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
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
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
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.