Each year, Park City Library looks forward to celebrating authors and their books as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Visit our calendar for all of the festival information. In this post, you will find the books celebrated at the festival, a synopsis of each book, and a link to the book in the catalog. Place a hold on the book online with your account or call us at 435-615-5600.
Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest & only statewide book festival & Utah’s signature literary event. Visit UtahHumanities.org for all statewide events.
The Desert Between Us is about the beginnings of Route 66-a military road called The Great Wagon Road, built from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Colorado River in 1858-and the men and camels who helped hack this road out of the wilderness. After completion of the expedition, one of the roadbuilders falls in love with the third wife of a polygamist in St. Thomas, Nevada.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then my hope is to overflow the pages of this book with the rich and varied stories of LatinX Utahns who left their native countries in pursuit of “The American Dream.” My goal was to capture th e personalities, fortitude, courage, and passion of my subjects through black and white portraiture and to document their valuable contributions to Utah and the greater United States.
Emma Greally is a local Park City author!
Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture.
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.
This book is the One Book One Community read for 2021. Read more about it here.
Featuring eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book.
*Book is on order and will be available soon! The publication date is September 21st, 2021.*
Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth-grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn.
*Book is on order and will be available soon!*
Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp’s exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.
*Book is on order and will be available soon!*
Join Luci, a western firefly, as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern. Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is?
For Sophia Hepworth, the terrors of living in dangerous places with her diplomat parents are nothing compared to facing American high school, but friendships and romance bloom just before her past catches up with her.
*Book is on order and will be available soon!*
Travel alongside one man’s journey as he falls into the dark recesses of his mind, finds inner strength, and is reborn in this narrative of the inner worlds. Like fighting a dragon with a toothpick, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder takes many forms and has many techniques to torture and abuse its victims. It feeds on fear, dread, and suffering.
This event will be held in person at the Library and virtually. Zoom link can be found on the event calendar.
Help your relationships and your body with this definitive guide on sleep for couples—with proven strategies to improve both sleep and relationship health—by a clinical psychologist named as one of the top experts on the science of sleep.
A Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing offers a novel about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation into American life.