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Not All Great Minds Are The Same: Dr. Temple Grandin at Star Hall May 30, 6PM

May 30, 2023

Back of Beyond Books is excited to be part of Great Minds Are Not All The Same, the Moab Museum’s event with Dr. Temple Grandin at 6pm, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at Historic Star Hall.

The third week of May annually brings recognition to critical and endangered heritage breeds in order “to protect endangered livestock and poultry breeds from extinction.” In celebration of the Livestock Conservancy’s International Heritage Breeds Week, Moab Museum has spent time this month highlighting Heritage Breeds important to early agriculture in Southeastern Utah. Dr. Grandin’s visit will cap off this recognition of Heritage Breeds as she highlights the importance of Heritage Breeds and small farm operators. Tickets for this event are $45/non-members and $25/members.

About the Presenter: Dr. Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.  Facilities she has designed for handling livestock are used by many companies around the world.  She has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs that are used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and other corporations. Temple has appeared on numerous TV shows such as 20/20 and Prime Time.  Her books include: Thinking in Pictures, Livestock Handling and Transport and The Autistic Brain. Her books Animals in Translation and Visual Thinking have been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Temple was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in September 2017 and in 2022 was named a Colorado State University Distinguished Professor.

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"The Hounding" by Xenobe Purvis

An absolute knock-out debut! Once I read the logline, I was hooked, and it did not disappoint. Wonderfully crafted. Wonderfully written. Wonderfully told. An absolute page-turner. This book was layered, and infuriating, and mysterious and absolutely worth the read.

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"The Hounding" by Xenobe Purvis An absolute knock-out debut! Once I read the logline, I was hooked, and it did not disappoint. Wonderfully crafted. Wonderfully written. Wonderfully told. An absolute page-turner. This book was layered, and infuriating, and mysterious and absolutely worth the read. ✨ Review by Olivia ✨ Check out all her reviews on our staff picks page and/or purchase a copy for yourself by clicking the links provided in our bio!! #reading #books #Utah #bookstore #backofbeyondbooks #booksbooksbooks #bookstoread #BackofBeyondBooks #readers #moabutah

Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne was originally published in 1974 and had been out of print for years before it was republished this summer. The book blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, as Dunne recounts a “time both real and imagined” that he spent wallowing on the Vegas Strip. The narrative begins when the mortality-obsessed Dunne has a nervous breakdown and decides to leave his wife (acclaimed author Joan Didion) and their three-year old child to “look for salvation without commitment.”

Dunne is not in Las Vegas to gamble, he is instead searching for struggling people he can observe to make himself feel better about his own life. He meets a colorful cast of oddballs and outcasts, and ends up spending most of the book profiling a fame-seeking comedian, a sex worker trying to put herself through cosmetology school, and a private detective who specializes in tracking down errant husbands. Voyeuristic and grotesque, funny and poignant, empathetic and startlingly explicit, Dunne’s Vegas is certainly dated in many ways, yet I still found it to be a fascinating and disturbing depiction of Sin City. It’s a fever dream of a book that probably won’t inspire you to plan a trip to Nevada, but it’s an engrossing read that reminds you things could definitely be going worse.

▪ Review by Nat ▪

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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne was originally published in 1974 and had been out of print for years before it was republished this summer. The book blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, as Dunne recounts a “time both real and imagined” that he spent wallowing on the Vegas Strip. The narrative begins when the mortality-obsessed Dunne has a nervous breakdown and decides to leave his wife (acclaimed author Joan Didion) and their three-year old child to “look for salvation without commitment.” Dunne is not in Las Vegas to gamble, he is instead searching for struggling people he can observe to make himself feel better about his own life. He meets a colorful cast of oddballs and outcasts, and ends up spending most of the book profiling a fame-seeking comedian, a sex worker trying to put herself through cosmetology school, and a private detective who specializes in tracking down errant husbands. Voyeuristic and grotesque, funny and poignant, empathetic and startlingly explicit, Dunne’s Vegas is certainly dated in many ways, yet I still found it to be a fascinating and disturbing depiction of Sin City. It’s a fever dream of a book that probably won’t inspire you to plan a trip to Nevada, but it’s an engrossing read that reminds you things could definitely be going worse. ▪ Review by Nat ▪ Check out more of his favorites and purchase your copy from us by using our links in bio!! WWW.BACKOFBEYONDBOOKS.COM #reading #books #desert #moab #backofbeyondbooks #booksbooksbooks #Utah #BackofBeyondBooks #indiebookstore #moabutah #readers