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Lauren Kruckenberg has two new paintings for sale! They’re in the front display window, but if they tickle your fancy, tell me to pull them in the shop for you! January book clubs will be the newly released Regarding Willingness written by Tom Harpool, and The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho. I ordered a bunchContinue reading “New Stuff for a New January”

How Novel is open this week on Tuesday (22nd) and Wednesday (23rd) for any last minute shopping. However, we will be closed the rest of the week so that we can spend the holiday together as a family. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, we’ll see you next week on December 29th whenContinue reading “Christmas Hours”

How Novel is participating the Poker Run event this Saturday. When you make a purchase at various small business in Butte’s uptown, you get a playing card, and at the end of the day you meet up at Mirror Mirror to see who has the best poker hand, for a chance to win a giftContinue reading “Small Business Poker Run on Saturday”

December 15th is our monthly Art Talk… bring some of your artwork in for some unbiased, constructive critique with fellow local artists! December 17th is How Novel’s Choice Book Club. We’re reading Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. It’s a light, short novel for this busy time of year, and How Novel has some copies availableContinue reading “December Goings-On”

Tuesday: 11AM-6PM, +Banned Book Club 6PM Wednesday-Friday: Closed for the holiday -sorry for any inconvenience Saturday: 9AM-6PM, Small Business Saturday Sale -10% off entire store!

It is my personal belief that, over time, we get bombarded with messages saying only gifted people can become artists. Every time we hear someone say, “I am not an artist. I can’t even draw a stick figure,” we hear that artists have to achieve some sort of perfection in order in order to beContinue reading ““…how to remain an artist once we grow up. “”

Don’t forget that How Novel also carries art. I’ve had the opportunity to meet a handful of local artists, and am very pleased with the collection I’ve been able to curate to sell. So far I have work featuring the following four artists. Come check out these artworks, and more!

How Novel is now one month old! I feel like a new parent telling people how old their infant is. It started out as, “We’ve been open 3 days,” and then, “We are just over three weeks old,” and now I’ll have to start describing our existence in months! We are excited to be incorporatingContinue reading “November News”

Here are some Halloween books we have in stock, in case you want to come in and get a little something to get into the Halloween spirit. We have A TON of vampire books! This is a photo of our display table, but vampire lit is scattered everywhere, what with it being a huge protagonistContinue reading “Books to Get into the Halloween Spirit”

I recieved an email today inquiring as to what November’s book club books were. Thank you for asking! I’m sure many people would like to know so they can get a leg up on the reading! How Novel’s Choice Book Club on the third Thursday is Golden Years, Golden Hours by Butte’s own Paul Vang.Continue reading “November Book Clubs”