Pete Fromm, author of the iconic memoir Indian Creek Chronicles, will visit This House of Books on Friday, July 19, at 5:30. Pete will read from his newest book, A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do (2019), and take questions from the audience. Pete is a five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and is hailed as one of the West's best literary writers.

Ernest Hemingway used to hang out in Billings and Red Lodge, did you know that? Also, did you know that Hemingway put Billings on the map with his preposterous audio recording titled, “Saturday Night at the Whorehouse in Billings Montana”?

On July 22, starting at 2 o'clock, Gavin Woltjer, who is both a trained scientist and the director of Billings Public Library, will be taking seriously the question of whether Bigfoot and monsters like Bigfoot are real. 

Gasparilla: A Pirate’s Tale is Lisa Ballard’s eleventh book. This is her first children’s book, and she declares it is her favorite of all the books she has written so far! Coming from a writer as talented and versatile as Lisa, that is saying a lot.