false 70540 262545 0151012377 9780151012374 517 <![CDATA[The Whistling Season]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173234810m/262545.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173234810s/262545.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262545.The_Whistling_Season 3.91 1480
A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.
</div>]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2006 122311 0684831058 9780684831053 110 <![CDATA[Dancing at the Rascal Fair]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171838990m/122311.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171838990s/122311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122311.Dancing_at_the_Rascal_Fair 4.14 580 The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.

Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1987 576379 0156899825 9780156899826 72 <![CDATA[This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175951872m/576379.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175951872s/576379.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/576379.This_House_of_Sky_Landscapes_of_a_Western_Mind 4.20 437 </DIV>]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1978 165422 0743271270 9780743271271 51 <![CDATA[English Creek]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341500m/165422.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341500s/165422.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165422.English_Creek 4.15 341 The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point -- "where all four of our lives made their bend" -- and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1984 165432 0743271262 9780743271264 21 <![CDATA[Ride with Me, Mariah Montana]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341524m/165432.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341524s/165432.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165432.Ride_with_Me_Mariah_Montana 3.53 200 Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, returns as the witty and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family's -- and his state's -- legacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montana's centennial in 1989 when his daughter Mariah enlists him as Winnebago chauffeur to her and her ex-husband, the magnificently ornery and eloquent columnist Riley Wright, when their news-paper dispatches them to dig up stories of the "real Montana." Just as the centennial is a cause for reflection as well as jubilation, the exuberant travels of this trio bring on encounters with the past in "memory storms" that become occasions for reassessment and necessary accommodations of the heart.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1920 165419 068483149X 9780684831497 35 <![CDATA[Bucking the Sun: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341474m/165419.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341474s/165419.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165419.Bucking_the_Sun_A_Novel 3.65 169 Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal's most audacious projects -- the damming of the Missouri River. Through the story of each family member -- a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons and the memorable women they marry, Doig conveys a sense of time and place that is at once epic in scope and rich in detail.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1996 223406 0156031027 9780156031028 25 <![CDATA[The Sea Runners]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853271m/223406.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853271s/223406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223406.The_Sea_Runners 3.81 124 The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
</DIV>]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1982 3076279 0151012431 9780151012435 63 <![CDATA[The Eleventh Man]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3076279.The_Eleventh_Man 3.16 132

A deeply American story, The Eleventh Man is Ivan Doig’s most powerful novel to date.]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2008 165436 0743201361 9780743201360 19 <![CDATA[Prairie Nocturne: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341526m/165436.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341526s/165436.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165436.Prairie_Nocturne_A_Novel 3.74 107 Prairie Nocturne is the epic saga of two former lovers sired in the pages of Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana Trilogy. Susan Duff -- the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from Dancing at the Rascal Fair-- has reached middle age alone, teaching voice lessons to the progeny of Helena's high society. Wesley Williamson, young married heir to the Double W cattle empire, has been forced out of a political career as a result of his affair with Susan having become known. Years later, Wes and Susan have reunited to share in an extraordinary goal: launching the singing career of Monty Rathbun--a man on the wrong side of the racial divide. In this triumph of sure-footed storytelling, motives and fates dangerously entangle.

Set in Montana, France, Scotland, and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, Prairie Nocturne is a deeply longitudinal novel that raises everlasting questions of allegiance, the grip of the past, and the cost of passion.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2003 165433 0684865696 9780684865690 19 <![CDATA[Mountain Time : A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341524m/165433.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341524s/165433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165433.Mountain_Time_A_Novel 3.31 111 At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee shop and cyber culture. His newspaper is going under, and his relationship with Lexa McCaskill is stalled at "just living together." Then, he is summoned by his sly, exasperating father, Lyle, back to the family land, which Lyle plans to sell in the latest of his get-rich schemes before dying. Lexa follows, accompanied by her sister Mariah, and the stage is set for long-overdue confrontations -- between lovers, sisters, and father and son. Mountain Time is distinguished by humor and a wry insight into the power of family feuds to mark individuals and endure. Set against the glorious backdrop of Montana mountain country, it is a dazzling novel of love, family, and the contemporary West.

]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1999 165435 0156031086 9780156031080 7 <![CDATA[Heart Earth]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341525m/165435.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341525s/165435.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165435.Heart_Earth 3.80 90 This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.
</DIV>]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1992 223411 0156972158 9780156972154 8 <![CDATA[Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853295m/223411.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853295s/223411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223411.Winter_Brothers_A_Season_at_the_Edge_of_America 3.74 54 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1980 2970344 1565114434 9781565114432 0 <![CDATA[Norman MacLean Collection: River Runs Through It, Young Men, Big Blackfoot]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2970344.Norman_MacLean_Collection_River_Runs_Through_It_Young_Men_Big_Blackfoot 4.67 3
A River Runs Through It is the lyrical, deeply moving story of Maclean's Montana youth on the Big Blackfoot River, when fly-fishing was the one activity that allowed his family to bridge troubled relationships and make connections, brother with brother, father with son. It was made into an acclaimed film of the same name by director Robert Redford. This unabridged version is masterfully read by Montana novelist Ivan Doig.

Young Men & Fire consumed 14 years of Maclean's life and earned a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award. In unflinching detail, it tells the harrowing story of a 1949 Rocky Mountain forest fire that claimed the lives of 13 young "smokejumpers." Western essayist Gretel Ehrlich called it "extraordinarily wise and lyrical . . . a haunting commentary on birth, sex, death, memory, and rebirth." This unabridged version is read by Norman Maclean's son, John.

On the Big Blackfoot contains archival reading by and interviews with Norman Maclean, along with recollections by his son, journalist John Maclean. Publishers Weekly called it "wise, witty, and wonderful."]]> 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2001 7167918 1594487626 9781594487620 0 <![CDATA[Work Song]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7167918-work-song 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2010 3766915 0810458233 9780810458239 0 <![CDATA[The Streets We Have Come Down : Literature of the City (Hayden Series in Literature)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3766915.The_Streets_We_Have_Come_Down_Literature_of_the_City 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1975 2274279 0136156258 9780136156253 0 <![CDATA[News, a consumer's guide]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2274279.News_a_consumer_s_guide 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1972 165457 0689114052 9780689114052 0 <![CDATA[Inside This House of Sky: Photographs of a Western Landscape]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165457.Inside_This_House_of_Sky_Photographs_of_a_Western_Landscape 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1983 2809930 081045842X 9780810458420 0 <![CDATA[Utopian America: Dreams and realities (Hayden humanities series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2809930.Utopian_America_Dreams_and_realities 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 1976 7365221 0924335246 9780924335242 0 <![CDATA[Building Tradition]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7365221-building-tradition 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 68614 4.00 1 0 1003626 0.0 0 0 2003 7107950 0547304994 9780547304991 0 <![CDATA[Eleventh Man 9-Copy Floor Display]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7107950-eleventh-man-9-copy-floor-display 0.0 0 70540 3.91 4066 1019 2009 6540872 1606520946 9781606520949 0 <![CDATA[Select Editions - Volume 289]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6540872-select-editions-volume-289 0.0 0
Nora Roberts is one of the biggest selling authors in the world, and her latest blockbuster shows why. A woman with a mysterious past shows up in the town of Angels Fall, and soon gets involved with a local, brooding writer. She also becomes the only witness to a murder, but there's no body, and no one believes her. A captivating blend of romance, suspense and mystery.


THE WHISTLING SEASON by Ivan Doig (Harcourt)

In their starred review, Booklist called this tale by National Book Award finalist Doig an entrancing new chapter in the literature of the West. Set in Montana in the early 1900s, it's the charming story of a year in the life of one family and the old one-room schoolhouse that embodies the hopes and dreams of an entire town.


CONSIGNED TO DEATH by Jane K. Cleland (St. Martin's Press)

Exciting New Author Cleland's first novel, which has already garnered praise from the critics, introduces Josie Prescott, an antiques dealer turned sleuth when a potential client is found stabbed to death. An engaging mix of Antiques Roadshow, potential romance (with a hunky chief of police), and just a touch of murder.


ORBIT by John J. Nance (Simon & Schuster)

Best-selling author Nance is back with a book that will have readers on the edge of their seats while simultaneously tugging at their heartstrings. An amateur astronaut is stranded alone in orbit, with no radio, and no hope. His only connection to home is a one-way computer link that makes him the most famous person alive...for now.

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