| Show 2D Sunday January 20 2002 Books t Standard-Examin- BOOKMARK BOOK BRIEFS Geister headlines event OGDEN - Layton resident and author fashion show and opening of the “Olympic Memorabilia Exhibit” For information call Planet Rainbow Hems-mus- t be submitted to the Standard-Examinby noon on 9 the Wednesday poor to publication For information call er 625-427- John Geister will be the “outstanding at author” during Planet Rainbow’s “Winter Bookstore Grand Opening” on Saturday Geister a commercial photographer SALT LAKE CITY - Ken Sanders has “Utah Skiing A Rare Books will host the publication e Scenic View” ($3995) The party for “The Olympic Century: The hardcover book features 12 chapters Official History of The Modem Olympic each devoted to a Utah ski resort Movement” (World Sport Research and “Each resort has its own chapter” Publications $600) Geister said in an interview for a The event scheduled to be held at 8 Standard-Examinstory last year pm Feb 7 at Ken Sanders Rare Books “There’s not a lot of writing It’s not a 268 S 200 East Salt Lake City will tour guide - just the scenery of our feature advance copies of the Utah mountains” work Members of the editorial staff for The book has been a popular item at the books will be on handto answer Planet Rainbow outselling all other questions books during the last five weeks In addition artifacts from the first modem Olympics held in Greece m according to a press release Geister’s signing from 3 to 5 pm will 1896 will be on display The items include clothing medals programs a only be part of the “Winter Grand large diploma given to athletes and the Opening” Confirmation of other author’s appearances was not available passenger list of the flight that brought at press time However events at Planet the American team to Athens Rainbow located at the mouth of Ogden The volumes which cover one r Canyon include a ribbon cutting Olympiad include both the ceremony for “The Olympic Gallery” a Summer and Winter Games that occurred during that time In addition a display of over 2500 Olympic pins a 392-390- 2 Signings readings and events hosts party READINGS June Jordan reads from her poetry works as part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Senes 7 pm Thursday at Westminster College the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business 6 Auditorium 1840 S 1300 East Salt Lake City KIDS’ STUFF StorTlme at 1 1 am Wednesday at Barnes & 3 Noble 1780 N Woodland Park Drive Layton Bilingual Children’s Story Time at 10 am Saturday at Weber 9 County Library 2464 Jefferson Ave Ogden 1 at Barnes & Noble at Time Saturday Story pm Saturday 1 1102 E 2100 South Salt Lake City A Saturday Stories at 2:30 pm Saturday at Jorgensen's 1885 3 W 5075 South Roy 144-pag- 832-237- Pre-scho- ol 773-997- er 337-263- 463-254- 825-825- MISCELLANY Books put Utah in spotlight By TAYLOR FIELDING r staff £ £Utah” by Karen Sirvaitis (Lerner Publications $695) Lemer’s publicity information declares this book to be a “useful Utah pocket guide just in time for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games” However upon closer inspection of the fine print one notes that the book is intended for ages 8 to 11 The book begins with Utah’s geography and climate as well as notable flora and fauna Subsequent chapters focus on Utah history the state’s changing demographics and the Utah prairie dog Also included is the music and verse from the state song a recipe for Navajo fry bread and a number of pages devoted to quick facts A timeline in the book (and the text) misses out on Miles Goodyear’s founding of Fort Buenaventura in the Ogden area in 1845 but does note the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in 1847 Interestingly on a list of “Outstanding Utahns” readers will find Jim Bridger and Butch Cassidy rubbing elbows with Brigham Young and Rosanne Barr as well as Donnie and Marie Osmond A Bilingual Book Discussion (discussion group leader to be announced) features “Woman Hollenng Creek" by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage Books $1 1) at 7 pm Tuesday at the Weber County Library Southwest Branch 1950 W 4800 South Roy Utah State Poetry Society South Valley Chapter Meeting 6:30 pm Wednesday at the Murray City Library 168 E 5300 4 South Murray June Jordan speaks on diversity and activism as part of the KeyBank Cultural Diversity Lecture Senes 7 pm Wednesday at Westminster College the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business 2 Auditorium 1840 S 1300 East Salt Lake City Dean Hughes author of “The Children of the Promise" series will present the keynote address at “From Reader to Writer III: Thoughts on the Author’s Business” at 10 am Saturday at the South Branch Library 725 S Mam St Bountiful Hughes will then join a panel to discuss various aspects of the writing business Other panel members include: Alan Millard author “The Great Salt Lake Guidebook" Brandon Gibbs freelance writer and Salt Lake Tnbune journalist and Monica Weeks book editor at Gibbs Smith 2 Publishing JUST PUBUSHED “The David Shields of Salt Lake City has Pendulum’s Path” ($1899) the story of a man searching for his ongins in 1940s Salt Lake City Noah Blausteln of Los Angeles is the editor of the recently published “Motion: American Sports Poems” (University of Iowa Press $1595) The book contains over 90 poems on contemporary sports like baseball and football to the fnnge including surfing karate and curling Contnbutors include Hayden Carruth James Dickey Thom Gunn and Carl Sandburg - Standard-Examinstaff and wire reports 773-255- 6 new volume will be added after every four-yeOlympiad is concluded with Volume 25 covering Sydney 2000 and Salt Lake 2002 released in 2004 - 263-400- ar four-yea- Standard-Examine- er 832-282- Guide to Nortli American Railroad HOTSPOTS J David Ingles 451-232- A pronunciation guide on 80 helps kids with tough page words like “Deseret” and “Uinta” but unfortunately “Tooele” “Weber” and “Hooper” didn’t make the list “Guide to North American Railroad Hot Spots” by J David Ingles (Kalmbach Books $2495) This book from the publishers of Trains magazine contains 100 sites from which to observe railroads in action Ingles distilled the information on the sites - in 36 US states and four Canadian provinces - into this book form Included in the book are history train frequency two sites in Utah Soldier typical locomotives radio Summit and Weber Canyon channels and other detailed These sites like the others in information the book are considered “hot” e The softcover because of the frequency of book contains 100 photos of train traffic in the area Sites trains on glossy paper And had to average one train an with dimensions of 8 14 by hour or 24 per day to be 5 12 inches it would fit included in the book nicely into the glove compartment of a vehicle Each entry includes information such as You can reach reporter 9 directions from the nearest or Taylor Fielding at site or city highway major tfteldingstandardnet MOREIBOOKSiTHANiBRJUN 208-pag- 625-427- VAILABLE HOT TICKETS TO CEREMONIES limited number of tickets are left Don't miss your chance to see some of the most exciting events of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games A Date Single Event Tickets 2802 Opening Ceremony $320 - 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