AUTHOR EVENT: Madison VFW sponsoring book signings

Great Falls Forum: Crime novelist Gerry Boyle talks murder and justice

The former journalist recently released the 13th installment of his popular 'Jack McMorrow' series. He spoke to a Great Falls Forum audience Thursday about why he returns to crime, murder and mayhem in his stories.

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Notes on the Landscape of Home’ and ‘The Outhouse in Winter’

A collection of 32 essays that explore sense of community, and a coming-of-age adventure during the summer of 1959

AUTHOR EVENT: Tim Cotton

Listen as Cotton tells stories about all things in the dooryard

‘Night of the Living Rez’ a finalist for national prize

Levant author Morgan Talty's collection is one of three up for The Story Prize.

An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel

Set during the turbulent 1960s and early '70s, 'Down to the River' beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.

OFF RADAR: ‘Elegiaca Americana: Poems’

Claire Millikin's intense poems track the inner life of the poet from her childhood in the South to her adulthood in New England.

OFF RADAR: ‘Fairy Tale’

If you are a fan of the Dark Tower books, this somewhat offbeat version of them is likely to capture your attention.

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Soft Features’ and ‘A Countryman’s Journal’

A debut novel by central Maine author Gillian Burnes, and a collection of 77 essays by Roy Barrette

OFF RADAR: ‘This Land Was Saved for You and Me’

How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands