November 2020
Virtual Book Club
Virtual Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass Monday, November 23, 2020 - 6:00pm Join bookseller Jessica and imagine the generosity of geese with a discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer- a book Jessica says "will save the world." In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as…
Find out more »January 2021
Women Elders Speak
Country Bookshelf Presents: Women Elders Speak Country Bookshelf is delighted to welcome eight women elders from our community to share their work in the new anthology Women Elders Speak. Register Here Tune in for an evening of storytelling with Jo Anne Troxel, Adele Pittendrigh, Dorothy Bradley, June Safford, Collette Brooks-Hops, Jan Matney, Mary Beth Green, and Jane Jelinsky as they share their reflections on the beginnings of the Covid-19 Pandemic collected in the new anthology Women Elders Speak. A collection of forty…
Find out more »April 2021
Network for Landscape Conservation
Network for Landscape Conservation Virtual Event: Rescuing the Planet Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 11:00am We've partnered with The Network for Landscape Conservation to offer signed copies of Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth for this virtual event! The Network for Landscape Conservation is pleased to be hosting award-winning author and veteran New Yorker contributor Tony Hiss for a conversation about his latest book, “Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth.” Moderated by…
Find out more »May 2021
Mark Sullivan & Bill Martell
Country Bookshelf Presents: Mark Sullivan & Bill Martell Tuesday, May 4, 2021 - 6:00pm Country Bookshelf welcomes Bozeman's own Mark Sullivan to share his new book THE LAST GREEN VALLEY REGISTER HERE From the author of the bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family's incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph. Bozeman author Mark Sullivan will share his new book The Last Green Valley and discuss the writing and research process with local Bill Martell. Another sweeping…
Find out more »Books in Common NW: Iona Whishaw & Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews
Books in Common NW: Iona Whishaw & Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 7:30pm Find out "whodunit" with Iona Whishaw and Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews as they discuss the latest Lane Winslow Mystery and more! Register Here! Iona Whishaw comes back to Books in Common NW with Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews to share A Lethal Lesson - the newest Lane Winslow mystery. Lane Winslow trades crime solving for substitute teaching in the eighth installment of this mystery series that…
Find out more »July 2021
Country Bookshelf Presents: Margret Grebowicz & Mark Yakich
Country Bookshelf Presents: Margret Grebowicz & Mark Yakich Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 7:30pm Strap in with Margret Grebowicz and Mark Yakich to explore MOUNTAINS AND DESIRE - a cultural and ecological look at modern mountaineering. Register Here! Country Bookshelf welcomes professor Margret Grebowicz and poet Mark Yakich to share Grebowicz's new book Mountains and Desire. A philosophical speed-climb through the nuanced meanings of modern mountaineering, clarifying the place of the sport and the mountains in our cultural psyche. On…
Find out more »Country Bookshelf Presents: Catherine Raven & Tim Cahill
Country Bookshelf Presents: Catherine Raven & Tim Cahill Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 6:00pm Join Country Bookshelf for a special virtual book talk with Montana writer Catherine Raven sharing her remarkable FOX & I with Tim Cahill Register Here! Country Bookshelf is over the moon to welcome Montana writer Catherine Raven to our virtual stage to share her extraordinary memoir Fox & I with Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary…
Find out more »Books in Common NW: Jonathan Evison
Books in Common NW: Jonathan Evison Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 7:30pm Join Books in Common NW for an adventurous tale of love and survival with Jonathan Evison and his new book LEGENDS OF THE NORTH CASCADES Register Here: Books in Common NW head to the high country with Jonathan Evison and his new book Legends of the North Cascades. After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade…
Find out more »Country Bookshelf Presents: Connor Sullivan & Marc Cameron
Country Bookshelf Presents: Connor Sullivan & Marc Cameron Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 7:30pm Join Country Bookshelf for a thrilling evening with Connor Sullivan sharing SLEEPING BEAR with Mar Cameron and BONE RATTLE. Register Here! We're jetting off to the wilds of Alaska with two books featuring suspenseful stories of political intrigue and criminal mayhem. We'll be exploring local debut author Connor Sullivan's Sleeping Bear - a white-knuckled debut thriller follows a former Army veteran seeking solitude in the Alaskan wilderness after…
Find out more »Country Bookshelf Presents: Liz Brown
Country Bookshelf Presents: Liz Brown Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 7:30pm Take a trip back in time with Liz Brown and TWILIGHT MAN: LOVE AND RUIN IN THE SHADOWS OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE CLARK EMPIRE. Register Here Country Bookshelf is excited to dive into the glittering new biography from Liz Brown - Twilight Man. The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for the Clark family fortune.
Find out more »Books in Common NW
Country Bookshelf Presents: Books in Common NW: Elizabeth Gonzalez James & Carrie La Seur Join Elizabeth Gonzalez James as she shares her hilarious and poignant debut Mona At Sea with author Carrie La Seur. Books in Common NW dives into Elizabeth Gonzalez James new book Mona At Sea, alongside fellow author Carrie La Seur. This sharp, witty debut introduces us to Mona Mireles - observant to a fault, unflinching in her opinions, and uncompromisingly confident in her professional abilities. Mona…
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Country Bookshelf Presents: Books in Common NW: Tracey Lange Books in Common NW welcomes debut novelist Tracey Lange to share her poignant family drama We Are The Brennans. In the vein of Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange's We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame--and the redemptive power of love--in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/159739365743
Find out more »August 2021
#BlackVoices: Vanessa Riley
#BlackVoices: Vanessa Riley Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - 5:30pm You're invited to experience some essential #BlackVoices! Join Country Bookshelf, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Ingram as we share this great opportunity to hear from under-represented voices in publishing. The #BlackVoices series seeks to amplify books, authors and stories that are centered around Black people and culture. We're excited to share this virtual event with Vanessa Riley for Island Queen.
Find out more »Book Club
Book Club - Sharks in the Time of Saviors Monday, August 23, 2021 - 6:00pm Check out what we're reading with the Country Bookshelf Book Club Register at Eventbrite! Dying to find a group of people to discuss books with? Country Bookshelf is currently hosting our in-house book club in the comfort of YOUR home! Our book clubs are free and open to the public, and we're always happy to see new faces. This month we're discussing Kawai Strong Washburn's Sharks…
Find out more »#BlackVoices: Propaganda
#BlackVoices: Propaganda Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - 5:30pm You're invited to experience some essential #BlackVoices! Join Country Bookshelf, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Ingram as we share this great opportunity to hear from under-represented voices in publishing. The #BlackVoices series seeks to amplify books, authors and stories that are centered around Black people and culture. We're excited to share this virtual event with Propaganda for Terraform: Building A Better World.
Find out more »September 2021
Ray McPadden & David Abrams
Wednesday, September 8th @ 7:30pm - Country Bookshelf Presents: Ray McPadden and David Abrams Country Bookshelf welcomes two military veterans turned writers, Ray McPadden and David Abrams, to discuss We March at Midnight: A War Memoir. A fast-paced account of former Army Ranger Ray McPadden's experiences in the Iraq and Afgan Wars, We March at Midnight is a blood-spattered tour de force of growing up, leadership, the nature of war, and its consequences. Register here on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/164378611853
Find out more »Books in Common NW: King Arthur Remixed
Thursday, September 16th, 2021 @ 7:30pm - Books in Common NW: King Arthur Remixed Adventure into the murky mythology of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot as we explore the wealth of Arthuriana reimaginings that have been released this year. EK Johnston takes the story of the Fisher King to space in Aetherbound. Nothing is as magical or as terrifying as a girl in Kiersten White's Guinevere reinvention in the Camelot Rising trilogy. Preeti Chhibber contributes to an anthology…
Find out more »Book + Author w/Kristin Hannah
Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 5:00pm - Book + Author with Kristin Hannah. Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with Kristin Hannah for her #1 bestseller The Four Winds. We've partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club readers across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with fellow author Christina Baker Kline and participate in the live Q&A. Register…
Find out more »Book Club discussing A Ghost in the Throat.
Monday, September 27th at 6:00pm - Country Bookshelf Book Club discussing A Ghost in the Throat. Dying to find a group of people to discuss books with? Country Bookshelf is currently hosting our in-house book club in the comfort of YOUR home! Our book clubs are free and open to the public, and we're always happy to see new faces. This month we're discussing A Ghost in the Throat by Doirann Ní Ghríofa. Register here on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/146175251111
Find out more »October 2021
Book Signing with Josh Quick for Yellowstone Quick Facts
Thursday, October 7th at 4pm MT - Book Signing with Josh Quick for Yellowstone Quick Facts Montana writer and illustrator Josh Quick will be hanging out with us for an hour signing and personalizing copies of his books Yellowstone Quick Facts and Montana Quick Facts - the perfect pumpkin stuffer for a Montana Halloween.
Find out more »Margaret Renkl & Ed Tarkington discuss Graceland, At Last
Wednesday, October 13th at 7:30pm MT - Books in Common NW: Margaret Renkl & Ed Tarkington discuss Graceland, At Last Join the best-selling author as she shares her dazzling portrait of the South, Graceland, At Last, with Nashville writer Ed Tarkington. For the past four years, Margaret Renkl's columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have…
Find out more »Theodore Van Alst & Stephen Graham Jones discuss Smoke City
Thursday, October 14th at 7:30pm MT - Books in Common NW: Theodore Van Alst & Stephen Graham Jones discuss Smoke City Theodore Van Alst continues the journey begun in Sacred Smoke with Sacred City with writer Stephen Graham Jones. In Sacred City our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country. Plus get…
Find out more »Thor Hanson – Hurricane Lizards & Plastic Squid
Tuesday, October 19th at 7:30pm MT - Books in Common NW: Thor Hanson shares Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid Join beloved natural historian, Thor Hanson, as he explores how climate change is driving evolution in his new book Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change. A story of hope, resilience, and risk, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is natural history for readers of Bernd Heinrich, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and David Haskell. It is also a…
Find out more »Local Author Showcase Kids Edition
Wednesday, October 20th at 6:00pm MT - Country Bookshelf Presents: Local Author Showcase Kids Edition Country Bookshelf is delighted to welcome several local children's book authors for a playdate with your next great read. We've conjured a special treat for this month, and will be featuring six local children's book authors to share their new books with us in a virtual event that will knock your socks off. Get the low down on new books from: Janet Fox, Julie Ann…
Find out more »Local Author Showcase
Wednesday, October 27th at 6:00pm MT- Country Bookshelf Presents: Local Author Showcase Country Bookshelf is delighted to welcome several local authors for a round of speed dating with your next great read. Join our booksellers and your neighbors for a cozy, seasonal celebration of local authors with our Fall author showcase. We've invited Paul Skenazy, Carolyn Keith Hopper, and Lisa Hendrickson to share their new books with us in a virtual event that will knock your socks off.
Find out more »Laura Kalpakian shares Memory into Memoir
Thursday, October 28th at 7:30pm MT - Country Bookshelf Presents: Laura Kalpakian shares Memory into Memoir "The memoir is not the story of what you know, it's the story of how you learned it." We're delighted to welcome writer Laura Kalpakian to share her newest writing guide Memory into Memoir. Kalpakian will be joined by local writing coach (and Country Bookshelf Bookseller!) Anika Hanisch. Join us and explore this lively guide to writing your memoir.
Find out more »November 2021
Books in Common NW: Molly Peacock & Donna Bailey Nurse
Books in Common NW: Molly Peacock & Donna Bailey Nurse How do you find time to paint when you need to get to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Poet Molly Peacock delves into the history of overlooked painter Mary Hiester Reid in her new book Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door . In conversation with writer Donna Bailey Nurse, Peacock shares her inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom…
Find out more »Chaotic Storytime lead by Christopher Paolini
Country Bookshelf Presents: Chaotic Storytime lead by Christopher Paolini with Ryka Aoki, Christopher Buehlman, and Cat Rambo Join Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep In A Sea of Stars and Eragon, for an event that celebrates all the possibilities space holds...and the chaos! Christopher Paolini will be acting as the Storymaster, and task three unsuspecting authors with a quest: to entertain him with a story set in a world of his own making: the Fractalverse! Writers Christopher Buehlman (The Blacktongue…
Find out more »Wonderlust Mystery Series: Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Wonderlust Mystery Series: Furious Hours by Casey Cep Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 12:00pm Delve into real life mysteries with the Wonderlust Mystery Series and true crime! We will read some classics of the genre, as well as recent stories that use modern forensic techniques like DNA to catch actual killers. True crime gives us insight into the psychology of killers and investigators, as well as letting us examine good versus evil in our own world. Registration: Free and open…
Find out more »Author Talk w/ Amy Leach for Ladies Night
All Are Welcome for Downtown Ladies Night! Treat your shelf and start your holiday shopping with great deals for everyone between 3pm and 7pm. Get 20% off green-stickered bargain titles, and go on a literary escape with 10% off regularly-priced adult fiction titles. Then join us online at 7:30 to hear from local author Amy Leach as she shares her new essay collection,The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums. Event sign-up through countrybookshelf.com.
Find out more »Books in Common NW: Amy Leach
Books in Common NW: Amy Leach Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach's shares The Everybody Ensemble and invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world. Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes discordant but always welcoming chorus of glorious pandemonium? Books in Common…
Find out more »Book Club: The Home Place
Book Club: The Home Place Monday, November 22, 2021 - 6:00pm Check out what we're reading with the Country Bookshelf Book Club Register at Eventbrite! Dying to find a group of people to discuss books with? Country Bookshelf is currently hosting our in-house book club in the comfort of YOUR home! Our book clubs are free and open to the public, and we're always happy to see new faces. This month we're discussing The Home Place by J Drew Lanham. Books are…
Find out more »January 2022
Wonderlust Mystery Series: Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 12:00pm Delve into real life mysteries with the Wonderlust Mystery Series and true crime! We will read some classics of the genre, as well as recent stories that use modern forensic techniques like DNA to catch actual killers. True crime gives us insight into the psychology of killers and investigators, as well as letting us examine good versus evil in our own world. Registration: Free and open to all OLLI at MSU members; registration is…
Find out more »April 2022
Megan Kate Nelson & Kerri Keller Clement
Country Bookshelf Presents: Megan Kate Nelson & Kerri Keller Clement Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 7:30pm https://www.countrybookshelf.com/event/country-bookshelf-presents-megan-kate-nelson-kerri-keller-clement
Find out more »Books in Common NW: Nicola Griffith & Nisi Shawl
Books in Common NW: Nicola Griffith & Nisi Shawl Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 7:30pm https://www.countrybookshelf.com/event/books-common-nw-nicola-griffith-nisi-shawl
Find out more »August 2022
Erotique & Oh Hi Book Club- Pleasure Activism
August 31, 2022 @ 5:00pm - 7:00pm Erotique & Oh Hi Book Club- Pleasure Activism Country Bookshelf
Find out more »September 2022
Rebel with a Clause with Ellen Jovin & Russell Rowland
September 22, 2022 @ 6:00pm - 7:00pm Country Bookshelf Presents: REBEL WITH A CLAUSE with Ellen Jovin & Russell Rowland Country Bookshelf, 28 West Main Street https://www.countrybookshelf.com/event/rebel-clause-ellen-jovin-russell-rowland
Find out more »Author Jamie Ford – THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
Jamie Ford with THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
Find out more »Erotique & OhHi Sexual Health Bookclub
Erotique and Oh Hi have teamed up to bring Bozeman a Sexual Health Book Club! Enjoy snacks and guided conversation with your community. This month we will be reading Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein. GUEST SPEAKER: AASECT Certified sex therapist Phronsie Sprenger What to expect? 1-2 hour conversation with talking points & questions Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks Free raffle prize Forming new friendships and community! Zoom option for social distancing folks Limit of 20 People for in-person event What…
Find out more »October 2022
In Person Event with CJ Box for TREASURE STATE
October 1, 2022 @ 6:00pm - 7:00pm Country Bookshelf Presents an In Person Event with CJ Box for TREASURE STATE Country Bookshelf, 28 West Main Street
Find out more »CJ Box with Treasure State
Saturday, October 1, 2022 - 6:00pm Cassie Dewell returns in CJ Box's newest book TREASURE STATE. Hear from the author, get your book signed & see if you can solve the riddle.
Find out more »Jess Walter discusses The Cold Millions- One Book One Bozeman
Celebrate this year's One Book One Bozeman selection, The Cold Millions, in this evening presentation by author Jess Walter. Join us for a riveting evening with the author, to be followed by audience questions and a book signing. This event will be held at the Country Bookshelf, given the library's renovation project. Free tickets are encouraged but not required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-book-one-bozeman-presents-an-evening-with-jess-walter-tickets-408211811517
Find out more »Bastien Grandy and Kelly Hartman
Montana Author Signing featuring Bastien Grandy and Kelly Hartman Saturday, October 8, 2022 - 11:00am Get ready for Spooky Season in Montana with some great Montana Authors! Bastian Grandy will be signing copies of Abandoned Montana alongside Kelly Armstrong with her books Wicked Bozeman and Murder & Mayhem in Gallatin County. Stop in during the eleven o'clock hour to have your copy personalized and share your spooky tales and reading experiences with both authors.
Find out more »David Quammen
David Quammen with BREATHLESS Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 5:30pm Acclaimed journalist and writer David Quammen takes us on worldwide scientific quest to defeat coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 with BREATHLESS.
Find out more »Dan Flores & Steven Rinella
WILD NEW WORLD with Dan Flores & Steven Rinella 10/16/2022 - 6:00pm Event & Author Talk & Reading & Book Signing & Local Author
Find out more »Cynthia Newberry Martin
Book Signing with Cynthia Newberry Martin 10/17/2022 - 10:00am Event & Book Signing
Find out more »Chris Dombrowski
Books in Common NW: Chris Dombrowski 10/20/2022 - 7:30pm Event & Virtual Event & Author Talk & Local Author
Find out more »Lavie Tidhar
Instagram Live with Lavie Tidhar Sunday, October 23, 2022 - 1:00pm Join us for a riveting conversation with British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar about his newest book in the Central Station-verse. Be sure to follow us on Instagram to tune in and chat about Neom and the Central Station books -- The Escapement and Unholy Land. Today, Neom is a utopian dream--a megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative…
Find out more »November 2022
OhHi & Erotique Bookclub- Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Erotique and OhHi have teamed up to bring Bozeman a Sexual Health Book Club! In November we will be discussing Reclaiming Two-Spirits by Gregory D. Smithers. Enjoy snacks and guided conversation with your community. PLEASE RSVP IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND IN PERSON ON OUR EVENTBRITE (we have a limit of 20 in-person people)—no need to RSVP if you want to join via Zoom. How to Register? In Person tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming-two-spirits-book-club-tickets-449903592757?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb Participants can also join our Book Club specific Facebook…
Find out more »January 2023
Beating Endo – Book Club with Erotique & OH Hi
Erotique and OH Hi have teamed up to bring Bozeman a Sexual Health Book Club! Enjoy snacks and guided conversation with your community. This month we're reading Beating Endo with guest speaker Shannon Sepulveda, a pelvic floor physical therapist. What to expect? GUEST SPEAKER: Shannon Sepulveda (Pelvic Floor Specialist from OH Hi) 1-2 hour conversation with talking points & questions Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks Free raffle prize courtesy of Erotique Forming new friendships and community! Zoom option for social distancing…
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