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Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 7:54am

* Webers Reads The Founders and Their Documents continues with a readers theater event by Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room of the Stewart Library, 3848 Harrison Blvd, WSU, Ogden. This is a free event.

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Last updated Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 8:48am

* Susan Kent, history professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will present the Women's History Lecture at Weber State University at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Stewart Library Hetzel-Hoellein Room, 3848 Harrison Blvd., WSU, Ogden.

Kent specializes in modern British history, focusing on gender, culture, imperialism and politics. She has written several books about gender equality and women's struggles and is co-author of "The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria."

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Last updated Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 8:30am

Ogden author Michael Combe will sign and discuss copies of his novels "Trust With A Razor, And Other Tales From Two-Bit Street" (Mountainland Publishing, $7.95) and "Book 1 Of The Convergence Series, Moon Flower" (Mountainland Publishing, $9.99) 3-5 p.m. Saturday at Hastings, 340 E. 535 North, Harrisville. This is a free event.

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Last updated Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 6:11am

* Weber State University presents "Weber Reads: The French Declaration of the Rights of Man." The lecture, by WSU history professor Brady Brower, starts at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room of the Stewart Library, on campus at 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden. Admission is free.

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Last updated Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:43pm

OGDEN -- America's pioneers are often painted as daring men and women who yearned to see new lands. In reality, many of them yearned for their old homes.

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Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 5:09pm

* Utah author Kristen Chandler presents "My Path to Publication: Where I Met Big, Bad Wolves and Other Things that Tried to Kill Me" at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Brigham City Library, 26 E. Forest St. Chandler is the author of "Wolves, Boys And Other Things That Might Kill Me" and "Girls Don't Fly" (both Viking Books for Young Readers, $16.99). This is a free event.

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Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 12:04pm

-- As part of the Weber Historical Society's Fall 2011 Lecture Series, Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster present "The FLDS and the Outside World" at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lindquist Alumni Center, Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden.

Bringhurst, a retired history and political science professor from the College of the Sequoias in California, is the author and editor of numerous books and an FLDS scholar.

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Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 12:24am

* Author Brandon Sanderson, illustrator Mark Buehner, and Deseret Book editor Lisa Mangum will be speaking and answering questions during a special event at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Davis County South branch library, 725 S. Main, Bountiful.

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Last updated Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 9:19am

* Idaho poet Charles Potts will read from his work at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 101 of the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University, 700 E. 400 North, Logan, and at 7 p.m. Thursday during the Helicon West reading series at True Aggie Cafe, 117 N. Main, Logan. Last fall, Potts donated his collection to USU. The collection includes broadsides, correspondence, manuscripts, diaries and thousands of literary magazines and books Potts amassed from nearly five decades of writing and publishing poets.

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Last updated Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 2:00pm

* California author Jacqueline Berger reads from and signs "Loves, Lies, and Tears" (Roserita Books, $24.95) at 7 p.m. Tuesday at The King's English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City. The book is the second volume in a collection of inspirational biographies of the First Ladies -- including Ellen Wilson and Jacqueline Kennedy -- and the life lessons Berger learned from each woman.

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Last updated Friday, August 5, 2011 - 7:02pm

* Utah authors from the Eden Writers Group will be talking about and signing copies of their ghost stories book "Tales From Huntsville, Eden, Liberty And Beyond ..." (DMT Publishing, $9.99), 1-5 p.m. Saturday at Hastings.

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Last updated Monday, May 30, 2011 - 8:06pm

* Houston author Justin Cronin will discuss his blockbuster best-seller "The Passage" (Ballantine Books, $16) at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City. Cronin will also sign books at the event, which is free and open to the public.

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Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 2:01pm

• New York author Katie Arnold-Ratliff reads and signs her debut novel, "Bright Before Us" (Tin House Book, $14), at 6 p.m. Monday at Sam Weller's Bookstore, 254 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. This is a free event.

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Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 3:01am

* The Brigham City Library continues its reading discussion series "Final Salute" at 7 p.m. Thursday with "The Soldier's Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War" by Samuel Hynes. The discussion will be led by Sally Shigley of Weber State University.

Hynes, who was a Princeton literature professor, is closely acquainted with war, having served as a Marine pilot in World War II and the Korean War.

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Last updated Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 3:01am

* Kaysville native Christy Karras, author of "More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Utah Women" (Globe Pequot Press, 2010), speaks at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden. She plans to share favorite stories about Utah women and answer questions. The event is free.

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