Jul 24, 2022 175 Years Ago Today — Journey of the Utah Pioneers

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"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...

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Jul 19, 2022 Rare Books Presents: Hemingway Days

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction works between 1926 and his death in 1961. In celebration of this year’s...

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Jul 11, 2022 Rare Books Goes On Vacation!

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...

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Jul 05, 2022 Book of the Week — Cascadia

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“This book is a remembrance of what was lost, an appreciation of what is left, and a celebration of what could be. Forests are not eternal. For all their solemn stillness, they constantly change, evolve, die, and regrow. But they are persistent, and they always...

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Jun 21, 2022 Book of the Week — Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers

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"Yet he who praises Dr. Franklin for mere ability, praises him for that quality of his mind, which stands lowest in his own esteem. Reader, whoever you are, and how much soever you think you hate him, know that this great man loves you enough to wish...

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Jun 14, 2022 Book of the Week — Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa…

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Memorie di Matilda La Gran Contessa...

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May 30, 2022 Book of the Week — The Wild Gardens of Old California

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“On mesa and valley floor and treeless loma, the mantle of vivid green is overlaid riotously with color — the orange of California poppies; the blue and lavender of sturdy lupines and lolling wild heliotrope; the mauve of owl’s clover; the pale gold of sun-cups...

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May 16, 2022 Book of the Week — New Observations Concerning the Unicorn

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  De unicornu observationes novae Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) Second edition edited by Caspar Bartholin Amsterdam: apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1678 For thousands of years, in literature as well as in art, the unicorn has been depicted as a white horse-like animal with a long straight horn made up of spiraling grooves...

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May 06, 2022 Book of the Week — Un Viaje en Zeppelin

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"It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity...

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Apr 25, 2022 Book of the Week — Broncho Vs. Bicycle

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"The first we saw of that high-toned tramp war over thar' at our Pecos camp; he war comin' down the Santa Fe Trail astride of a wheel with a crooked tail, a skinnin' along, with a merry song, an' ringin' a little warnin' gong...

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