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Accidental Heroes, by Danielle Steel A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel—a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent B...
The Rising Sea (NUMA Files #15) By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown Everywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world’s peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. An alarming rise in the world’s sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of...
In Places Hidden (Golden Gate Secrets #1), by Tracie Peterson On her way to San Francisco to find her brother, Caleb, who went missing three months ago, Camriann Coulter meets Judith and Kenzie, who both have their own mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. The women decide to help each other, including rooming together and working at Kenzie’s cousin’s chocolate factory. Camri’s search for her brother, an attorney, leads her deep into the political corruption of the city--and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, a hands...
Fifty Fifty (Detective Harriet Blue #2) by James Patterson, and Candice Fox It’s not easy being a good detective – when your brother’s a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she’s determined to prove it. Except she’s now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75), where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan – the massacre of...
“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in awhile.”—Kin Hubbard. We , at the book club, are lucky to have the one-tenth that always have something to say without prompting. Our group met on the 8th with our book of the month being,” A Reliable Wife”, by Robert Goolrich. Karen Moes led the discussion about this unusual book. I have thought about how to describe this book and for once, words fail me. I can’t come up with a one-liner that encapsulates it. So, I will stagger on d...
The Flight Attendant, by Chris Bohjalian Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, already counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, a...
Chouteau County Performing Arts is once again pleased to present the Piatigorsky Foundation in a free concert at the Grand Union Hotel, at 4:30 PM on May 10. If you think you don't like classical music, this will be the concert that changes your mind. This show is presented in partnership with Emily's Vacation Cottage, The River House and the Franklin Street Guest House. This year we are honored to have The Piatigorsky Foundation's founder, Evan Drachman, accompanied by Efi Hackmey. Come enjoy...
By Anne Denning “The sunshine gleams so bright and warm, The sky is blue and clear. I run outdoors without a coat, and spring is almost here. Then before I knew it, Small clouds have blown together, Till the sun just can’t get through them, And again, its mitten weather!!!” This could have been written for Big Sandy this year. Our meeting was cancelled earlier this month due to bad roads and one month was skipped for the same reason. We are prepared for yet another storm in another day and then we have high hopes for spring to actually find...
ESCAPE CLAUSE BY JOHN SANFORD The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they’ve been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others -- as Virgil is about to find out. Then there’s the homefront. Virgil’s relationship with his girlfriend Frankie has been getti...
UNCOMMON TYPE BY TOM HANKS A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN’s newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he lov...
ALL-AMERICAN MURDER BY JAMES PATTERSON Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life--one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football...
THE FORCE BY DON WINSLOW The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel—voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including the New York Times—makes his William Morrow debut with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . . All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is “the King of Manhattan North,” a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of “Da Force.” Malone and hi...
Big Sandy High held their 2018 Prom last Saturday, March 24. Seniors, Jenna Leader and Duke Darlington were crowned this years Prom King and Queen....
Love and Other Consolation Prizes , by Jamie Ford. For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off--a healthy boy “to a good home.” The winning ticket belongs to the flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel, famous for educating her girls. There,...
To Be Where You Are, by Jan Karon - #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn’t need a steady job to prove himself. Then he’s given one--but what, exactly, does it prove? Meanwhile, newly married Dooley and Lace face a crisis that empties their bank account and turns their household upside down. Is the honeymoon over? Is this whe...
“The Right Time” by Danielle Steel Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in the mysteries she reads with her devoted father—and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years. After her father’s untimely death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and the time and encouragement to pursue her gift. Alex writes in every...
The Mountaineer announces a 2018 Photographic Contest. There are four categories: Community People, Agriculture Activities, Community Activities, and Nature (Scenery/or Animals) Photos can be either be in color or in black and white. Each photographer can enter one photo per month. Each photo will be required to be digitally emailed to bsm1@mtintouch.net. The Mountaineer reserves the right to publish the photographs, which are entered depending on the availability of space in the paper, assuring each photo will be published. The voting will...
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My piles of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” ( “ Books to the Ceiling”) by Arnold Lobel. Due to the fact that at this time the book club is all women, I changed the last part to “We’ll live on Mars by the time I read them.” This pretty much sums up the life of book club members from what I have gleaned through our discussions. We met January 9 at the library and had a two pronged discussion. We first discussed some books we had re...
The Mountaineer announces a 2018 Photographic Contest. There are four categories: Community People, Agriculture Activities, Community Activities, and Nature (Scenery/or Animals) Photos can be either be in color or in black and white. Each photographer can enter one photo per month. Each photo will be required to be digitally emailed to bsm1@mtintouch.net. The Mountaineer reserves the right to publish the photographs, which are entered depending on the availability of space in the paper,...
New Year brings new events into the Big Sandy Library. There is a Library Lego Checkout Club which is a fun way for people to check out books at the library. There is a Lego platform in our front window where our friends will be helping to make something awesome during the continuous build. This build will be complete on Wednesday April 11th during National Library week. The concept is for every book checked out they get a Lego to help build the structure and for every book brought back they...
Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 3 years old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is a baby doll and a reindeer. I promise to leave out a treat for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Brookelyn Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 1 year old. This year, I have been naughty (but nice!). What I would like most this Christmas is a pair of sunglasses for Mexico. I promise to leave out cookies for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Waylon...
Mary’s Little Lamb Daycare Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 1 year old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is little toy trucks and cars. I promise to leave out a cookie for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Alyssa Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 4 years old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is smashems. I promise to leave out cookies for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Ashlynn Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 4 years old. This year, I have b...
As a child making a tasty and, of course, sweet treat for the reindeer did not happen every year, but the years it did happen were the most memorable. My grandma, cousins and I would mix oatmeal, sugar and sprinkles together to put out in the snow for the reindeer on the night of Christmas Eve. Then they, too, would get a snack on their long ride around the world. Waking up on Christmas morning was so exciting, but it also was a marathon. For instance, it was very important to be the first one to wake up, but it was also so important to check...
Christmas in rural areas is more than the gifts lying under the tree, or the lights strung down Main Street. The material items are diminished as the people come together as a family: we remember those we have lost since the last eve, we support the organizations that hold the town together like glue, and we praise the glory above. The hardships that our daily lives hold are forgotten as we step into our city halls and feel the essence of joy that is in the air. As his wife rubs Aquaphor lotion into his hands, he winces; the cold nights have...
Don’t forget the Story book time every Wednesday. Lego Land is the second and fourth Friday. This week Debbie has chosen “HAUNTED” by James Patterson. Detective Bennett is ready for a vacation but before he knows it, he has kids in trouble all over the north woods! If you like Bennett or you like Patterson, you are going to love “HAUNTED”. “HAUNTED” is available now at the Jeff Reichelt Memorial Library in Big Sandy, Montana....