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Mar

9

2021

Women’s History Month Recommendations
from Country Bookshelf

Enjoy Women’s History Month with some great recommendations from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT. Kathy recommends Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this insightful historical narrative, provides a glimpse into the life of Maude, a Cherokee woman in Depression-era Oklahoma. A great coming-of-age story, Maud is strong and wise beyond her years. …

Apr

6

2011

Saved by Childrens’ Stories: an Essay by Jane Kirkpatrick

My mother was a saver. Among other things, she harbored piles of dress patterns from the 1920’s and stacks of washed yogurt cups “because you never know when you might need a little container like that.” We teased her about her saving, but I also adored it that she held onto the books that enriched …

Jan

24

2011

The Quickening by Michelle Hoover

“How to ever convey in this small space how magnificent this debut fiction is? Words like mesmerizing, poetic, and true all come to mind. To sum: two farm wives, the land, what is remembered, what is sacrificed, what endures. Reminiscent of Willa Cather and John Steinbeck. Hoover’s novel is a haunting, plainsong. Winning and so …

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