TERRY BROOKS
Reading & Signing
Wed, September 9th 7:00 pm
A PRINCESS OF LANDOVER
After fourteen years, Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. Ben Holiday, Chicago lawyer and mere mortal turned monarch of enchanted Landover, has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers–his teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girls’ prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit.
But back home in Landover, Mistaya’s frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library. Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king’s ransom in moldy books–and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her–Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.
NEIL McMAHON
Reading & Signing
Thurs, September 17th 7:00 pm
DEAD SILVER
After a twenty-year absence Renee Callister is back in Helena to bury her estranged father, John Callister long believed to have had a hand in his wife's murder when she was protesting the opening of a controversial silver mine. But the discovery of disturbing photographs and one silver earring in her father's home is causing Renee to reexamine her stepmother's death in a shocking new light--and sending her to Hugh Davoren, for help. A Habitat Week event!
PHIL CONDON
Reading & Signing
Fri, September 25th 7:00 pm
NINE TEN AGAIN
NINE TEN AGAIN is a spellbinding gathering of narratives in which people in difficult circumstances face moments of decision and revelation, while the shadow of the United States' military involvements abroad often fall heavily over them. —-RT Smith, a judge for the Elixir Press Fiction Award
POETRY READING
Tues, September 29th
7:00 pm
Join us for an evening with two long time Montana
residents reading from their new collections.
DAN GRAVELEY reads from APPLE MOON
RON MOSER reads from HEY DUKE!
This lecture series, "Put Your Writing to Work", will feature three different professionals who use writing in their various careers. The lectures will take place on the second Thursdays of October, November, and December.
The talk on October 8th will feature Jeff Hull, a magazine writer. Join us as he talks about his career in writing!
Visit this page to learn more about Jeff Hull: http://www.umt.edu/Journalism/about_the_jschool/Faculty_pages/hull.html
Kevin Canty
Reading & Signing
Friday, October 9th 7:00 pm
WHERE THE MONEY WENT
Few writers are as praised as Kevin Canty, a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, he has crafted a luminous collection bursting with intensity of emotion, evoking at its core the very human need to make sense of a nonsensical world.
From the narrator who struggles with his abiding loyalty to his ex-wife when he finds love with another woman to the newly divorced man who learns more than he wants to know about his friends' long-term marriages, these nine stories incisively touch on the complex nature of love from a male perspective. Canty, whose writing has been praised as, “smart, gritty, unsentimental” (The New York Times), “lovely and unforgiving” (The Boston Globe), “enchanting and painful” (USA TODAY), powerfully conveys both the bitterness that can afflict romantic relationships, and the moments of tenderness that cut through it.
