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Dear Readers,  

We have two major readings scheduled for this spring, the launch of the Country Bookshelf Book Club, and a few other literary tidbits to share this month.    

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MOVIE READING  

With film awards season in full swing, we thought you might be interested in how many of recent films in theatre and on television have their origination in books.

Here’s a brief selection:  

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JON TURK READING & SIGNING  

Mark your calendars for an event with Montana author Jon Turk on Wednesday, March 10th at 7pm.   THE RAVEN’S GIFT: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness By Jon Turk

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 Jon Turk is a PhD who has written and published 24 environmental and earth science textbooks.  He has also paddled around the Cape of Good Hope in a kayak, traversed the Northwest Passage and retraced the voyages of the ancient Jomon people from northern Japan around the North Pacific rim to Alaska.  However, the strangest journey Jon has ever taken—a journey as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual— is told in THE RAVEN’S GIFT. 

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In 2000, in the remote Siberian village of Vyvenka, Jon Turk met an elderly woman named Moolynaut, a Koryak shaman and animist and learned about her voyages to the spirit world.  A year later, visiting her a second time, Jon fell and aggravated an old injury to his hip so badly that he was unable to walk.  Moolynaut performed a healing ritual involving the spirit of a great, black raven.  Despite Jon’s fears that the fall had broken the steel plate that holds his pelvis together, when the ritual was complete he was able to walk again without pain.   

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The man of science could find no rational scientific explanation for the healing and the experience changed his life, irrevocably altering his view of the connection between the different spheres of the natural world.  In an attempt to understand how Moolynaut had healed him, Jon sought understanding by skiing across the frigid tundra where Moolynaut was born and raised, camping frequently with isolated bands of migrating reindeer herders, recording stories of their lives and the animistic spirituality that informs their world view. 

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Filled with scenes of great natural beauty and informed by the spiritual questions he was asking, THE RAVEN’S GIFT is sure to become a classic of the nature shelf and will be embraced by readers interested in a spirituality outside the realm of most western understanding.  

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About the Author:  Jon Turk, a Ph.D., has written and published 24 environmental and earth science text books. He is a world-class adventurer whose expeditions are backed by companies like The North Face and Prijon, the leading manufacturer of kayaks in this country for whom he serves as a national spokesman. He is also a contributing editor for the online Adventure and Exploration Magazine. He currently alternates his time between Fernie, British Columbia and Darby, Montana.    

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BOOK CLUB  

Tuesday, March 23rd 7pm- Launch of the Country Bookshelf Book Club. Open to the public, this book club will discuss the month’s chosen literary fiction or nonfiction. The first meeting’s book selection will be announced after voting ends on Friday, March 5th. For more information and to vote for your preferred book please see the full announcement. Please email us at countrybookshelf@gmail.com if you have questions or suggestions. The first meeting will be led by bookseller Ariana.  

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ALREADY PART OF A BOOK CLUB? THEN FIND OUT A SIMPLE WAY YOUR CLUB CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.  

See this post for more information about an initiative by two Bozeman women called “Book Clubs to Books.” Brochures and stamped envelopes can also be picked up at our front counter.      

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MARK SPRAGG & LAURA BELL  

Tuesday, April 20th 7pm- Wyoming authors Mark Spragg & Laura Bell will grace us with a joint reading, Q & A and signing for their new books. Mark Spragg (author of An Unfinished Life and Where Rivers Change Direction) will read from his new novel Bone Fire, and Laura Bell will read from her memoir Claiming Ground. More details here.    

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MAILE MELOY ON YPR

This past Tuesday an interview with Helena-native and award-winning author Maile Meloy aired on Yellowstone Public Radio’s Home Ground. The audio is archived here. Well worth a listen – even if you saw her speak here last November.      

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Best,

The Country Bookshelf Staff �
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