Book 1 of the Bozeman Apocalypse Series

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…

For The Love of Dogs - and a good dog story

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…

Bozeman's Choice is the People's Choice

Angie Ripple

On Oct. 16 our first-ever Bozeman’s Choice Reader’s Poll went live and our readers responded immediately. The big, giant, massive poll covered everything from local restaurants to local media, to arts and entertainment and everything in…

Witness to Spirit My Life with Cowboys, Mozart and Indians

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…

The Most Famous Bear of Greater Yellowstone

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…

8th Annual Children’s Festival of the Book

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…

Appetite Travel: Touring the Earth’s Pulse

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…

A Bookmobile for Bozeman

photos by Jenny Barth

”The whole goal is to get outside of the library walls,”

Interview with B. Derek Strahn

The Montana Medicine Show’s Genuine Montana History

Jean Conover

Part-Vaudeville Show, Part-Drugstore, Part-Circus-on-Wheels

Stopping At Every Lemonade Stand:

How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids By James Vollbracht

Angie Ripple

This summer our neighbors spent time with our children and their children building a very nice lemonade stand. I mentioned the lemonade stand at an appointment; how well the girls were doing, and how much fun they were having. The receptionist…