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Two notable Utah books will be the focus of separate events this week. A release party for The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer: LDS News, Advice And Opinion, by the authors of the "Sugar Beet," an online satirical newsletter, is Thursday at 7 p.m. at Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, 254 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. The Enquirer, edited by Christoper Kimball Bigelow, co-author of Mormonism for Dummies, includes items culled from the Sugar Beet Web site and newsletter along with new material. Subject headings range from "SpongeBob Receives Mission Call" to "Gay Polygamists Make Bid for Legitimacy." People who come to the release party are invited to bring a casserole or Jell-O dish for the "favorite food of Zion" competition. Prizes will be awarded. For more information, contact thestore at 801-328-2856. On Friday, author Myriam N. Onyeabor will talk about Africa and her new book Stolen Heroes, a historical novel that features an Irish-American woman from Cedarville, Utah, who goes on a Peace Corps mission to Africa. Through her fictional character, Onyeabor explores the impact of the Peace Corps and Christian missions in post-colonial Africa in the 1960s.
The free lecture is at 10:40 a.m. at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.
