11 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
JESS WALTER Reading & Signing Thursday, Nov 5th 7:00 pm F&F Downtown
THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF POETS
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11 / 6
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Heather Glenn Vines Signing Friday, November 6th 7:00 pm SCRUFFLES ADVENTURE SERIES Written by Heather Glenn Vines and illustrated by Joan Ranieri-Certain, this four-part children's series is about an elementary school-age girl Sara, and her Yorkshire terrier, Scruffles. The books follow the trusty but often mischievous dog and his adventures.
Visit their website for more fun and information! | ||
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11 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
JENNIFER CAREY Discussion & Signing Tuesday, Nov 10th 7:00 pm
F&F Downtown Even if they don't know much about rocks, most folks can name at least one place they have encountered granite. In everyday life you'll find countertops, headstones, flooring--even whole buildings made of granite. In the natural world it forms random boulders in fields and many of the planet's loftiest peaks. Commonness aside, no two granites are alike; it is a mysterious rock that crystallizes from magma miles and miles below the surface, far beyond the reach of human observation | ||
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11 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
This lecture series, "Put Your Writing to Work",
The talk on November 12th will feature Penny Orwick, a technical writer. Penny is a programmer and writer at Steyer Associates. | ||
11 / 13
Start: 7:00 pm
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Award-winning author Robert Boswell will give a craft talk on the art of fiction writing Friday, Nov. 13, 1 - 2 p.m. at the North Underground Lecture Hall, University of Montana. Robert Boswell
More on Robert Boswell. . .
Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a 2009 story collection with Graywolf Press. His novels include Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts. His other story collections are Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies. Boswell has two nonfiction books: The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His cyberpunk novel Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play Tongues | ||
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11 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
Timothy Egan Reading & Signing Wednesday, November 18th 7:00 pm THE BIG BURN In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men -- college boys, day-workers, immigrants from mining camps -- to fight the fires. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, through the eyes of the people who lived it. Equally dramatic, though, is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. The robber barons fought him and the rangers charged with protecting the reserves, but even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by those same rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today. THE BIG BURN tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time. | ||
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11 / 26
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11 / 27
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
JANICE MINEER
Gingerbread Houses and Signing | ||
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12 / 4
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
FATHER JIM HOGAN
Signing Start: 7:00 pm
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, award-winning fiction writer and oral historian Peter Orner will read from his recent work and sign books Friday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. at the Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall of the University of Montana
More about Peter Orner. . .
Peter Orner is the author of the novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006--a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and the story collection, Esther Stories
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12 / 5
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Heidi Anderson Signing GOODNIGHT TINY MOUSE 11:00 to 1:00 F&F Downtown Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
BIPIN PATEL Signing TIPU'S TIGER RECIPE BOOK 1:00 to 3:00 pm F&F Downtown Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
ANA GREER Signing JUST PERFECT 2:00 to 4:00 pm F&F Downtown
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