One Book One Bozeman 2010

All of Bozeman – including MSU’s incoming freshmen – will be reading local author Kevin Michael Connolly’s memoir, Double Take this fall.  Look for events in cooperation with the library and MSU, including the freshman convocation that will be free, open to the public, and held at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. We have signed hardcover copies ($19.99) and the newly-released paperback ($14.99) in stock.

For information about convocation, please visit: http://www.montana.edu/convocation/

For more information (when it is available) on the One Book One Bozeman initiative, please visit:

http://www.onebookonebozeman.org/

For more information on Kevin, his current work, and Double Take, visit his site: http://kevinmichaelconnolly.com/

One Book Montana

Selected Poems by Richard Hugo was announced this week as the 2010 One Book Montana. We have a few copies in stock now and more on the way.

Here are the previous books chosen as One Book Montana picks:

2009 – The Surrounded by D’Arcy McNickle

2008 – Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

2007 –  The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

2006 – This House of Sky by Ivan Doig

2005 – Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith

2004 - Fools Crow by James Welch

2003 – Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker

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Montana Poet Laureates

2009-2011 – Henry “Hank” Real Bird – None of his collections are currently available, but copies of the anthology Cowboy Love Poetry which features some of Real Bird’s work are on order.

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2007-2009 – Greg Pape – His collection American Flamingo is currently in stock.

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2005-2007 – Sandra Alcosser – Her collection Except by Nature is currently in stock. 

More information about the Montana Poet Laureates can be found here.

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2009 Montana Book Awards

Congratulations to Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the most recent winner of the Montana Book Award. This book is now in paperback, and we have a limited number of signed copies.

Montana Book Award Honors for 2009 also went to:

• 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster
• The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
• Stick Horses and Other Stories of Ranch Life by Wallace McRae
• The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

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Local author Phyllis Smith on YPR

Phyllis Smith and William Hoy, authors of The Northern Pacific Railroad & Yellowstone National Park, discussed their book with George Cole in an interview which aired on Yellowstone Public Radio on Monday, March 22, 2010. You can listen the interview here.

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Maile Meloy on YPR

2/25/2010 – 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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New Montana Books of 2009

The Northern Pacific Railroad & Yellowstone National  Park by Phyllis Smith and William Hoy (paper $24.95).

Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman by the Montana Historical Society (paper $24.95).

Montana Watering Holes: The Big Sky’s Best Bars by Joan Melcher (paper $16.95).

Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley by Ted Leeson (hardcover $24.95).

Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales by M. Mark Miller (paper $16.95).

Stick Horses and Other Stories of Ranch Life by Wallace McRae (hardcover $19.99)

Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own edited by Sarah Carter (paper $17.95)

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Thomas Savage’s The Pass

For those many of you who have loved Thomas Savage’s The Power of the Dog and The Sheep Queen, his novel The Pass is now available (paper $12.95).

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One Book Montana

2009

The Surrounded by D’Arcy McNickle was recently named the 2009 One Book Montana selection. 

THE SURROUNDED is now in stock!

2008

The 2008 reading selection for the state of Montana is Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson.  We at the Country Bookshelf read this book early and recommend it highly.  As a bonus, this book is both accessible and appropriate for adults and teens.  It is available in paperback for $8.99.

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One Book – One Bozeman

For 2009, the local selection is The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez ($15). This book is also the Montana State University 2009 Freshman Convocation read.

Bozeman’s fall 2008 community read was Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (paper biography $15.95).

Unofficially, the 2007 local book was Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea (available in hardcover or paper on display in the front $25.95/$15).  This book is now available in a young reader’s version and a picture book version for smaller children.