Everyone’s favorite fermented crime fighter is back! His return is great news for humanity since nefarious veggies are on the rise and they want to lay down their roots and spread all over the planet. Jo Jo, also known as Soft Wear, is itching to be Magic Pickle’s sidekick, but only if he’ll accept her …
A book this fun has no business being so interesting and thought-provoking. Hella is a low gravity world home to massive wildlife ( a.k.a. giant dinosaurs) and even larger weather patterns, a combination that forces the colonists trying to build a home there to adapt to their surroundings in profound ways. Seasonal migrations, strong communal …
From Shelf Awareness June 21, 2021: A proposal to paint four crosswalks at one intersection in Hamilton, Mont., in rainbow colors during Pride month was voted down last week by the city council, but high school students who supported the effort decorated the windows at Chapter One Bookstore “with rainbows and messages of inclusiveness and diversity,” Ravalli Republic reported. Chapter One …
Some schools try to expand reading horizons by encouraging children to “read around the library” by reading books from a required list of genres. Chapter One Bookstore in Hamilton, MT, challenges grown-ups to push past their comfort zone with the Chapter One Reading Challenge. It’s not too late to start. We challenge you to read …
In celebration of the store’s 38th birthday, Chapter One owners Shawn Wathen and Mara Lynn Luther have specially marked 38 books around the Hamilton, MT, store, and if a customer happens to buy one of the books this week he or she gets 38 percent off. A nice surprise, that’d be. They’ve also got a …
When what to our wondering eyes should appear, but Pete Fromm in a stache with his uncommon good cheer! Fromm is a four-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for his novels As Cool as I Am and How This All Started; a story collection, Dry Rain; and memoir, Indian Creek Chronicles. The film As …
Reading this now. A friend loaned it to me as it is very hard to find in print.
Our friends at Shelf Awareness posted an article today about the Montana Book Awards. And the winner is . . . Bound Like Grass, by Ruth McGlaughlin. We posted a review of the book just four weeks ago by Doreen from Chapter One Books in Hamilton, MT, calling Grass “a wonderful memoir from the Western High …
“Golden Richards is a husband and father whose four wives and 28 children compete for his time while he tries to make a living as a builder. Without vilifying the polygamist lifestyle, Brady Udall sets a very ordinary man into an overwhelming family situation. This is a family at a crossroads, and through them we …
One of the best things about indie bookstores is the quirk factor—that their booksellers can promote old books by authors whose last names most people can’t pronounce or play Jim Croce loudly while singing along (also loudly). This is why we love Chapter One in Hamilton, Montana. Somewhere in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley …
