by Milana Marsenich | Jul 22, 2024 | Book Reviews
“El Paso, you’re looking good!” I loved this book. It is tender, real, and full of courage. On a whim, a young woman gets spontaneously tossed into a world foreign to all she knows: the making of a beauty queen. Imagine two flamboyant men with a dream. Imagine a...
by Milana Marsenich | Jun 19, 2024 | Book Reviews
I didn’t expect to love a book about Vikings as much as I do. With all the plundering, pillaging, and general mayhem, Blood on the Axe is a work of pure genius. It is one of the most brilliant and surprising novels I’ve read. From the first page to the end, the story...
by Milana Marsenich | May 3, 2024 | Articles
Mary MacLane graduated from Butte High School in 1899, ready to go to Stanford University in California. The night before she was to leave, her stepfather informed her that there was no money for college. College was to be her escape from the murky hues of the...
by Milana Marsenich | Mar 27, 2024 | Book Reviews
Never Touch Down is a story of courage, grief, love, and brilliance. It’s a story of crime, dangerous people, family loyalties, and unbreakable ties. Cole Hooper, a struggling stunt pilot for movies, starts an aviation restoration business to raise his young son,...
by Milana Marsenich | Mar 13, 2024 | Articles
From the Archives in Butte, Montana: America Reads Last summer I was at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives to research a book that I am writing about Mary MacLane, Butte’s Wild Woman and Famed Literary Woman. I am lucky because Mary MacLane has been well-documented....
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