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When Rain Falls
Helena illustrator, Connie Bergum, has a new picture book out from Peachtree Publishers. When Rain Falls by Melissa Stewart is a non-fiction, colorful look at the amazing ways animals behave and interact with their environment on a rainy day. Connie’s watercolors are beautiful portraits of both the animals and their habitats. $16.95

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The Secret Sisters by Joni Rodgers, $23.95 hardcover. From the author of Bald in the Land of Big Hair comes the story of three very different women and the surprising journey each one takes as she reinvents her life after loss.

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A Family Daughter by former Helenan, Maile Meloy, $24.00, hardcover. Meloy is the author of the story collection, Half in Love and the novel, Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, and she has received the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. From the award-winning author of Liars and Saints comes a dazzling sequel about families, love and the desire to reimagine one’s own history.The brilliantly entertaining, powerfully moving novel follows the fascinating Santerre clan to Argentina. Recommended by customers, Montana Book Company staff and independent booksellers nationwide!

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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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Three Cups of Tea by Bozeman author, Greg Mortenson. The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.

Award-winning journalist David Oliver Relin has collaborated on this spellbinding account of Mortenson's incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself. At last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

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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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The Roswell Legacy by local 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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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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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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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 20^th-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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Helena: An Illustrated History, by Jean Baucus. 

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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.