albeit at bie Krings for her ongoing assistance to my mother reduced hours. Her strength is improving with time and to her and her daughters for providing set-up and and therapy and we are very happy to have her occa- drinks for the party and for making a thoughtful photo sional presence in the bookstore again. slideshow of Lila’s life.

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