July 2016
Downtown Noir
Angie Ripple
I don’t often read for fun, but when I won a copy of Patrik Hill’s Downtown Noir at a recent Bozeman Maker’s Mark I couldn’t resist diving into the Bozeman Apocalypse crime novel. Having no idea what to expect I was instantly…
February 2016
Set in southwest Montana during the Great Depression years, Troy Kechely’s new novel, Stranger’s Dance, follows a small ranch family through the struggle to hold onto their land and their relationships with each other. In the opening…
December 2015
Review of Robert Staffanson’s New Memior
Bozeman author Robert Staffanson has penned an extraordinary memoir you must read to believe. It is courageous: Staffanson today is a civil rights activist battling racism against Native Americans in Montana and around the world. The book is…
November 2015
An Intimate Portrait of 399
I need to warn: In the new non-fiction book by Bozeman writer Todd Wilkinson, grizzly bears and people die tragically at the hands of each other.
“Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek, An Intimate Portrait of 399, the Most Famous Bear of Greater…
October 2015
Bozeman Public Library
What do digging holes and knitting sweaters have in common? Not much you may think, but both are the activities of choice in the witty, wonderful, and magical children’s books written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen. With the help…
May 2015
Claudia Krevat
Worse comes to worse, you can live off beans and rice, and a little bit of cumin”, said Juanita, my best friend’s mother, when she found out we were leaving sunny Miami, Florida, and moving to Montana. She knew about my healthy appetite…
May 2015
True Story of Michael Finkel
Pat Hill
A story about a bizarre chapter in a Bozeman writer’s life hit the big screen last month with the release of the film True Story.
March 2015
photos by Jenny Barth
”The whole goal is to get outside of the library walls,”
February 2015
Jean Conover
As I tiptoed up the stairs at the Country Bookshelf to hear Ken Egan Jr. talk I could hear his friendly voice wafting down answering a question from the audience about his new book, Montana 1864, which chronicles the year Montana became a U.S…
December 2014
The Montana Medicine Show’s Genuine Montana History
Jean Conover
Part-Vaudeville Show, Part-Drugstore, Part-Circus-on-Wheels
