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Russell Rowland

Russell Rowland is a Billings writer who writes both fiction and nonfiction. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and he teaches online workshops and works privately with other writers.

Three of his novels received critical acclaim, two were finalists for the High Plains Book Award for fiction. His first novel, In Open Spaces, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and made the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list. The sequel, The Watershed Years, was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for fiction as was his third novel, High and Inside. He also co-edited an anthology of essays by writers from the West, West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West.

Russell's website.

Russell is a member-owner since May 2016.

 

Photograph of Russell Rowland, a member-owner at This House of Books, your community-owned, independent bookstore and tea shop in downtown Billings, Montana.

Russell Rowland
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When Catherine Boland meets a shy young ranch hand at the bank where she works, she has no idea that he just took part in a recent vigilante hanging that she has been very outspoken about. And although George Arbuckle was not a willing participant in that hanging, he worries that once Catherine lear ... Read More about
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In the sequel to Montana author Russell Rowland's highly acclaimed first novel, In Open Spaces, The Watershed Years picks up with the story of the Arbuckles, a ranch family in Eastern Montana. When George Arbuckle, the patriarch of the family, dies from mysterious causes, Blake Arbuckle's wife, Rita ... Read More about
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Montana has a long and celebrated tradition of artful, reflective nonfiction. From Joseph Kinsey Howard's Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome to K. Ross Toole's Montana: An Uncommon Land, we've been gifted with a series of erudite and sharp-eyed guides to help show us who we are. To this eminent list ... Read More about
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Pete Hurley is not the first person to have the idea that building his dream house in the country will bring him some kind of peace and happiness. But he may be the first to arrive in Montana with a World Series ring, a three-legged dog, and a thirst for self-destruction. High and Inside documents, ... Read More about
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Set in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers: GeorgeA rising baseball star who mysteriously drowns in the river JackA World War I veteran who abandons his family only to return to reclaim the family ranc ... Read More about
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