Leif Peterson | Normal Like Us
From ice fishing on a couch, to dogs that are angels and modern-day fertility rites, Leif Peterson's new collection of 14 stories paints upon a wide canvas, using every color on the palette. Many of these stories first appeared in magazines and journals including Montana Quarterly, Whitefish Review, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine and Rosebud. Read more
Mary Clearman Blew | Jackalope Dreams
"She's been facing the weather too long, she's got a temper like a bad windstorm and she's too old to be starting over." But Corey Henry is indeed starting over, after years of teaching at the one-room Mill Creek school that's been shuttered by the school board. And then her dad, the crusty old rancher, war veteran and legendary rodeo star who runs his daughter's life, shoots himself in his pickup. Read more
Russell Rowland | The Watershed Years
For rancher Blake Arbuckle, married at last to his long-time love, with a child on the way and the family ranch finally profitable, peace and prosperity should be close at hand. Instead, his conniving sister-in-law, the return of an unpredictable older brother and his father's sudden and suspicious death create a cauldron of family passion and deceit in this sequel to Russell Rowland's acclaimed first novel, In Open Spaces. Read more
Kathe LeSage | One Woman’s Montana, Photographs by Kathe LeSage
Opening Kathe LeSage's collection of photographs is like stepping into a luminous world, where surface, texture and light are paramount. From her studies of the wing and underbelly of a mallard and the radiant limbs of dogwood and snakegrass, to sweeping landscapes - antelopes on spring-green slopes, geese winging across a sepia sky, snow-skinned purple mountains, a black highway slinking over the white horizon - her artistry conveys a deep knowing of her home state. Read more
Karen L.J. Isaacson | Life in the Fast Brain, Keeping Up With Gifted Minds
Karen Isaacson of Stevensville offers a delightful sequel to Raisin' Brains: Surviving My Smart Family, that's brimming with amusing anecdotes and armed with coping strategies for living with a family whose gray matter processes thoughts and ideas "in the fast lane." Her five children are older and more mature since her first book, but they still supply Isaacson with plenty of material to illustrate the unique challenges that arise in a household of gifted minds. Read more
Theresa Boyar | Kitchen Witch
Insurrection in the kitchen, getting lost in a maze of maize and the "apocalypse documentaries" of late-night TV ("the earth holds more lava than I ever could have guessed") are all fodder for poet Theresa Boyar. Her chapbook offers a funny, prickly, and sometimes darkly drawn ode to domesticity. Read more
John Crawford | Lewis & Clark and Me II, The Journey West Continues
In his second book, Lolo author John Crawford recounts his intense and personal adventuring along a portion of the Lewis and Clark Trail where the Expedition overcame seemingly insurmountable difficulties when a dangerous high-country snowstorm threatened its very survival. Crawford, who actually followed the path of the explorers, completes the analysis of Lewis and Clark’s travels over the Bitterroot Mountains that he began in Lewis and Clark and Me, publshed in 2005. Read more • (1) Comments