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Hello Dear Friends and Readers, After more than two years of blogging off and on the Reading In Montana blog is retiring for good.  Thanks everyone who found us here. Now you can continue to find Reading In Montana on our facebook page.  Please like us there if you have not already.  We are an active and fun page. You can also follow us on twitter. As always the Reading In Montana online store

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Catherine and I have always enjoyed watching the travel programs of Rick Steves (based out of Edmond, WA). I particuilarly enjoy his episodes about Ireland. Here's a sample: There's plenty of Rick Steves to watch through YouTube and Hulu. I've also held on to a copy of his Rick Steves' Ireland 2010 with map since we plan to visit Ireland in 2015, especially to see where my grandfather's

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Portland sure is a City of Books. While "City of Books" is the name of the main downtown location for the independent bookstore Powell's, books seem to be a part of the city as a whole. Some pictures I've taken since we've lived in Portland: Wall of books in downtown View inside Powell's Our son Patrick reading in Powell's Exhibit about John Adams' books at Central Library, downtown

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Last Saturday we - Catherine, myself, and little P (Patrick) - headed out to Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast for a library book sale and some exploring on the beach and in the tide pools. This was Patrick's first real visit to a beach and he enjoyed himself immensely, as did all of us! More photos can be seen on my personal blog here. And now a few Oregon-related books are available in our

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Reading In Montana has moved! In mid May the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Michael had accepted an internship at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) and I was looking forward to seeing what book hunting would be like in a city with lots of rain and lots of readers. What we have found after little over a month is that while there is an endless supply of books and readers; there

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  FISK EXPEDITION - 1864               Cold and rainy, even though it is May in Montana. I forgot about that when I returned home to Saco, Montana for my class reunion. “It was snowing coming over the mountains.” Stayed overnight in Butte on our way from SLC, UT.       We stood on the edge of Bell Coulee in northeastern Montana and gazed at the tracks of wagons on the opposite side, envisioning

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On Friday my son Patrick and I visited ExplorationWorks in Helena, MT while Catherine was seeking new books for us to match with readers. ExplorationWorks is an interactive science museum, full of fun, hands-on displays for kids and adults alike. The science-buff I am, I enjoy these places immensely. Here are a few photos from our enjoyable afternoon:

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For St. Patrick's Day this evening, we took our son Patrick to see the Tiernan Irish Dancers - backed up by the local band Dublin Gulch - at the "Handing Down the Heritage" event held at Butte's Civic Center. Butte, with its Irish heritage, celebrates big every March 17th. Patrick enjoyed the music and dancing (he said he liked watching all the girls). Here are a few photos from this evening:

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Today we have a special guest post from a fan of Reading In Montana, Diane Lockard - hometown Saco, Montana currently in Salt Lake City... "Memories of Montana"1910 - 2010I went home to Saco, north of Billings in May 2009 for my 50th class reunion. Out of a class of 24, seven of us ladies were there. Some I had not seen during that time. I went home with one of my classmates, Wilna (Fisher)

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Yesterday I came across this interesting blog post from Lifehack/Seth Simonds, Kitchen Hack: One-Minute Bread.  It takes a few minutes to prep, 8 - 10 hours (or overnight in our case) to rise, 25 minutes to bake, and 10 minutes to cool. I thought it would be fun to try a quick alternative to bread machine bread and see if this recipe for little to no effort bread really was a Lifehack. After

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Hello friends! We just put up about 35 copies of The Message by Lance Richardson  for a great sale price of $8.99.  It seems to be a wonderfully popular book right now.  It looks like a great inspirational read about life and Richardson's spiritual experience while comatose.  An interesting life story! If you have read this book, please tell me what you thought. Inquiring minds want to know.

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A big thank you to everyone who took part in the Facebook Fan drive contest!  We we able to give out the Book Butte, Images of America by Ellen Crain and Lee Whitney or the postcard set of images from the book to Anita, Dee Dee, Kara, Cass, and Adrianne - all supportive fans of Reading In Montana.  It is never to late to be a fan  of Reading In Montana on Facebook! We had so much fun with this

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Here are some historical images of the State of Montana from before 1950.  You can click on any of the images in the slideshow to get more information about the image and it source.  I love to explore The Commons on Flickr. Catherine @ Reading In Montana

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I think we've always been social here at Reading In Montana (maybe that is the reason for our continued 100% feedback rating) but we've also got a Facebook Fan Page and a Twitter Account.   Today we have started a Facebook Fan drive contest. Until Wednesday, March 3rd you can hop on over to our  Facebook Fan Page (www.facebook.com/ReadingInMontana) show your support and help us build a fan base.

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Beautiful Glacier National Park, what a sight in any season!

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Like many, we have been touched here in Butte, Montana by the effects of the earthquake in Haiti that occurred last Tuesday, leaving many Haitians dead, more critically injured, and many more without the basic necessities of food, water, and shelter.  Haiti is in our thoughts often. My family considers ourselves lucky to be able to give a little to the relief effort. We found that there are

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The locally long awaited "Butte: Images of America" by Ellen Crain and Lee Whitney of the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives is now available from Reading In Montana.  In addition we also have half as many copies of the Historic Postcards Set with images from the book, "Postcards of America: Butte".  We are happily able to offer both items at a discount from the cover price. Items ship directly

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Just a quick note to let readers know that we in the process of cleaning out our book inventory for the new year. More than 500 books are now $3.01 or less! Also all of our titles qualify for Free 2 day shipping if you have an Amazon Prime membership or Free SuperSaver Shipping if you spend $25 or more on Amazon.com.So , put that Amazon.com gift card you got in your stocking to good use. Pick

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At the end of this last month I discovered six NEW copies of this beautiful coffee-table-sized book Historic Photos of Montana by Gary Glynn. This title captures historic Montana in almost 200 photos on over 200 pages. It includes Glacier National Park, the Anaconda Company, Fort Missoula, Great Falls, and the Bitterroot Valley as well as other photos from around the state. This would be a

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Just in time for the holidays, Reading In Montana has a limited number of NEW children's books available to put under the tree.What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page, illustrated by Steve Jenkins.The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan.Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi.In My Nest (Board Book - perfect for little hands) by Sara Gillingham,

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This Tuesday evening on PBS's Independent Lens: Butte, America will have its national premier. A superb film that will give you an inside view into "The Richest Hill On Earth."Catherine @ Reading In Montanacurrently learning the rich history of Butte, Montana.

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Let Yellowstone Trails: A Hiking Guide by Mark C. Marshall (park ranger) get you started. This was published by the Yellowstone Association and covers both short and long hikes. I'd recommend the Bliss pass in the Northwest via Slough and Pebble creek as one of the tip top all day hikes.Yellowstone: Image taken by dmdzine, discovered on www.flickr.com.Here we have had snow and temps below

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Here is a small family of fiction and memoirs that are selling quickly at Reading In Montana this weekend:Sister Chicas by Lisa Alvardo (2006)Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron (1988)To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son and A Life Long Obsession on CD by Dan Koeppel (2005)The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (2001)Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband by Linda Dini Jenkins (2008)

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Judy Blunt was one of the first writers I read when I moved out to Montana, and a writer I still highly recommend.Has she really only wrote Breaking Clean ?I'll let you know when/if something else comes down the line from this unique as the Montana sky writer.Catherine @ Reading In Montana

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Lee, Russell,, 1903-, photographer. Butte, Montana, September 1942. from Flickr, LOC.One might have already guessed but Reading In Montana officially moved its home office to Butte, America over the labor day weekend. I will tell you it was quite the laborious holiday. Thankfully we house our ever growing and changing inventory in an Amazon warehouse and not at the home office. That means we

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From Wikipedia:"The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, USA. It is one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic (2.5 pH level). The pit is laden with heavy metals and dangerous chemicals, including arsenic, cadmium, zinc, and sulfuric

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This last weekend we decided to do a little weekend getaway before the Fall semester starts for me at Montana State University-Bozeman. I have been in Montana more than five years now, and I still hadn't driven the scenic Beartooth Highway, bringing drivers to almost 11,000 feet from Montana to Wyoming. So we decided to head to Red Lodge, MT, spend the night, and then drive the highway before

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Mark Spragg :: A Wyoming Life, Culture, Sep 2005 [ZOOZOOM]Shared via AddThis

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This book is what originally brought me out to southwest Montana, to this unique region of our country. I first read it in 2002, read it again when I moved here in 2003, and revisited it when I had the opportunity to go to an author reading at the Country Bookshelf in 2004. I've read Spragg's other work but this collection of autobiographical essays is his most significant thus far. This book

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Ghost Towns of Montana by Donald C. Miller, 10th Printing (1981), Details and photos for 40 ghost town locations, a historical gem about the lost places in Big Sky country. Catherine @ Reading In Montana

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Montana Celebrity Cookbook compiled by Susie Beaulaurier Graetz for the benefit of the Intermountain Children's Home, American & World Geographic Publishing (1992).Cooking up farmer's market potatoes in Butte, Montana. In this book 200 celebrities have volunteered their favorite recipes to make a cookbook for the benefit of the Intermountain Children's Home in Helena, Montana. The recipes are as

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Unforgettable Days: Montana Trout Fishing Hardcover, Riverbend Publishing 2002. Full of beautiful photos and landscapes, as well as quotes from the likes of John Gierach, Jim Harrison, and Ed Zern.Catherine @ Reading In Montana

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The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake by Edmund ChristophersonCollectors Edition! 1960 11:37 P.M. on August 17, 1959 - It's almost been 50 years since the creation of Quake Lake. Photo from http://www.mtpioneer.com/Sept-mountain-fell.htm (Image caption: Motorists can hardly believe their eyes-the earthquake takes its toll, creating a dead end and a new lake

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One of the most beautiful places I've been is along the Going to Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The Park is just one of those places you must visit to understand some of the extreme beauty Nature has to offer.Check out this Lonely Planet Guide to some of the National Parks in North America when you plan your next trip up north. Color photos and hiking maps for Banff, Jasper & Glacier

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Some Horses: Essays by Thomas McGuane of Sweet Grass County, Montana - beautiful hardcover 1st edition, signed by author, illustrations, collectible, The Lyons Press 1999.From the dust cover: Tom McGuane loves horses. Nowhere is that more evident than in his deft and utterly fascinating essays about some of the more remarkable horses and horsemen he has known.In these nine essays, he

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Montana Spaces: Essays and Photographs in Celebration of Montana by Thomas McGuane, David Quammen, Wallace Stegner, Gretel Ehrlich, Tim Cahill, Alston Chase, and others. Photographs by John Smart, Edited by William KittredgeI try seek out books and materials on Montana: people, place, art, and living, especially the out of print, more rare, and harder to find materials. This recent find (above)

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Community Alert! The Belgrade Library is in need of your gently used books for their Summer Book Sale fundraiser that starts this Friday., June 12th.Please drop off your gently used books at theBelgrade Community Library 106 N Broadway in Belgrade This Tues, Wed, and Thur (June 9 - 11) between 11am and 7pm.All donations are tax deductable.Please only clean books in good condition. No old

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Here is some info about a large sale we will be having in my neighborhood this weekend:Huge Multi-family (5+) moving and yard sale. College students with young families are raising moving and tuition funds.  Everything priced to sell!Friday and Saturday, May 29th and 30th starting at 7:30 AM each day. In Family & Graduate Housing on the MSU Campus (Bozeman) off of College Ave between 15th and

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A fellow reader challenged me today to name 10 books in only 10 minutes that I've read that were important to me in some way.  This is what I came up with:1) Into the Forest  by Jean Hegland - This is the most recent book I've finished.  It is a novel that takes place sometime in the now during the breakdown of government and services, including the electric grid, telephone, shipping, and

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With climate change an ever increasing threat for us and our children here is a short list of ordinary things, that with widespread use, can have an extraordinary impact in the fight against global warming:Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet1) The Clothesline2) The Real Tomato3) The Bicycle4) The Ceiling Fan5) The Condom6) The Microchip7 and my favorite) The Library Book "By sharing books,

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For the first time in Reading In Montana's history we now have over 1,000 books, movies, and music you can buy now from our virtual amazon store front.  We have recently updated our prices so all items are available at a great value.  Please give us a look and see if we have what you have been looking for at a price you can afford.  We add new titles daily so make us the first (and hopefully last

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I was recently inspired by a photo essay,  behind the scenes at Netflix.  I've posted my own behind the scenes at Reading In Montana of sorts. Here are some photos of the spoils of a short trip to Big Timber for a library fundraiser last week. This small Montana town has a beautiful library with very friendly staff. Quite a lot of books looking for new readers!  While this only a small snapshot

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A quick post to catch up on this important issue:  Here is a well done summary and update of the Amazon sales rank glitch over Easter weekend from Information Today, Inc. "Amazonfail: How Metadata and Sex Broke the Amazon Book Search."  For anyone wanting to get the whole story from an information management point of view and the implications of the amazonfail event this is a required read.  

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Here is a link to Change.org's petition telling Amazon to stop discrimination against LGBT books.  Here is the letter.  I encourage you to sign it.Stop Discrimination Against LGBT BooksDear Amazon,It has come to my attention that you have recently de-ranked books with LGBT content on the pretense that this qualifies as "adult content."  At the same time, books about heterosexual porn stars,

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I'm not sure what the whole story is on the #amazonfail situation over the weekend. I've been reading the news  and the blogs and cannot figure out exactly what has happened, with what intent, and by whom. Here is a salon.com post and a media memo post about the issue.  As a librarian and a bookseller I believe that limiting what information people can easily find is a form of censorship. The

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Happy Easter from my bunny (see below) to yours! We hope you find all of the brightly colored eggs. Ohh... Chocolate!Catherine @ Reading In Montana

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I've come across a few of these very popular "Worst-Case Scenario", how to books over the last few days in my book hunting.  I believe I may have both the "Survival Handbook" and "Parenting" editions.Here is a skill you might need while hiking in the Mountains here in Montana:HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A BEAR1 - Lie still and quiet.2 - Stay where you are and do not climb a tree to escape a bear.3 - If

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I've always been green in philosophy (and in try to be in action)  and I've always been attracted to the Simple Living movement and adopting a sustainable lifestyle.  My first attempt at blogging was a little space called the green librarian.  If you visit you will see I've not posted there for some time.In today's economic situation anything that can make daily obligations less stressful, save

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Many people have books they haven't read, intend to read, would read.  Books that sit in stacks on the nightstand, shelves, and bookcases.  These are some of the authors I haven't yet read, but intend to of course:Virgina Woolf - I think I have begun Mrs. Dalloway a few different times.  I have read The Hours so I should have read Mrs. Dalloway.  I have always wanted to enjoy A Room of One's Own 

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What other public personality is such a driving force in America's reading habits today?  I don't know that anyone has move influence than Oprah and her Book Club.  One of the most self-affecting titles that has made her list in the past (February 1999) is The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.  This book was translated from the German Der Vorleser in 1997  by Carol Brown Janeway.  I belive I read it in

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Today I finished reading "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris.  I actually had this book on hold at my public library since before it came out in June 2008 but I didn't get my hands on it until about a week ago.  I always enjoy Sedaris' dark humor and visual grossness.  What other author would describe in detail an expedition to buy his boyfriend a human skeleton for a birthday gift

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I'm not one for playing tricks on April first.  I never think of good harmless lies to tell family and friends.  I do enjoy the games of others though.  Gmail is at it again today with the new "Gmail Autopilot by CADIE." April first is also a great day to announce things that are true, like... Reading in Montana is back to blogging about reading, selling books, Montana living, and more reading.  

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Hello friends.  Reading in Montana is not going out of business but our blog is going on an extended break.  I've accepted a full time librarian position that starts on Monday and we are planning a move to Butte in a few months.  Michael and I know we won't be able to blog here on a regular basis as we had planned but want to keep the blog up as a pointer to our still thriving online bookstore

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On our recent trip to Portland, I had my first chance at visiting Powell's City of Books, a 4-story mega bookstore where new and used copies are all mixed together. It is the largest independent bookstore in the nation. While Catherine perused the literature section, my mind was on the science and nature sections. Many books I would have purchased, but I limited myself to one: The Cambridge

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This quote was on a forgotten bookmark in a forgotten book I discovered today..."When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."- Christopher MorleyCatherine @ Reading In MontanaWe are headed west tomorrow to discover new books for our customers with a final destination of Powell's City of Books in Portland, OR.  My husband is

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It is textbook season again.  Michael returns to school at MSU Bozeman in just a little over a week.I just saw this in my UC Davis Alumni Magazine (Winter 2009, p. 13) today:E-Books Un-Wanted Students may be quickly embracing the digital world, but not for their textbooks - at least not yet. The UC Davis Bookstore was an early provider of "e-books" in fact, one of the first in the country to have

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Christmas was more than two weeks ago, though I must say there are still lingering signs of it about.  No, we are not one of those families that leaves their Christmas tree up all year because it is so beautiful (we take ours down on New Years Day), but there is extra space in the living room where its presence is missed. We now have a mason jar of candy canes on the kitchen counter that may last

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I am a Librarian by education and experience. I graduated in June 2008 with a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) through a 3 year online program at the University of Washington iSchool. I have worked at the Bozeman Public Library in Bozeman, Montana since May of 2004 in many different capacities. I began there as a full-time shelver and am now a substitute librarian. The great

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Hello, and Happy New Year! This is Michael. For my first post, I thought I'd share my library. Although not complete yet, my library is up on the website LibraryThing, a neat online tool for listing what books you have in your own library (there's also Shelfari). The site enables you to see other people's libraries, put up book reviews, see what books you share with other readers, and many other

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Oscar Wilde said, "Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."From The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio with Garrison Keillor, one of my favorite things to listen to each morning and evening at 8:30am and 5:30pm here on Yellowstone Public Radio.  The introduction music does well to center me and focus my thoughts away from the hubbub of the

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A Happy New Year to you and Good Morning!  This is the first post of many, here at our new blog site Reading In Montana.  Thanks for seeking us out or maybe just happening upon us.  My husband and I have had an online bookselling business since June of 2007 and now that the 2008 holiday season has ended we are looking to ramp things up with a stronger online presence and share with our customers

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Hello and welcome to our new blog Reading In Montana. After a successful holiday season, we have decided to grow our family business (Reading In Montana) selling used books and other media online via http://www.amazon.com/shops/reading_in_montana. Look to our new blog for exciting book news, reviews, and Montana living beginning in the new year.

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