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A Book For Everyone On Your Holiday Shopping List

A Book For Everyone On Your Holiday Shopping List
Sarah Aronson
A Book For Everyone On Your Holiday Shopping List

Mara Panich-Crouch, a bookseller at Fact and Fiction Bookstore in Missoula, joins us to review books and make some holiday book recommendations for everyone on your shopping list.

Below you'll find 11 of the 28 books recommended in this program. To hear more, click the link above, or subscribe to our podcast.

Armchair Outdoorsman

Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier by Theodore Catton

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/rainy-lake-house

The Time-Limited Woman

Ballet at the Moose Lodge: Stories by Caroline Patterson         

http://www.riverbendpublishing.com/ballet-at-the-moose-lodge.html

Bird Nerd

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature   

https://milkweed.org/book/the-home-place

Dirtbag Foodie

River Food by Courtney Smart 

https://www.idahoriverfood.com/

Great Aunt Nelly with a Heart of Gold

The Christmas Room by Catherine Anderson

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552845/the-christmas-room-by-catherine-anderson/9780399586316/

Escapist Uncle

The Midnight Line by Lee Child

http://www.leechild.com/books/the-midnight-line.php

Politically-Engaged Niece

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Peterson

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538768/too-fat-too-slutty-too-loud-by-anne-helen-petersen/9780399576850/

Bartending Poetry Lover

Bad Summon by Philip Schaefer

https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/bad-summon/

Gamer Nephew

Warcross by Marie Lu

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545745/warcross-by-marie-lu/9780399547966/

Rebel Girl

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by  Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli

https://www.rebelgirls.co/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmb7RBRATEiwA7kS8VP4n1mPKSDZpm2Qxt4gIkEuAamZG9g5DN_nxGQ7KeCh-hu4OvPmvSRoCJIoQAvD_BwE

Bird Nerd Jr.

Hope Mountain: Wild Bird Rescue by Karla Martinson (Written & Illustrated)

http://www.factandfictionbooks.com/book/9781546481881

About the Bookseller: 

Mara Panich-Crouch is a bookseller at Fact and Fiction Bookstore in Missoula. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Purdue University and found her home Missoula in 2002 while pursuing post-graduate studies at The University of Montana. She loves giving (and receiving) book recommendations of all genres. She is an avid painter, thrift-shopper, and adventurer.

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