Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie...
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Author:Hobbs, WillSummary: -
Author:West, MiaSummary:Bush pilot John Tillman never expected to raise his kid sister. As her graduation approaches, he can almost taste the freedom of the empty nest in his near future—to fly in his eagle form for days…walk around his house naked…maybe even...
- Author:Bown, Stephen R.Summary:
The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and...
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Author:Krakauer, JonSummary: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...
- Author:Moderow, Debbie ClarkeSummary:
At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that's where she found herself when, less than 200 miles from the finish line, her dogs decided they didn't want to run...
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Author:Keith, KatherineSummary:All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Keith experiences tragic loss and must push on,...
- Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:
In 1970 the shabby members of a California commune pull up stakes and move to the harsh interior of Alaska. They establish Drop City, a back-to-the-land town, on a foundation of peace and free love. But their idealism cannot prevent...
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
Alexandra Collister came to Falls Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The surrounding forest can be harsh and unforgiving, luckily, rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell offers to be her guide. When a body turns up, Alex knows...
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
The fourth entry to John Straley's Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger with a contract to kill. Cecil Younger is a man that takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe, and the universe is obliging him when he gets a call...
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Author:Porter, DonSummary:It’s Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan’s lovely Athabaskan...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Dark Night marks the third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series from Paige Shelton, in which Benedict, Alaska is met with some unexpected visitors...and then disappearances. Winter is falling in the remote town of...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Second in a new series set in Alaska from beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, Cold Wind will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she'...
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Author:Straley, JohnSummary:Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day. Clive McCahon returns to his tiny hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke with a lot to make up to his younger brother--but he...
- Author:Cameron, MarcSummary:
Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with three violent prisoners, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter becomes the hunted in a desperate fight for survival. After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police...
- Author:Yamashita, IrisSummary:
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand...
- Author:Cameron, MarcSummary:
Off the northeast coast of Russia, the captain and crew of a small crabbing vessel are brutally murdered by a member of Bratva, the Russian mafia. In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to...
- Author:Cameron, MarcSummary:
In Juneau, a young Native archeologist is sent to protect the ancient burial sites uncovered by an Alaskan gold mining company. He never returns. In Anchorage, a female torso - minus head, hands, and feet - is washed ashore near a...
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Author:Kimmel, Elizabeth CodySummary:Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the...
- Author:Cameron, MarcSummary:
In the Inupiaq village of Wainwright on the Arctic Ocean, two teenagers discover a frozen body in the permafrost wall of their family's cellar. They recognize the face through the ice. It is the face of a young woman who went...
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Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea quest ran parallel to an arduous relief...
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