BRAINERD — Cattale’s Books and Gifts in downtown Brainerd will host authors Candace Simar, of Pequot Lakes, and Jack Kraywinkle from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13.

Simar will sign copies of her book “Montana Matrimonial News,” along with her award-winning Abercrombie Trail Series.

In “Montana Matrimonial News," loneliness gnaws and chews like the relentless prairie wind. Dakota homesteader Digger Dancy props his feet in the oven and waits for the storm to end. His brother, George, barges into the soddy in a swirl of blowing snow.

George announces he will abandon his claim to seek a wife. He can’t stand the loneliness. Digger slaps a stack of old newspapers on the table and convinces him to place an ad for a correspondence bride in the Montana Matrimonial News.

Doctor Gamla, the

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