Country Bookshelf

The Museum of the Rockies just opened its exhibit on Edward Sheriff Curtis, the controversial photographer, entitled “Edward S. Curtis: Artist as Ethnographer.”  The exhibit runs through May 10th, but if you’re intrigued by Curtis’ work, be sure to come in and see our collection of books of and on his work and legacy.

For more information on the exhibit, please contact the museum.  For information on the books, contact the Country Bookshelf.

• Edward Sheriff Curtis by Joanna Cohen Scherer (hardcover west $39.95)
• Edward S. Curtis: Vision of the First Americans by Don Gulbrandsen (hardcover west $29.99)
• Edward S. Curtis: The Women by Christopher Cardozo (hardcover west $35.00)
• Native Land Native People: From the Edward S. Curtis Collection by Wayne L. Youngblood (hardcover west $29.99)
• The Shadow Catcher: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins (paper literature $15) – This is a highly acclaimed novelization of the life of Edward S. Curtis.

Great news for local mountain sports enthusiasts — Stepping Up: A guide to The Ridge at Bridger Bowl (2nd edition) is now back in stock (front display $11.95).  Tavis Campbell and Sam Cox give you all the detailed information you need to safely navigate Bridger’s notorious Ridge.

These may go fast!  Don’t hesitate to reserve your copy today (call 406-587-0166 or email countrybookshelf@gmail.com).

 The Country Bookshelf is pleased to join with The National Women’s History Project and many of our local organizations and leaders to celebrate March as National Women’s History Month. 

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We have an excellent selection of books by and about incredible American women, including:

• To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay (hardcover new nonfiction $35

• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch (hardcover new nonfiction $30)

• Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (hardcover new nonfiction $26.95)

• A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter (hardcover new nonfiction $30)

• The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (hardcover new nonfiction $25.95)

• Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (hardcover Montana $29.95)

• This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund with Alan Kesselheim (SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS – paper signed shelf $13.95)

• Whispers on the Wind: Stories of Women from Montana’s History by Lauri Olsen (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR – paper signed shelf $13)

We also have a great selection of children’s nonfiction books on important women.  See the Kid’s Corner for more details.

And, while at the Country Bookshelf, be sure to browse our Women in the West section downstairs and the Gender section upstairs.

March 2009 National Women’s History Month!
Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet 

Every year, during the month of March, hundreds of thousands of events are held throughout the country to acknowledge and recognize the amazing accomplishments of women.

This national celebration and recognition of women’s historic achievements began in 1980 when National Women’s History Week was proclaimed by Presidential Proclamation. In 1987, this national celebration was expanded by Congressional Resolution to an entire month by declaring March as National Women’s History Month.

National Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to educate the general public about the significant role of women in American history and contemporary society. Establishing this focal celebration has encouraged schools to introduce new curriculum, and communities to recognize women who have been pivotal in their own communities.

The knowledge of women’s history provides a more expansive vision of what a woman can do. This perspective can encourage girls and women to think larger and bolder and can give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience.

Each March, to unify the observance of National Women’s History Month, a special theme is created. Women whose lives and extraordinary work exemplify the theme are selected as Honorees.

The theme for 2009 is “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.” This theme is timely in a year when the world is discussing the problems and repercussions of dramatic climate change s and the recognition of diminishing natural resources. If you think these ecological problems may be insurmountable, you will be encouraged and inspired by the dramatic actions of the 2009 Honorees.

The 2009 Honorees are women whose courageous, pioneering, and innovative leadership are helping to save our planet. There are over one hundred Honorees and their achievements and accomplishments span three centuries and seven generations. For each acknowledged NWHM Honoree, there are tens of thousands of other women who are equally committed and currently working in their own communities, states, and countries.

For more information about National Women’s History Month or for full list of the 2009 National Women’s History Month Honorees, visit www.nwhp.org.

Dear Country Bookshelf Patrons,

This newsletter brings two points of exciting news: 1) Cabin Fever Sale — 20% off all in-stock merchandise — this weekend and 2) the unveiling of the official Country Bookshelf website.  

This weekend,
Saturday and Sunday, February 21st and 22nd,
stave off cabin fever and
come to the Country Bookshelf
for 20% off
all books and cards in the store*
in our
Cabin Fever Sale! 

While you’re here, be sure to check out the Graphic Novel section which has moved to a more accessible location opposite Literature and Science Fiction/Fantasy (also, just below the Graphic Novels, you’ll find our new Horror/Supernatural Fiction section with everything from Dracula to Stephen King).

Country Bookshelf is now online!  Please take a few minutes to check out the new website at countrybookshelf.com, where you’ll find all the latest news at the bookstore, including event calendars, new books, what we’re reading, and links to useful places on the web for readers and booklovers.

Ordering books online from the Country Bookshelf:  Although the website is not set-up for e-commerce, you can always order books at any hour of the day or night via email at countrybookshelf@gmail.com.  In your order request, be sure to include

1. the book information,
2. quantity,
3. your name
4. a phone number where you can be reached
5. any preferences for billing, pick up, or shipment. 

Depending on your preferences and instructions, we will order the book(s) and call you when they arrive at the store (this is the default method), or contact you for billing information over the phone and send the books to your doorstep.  Many books arrive within 2-4 days of your order.

Don’t forget to sign the Guest Book on the website and email us at countrybookshelf@gmail.com with feedback on what you appreciate and/or what you’d like to see in future from the store, the e-newsletter, and the website.

Thanks as always for your support of us and all the other independent retailers in the community.
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Country Bookshelf
28 West Main
Bozeman, Montana 59715
406-587-0166
Store Hours: Monday – Saturday 9am – 6pm; Sunday 11am – 5pm
www.countrybookshelf.com
countrybookshelf@gmail.com

*Sale excludes special orders and gift certificates.

********As always, if you would like to be removed from our email list, please send an email to countrybookshelf@gmail.com with “Remove” in the subject line.**********

The National Book Foundation, who annually present the National Book Awards, has announced its 5 Under 35 authors.  According to their announcement,

These five writers, Matthew Eck, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Nam Le and Fiona Maazel, all under the age of 35, were selected by previous National Book Award authors who found the young writers’ debut work to be promising and exciting.

We now have bookmarks with this list, and several of the books are in stock.  All are available to order.

The authors, nominators, and book details are below:

For more information, please go to www.nationalbook.org.

We’ve recently moved the Graphic Novels to above the new Horror and Supernatural Fiction section, just across from both Literature and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Be sure to check out the new, more accessible Graphic Novel section next time you’re in the Country Bookshelf.

This website is under heavy construction. Please be patient and forgiving with us as we add and change. Feel free to drop us an email at countrybookshelf@gmail.com with any suggestions or requests.

Thanks,
The Country Bookshelf

If you are on our email newsletter list, you should have received this already.  If you are not signed up for our newsletter, then don’t wait!  Email countrybookshelf@gmail.com (don’t worry: you can unsubscribe any time and I promise that you won’t receive gobs of email or anything unrelated to the bookstore; in the past we’ve only sent out emails for events, but in the future we aim to send out a newsletter once every couple of weeks and no more than once a week).

Dear Country Bookshelf patrons,
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While we don’t have any events to tell you about, we do have lots of exciting books and book news to share.
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The PBS documentary to accompany the book Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith is scheduled to air on Montana PBS on Sunday, February 15th at 7pm.  You can go to www.montanapbs.org for more information.  The book is available in the store in hardcover for $29.95.
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New books in paperback this Tuesday the 10th of February include:

• The Age of American Unreason (Updated Post-Election Edition) by Susan Jacoby
• The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
• Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories by Steven Milhauser
• and the third and fourth books in the Martin Beck mystery series by Swedish authors Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, The Man on the Balcony and The Laughing Policeman (rereleased by Vintage Crime)

The Academy Awards will be given on Sunday, February 22, and many of the films nominated are adaptations of fascinating books.  Be sure to check out these titles, many of which are on display in the front of the store:

• Slumdog Millionaire (originally published as Q and A) by Vikas Swarup,
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates,
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink,
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (now available on its own),
• Frost/Nixon by David Frost with Bob Zelnick,
• Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, and
• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts.
• Also, Waltz with Bashir, the Israeli film nominated for best foreign language film, which was created simultaneously with a graphic novel of the same name by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, is scheduled to go on sale Tuesday, February 17th.  You can call to preorder your copy now.

The 2009 Newbery and Caldecott awards were just announced. 

• The Newbery Medal went to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Dave McKean).
• Ingrid Law’s Savvy won a Newbery Honor. 
• The Caldecott Medal was awarded to The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Swanson.
• Instant high demand has caused these to go on backorder, but you can still call to reserve copies.

Other recent award-winning books you may have missed and which are in stock at the Country Bookshelf (as of this writing) include:

Jennifer Lowe-Anker’s memoir Forget Me Not won the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature

The 2008 National Book Awards

• for Fiction: Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country
• for Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello
• for Poetry: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire
• for Young People’s Literature: Judy Blundell’s What I Saw and How I Lied; finalist Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

The 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize

• for Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• for History: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
• for Biography/Autobiography: Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
• for Poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass

And finally, here’s what some of the Country Bookshelf staff are reading right now (be sure to ask us about these when you come in or call):

• The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
• The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
• Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
• Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant
• What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
• Resistance: A Novel by Owen Sheers
• Hannah’s Dream: A Novel by Diane Hammond
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Thank you for reading, and please feel free to call or stop in to inquire about these titles or any other book needs we can help with.
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Best,
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The Country Bookshelf Staff