Author Talk

We are delighted to welcome local author Rick McIntyre to share his riveting book The Rise of Wolf 8. This astonishing true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone in more than 60 years following reintroduction efforts in 1995, efforts which will be celebrating their 25th anniversary on March 21st.  Authored by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, this title launches an original and bold new trilogy, Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, which will transform our view of wolves forever.

We are delighted to welcome local author Betsy Quammen to share her new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West. American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy. Today their cowboy confrontations threaten public lands, wild species, and American heritage.

We are excited to welcome MSU scholar Gretchen Minton to share her new book Shakespeare in Montana. Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a vast array of different voices that capture the state's love affair with the world's most famous writer.

We're delighted to welcome local archaeologist Carl M Davis to share his book Six Hundred Generations: An Archaeological History of Montana. In Six Hundred Generations Davis provides a stunning look at the archaeological evidence of Montana's long Indigenous human history. Focusing on 12 unique archaeological sites, the book takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time, technologies, and cultures.

We are soaring through World War II history with local author Dennis Gaub and his new book Midway Bravery:The Story of the U.S. Army Pilot Whose Famed Flight Helped Win a Decisive World War II Battle. Following the harrowing story of  Army Air Force pilot Jim Muri flying his torpedo-equipped B-26 bomber on a daring mission of survival that helped win the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He and his crew were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. His story serves as an example of dream, purpose, and passion fulfilled.

We're delighted to welcome back Ednor Therriault to share his new book Seven Montanas. While Montanans share a few attitudes and love of the land that attracts them to Big Sky country, it's the differences between the regions that truly give the state its unique flavor. Through interviews, photos, history and personal observations, author Ednor Therriault profiles each region and in the process gives a more complete view of the state as a whole.

We are fired up to welcome Montana author Chad Dundas back to share his newest book The Blaze, in which one man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in his Montana hometown--if only he could remember it.

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We are thrilled to welcome Montana author SM Hulse to share her newest novel Eden Mine. In Eden Mine, the award-winning author of Black River examines the aftershocks of an act of domestic terrorism rooted in a small Montana town on the brink of abandonment, as it tears apart a family, tests the faith of a pastor, and the loyalty of a sister, and mines the deep rifts that come when the reach of the government clashes with individual freedom. 

We're dying to welcome Kiersten White to share her newest novel in the Slayer-verse, Chosen. In Chosen, the second book in the Slayer series, Nina continues to learn how to use her slayer powers against enemies old and new in this second novel in the New York Times bestselling series from Kiersten White, set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

We are delighted to welcome Ed Marohn to share his new thriller, Legacy of War. A new patient triggers Psychologist John Moore's traumatic memories of his last days of the Vietnam War. Moore is forced to return to modern-day Vietnam, a journey confronting his past war demons: the dying on the killing fields, a rogue CIA agent, corrupt South Vietnamese Army officers, the father he never knew, and the war's perverted killing machine--the Phoenix Program.