It’s an exciting time of year, with family and friends coming home for the holidays. Shopping may seem exhausting, but why not allow your F&F Booksellers to become your personal shoppers! Yes, many of you have caught on to our suggetions already but now with two locations and more booksellers we have even more to be excitied about!
F&F Downtown has had four successful book fairs at local schools. Thanks to the students at Paxson, Washington, Meadow Hill and Target Range schools we have an inside track on what young people in Missoula are reading. In another week we will have recommendations from Sussex School, as the students prepare shelf talkers to help describe their new favorites.
But to get you started here is my list of favorites this year:
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO—the first in a trilogy that will be talked about for years to come. Lizbeth is a character not to be missed.
THE BIG BURN—Tim Egan tells about the Fire of 1910 and the back story of Teddy Rossevelt and Gifford Pinchot creating the Forst Service. One of the best regional books of the season.
THE CRYING TREE—a first novel that packs a punch. Forgiveness, family secrets, the death penalty told from several points of view.
SWEEPING UP GLASS—a paperback original and great for bookclubs. This one is set in Kentucky but has lessons for all of us about history, environment and family.
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET—a bitter sweet love story of Chinese-American and Japanese-American young people caught up in war time Seattle.
TURE COMPASS—the Kennedy family was loved and hated, but with the passing of Ted Kennedy a family legacy is gone.
WILD MARSH—Rick Bass has given us the reasons he fights for the Yaak. Every part of Montana needs someone to describe a year of living on the land.
THE LOST ART OF WALKING—now in paperback (perfect as a stocking stuffer!). All the joys to be found in walking