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The Montana Book & Toy Company is an independent, community book and toy store located in historic downtown Helena since 1978. We at the Montana Book & Toy Company listen carefully to our customers opinions and recommendations. We also stay informed of new books, games, toys and information; and we read countless reviews. If you have questions about any titles, just contact the Montana Book & Toy Company, and we would be happy to elaborate. Most importantly, please share some of your favorites with us.
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Thistle poems by Jefferson City Poet, Melissa Kwasny, $18.00 paperback. These thirty-seven poems are eccentric in the true meaning of the word—off-center. Their titles, bearing the names of weeds, flowers, herbs, trees, are merely points of departure. “How hard can it be,” the poet asks, “to lie down in the green / mussed bed of the senses . . . In clover.” Whether it’s clover or rue, aspen or moss, the reader is invited into that rumpled but rich bed.”
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The Secret Sisters by Joni Rodgers, $23.95, hardcover. Joni is a former Helena resident and author of two other novels, Crazy for Trying and Sugarland. She is also the author of the moving and hilarious cancer memoir, Bald in the Land of Big Hair. Poignant, powerful and surprisingly erotic, The Secret Sisters is a novel about the intertwined lives of 3 very different sisters bound together by loss and set free by love.
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Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Freethinking Dog
$25.00 While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote, an award-winning nature writer, met a dog – a Labrador mix – who was living on his own in the wild. Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home to rural Wyoming. There, he realized that Merle’s native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in. A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author, Merle’s Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine. This chronicle of their 13 years together is interspersed with studies by animal behaviorists into the origins and evolution of the human-dog partnership. Kerasote’s strong love for Merle and his enthusiasm for life in the wild will win over readers.
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Medicinal Plants of North America
Missoula author, Beth Judy-
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The Roswell Legacy by author, Jesse Marcel, Jr. The focus in this book will be to present the reader with a clearer picture of the man who was - and remains - at the center of the Roswell controversy; Jesse Marcel, Sr. The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. Truth is an excellent curative for false proclamations. The Roswell crashed saucer retrieval is one of the most important UFO cases ever, anywhere. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a good deal of important new material.
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Putting a Face on AMERICA By Lyn Hanush. WALK ACROSS AMERICA. The Great American Journey team completed their 14 month prayer walk across America on July 23, 2004 at The Southernmost Point (in the Continental USA) marker in Key West, Florida. Total mileage of the 14 month walk through 15 states was 4,026.5 miles. You’ll see God’s sometimes miraculous provision for them, and the delays that were really opportunities.
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A Poet’s Story by author, Kerri Lyn Kumasaka: For the Poet within Every One of us.
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Richard Buswell: Traces – Montana’s Frontier Revisited: Black and white photographs of Montana's back country frontier. The exhibition contains photographs of hidden Montana ghost towns and isolated sites of early settlement. Through photographs of personal possessions and eroding structures, Dr. Buswell tells tales of nature’s reclamation of frontier sites. His new work explores abstract patterns seen in landscapes and everyday objects.
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Training People: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Human
$14.95 written by Helena author, Brian Kahn...actually written by Tess of Helena—his dog. Tess of Helena is a noted authority on pheasants, mallard ducks, Canadian geese, and cats. Her revolutionary techniques for training humans have transformed the field & earned her the International Association of Canines’ “Dog of the Decade” award.
For centuries, dogs have known that they, not humans, run the show. But not all dogs know how to get the best from their people. Finally, from the leading expert in the field comes a straightforward, easy-to-use manual that's written for dogs by a dog. This indispensable reference provides foolproof advice on obtaining everything a dog deserves, from the best food and exercise to grooming and chauffeur services. Here are all the tools a dog needs for selecting, training, and living with a well-behaved human.
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Women’s Journey to Wellness: Mind, Body & Spirit
by author, Linda Ellis Eastman $19.95
Twenty-five consultants, coaches, and professionals share powerful tips for stress management, building self-esteem, and relaxation. Also,
15 ways to pamper yourself and Healing the Inner Child - Dealing with the unexpected
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At The Water’s Edge: God’s Grace In Everyday Things
Written by IR columnist Joan Uda. God’s grace in everyday life. Words of grace: relationships, loving the unlovable, the common good, welcoming the stranger, stewardship, cultural differences. Including many published columns and new items. Joan writes a column for the Helena Independent Record. “The essays in this book were written during the past two years, starting about nine months after I experienced open heart surgery….I learned during my recuperation that there are vistas of appreciation and love far beyond what I’d known. It also taught that, however far I may have come, my journey has barely begun.” The essays tell of life, family and most of all faith.
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A Peaceful Mind by Barry Scheiber & his Burnese therapy dog, Moritz. This newest addition to the adventures of Moritz has the dog facing uncomfortable traveling conditions in Switzerland which he manages to overcome by having a “peaceful mind”.
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Ghost of Schafer Meadows
Written by Beth Hodder. When her father accepts a job at the Schafer Meadows Ranger Station in Montana’s Great Bear Wilderness, Jessie Scott, 12, is devastated. She has to leave her best friends in New Mexico for a life without TV, cell phones, the Internet, or even electricity. To help ease the pain of moving, her father gets her a puppy. Together, Jessie and her dog, Oriole, explore their new home as Jessie seeks answers to strange happenings, stolen food, and a ghost that won’t leave her alone.
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Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates
With the publication of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates, Drumlummon Institute of Helena, Montana, brings back into print the poetic works of a leading 20th-century writer of the American West. Edited by Lee Rostad and Rick Newby, the substantial collection showcases more than 200 of Coates’ “irresistible, poignant and authentic” poems. Caroline Patterson, editor of Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, says of Food of Gods and Starvelings, “Like a twentieth-century Emily Dickinson, [Grace Stone Coates] writes of the world around her from the small town of Martinsdale, Montana, and her poetry is at once as sweeping and as precise as the prairie she lived on. With startling imagery and philosophical acuity, she explores the emotional landscape between men and women, mothers and daughters, small-town neighbors, and between a lonely woman and the landscape she lives in. Her voice rings clear, her eye is sharp, and her music is unerring.”
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Cromwell Dixon: A Boy & His Plane
Written by Martin Kidston. This biography is an account of Cromwell Dixon, boy aviator, who was not only the youngest licensed pilot in the country, but also the first pilot to fly across the Continental Divide. His fame was cut short when he died in a crash two days after this amazing stunt.
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First Dog: Unleashed in the Montana Capitol
$11.95 Written by Jessica Solberg and illustrated by Robert Rath. The story about Governor Schweitzer's dog, Jag. First Dog is Jag's story of how a cow dog from a farm in Whitefish, the last pup in the litter, traveled to Helena and became the First Dog. Featuring fun and fascinating information about what a governor does and how Montana government works, First Dog teaches kids that government belongs to them - and shows that one day, they, too, could be sitting at the governor's desk.
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Kathe LeSage - book of photographs ”One Woman’s Montana”
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Jim Robbins “Open Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body”
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Dr. Richard Lambert - “Self Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas: The Angelic Doctor on the Soul’s Knowledge of Itself”.
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Jean Baucus - “Helena: An Illustrated History”
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We have only highlighted a few of the Montana Book Company favorites. Please contact us for more information or wonderful suggestions. We at the Montana Book Company are always happy to go the extra mile to research your questions.
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