Cathy Lanigan

On a remote, sparsely populated island, every person not only knows your entire life story, your parents’ life stories and their parents’ life stories as well. At least, they think they do.

Where is the line between love and trust? How do we balance our care for one another with precautions to protect ourselves? Belle Burden's new book “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage" shows us why these questions matter.

If all we really know about anyone else is what they show us, how do we decide who that person actually is? “The Correspondent” is the smash hit debut novel that explores that question.

Award-winning author and journalist Zak Podmore has spent more than a decade writing about water and conservation issues in the West. A longtime Utahn, Podmore will be discussing his new book about the state of Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam at the Park City Library on March 24th.

It’s summer, a perfect time to indulge our travel bugs. Whether you’re spending this summer crossing exotic locations off your destination wish-list or staying put right here in the Wasatch back, “The Paris Novel” offers a tasty escape.

For Parkites ready to settle in by the fire for a satisfying mid-winter’s tale, acclaimed Irish author Paul Murray is the storyteller they need. His new novel “The Bee Sting” is an epic that is as heart-breaking as it is heart-warming.

Many of us are observing what feels like a greater ideological divide between neighbors than at any time in recent memory. Now we have Heather Cox Richardson, an American economic and Boston College history professor to explain that divide in her new book, "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America."

After one of the longest Park City winters in recent years, and a cooler than average spring, Parkites may be relishing late summer warmth. At what point, though, do appealing summer temperatures become menacing threats to survival?

What price would you pay to achieve your ideal fate? Would paying that price make you morally compromised if that ideal fate was your destiny? In “Birnam Wood,” Eleanor Catton explores the loftiest of ideals and the price we may be tempted to pay to reach them.

Author and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Branch is the featured guest at this year's Park City Friends of the Library author luncheon.