About Books: Summer 2019
Howl: A New Look at the Big Bad Wolf
By Ted Rechlin
In Howl, readers are introduced to Lobo, one of the West’s most notorious outlaws. Not a bandit or a gunslinger, Lobo is a wolf on the run. Artist and author Ted Rechlin offers readers an exciting, full-color, illustrated tour through North America’s complicated history with this apex predator.
From the wolves’ near extinction in New Mexico’s Old West to their reintroduction into the Yellowstone ecosystem, Howl demystifies human’s rocky relationship with this often-misunderstood creature.
Aiming to engage and educate, Howl is an exciting, science-based graphic novel for readers 6 and up.
Rechlin, who resides in Bozeman, has been drawing pictures and telling stories since he was 3 years old. While his drawings have gotten much better, his stories haven’t really changed much. They’re still about superheroes, bears, wolves, sharks, monsters, and lots of dinosaurs.
Round Trip
By Stephen Ore
Set in Montana’s Tobacco Root Mountains, Stephen Ore’s debut novel takes readers into the heart and mind of an honest, adventurous and naive teenager as he runs for his life.
Matt Lewis spends summers working on J.P. Pickett’s “hobby farm,” earning money for college, until he discovers a dangerous secret that leads him to suspect that his employer is a big-time drug dealer.
When the Picketts realize Matt knows too much, they order their so-called personal assistant – a brawny, armed, former member of the army special forces – to eliminate the problem. Matt takes to the hills, confident that he can lose anyone in his rugged, familiar backcountry. His hope to escape plummets when he realizes a tracker with a hound is in hot pursuit.
“With beautiful scenery and compelling characters, Round Trip ratchets the action with relentless pacing that the young adult reader will adore,” writes Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Series.
Ore was born on Montana’s Hi-Line and spent his formative years in the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains. A graduate of Montana State University, he now runs his own construction business and spends any free time immersed in Montana’s backcountry.
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