Fish: 77 Great Fish of North America, by artist, Flick Ford, $50.00 hardcover.These detailed, never-before-published watercolor portraits, with text by the master of sport fishing, Dean Travis Clarke, combine to make an upscale guide for the naturalist, an aid to the angler, a tool for the educator and conservationist, and an enjoyable read. A beautiful book.

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, $17.00 paperback. Diamond is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel.  In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds. It begins with an absorbing chapter about intersection of environment and people in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.

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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. A Family Daughter is a dazzling book 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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The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig, $25.00, hardcover. The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways. The long-awaited novel has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.The book has been receiving excellent advance praise.

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Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, $26.95, hardcover. The author of The Botany of Desire, a long-time staff favorite delivers an even more beautifully written and fascinating book, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. “Michael Pollan is such a thoroughly delightful writer - his luscious sentences deliver so much pleasure and humor and surprise as they carry one from dinner table to cornfield to feedlot to forest floor, and then back again - that the happy reader could almost miss the profound truth half hidden at the heart of this beautiful book: that the reality of our politics is to be found not in what Americans do in the voting booth every four years, but in what we do in the supermarket everyday.” - Mark Danner

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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.