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Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The artist and adventurer chronicles his seven-month excursion to a remote cabin on Alaska's Fox Island with his nine-year-old son. In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his nine-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son....
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Hard Luck, Alaska - a Town that Needs Women! Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men) but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to Hard Luck! Mitch Harris… A good friend of the O'Hallorans, he represents law and order in Hard Luck. He's also the widowed father of seven-year-old Chrissie - but he never talks about...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Deep River, Alaska Damon Fitzgerald takes his responsibilities very seriously. Yet now, somehow, his responsibilities include the tiny Alaska town he inherited from his late army buddy. Damon just wants to get back to LA and his ailing mother, but first he has a promise to keep: looking out for his dead friend's son. Unfortunately, the boy's mother just happens to be Deep River's mayor and the most challenging woman Damon's ever met. Astrid...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this special edition of the best-selling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log...
86) Right Motive
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of Wrong Alibi delivers a stand-alone thriller novella set in the same Alaskan small town.
It's just another Tuesday in Rockin, Alaska: one bear cub, two Bigfoot sightings, three corrupt law officers and a sting operation that will test new police officer Gabriella Donatti to the limits. Returning to the world of her "spine-tingling thriller" Wrong Alibi with a new story packed with her trademark mystery,...
87) Alaskan Showdown
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What she uncovers sheds light on a cold case... and can put her in a grave. After finding the body of a missing hiker in her small Alaska town, search-and-rescue dog handler Adriana Steele becomes the target of a serial killer thought to have been inactive for decades. Now Adriana's determined to help Officer Levi Wicks catch the murderer. But with the cold case heating up... the jaded officer is all that stands between her and death."--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
The author presents an inside account of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race of 1998, detailing the day-to-day experiences of the race participants and workers as they prepared for, and embarked upon the 1,023 mile trek from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska's remote interior.
90) Rivers of gold
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1898, Miranda Colton, presumed dead by her family and friends, survives after nearly drowning in the Yukon and is drawn to the loner botanist with whom she crosses paths during recovery; meanwhile, the rest of her party, including her pregnant sister-in-law, attempt to survive the winter with inadequate shelter.
91) Into the wild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
Author
Series
Publisher
MyReportLinks.com Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Presents various aspects of Denali National Park and Reserve, covering the history of the region, the plant and animal life of the park, environmental problems it faces, and the activities people can engage in while visiting.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Multiple award-winning author Sue Henry takes us into the heart of America's last frontier with a gripping tale of suspense set in a rugged land that appeals to the adventurous and strong ... and to those who are drawn to darkness.
Famed Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold thinks she's finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall -- along with a butterfly...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years since Elisabeth watched her twin sister, Jacqueline, disappear without a trace. Now thirty-year-old Elisabeth is living far from home in a small Alaskan town. She's in a loveless marriage and has a precocious young daughter she loves more than anything but who reminds her too much of her long-missing sister. Elisabeth's loneliness--and guilt--grows more unbearable each day. But through it all, she clings to the impossible belief...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is on the hunt for a serial killer. Newly promoted to corporal, Liam Campbell is slowly making a home for himself in Newenham. With just DUIs and domestic disputes to disturb the peace, life is relatively tranquil -- until Campbell's girlfriend, Bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard, delivering a shipment of mail to a remote post office, finds the postmistress murdered. At first it seems a random assault; but then another...
100) The great alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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