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61) Sun house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this haunting parable of the American west, a young woman faces the violent past of a remote Montana valley. In Montana's Bitterroot Valley, a young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. As she comes of age, her small community...
64) Homestead
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sam Pickett arrives in the small town of Willow Creek, Montana, he wants nothing more than to hide from the violence and madness that have destroyed his life, but instead finds neighbors suffering from the same problems he is.
Author
Publisher
Lexington-Marshall Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set on a Montana ranch in the mid-1800s, You Are My Sunshine tells the story of Abraham Rockhammer, his children, and his grandchildren. Abraham left Ohio with his pioneer spirit in his head and his heart. His piece of Montana did not come easy but was pristine until his new neighbor -- young Henry Weebow -- started to mine for ore on the opposite side of the sacred mountain Abraham called home. Abraham's son Jeremiah must build a family to sustain...
68) Lawless prairie
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clint Conner took the horse only to stop a man from mistreating it, but a vengeful judge sentenced him to six years. Quietly serving his time, Clint suddenly finds himself free after he's swept up in a daring jailbreak. Now a fugitive, Clint Connor will need courage, cunning, and cold-blooded ruthlessness as he rides the lawless prairie. But before Clint can escape to the hills of Montana, he'll have to out gun Sioux Indians and malicious outlaws,...
69) Back of beyond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 hr., 49 min.) ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first day Christy Manning visits her sister, Taylor, she meets Sheriff Cody Franklin. To Christy's shock - and Cody's - they're immediately attracted to each other. Intensely attracted. There's a problem, though. Christy's engaged to someone else, someone back in Seattle. So what's the solution? See what happens when The Sheriff Takes a Wife!"--Publisher description.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 12 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Earth Speaks is a short documentary about the Earth as Mother and the impacts of oil and gas drilling on Native American tribal lands in the United States, particularly the Blackfeet Reservation in North Central Montana. Outside entities promise economic wealth and prosperity to territories whose unemployment rate hovers at 70%. Exploitation of people, land, and resources is not new to the Native American. How does seeing the Earth with a 'spiritual...
75) North of nowhere
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When privileged white sixteen-year-old Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a mysterious camp employee. As the connection between them grows, Lucky and Cindra become lovers and escape into the Rocky Mountains to create an idyllic life, living off Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness. But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together...
77) Cryer's Cross
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Author
Publisher
distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sunny Jim Whitelaw's last will and testament binds his family together in ways his heirs never imagined, and as they battle for his riches, they learn some important lessons about family and life.
80) Code of the West
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law. Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies, the steamy lamplight of marijuana grow houses, and the bustling halls of the State Capitol, CODE OF THE WEST follows the political process of marijuana policy reform...
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