Beware the Timid Life

That’s a Wrap!

Alastair Owen and Jakob Wehrman of Edelbytes & actor Eli
Alastair Owen and Jakob Wehrman of Edelbytes with actor Eli filming at the Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig, who so generously allowed us to shoot their glass harmonica which was played by Volker Friedemann Seumel and built in 1782.

Reading What’s Banned

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There is something good about trying out what we’re told is wrong. Something brave. Freedom requires moral courage. And moral courage often arises out of the ashes of moral failure.

Celebrate Banned Book Week with Dorothee

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Join Dorothee for a reading, discussion and signing of The Glass Harmonica at the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, 4pm, Saturday, October 1.

An Old-fashioned Valentine

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Our Puritan forefathers may not have been as virtuous as we were led to believe in history class. A thunderclap of revolutionary ideas, especially a right to happiness, echoed throughout the fledgling Republic, empowering young people to redefine traditional notions of love, marriage and personal fulfillment.

E-Book Revolution: Same story, different century

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I read in the bathtub and have always loathed e-books, but all that changed a year ago when an e-book publisher bought my debut novel. Since then, I’ve reconsidered my position, put today’s technology in context, and taken some comfort in knowing we’ve been in this kind of maelstrom before. Two hundred years ago, publishing ...