Author Talk

We're so excited to welcome local author and ecologist Gary Ferguson to share his new book The Eight Master Lessons of Nature. With new insights into the inner workings of nature's wonders, Ferguson presents a fascinating exploration into how many of the most remarkable aspects of nature are hardwired into people's very DNA. What emerges is a dazzling web of connections that holds powerful clues about how to better navigate daily life.

Join Montana author Chris Warren for a reading of his new book Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country - an illustrated look at the five summers Ernest Hemingway spent near Yellowstone National Park in the 1930s. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains are connected to twelve of his most famous works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Join us for an evening of local short fiction from Maria Anderson and the students of the Griffin Writing Workshop. Join local writers - Ann Malabre, Hannah Roush, Brigitte Schulze and Ann Vinciguerra for reading of their short fiction. 

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We're so excited to celebrate Small Business Saturday with local author Kyle Steiner and his great picture books for kids, including his newest book Snow Ghost. 

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Join author Mackenzie Lee as she shares The History of the World in Fifty Dogs. Told in short, illustrated essays that are interspersed with both historical and canine factoids, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs brings to life some of history's most memorable moments through the stories of the dogs that saw them happen. Joining in on the canine fun will be Intermountain Therapy Animals with some dogs of their own. Also support our local animal shelter, Heart of the Valley, with a donation, or pick-up some volunteer information. 

Welcome local author, and journalist, Mike Dennison as he shares his new book Inside Montana's Politics: A Reporters View From the Trenches. For three decades, Mike Dennison has reported on campaigns, crime and community. He has covered razor-thin victories by Senator Jon Tester.

We're so excited to reminisce with local author Carolyn Hopper, as she regales us with fish tales with her new book Fishing With My Father, and examines two lives lived, that of father and daughter.

"Carolyn Hopper has penned a moving valentine to the most influential man in her life-a meditation on the current of life to which all daughters and their dads can relate." -Todd Wilkinson

We are extremely excited to welcome poet and novelist Shann Ray back to the Country Bookshelf to share his two newest books, Blood Fire Vapor Smoke - a collection of stories and Sweetclover his newest collection of poetry. 

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Join Bozeman grown debut author Tiana Smith as she shares her new young adult romance Match Me If You Can! 

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Hailed by the New York Times as “the father of American conservation,” George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938), the Brooklyn-born son of a banker, looked beyond a burgeoning cityscape and saw a brighter future for the whole country. In Grinnell, John Taliaferro traces the naturalist’s expansive trajectory from his time at Yale through his dozens of expeditions out west, riding alongside General Custer in the Black Hills before Little Bighorn, to the adventures that continued even after he became editor-in-chief of Forest & Stream.