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Utah transplant Edward Power is the author of "Dragons in the Snow: Avalanche Detectives and the Race to beat Death in the Mountains." He used as a focal point a January 2017 "storm dragon" that began in the Gulf of Alaska and picked up steam until it reached Utah and dumped 5 feet of fresh snow in the Wasatch and the Uintas.

For the year, bookstore sales were down 28%, thanks to COVID-19. In other news, books by minister Ravi Zacharias are removed from print because of a scandal, and an influential literary theorist born in Newport News has died.

And other notes from the world of books.