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A Twist in Time by Janet Muirhead Hill

WINNER of the 2024 High Plains Book Award for Young Adult Fiction

When two girls enter the same caverns on their thirteenth birthday, their lives change in ways no one could have expected. Madison Clark, only child of rich New Yorkers entered the Lewis and Clark Caverns on July 17, 2019,…

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2023 ebook ISBN: 9781937849702

2023 paperback 320 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-69-6

Miranda and Starlight (book 1) by Janet Muirhead Hill

The book that started it all, first issued in 2002 and reprinted and revised in 2006, Miranda and Starlight remains one of our best sellers.
Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens, sent to live on her grandparents' Montana dairy farm while her mom seeks her fortune in Hollywood, is having trouble fitting in…

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2014 Audio ISBN: 978-1-937849-08-5

2010 Electronic ISBN: 9780982089347

2021 Nine book set ISBN: 978-1-937849-59-7

2002 Paperback (first edition) 166 pages ISBN: 9780971416109

2003 Revised Paperback 166 pages ISBN: 9780971416147

Slightly marred cover 166 pages ISBN: 9780971416147

Starlight's Courage (Miranda and Starlight Book two) by Janet Muirhead Hill

In this exciting sequel to Miranda and Starlight, both the girl and the horse, an injured two-year-old stallion, are called upon to exhibit loyalty, courage, and endurance.Thinking that Starlight's owner is determined to have him put down, Miranda takes matters into her own hands to save him. A fierce competition…

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2010 Electronic ISBN: 9780982089354

2002 Paperback (first edition) 178 pages ISBN: 9780971416116

2007 Revised Paperback 162 pages ISBN: 9780977252541

Starlight, Star Bright (Book 3) by Janet Muirhead Hill

The third book in the series about a young Montana girl and the black stallion she wants to call her own. Eleven-year-old Miranda Stevens is in love with a horse that belongs to grouchy Mr. Taylor, owner of Shady Hills Horse Ranch. She nurses him back to health after an…

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2010 Electronic ISBN: 9780982089361

2003 Paperback 190 pages ISBN: 9780971416123

Starlight's Shooting Star (Book 4 of the Miranda and Starlight series) by Janet Muirhead Hill

The fourth book of the Miranda and Starlight series finds Miranda Stevens, sixth grader at Country View School, getting into scrapes and adventures at school, at home, and most of all at the Shady Hills Horse Ranch where her friend Christopher keeps his mare, Queen, and where Miranda cares for,…

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2010 Electronic ISBN: 9780982089378

2003 Paperback 191 pages ISBN: 9780971416130

Starlight Shines for Miranda (Book 5) by Janet Muirhead Hill

Miranda Stevens is twelve years old in book five of the Miranda and Starlight series. She is, she believes she is the luckiest girl in the world. Her missing father, whom she never knew before, has returned to become a part of her life, and her favorite black stallion, Starlight,…

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2010 Electronic ISBN: 9780982089385

2004 Paperback 198 pages ISBN: 9780971416154

slightly marred cover, otherwise excellent condition 198 pages ISBN: 9780971416154

Starlight Comes Home (Miranda and Starlight Book six) by Janet Muirhead Hill

In this, the sixth book of the Miranda and Starlight series many new adventures await Miranda and her friends, Christopher and Laurie, and their horses. Laurie's mare, Lady, hides her foal, and Miranda, on Starlight, crosses a dangerous section of the river to find it, narrowly escaping catastrophe. A new…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9820893-9-2

2003 Paperback 250 pages ISBN: 9780971416161

Slightly marred cover, otherwise excellent condition 250 pages ISBN: 9780971416161

The Horse and the Crow: book 7 of the Miranda and Starlight series by Janet Muirhead Hill

Miranda attends the Crow Fair where she intends to race three horses—until her filly, Shooting Star goes missing. She will not give up until she finds her. Little does she know the dangers that await her in the Pryor Mountains as she searches.

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ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-28-3

2015 Print 288 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-27-6

Horses for Sale, a Miranda and Starlight Story (Book 8) by Janet Muirhead Hill

At age sixteen, going on seventeen, Miranda takes responsibility for her growing herd of horses. Impressed with the unfairness of expecting her parents to pay all the expenses of keeping horses, she agrees to treat them as a business and make her horse ranch pay for itself. The alternative, according…

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2016 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-33-7

2016 Paperback 194 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-32-0

Horses Forever: A Miranda and Starlight Story (Book 9) by Janet Muirhead Hill

Miranda graduates high school and, under Higgin's guidance and with Christopher's support, prepares a filly for entry in the Kentucky Derby. Caught up in the thrill of the horseracing world and the wonder of the talent of Starlight's offspring, Miranda focuses on winning. As she becomes an intimate part of…

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2017 ebook ISBN: 9781937849351

2017 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-937849-34-4

The Many Adventures of Miranda and Starlight by Janet Muirhead Hill

The many adventures of Miranda Stevens and the black stallion, Starlight that she loves begins when Miranda is ten years old and meets Starlight in book one. She celebrates her fourteenth birthday at the end of book six. Many mishaps and adventures happen to Miranda and her friends, Christopher and…

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Second edition ISBN: 978-0-9772525-8-9

Danny's Dragon by Janet Muirhead Hill

Before his father died, Nine-year-old Danny Branahan had asked him for a horse. Dad said yes, and they brought the beautiful white horse named Dragon home to their Montana cattle ranch. Danny and Dragon became inseparable untilhis father's death. Danny blames himself, reasoning, "If I hadn't asked for a horse,…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-5-0

2006 Paperback 190 pages ISBN: 978-0-9772525-0-3

The Teen Years: Miranda and Starlight trilogy by Janet Muirhead Hill

Three books in one set: Books 7, 8, and 9 of the Miranda and Starlight series see Miranda through high school and beyond. At fourteen she and her friend Christopher take horses to the Crow Fair where they plan to compete. All is well until one of the horses disappears.…

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2017 Paperback 700 pages ISBN: 9781937849450

Kyleah's Tree by Janet Muirhead Hill

Eleven-year-old Kyleah Ralston has a secret wish and believes it will come true if she makes a wish on the sunrise from the very top of her favorite tree. She must close her eyes and repeat the wish at just the right moment, or it won't work. She wishes to…

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2009 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9820893-3-0

2008 first edition paperback 202 pages ISBN: 978-0-9772525-9-6

2011 Misprint 208 pages ISBN: 978-0-9827377-9-8

2011 Revised Paperback 202 pages ISBN: 978-0-9827377-9-8

Kendall's Storm by Janet Muirhead Hill

10-year-old Kendall Ralston is lonely and confused as his father moves him from one new place to another, with never time to pack. When he rescues a puppy from a hailstorm in Montana, he has found a friend to give him both companionship and courage. What Kendall really wants is…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-1-2

2011 Paperback 230 pages ISBN: 978-0-9820893-0-9

Kendall and Kyleah by Janet Muirhead Hill

Twins, a girl, Kyleah, and a boy, Kendall, were separated at age four when their parents divorced. The father took Kendall and the mother kept Kyleah. As dysfunctional in divorce as they were in marriage, the parents agreed not to let the twins see or hear from each other. "It'll…

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2012 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-06-1

2012 Paperback 265 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-05-4

The Twins Trilogy by Janet Muirhead Hill

The story of twins, separated at age four and desperately seeking each other at age 11 is told in three novels. KENDALL'S STORM, follows the frightened and lonely boy twin as he travels with his father through many states and finally to the Long Beach Peninsula in southwest Washington. He…

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2013 wrapped 3 book set ISBN: 978-1-937849-09-2

The Body in the Freezer by Janet Muirhead Hill

An arrogant, entitled, teenage boy meet a homeless girl with a secret. He's determined to learn her secret, but when he does, he wishes he hadn't. It alters the course of his life.

When 13-year-old Samuel Ellingsford (Captain) Capulin III lets his smart mouth get him into trouble, the judge…

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2014 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-12-2

2014 Paperback 228 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-13-9

Danni by Janet Muirhead Hill

On probation, living in a group home, and doing her best to turn her life around, Danni Beaumont, a high-school junior, is suddenly plunged into a nightmare that seemingly won't end when a gang rape results in an unwanted pregnancy. Her perpetrators threaten harm to her beloved little sister if…

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2018 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-31-3

2018 Paperback 225 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-46-7

Hattie's Horse by Janet Muirhead Hill

When the global pandemic of 2020 hits the east coast, Hattie Thompson's parents, both medical doctors, send her to her grandmother's ranch in Montana, while they stay in Boston to treat patients. For Hattie, it's the best vacation she can imagine. She adores her grandmother and her grandmother's barrel-racing mare.…

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2021 ebook ISBN:

2021 paperback 220 pages ISBN: 9781937849900

Billings and Jingles: The First Big Adventure by Janet Muirhead Hill

A cat and mouse story your children will love. Fully Illustrated by artist and illustrator, Herb Leonhard, this 32 page picture book for children 0 - 5 is sure to be a big hit. Billings, a young mouse, goes on his first big adventure with his daddy. They find…

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2016 Hardcover 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-96-2

2016 saddle stitched 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-97-9

Miranda and Starlight Literature Unit by Janet Muirhead Hill

Miranda and Starlight goes to the classroom in this cross-curriculum unit designed for making learning fun, and teaching easy. Based on the award-winning first book in a six book series by Janet Muirhead Hill, this literature unit was designed by a school teacher, Danya Johnson Tompkins. It has been tested…

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First edition, spiral bound 95 pages ISBN: 978-0-9772525-2-7

Starlight's Courage Curriculum Unit by Janet Muirhead Hill

This curriculum guide for use with the novel, Starlight's Courage, is provided for easy adaptation for instructors in the classroom or homeschool. It covers several disciplins from social studies, math and science, to reading, grammar and vocabulary, with a heavy emphasis on language arts. It includes a complete answer key…

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2007 Paperback 98 pages ISBN: 0-9772525-3-1

Captain and Danni by Janet Muirhead Hill

CAPTAIN and DANNI (a two-book set—shrinkwrapped together)
The saga of two troubled teens, finding their way in the world.
In The Body in the Freezer, thirteen-year-old Captain, whose smart mouth has earned him community service in a homeless shelter, meets the aloof, enigmatic Danni. Captain is determined to learn her secret.…

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2018 Shrink-wrapped set ISBN:

PRISM by Joan Bochmann by Janet Muirhead Hill

NOW available in both print and electronic editions.

Debra Randall, the lovely and talented heiress of the "richest man in California" is missing. The detective of the San Francisco police department still isn't close to solving the mystery after two weeks of investigating the case. The three most important men…

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2020 ebook ISBN: 9781937849665

2020 Paperback 264 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-65-8

The Boarding House by Marcia Melton

Set in the unstable, politically charged Montana of 1914, The Boarding House tells the story of the Hynes family’s tragedy and triumph after a mining accident in Butte forces the family to relocate and operate a boarding house in the small town of Philipsburg. Told primarily through the eyes of…

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2012 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-04-7

2012 Paperback 163 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-03-0

Joe Henry's Journey by Marcia Melton

Joe Henry’s story is a look at the past. It reveals why people moved to the untamed region the miners called Montana in the mid 1800s and what they found there. The reader will be carried along with Joe Henry through all of his travels—a great adventure, but scary too.…

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2014 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-21-4

2014 Paperback 170 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-20-7

Joe Henry's Return by Marcia Melton

Joe Henry Grummond, who traveled with his father from Kentucky to Montana and back again, in Joe Henry's Journey, in 1862. Now, in 1866, there is nothing left in Kentucky for Joe's family, which is comprised of Joe, his father, his grandmother, two younger sisters, and John Abel, a disabled…

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2017 ebook ISBN: 9781937849443

2017 paperback 164 pages ISBN: 9781934849436

MontAnimals by Marcia Melton

An A B C coloring book for young children. It has simple drawings of 26 Montana Animals, mostly mammals and birsds, but also an insect and a reptile, created by Matthew Daane. Room for adding background scenery makes it a fun activity for young artists. Animal facts, which can be…

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2018 paperback 52 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-93-1

Fergus: The Soccer-Playing Colt by Dan Peterson

A palomino colt, bred to play polo, prefers soccer instead. Follow the adventures of Fergus and the two boys who love him as they go on a National soccer tour to promote the sport. All is well until a couple of thugs decide they want the athletic colt for their…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9820893-2-3

2005 Paperback 178 pages ISBN: 978-0-9714161-7-8

A Horse to Remember by Juliana Hutchings

After her family relocates to the small country town of Lewisberg, Tennessee, Hilary Thompson, who has lived and thrived in the city the whole 13 years of her life, feels as if her world has stopped turning. When she begins working at the local stables owned by Susan Collins, she…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-2-9

2007 Paperback 176 pages ISBN: 978-0-9772525-1-0

An Inmate's Daughter by Jan Walker

On the first day of summer vacation between seventh and eighth grade, Jenna McDonald does the dumbest thing ever. She jumps from the McNeil Island boat dock into the water to save a little girl from drowning. McNeil Island is a prison in the middle of Puget Sound. It's where…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-0-5

2006 Paperback 172 pages ISBN: 978-0-9714161-9-2

Listen to Your Spirit by Kayo Fraser

Orphaned in an airplane crash in the African jungle, Kelly, age 12 and her brother Jake, age 10, must find their way out of a dense, foreign Jungle, country, and continent to find their way back to Florida to and aunt and uncle, their only living relatives since the crash.…

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2019 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-54-2

2019 Print 180 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-53-5

Used or abused 180 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-53-5

Round Trip by Stephen Ore

The Tobacco Root Mountains of western Montana have been Matt Lewis's playground since his earliest memories. They provide a refuge from the pressures of high school, a physical challenge as he climbs the highest peaks and explores the lakes and valleys, and the solitude he often craves in which he…

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2018 ebook ISBN: 9781937849504

2018 Paperback 230 pages ISBN: 9781937849498

The Orange Slipknot by Jan Young

Twelve-year-old Ben is impatient to grow up and fill the footprints his father leaves on the Nevada cattle ranch where he works as the ‘top hand.’ Meeting the high expectations of his father is difficult enough, without the enmity expressed by Fred, the old cow boss, who seems to…

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2010 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9820893-1-6

2007 Paperback 180 pages ISBN: 978-0-9772525-5-8

Starting the Colt by Jan Young

Starting the Colt continues the story of Ben Lucas’s quest to prove he’s tough enough to please his hot-tempered dad. The Nevada ranch where his dad cowboys is a man’s world. Ben’s father, who believes in teaching a horse who is boss, orders Ben to “buck out” some young horses,…

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2014 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-11-5

2014 Paperback 173 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-10-8

The Orange Slipknot Curriculum Unit by Jan Young

This ccurriculum guide for use with THE ORANGE SLIPKNOT can easily be adapted to the needs of the instructor and grade level of the students. It is 8 1/2 x 11 inches comb bound with 103 page that include several disciplines from social studies, math, and science, to reading,…

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2008 paperback 103 pages ISBN: 978077252565

Starting the Colt Curriculum Unit by Jan Young

This curriculum guide is designed for classroom and home school use with the novel, STARTING THE COLT, and is easily adapted to the needs of the instructor and the students. It is 8 1/2 x 11 inches, comb bound with 86 pages. It covers several disciplines including social sutdies, math,…

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2014 paperback ISBN: 978-1-937849-19-1

Absaroka by Joan Bochmann

A troubled young man returns from the Vietnam War to seek refuge at the family’s ranch in northern Wyoming, only to find his beloved home devoid of cattle, his mother gone, and his father only a shell of his former self. He soon learns that anthrax wiped out the livestock…

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2010 Paperback 180 pages ISBN: 978-0-9714161-8-5

Ride the Jawbone by Jim Moore

1902 in central Montana, the Jawbone Railroad served the ranch country in the Mussellshell River Valley as well as the gold fields in the Castle Mountains. The son of a local rancher, T. C. Bruce, just out of law school, is talked into defending a man commonly called Loco, charged…

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2011 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-8-1

2011 Paperback 228 pages ISBN: 978-0-9827377-3-6

The Jenny by Jim Moore

Merci Bruce brings the Jenny, a WWII flying machine to her father's central-Montana ranch in the spring of 1920. It quickly becomes the center of attention, not only because airplanes are rare in that time and place, but more so because the pretty Miss Bruce is the pilot. The focus…

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2012 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-30-6

2015 Paperback 384 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-29-0

8 Seconds by Jim Moore

In 1950, the world of a young rodeo bronc rider from Montana State College is rocked when he is charge with of the crime of murder in the first degree—the murder of a close friend and fellow rodeo participant. In a rush to judgment, the sheriff of Park County, Montana…

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2017 ebook ISBN:

2017 Paperback 296 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-38-2

2021 Second edition 360 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-25-2

The Body on the Floor of the Rotunda by Jim Moore

Murder in the Capitol becomes the top news story when the body of Gloria Angel, the popular and lovely assistant to the governor of Montana is found on the floor of the rotunda of Montana s capitol.

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2013 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-16-0

2013 Hard cover 372 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-15-3

2013 Paperback 372 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-14-6

Election Day by Jim Moore

Jim Moore has developed an intriguing story of a political system in chaos, with the intricacies of the US constitution and its amendments as the basic premise of the story.Our forefathers thought of every possible contingency in how to choose the president of the United States of America, including answering…

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2012 electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-02-3

2012 Hard cover 316 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-00-9

2012 Paperback 316 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-01-6

The Whole Nine Yarns: Tales of the West by Jim Moore

Nine delightful short stories from Jim Moore, who loves to spin a good yarns fill this little book making it an ideal gift for anyone who likes to read.

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electronic ISBN: 978-1-937849-23-8

2014 Paperback 142 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-22-1

Up River by Wayne Coggins

You can live the life of a young boy growing up in small-town America by seeing it through the eyes Wayne Coggins, who, through vivid memories, captures the spirit of the place and time (the 1940s '50s and '60s). The town of Lyman, Washington, though unique in some ways, was…

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2021 ebook ISBN: https://www.smashwords.co

2021 Paperback 140 pages ISBN: 9781937849870

Adventures of an Alaskan Preacher by Wayne Coggins

Coggins, a pastor in Alaska since 19971, shares his adventures with the people, the animals, and the sheer awesome wilderness of Alaska. In these thirty-one stories, Wayne uses the twists and turns of life that he has experienced to encourage every believer to trust in God in times of need.…

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2017 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-40-5

2017-02-02 Paperback 166 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-41-2

MORE Adventures of an Alaskan Preacher by Wayne Coggins

Is this Alaskan preacher, as a reality-show producer once asked,
”the last of a dying breed?” Or is he just a dedicated pastor doing the best he can for the people he cares about and serves.

Besides being an honest man, willing to sacrifice comfort, give up sleep, and risk his…

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2017 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-37-5

2017 paperback 166 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-36-8

Alaskan Adventures: Two book set by Wayne Coggins

Adventures and more adventures, you can now, for a limited time, buy two books for the price of one.

A Preacher in Alaska relates many of his experiences, both humorous and profound, adding a moral lesson he learned from each.

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2020 Two-book set ISBN:

Rascals, Ruffians, and Rebels:Profies from Early Montana by Gary R. Forney

Released July 15, 2020, we ran out and reordered in August, 2020. We also extended the introductory price for the second printing.

Montana has been blessed with incredible natural beauty, bountiful resources, and daring men and women: pioneers who dared to make this place their home. By 1863, there…

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2020 Ebook ISBN: 9781937849641

2020 Paperback 232 pages ISBN: 9781937849634

The Road Between by Florence Ore

Walking the mile-long road from the Blackfoot Reserve to the public school in Gleichen, Alberta, every day, the child, Florence, traversed the influence of not just two, but three cultures, looking for where she fit in. Her grandmother brought her manners and morals from England, her Indian neighbors shared their…

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2011 electronic ISBN: 978-0-9827377-7-4

2011 Paperback 150 pages ISBN: 978-0-9827377-6-7

Hollowtop Smoke Signals by Art Kehler

A compilation of humorous essay that depict life in small town, Montana. The author pokes fun at the residents, the wildlife, the tourists, and mostly at himself in these rollicking stories that paint a clear picture of what it's like to live and laugh in the rural areas of…

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2018 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-48-1

2018 Paperback 220 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-47-4

The Dishwater Tree by Angela Janacaro

The old willow tree on a lonely, windswept hill outside of Miles City, Montana, saw three generations of women—and kept their secrets. But when 80-year-old Worthy learned that she hadn't long to live, she was ready to unlock the secret of her heritage if she could. Why was she left…

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2014 elect ISBN: 978-1-937849-24-5

2014 Paperback 216 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-17-7

Our Trail Ends at Pony by Dixie Myhre

The life story of Dixie and Mike Myhre and their three sons as they enjoyed—and endured—the rewards and hardships of ranch life.

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2020 paperback 272 pages ISBN: 9781937849559

The Whaler and the Girl in the Deadfall by Mahlon E. Kriebel

AVAILABLE NOW!
A ten-man whaling crew, representing many coastal and one inland tribe, train secretly, and when the time is ripe, they’re ready to row their hand-crafted canoe through the night to intercept a gray-whale migration in the north Pacific Ocean. After a successful hunt they are taken into custody by…

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2019 Ebook ISBN: 9781937849573

2019 Paperback 396 pages ISBN: 9781937849566

Moonlight in Mud Puddles by Kedric H. Cecil

In the sequel to Wisdom From the Streets, Dr. Kedric H. Cecil reflects on further examples from his life as a teenage runaway on the streets of Seattle, exploring his own experiences of trauma and abuse which often led to further problems and issues in adulthood. Following many years as…

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2018 ebook ISBN: 978-1-937849-52-82.9

2019 Print 190 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-51-1

A Language without Words by Michael Raattama Tripp

A Language without Words is a book of poetry inspired by one person’s life. The insights from moments in forests and on farms, on waters of lakes and rivers, through depths of sorrow and the pursuit of fly-fishing touch emotions common to humankind

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2020 ebook ISBN: 9781937849917

2020 Paperback 60 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-92-4

Stand Up by Laura Ingram

Thirteen-year-old “Soccer-Sarah” faces intense and unrelenting bullying every day at school. Fighting cancer, enduring the rigors of chemotherapy and the resulting nausea and hair loss, bracing against painful spinal taps, and railing against the limitations caused by physical weakness threaten to take her down. But Sarah is determined to grow,…

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2018 Paperback 124 pages ISBN: 978-1-937849-95-5