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.

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)

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).

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.

Previous One Book Montana selections include:

• The Last Crossing by Gus Vanderhaeghe (paper literature $14)
• Fools Crow by James Welch (paper Montana $15)
• Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker (paper Montana $13.95)
• Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith (paper Montana $14)

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 (book is in stock $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.