Chapter One Book Store

Chapter One--The Bitterroot's Book Source

Welcome to Chapter One Book Store--The Bitterroot Valley's only full-service, independent bookstore, named Business of the Year by the Bitterroot Valley Chamber of Commerce!

Read our Chapter Oneblog if you'd like to hear what we're thinking about these days. Order online and pay no shipping when you select in-store pickup. You can also elect to pay in the store with cash or check, if you don't want to use your credit card on-line.

We can also have books delivered anywhere in the world--to your doorstep or anyone else's. Ask us how.

Changes are coming to Chapter One Book Store. Jean and Russ have accepted a Peace Corps assignment as small business development volunteers in Peru, and will be leaving on June 3 for 27 months. You can follow their adventures on their blog, Jean & Russ: Esto es Jauja. Chapter One will be under the capable ownership of Shawn Wathen.

We feature new books in over 60 categories, specializing in books of regional (Montana) interest, quality fiction and non-fiction, and children's books.

We also offer Chapter One Gift Cards in any amount you wish--also good at hundreds of participating bookstores nationwide!

What else do we offer? We're glad you asked!

*Our "Rabid Readers" buy-10-get-1-FREE program
*Thousands of used paperbacks in our paperback exchange
*An eclectic selection of magazines
*Speedy special order service
*Free Out-of-print searches
*A knowledgeable staff ready to help you find just the right books
*An audio book exchange
*Our own "staff picks," as well as the "Indie Next List," books chosen by booksellers at independent bookstores throughout the country
*A lively calendar of readings, signings, book discussions, and other events

That's what makes Chapter One Book Store the The Cultural Epicenter of the Bitterroot Valley.

A Plethora of Autographed Books!

Store Events
Readings, Signings, Discussions and Author Happenings

Title of Event: Rick Bass reads from
When: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: Chapter One
Description: Acclaimed author Rick Bass will return to Chapter One to read from his newest book, "The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons At Home In Montana."
"The Wild Marsh "is Rick Bass's most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month -- the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor and fecundity of summer, and the bittersweet memories evoked by fall. It is full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the valley -- ruggedness, improvisation and, of course, duct tape. "The Wild Marsh "is also tremendously poignant, especially when Bass reflects on what it means for his young daughters to grow up surrounded by the strangeness and wonder of nature. He shares with them the Yaak's little secrets -- where the huckleberries are best in a dry year, where to find a grizzly's claw marks in an old cedar -- and discovers that passing on this intimate local knowledge, the knowledge of home, is a kind of rare and valuable love.
In his account of life in Montana, Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, and a gifted observer. His passion for the place he calls home ensures that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.

Indie Next List

Our Staff Picks 'em For You!

The voracious and discriminating readers of the Chapter One staff have selected these titles for your reading pleasure. They include some old favorites, as well as recent "finds." If you want to know more about any of these titles, call us, email us, or best of all, stop in and ask us!

A Reliable Wife
by Goolrick, Robert
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt - a passionate man with his own dark secrets -has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.
With echoes of "Wuthering Heights" and "Rebecca," Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.