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Chapter One Book Store

Dec

1

2025

Blue and orange hat with mesh back and word BOOKS on the front.

Bookstore Merch and Other Bookish Gifts!

Check out this sassy trail hat (good for sports or reading with that mesh and brim) from Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, MT. There’s more bookish merchandise where that came from, too. For the holidays and year ’round, many bookstores offer apparel, stickers, mugs, or other gifts for booklovers. Queen Anne Book Company in …

Aug

20

2021

Celebrate Bookstore Romance Day Saturday August 21, 2021

You deserve all the love, romance readers! Independent bookstores around the country (and beyond!) celebrate romance books and romance readers with the third Bookstore Romance Day on Saturday, August 21, 2021. Visit participating stores to browse their romance selections. Register for virtual events on both Saturday and Sunday (just note: the site has East coast …

Nov

23

2020

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill

“I like it’s about that they have dragons and they make tea out of their flowers. The art is so beautiful!” — Mikaela Skye, age 7, Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton, MT Find books about your favorite things from Chapter One Book Store and other independent bookstores.

Nov

16

2020

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

This excellent trilogy’s first book, The Fifth Season, begins on a dying world with a mother searching for her missing daughter. Opposing forces are using the power of the earth for their own benefit and using children as pawns in their struggle to control the world. This riveting trilogy will keep you on the edge of your …

Sep

18

2020

Ruthie Fear novel by Maxim Loskutoff

High Country News Reviews Maxim Loskutoff’s Debut Novel, “Ruthie Fear”

by Gabino Iglesias for High Country News Sept. 9, 2020 In a small Montana town, there’s a thing with feathers. Hope? Not so much. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel explores the fraught history of the Bitterroot Valley. In the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains in southwestern Montana, elk are bleeding. Some are dead. Others are still …

Jan

16

2015

2

remarks

Pete Fromm

Some of the Best Bookstores on the Planet

I sit back and read the announcement’s first paragraph, that whole thing about If Not for This being “crowned.” I reread that, all royalty. But then I get to the killer line, the Jurassic-scale fly in the ointment; “…we would like each winner to choose his or her favorite PNBA member bookstore…”  Seriously? One? I …

Jan

7

2015

2

remarks

Pacific Northwest Book Awards

2015 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners

We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards! A volunteer committee of independent booksellers chose these six books from more than 250 nominated titles published in 2014. A Shortlist of 15 finalists was announced in November. Original essays from each of the winners will be featured on this site over the …

Sep

12

2014

“If Not for This” Book Trailer and Review

Treat yourself to this book trailer for Pete Fromm’s latest novel, If Not For This, available now at your favorite localbookstores. Here’s what one of Fromm’s home field indies has to say:

Aug

13

2014

The Home Place by Carrie La Seur

“I shirked a lot of household chores this weekend to finish The Home Place, which alone might not be a glowing review (who wants to do chores?), but it means I set aside everything for 2 whole days. I don’t do that very often! I just had to find out what really happened. The characters are all …

Apr

3

2014

Chapter One logo

Happy 40th, Chapter One!

Chapter One Book Store is FORTY– and fabulous! The Hamilton, Montana indie will start celebrating on Friday, April 4th. Throughout the day will be sales. How much? On what? Stop by to find out. Their invitations promise “sales of our own quirky choosing.” Sounds fun to me! Treats and more will make Friday night fly …

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