The Dream is the incredibly nostalgic and poignant story about the passing of Peerless High School in Peerless, Montana, which closed its doors forever in June, 2009, and the 1978-79 Peerless Panthers. It also includes the passing of District 1-C, once the most powerful Class C basketball conference in Montana, where three other high schools, Antelope, Outlook and Flaxville, have also closed. It is the story of the end of an era when every year the State Class C basketball tournament in Montana was played in Helena, the most gracious and accommodating host ever for this sensational tournament. But most of all, as is stated in the prologue, "This is a story about a dream, a dream that a group of boys shared to someday play in the State Class C tournament in Montana, then to win the State championship game for their small school. So this is a story about dreams, rivalries, triumph, disappointment, passion, and a love that was shared by a group of boys who never gave up striving for the one thing in their life that mattered most to them: Playing in the State Class C basketball tournament in Montana."

The Dream: The Story of the 1978 and 1979 Peerless Panthers

Sports & Outdoors

Puckett, Joe

Biographies

Aubade Publishing

In her warmly comical and deliciously entertaining debut novel, master storyteller Rochelle Distelheim sweeps us back to 1913 and the world of struggling Jewish immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side. Sadie Schuster -- fortyish, plumpish, a suffragette, and recently widowed -- spends more time now talking to her late husband, Fivel, than when he was alive. Sadie keeps Fivel informed of her daily activities -- especially her pursuit of a husband -- because "An empty bed is a cold place for a hot-blooded woman." A lover of ballroom dancing, the moving pictures, and night school English words, Sadie's true talent lies in the magic love knots she artfully crafts for lonely, unwitting, immigrants willing to purchase hope wrapped in a schmattah for fifty cents. Selling love knots while seeking love, Sadie consults with her magic spirits to woo Herschel -- the muscled ice peddler who reads poetry and pines for his newly departed wife. Her daughter, Yivvy, sells secondhand, possibly "pinched" tchotchkes in her antique shop and plans to marry the Irish cop on the beat. Enter, Ike Tabatnik, the "Dance King of Riga, Latvia," just off the boat and ready to take on America -- and Sadie's heartstrings. Comedy and chaos follow. A stunning confession, following the wedding of one of her love knot clients -- which begins with one groom and ends with another -- pushes Sadie to make a surprising choice. She then throws herself at the mercy of her magic spirits, asking them to do quickly for her what they have been doing for her customers -- before it's too late.

Sadie in Love

Rochelle Distelheim

A Mexican boy and a Nebraska girl -- bizarrely linked by a volcano, an earthquake, and an odd poem -- careen inexorably toward an improbable rendezvous in Jerome Dobson's debut novel, Paricutin: The Miracle of Daniel Pulido -- a story of survival, courage, belief, hope, and love. The story of Paricutin begins when sixteen-year-old Daniel Pulido has a premonition of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. He warns his mother who is working at a children's hospital -- but she doesn t believe him. Eight days later, Daniel is the sole survivor found in the rubble because a special microphone, lowered into the wreckage, picked up some of his mysterious ramblings. The Church attributes Daniel's miraculous survival to God and broadcasts that Daniel's "ramblings" were divinely inspired. However, three people -- Beth, a Nebraska cattle rancher; her daughter, Faith, a geophysicist studying at Stanford; and Tim Brown, a California defense contractor -- faintly recognize Daniel's "ramblings" and realize they somehow have an improbable connection with him. Tim and Faith immediately begin to search for Daniel. Finding him becomes the absolute focus of their lives. Blaming God, Himself, for his mother's death and bitterly angry at the Church for exploiting his miraculous survival, Daniel contrives to escape from his hospital prison. His passion is to discover a scientific way to anticipate a coming earthquake -- he wants to give people a chance to survive when God says they must be destroyed. Daniel's odyssey includes a violent run-in with an LA gang, his arrest for murder, two more earthquakes, and the final realization that he can't fight his fight alone. When Faith, Tim, and Beth find him he learns there can be something else in his life beyond hatred and the need for revenge. How the four find each other, provide strength and support to each other, and then take on the world together is at the very heart of the inspirational story of Paricutin: The Miracle of Daniel Pulido.

Paricutin: The Miracle of Daniel Pulido

Jerome John Dobson

The Law of the Land

Humanity suffers from "Nature-Deficit-Disorder." We have lost touch with the Earth, the Great Law-Giver. These poems tell of a moral code derived from the Earth. Part I shows the moral code of the Lakota Sioux, a Plains Indian tribe whose way of life was taken from them. Part III is the moral code of a former US Army sharpshooter, a killer of Indians who took part in the destruction of the Lakota. Both are moral codes of actions, not words. The middle section reconciles these two opposing codes; it is the Law of the Land, the Earth's moral code which affects animal, mineral and vegetable. This is the Law which prevails over us all; it is immortal and omniscient-it has the final say. With stark and powerful language, The Law of the Land tells a poetic fable through three voices from America's past, each describing their own unique stories and perspectives which impart lessons about life and morality. Though these voices (and their moral codes) appear in opposition, they interact in ways which illuminate a complex relationship between them. Red Hawk's poems originate from an intelligent and spiritual soul, and they reveal wisdom about the nature of life, America's history, and our relationship with Mother Earth that is well worth listening to.

Literature & Fiction

Red Hawk

United States

Everybody knows that Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. The last of humanity has lived on Mozaan--a healthy, domed chunk of land suspended above Earth--for almost two hundred years. Renee thought life on Mozaan was good. It had been, until the night they came. Renee and her friends each have a strange ability--which they hadn't hid well enough to save them from the Takers. When Renee's life and family are destroyed, she and her friends must live in hiding if they want to survive. But, can they hide forever? The Takers are coming, and Renee is about to discover new, jarring truths about Mozaan, Earth, and herself.

Outliers (The Outliers Trilogy)

Teen & Young Adult

Pearce, S M

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

Genre Fiction

Six years after experiencing what a boys’ state basketball championship did for her small prairie town on the Montana Hi-Line, Jamie Graham, fourteen years old, embarks on her own journey to bring that joy and excitement back to her town. Jim—Jamie’s dad and respected teacher and coach—coached the boys’ championship team and inspires her to choose the goal of winning State. Jim’s unwavering belief in Jamie provides her with confidence and motivation to persevere—no matter the obstacle. 
When Jamie begins her high school basketball career as a freshman, Coach VanDyke pushes Jamie and her teammates to become the best players and team possible. She promises that practicing the discipline that high school athletics demands will teach them not only what it means to be good players, but good people and leaders who will contribute positively to the world. 
Through her four-year high school journey, and together with her teammates, Jamie experiences the exhilaration of winning, the agony of defeat, and the complicated layers of love, friendship, and grief. She learns what it really takes to set and achieve goals, all while navigating adolescence and high school with its inevitable confusion, heartbreak, and the highs and lows that produce powerful life lessons.

The Yellow Sports Bra: A True Story of Love, Faith, and Basketball

Biographies & Memoirs

Graham Duprey, Jamie

Leaders & Notable People

In 1998, the old Soviet Union is dead, the new Russia is awash in corruption and despair. Manya and Yuri Zalinikov, secular Jews -- he, a gifted mathematician recently dismissed from the Academy; she, a concert pianist -- sell black market electronics in a market stall, until threatened with a gun by a mafioso in search of protection money. Yuri sinks into a Chekhovian melancholy, emerging to announce that he wants to "live as a Jew" in Israel. Manya and their daughter, Galina, are desolate, asking "how does one do that," and why?And thus begins their odyssey -- part tragedy, part comedy, always surprising. Struggling against loneliness, language, and danger, in a place Manya calls "more cousin's club than country," Yuri finds a Talmudic teacher equally addicted to religion and luxury; Manya finds a job playing the piano at The White Nights supper club, owned by a wealthy, flamboyant Russian with a murky history, who offers lust disguised as love. Galina, enrolled at Hebrew University, finds dance clubs and pizza emporiums and a string of young men, one of whom Manya hopes will save her from the Israeli army by marrying her. Against a potpourri of marriage wigs, matchmaking television shows, disastrous investment schemes, and a suicide bombing, the Zalinikovs confront the thin line between religious faith and skepticism, as they try to answer: what does it mean to be fully human, what does it mean to be Jewish? And what role in all of this does the "mazel" gene play?

Jerusalem as a Second Language

Distelheim, Rochelle

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The Dream: The Story of the 1978 and 1979 Peerless Panthers

Sadie in Love

Paricutin: The Miracle of Daniel Pulido

The Law of the Land

Outliers (The Outliers Trilogy)

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

The Law of the Land

The Yellow Sports Bra: A True Story of Love, Faith, and Basketball

Jerusalem as a Second Language