The Top 10 Reasons to Stay in Bozeman on Thanksgiving

10. Not having to beg fellow students for notes on Monday because you missed class.
9. Free turkey from Town and Country.
8. Missing out on awkward conversations and cheek pinchings from your wacky aunt who's visiting from Texas.
7. Getting to ride your long board around without having to dodge people.
6. Not having to sit at the kids' table at dinner.
5. Smaller crowds at the Pour House.
4. Front row parking spaces everywhere you go (except the grocery store).
3. Door buster deals at Target on Friday at 5 AM
2. Opening day at Big Sky!
1. Not having to rush home over mountain passes on icy roads.

Holiday Prep

While most college students are among the procrastinating crowd when it comes to holiday shopping, now is a great time to get shopping for your friends and family. We are getting in the holiday spirit around here: the General Books department wrapped their cabinets with Christmas wrapping paper and all the Santa Clause paraphernalia is waiting for you in Gifts. Deck the halls!!

The Bookstore's hours will be short on Wednesday: 7:45 AM - 4:30 PM to allow us to go home early and thaw our turkeys.

There is no buy back this week, it will resume December 5th.

Cat/Griz!!

Cat/Griz, Cat/Griz, CAT/GRIZ!!

Unless you've had your head buried in the sand for the past week, you are aware that tomorrow our mighty Cats will be taking on the not-so-mighty Griz in rainy Missoula this weekend. I have to admit that as a new Montanan, this is my first Cat/Griz game, but I can't help but get in on the contagious excitement at MSU this week.

Below is a forecasted look at the effects of Saturday's game on UM's "tough" mascot.

If you aren't already on your way to Missoula to take in the action, stop by the MSU Bookstore to grab some Cat/Griz supplies. We are having a special this Saturday on water bottles, so you can carry your favorite (cough) beverage in style and represent the winning team this weekend. Look for the ad below in the Bobcat Shopper section of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle tomorrow.


GO CATS!!!

Dad + Pizza + Dinosaurs = A Great Wednesday Night!

Kids can bring their dads to the Museum of the Rockies from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, for a special free pizza dinner and a night in the dinosaur complex. Visitors will be able to touch some real dinosaur fossils and enjoy some dinosaur activities, see the world's largest T-rex skull and view some of the world's rarest fossils.

Registration is required by calling 587-3840. This event is presented by The Museum of the Rockies and The Parent Place, a signature program of Thrive.

The Museum of the Rockies is located at 600 W. Kagy Blvd., on the south side of the Montana State University campus in Bozeman.

For more information, visit www.museumoftherockies.org

The Buyback is Coming!

Here's a reminder to you all that every Friday until the end of the semester, with the exception of the day after Thanksgiving, is a textbook buyback day at the Buyback Window at the MSU Bookstore. The major end of the semester buyback will take place the week of December 15 - 19. Watch for our ad in the MSU Exponent and keep checking back with the blog for a link to the list of books we will be buying back this year.

Until next time, enjoy the gorgeous weather outside! (Unless you are waiting for Bridger and Big Sky to open, then you can do a snow dance instead.)

This Week's Bestsellers

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

It's about the disappearance forty hears ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get ot the bottom of Harriet's disappearance... and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom osf someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it--who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly un-fathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialistm--and an un-expected connection between themselves.

It's a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.


A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire

Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the much anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion--the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.

A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. What does the Lion know of the wearabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackled reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary? can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets--cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest--to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?

At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpes of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that made his books contemporary classics.

Saturday Deals

The Bobcats are taking on Northern Arizona on Saturday. The football team gets to enjoy warm weather while we hang out in the cold rain. What a great day to shop inside!

As always, parking on Saturdays is free and we have a deal for you. We have lots of Under Armour in the store, including some fantastic hot pink women's hoodies, men's hoodies, shorts, jackets, hats, and more! Stop in on Saturday and get 15% off our always low prices on Under Armour.

Textbook Buy Back Today

Come to the Bookstore Buyback window today and get cash for those textbooks that are collecting dust. You don't really need them to study, do you?

The Buyback Window will be open until 5:30 PM today.