Author Talk

Two Montana authors read and discuss their fiction. Megan McNamer grew up in northern Montana and studied music at the University of Montana and ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. Home Everywhere, "a suitcase full of souvenirs scavenged from lives liberated, briefly, from the cares of the world", is her second novel. Christy Stillwell is the winner of the 2017 Elixir Press Fiction Award, a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Story Contest, a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship.

We are delighted to welcome Keith Aune to read from his new book, Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains. Rapidly disappearing bison in the late 1800s prompted progressive thinkers to call for the preservation of wild lands and wildlife in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to immortalize the West's most iconic species. Activists like Theodore Roosevelt rose to the call, initiating a restoration plan that seemed almost incomprehensible in that era.

Join us for a lively evening with award-winning radio journalist, author, teacher, community activist, and former TV reporter Jo Giese as she shares Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons From My Mother. At a turbulent time in America, when personal connections are fleeting and shared values rare, Giese offers uplifting lessons in old-fashioned civility in her memoir. A tender, pithy, and radiant tribute - the lessons are wisdom from a mother of the 20th century for a daughter in the 21st century.

We are delighted to welcome local author Joe Flynn to discuss his book The Miracle of Bubba, about the tenacity of one loveable dog after an acute accident. 

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We are excited to welcome author and photographer Michael Benanav to share his book Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals - and an Ancient Way of Life on Saturday, June 15th at 5pm. His presentation following his riveting travels among the Himalayas will be accompanied by some of his stunning photographs.

"Andrews’ wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts... Welcome and impressive work.” —Barry Lopez

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West

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Unearth your next thrilling read with Paul Skenazy and his new novella Temper, CA. A swerving family story set in a busted mining town - Temper, CA tells the story of a young woman's prodigal return to the town that bears her name. Joy Temper, a woman carrying the weight of her family, and a fair bit of California History, struggles through carrying her past and hopes for the future, and reconciling her many desires with her family. 

We are so excited to welcome Pete Fromm back for his newest book, A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do. Five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award, Fromm returns with his big-hearted new novel, a love story about family and resiliency and second chances. For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way.

Join us for an illuminating evening with Megan Griswold, author of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies - tracing one woman's lifelong quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir in remedies, Megan Griswold's narrative spans four decades and six continents--from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psychotropics of Brazil to academia, the Ivy League, and the study of Eastern medicine.