Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Humpback and Killer Whales

With the photos in this book, Mark Kelley takes you on a journey to see Alaska¿s watchable whales on nature¿s stage. The accurate and up-to-date text tells the story behind the scenes and the eight whale tales of true-life adventures from close encounters with whales makes for unforgettable reading.

Alaska's Watchable Whales

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#hardcover #alaska #mystery #coldstorage #historicalfiction #1960s 

Oregon

Mysterious dreams of grizzly bears, a bumbling FBI agent, and a tense hostage negotiation have the town of Cold Storage, Alaska, turned upside down.

Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war (and the ones who haven't), to the robberies that are plaguing the locals, to the new guy in town a famous monk from Kentucky.

Ellie, herself a fugitive of sorts, is curious about this "Brother Louis," and worries about his motives, but he seems harmless enough. However, when a handful of other outsiders arrive to town and start poking around the bar and asking questions, Ellie begins to have reservations. Have they followed this mysterious monk, rumored to be the famous author Thomas Merton, to Cold Storage? And what is it that they want, particularly the inept FBI agent with the strange name Boston Corbett?

Inspired by assassination conspiracy theories, the life of Thomas Merton, and the changing tide of the '60s, Blown by the Same Wind is a coming-of-age story for the town of Cold Storage itself.

Blown by the Same Wind

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#alaska #crime #jewish #policedrama #yiddish #pulitzerprizewinningauthor #detective #sitka

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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How the Elite Media Tried to Bring down a Rising Star

Suggests that the liberal media saw Sarah Palin's strength and popularity as a threat and set out to destroy her through rumors and distortions, but that despite these attacks she will continue to rise within the Republican party.

The Persecution of Sarah Palin

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#alaska #history #photography #hardcover 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Massachusetts

Alaska books

#hardcover #arctic #adventure #children #inuit #Alaska #nonfiction 

New Mexico

Inuit Life in the 1800s

Arctic Adventure

The small town of Lunacy, Alaska Is heating up with a romance between the chief of police Nate and pilot Meg. Also there's a murderer walking around. #romance #smalltown #alaska #suspense #murder #love 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Northern Lights

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#hardcover #fiction #1960 #adventure #Alaska #wilderness 

Michigan

Wild Animus tracks the reckless quest of Ransom Altman, a young Berkeley graduate who-roused by his literary heroes and love for his girlfriend, Lindy-resolves to live in a new world of "inexhaustible desire."

Wild Animus

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Has a built-in ribbon bookmark and is in nice condition.  If you like Alaskan dark and cold winters as an eerie setting for a suspense book, this is fantastic!!

Indiana

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush.

Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Native Aleut Private Investigator Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But for the fact that Kate, too, is now among the missing...

Less Than a Treason

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Kennedy Donovan loved living in the city. But when a mysterious envelope arrives in the mail describing her new inheritance from an estranged uncle, she finds herself in the Alaskan bush country facing more than just snow. Family secrets, life threatening blizzards, and the potential for love, does Alaska offer Kennedy more than her life in New York?Adam Stockton moved to McCarthy, Alaska at fifteen years old. Thanks to Neal Donovan, he'd grown up and adjusted well to the Alaskan frontier. But when Neal's long-lost niece shows up to claim her inheritance after Neal's passing, Adam finds himself potentially losing his last tie to Neal as well as his heart. Can he show Kennedy that life in McCarthy is worth sticking out?

McCarthy Road

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Kansas

Passion heats up in Paradise, Alaska, for two people who couldn't be more different in this sweet, sizzling romance from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Dunlop. Accomplished Los Angeles lawyer Marnie Anton has always been sensible, but when her friend Mia Westberg asks for help with a ridiculous matchmaking project, she can't say no. The idea of transporting city girls into the small town of Paradise, Alaska, is so crazy it just might...work? Against her best judgment, she tags along. Having grown up in a family of intimidating men, Marnie developed a preference for the urbane lawyers and clients in her life in LA. But when she meets a mountain of a buff Alaskan man with an intriguing snake tattoo, intimidated is definitely not the first thing she feels. Conrad "Cobra" Stanford was skeptical of the matchmaking event from the start. Big-city women weren't adventurous, they were judgmental. They'd take one look at him and scorn his lifestyle, just like his first love did. Cobra planned to give the women a wide berth, but one of them won't be ignored. Marnie's everything that's wrong and everything that's right for him all at the same time. Just when he thinks he's got her pegged, she blindsides him with a startling past, falling into his arms and igniting his protective instincts and so much more....

Finding Paradise

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#hardcover #alaska #alphabet #kids #children #childrens #childrensbook #nonfiction #alaskan #states 

An Alaska Alphabet

Unrivaled by any other state for sheer size, Alaska is a land of mystery and wonder to many Americans. Bordered by water on three sides, it remains a remote and last frontier...until now. L is for Last Frontier: an alphabet book written by Carol Crane, takes readers on an informative adventure through the "land of the midnight sun." Lecturer and book reviewer Carol Crane was recently described as "A walking, talking bibliography of children's books." Her twenty-five years in children's literature supply the essential experience to bring Alaska's vast wildlife and culture to children. Alaska's sheer size lends to its diversity, but Carol Crane employs a two-tiered approach and produces a seamless sampling of the state's culture and wildlife. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a rhyme for younger readers: T is for Tundra, a treeless arctic plain. Short warm summers, in winter, a frozen terrain. On the same page, older students can read the sidebar text to gain a richer understanding of the same topic. About the Author: Carol Crane advocates education through reading. Her thematic approach to learning has been widely accepted and successfully used by many reading teachers. Eight years ago, she founded "Bed, Breakfast and Books," a summer institute for teachers and media specialists across the country. L is for Last Frontier is Carol's 4th book with Sleeping Bear Press. About the Illustrator: Renowned wildlife artist Michael Monroe was the winner of the 1997 Michigan Duck Stamp award.

L Is for Last Frontier

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How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down

Describes how the 2008 Republican candidate for vice-president used a message of ethical reform in state government to take on and defeat the political establishment in Alaska, rising from a small-town mayor to become the state's first woman governor.

Sarah

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#hardcover #Alaska #KingSalmon #canoeing #thegreatoutdoors

Arkansas

One Summer Paddling Across the Far North

A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth.

The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam Weymouth canoes along the river's length, from Canada's Yukon Territory, through Alaska, to the Bering Sea. The result is a book that shows how even the most remote wilderness is affected by the same forces reshaping the rest of the planet.

Every summer, hundreds of thousands of king salmon migrate the distance of the Yukon to their spawning grounds, where they breed and die, in what is the longest salmon run in the world. For the communities that live along the river, salmon was once the lifeblood of the economy and local culture. But climate change and a globalized economy have fundamentally altered the balance between man and nature; the health and numbers of king salmon are in question, as is the fate of the communities that depend on them.

Traveling along the Yukon as the salmon migrate, a four-month journey through untrammeled landscape, Adam Weymouth traces the fundamental interconnectedness of people and fish through searing and unforgettable portraits of the individuals he encounters. He offers a powerful, nuanced glimpse into indigenous cultures, and into our ever-complicated relationship with the natural world. Weaving in the rich history of salmon across time as well as the science behind their mysterious life cycle, Kings of the Yukon is extraordinary adventure and nature writing at its most urgent and poetic.

"Kings of the Yukon succeeds as an adventure tale, a natural history and a work of art."-Wall Street Journal

Kings of the Yukon

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New York

In Sitka, Alaska, the bizarre death of a big-game hunter years before is investigated by investigator Cecil Younger, who uncovers a many-layered mystery involving the folklore and mythology of the local Tlingit Indians.

The Woman Who Married a Bear

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#hardcover #danastabenow #nofixedline #mystery #detective #fiction #pikateshugak #alaska

Ohio

'Fans will hope this series goes on forever' Publishers Weekly. ... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses, and determine why no flight has been reported missing. But Jim discovers survivors: two children who don't speak a word of English. Meanwhile, PI Kate Shugak receives an unexpected and unwelcome accusation from beyond the grave, a charge that could change the face of the Park forever. 'An antidote to sugary female sleuths: Kate Shugak, the Aleut private investigator' NEW YORK TIMES. 'Crime fiction doesn't get much better than this' BOOKLIST.

No Fixed Line

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#hardcover #fiction #crime #alaska #jewish #policedrama #yiddish #michaelchabon

Illinois

#hardcover #youngadult #alaska #fiction #haunting #mariekenijkamp #juvinialfiction #beforeiletgo 

Pennsylvania

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Is Where It Ends! Days before Corey is to return home to the snow and ice of Lost Creek, Alaska, to visit her best friend, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated—and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town's lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. Corey knows something is wrong. Lost is keeping secrets—chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter...

Before I Let Go

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Texas

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone livesin a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motivesfor investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel.

After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town-all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building andare as icy as the weather. Cara teams up with Point Mettier police officer Joe Barkowski, but before long the investigation is upended by fearsomegang members from a nearby native village.

Haunted by her past, Cara soon discovers that everyone in this town has something to hide. Will she be able to unravel their secrets before she unravels?"

City under One Roof

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#paperback #Wolf #Newberry #animal #Adventure #Alaska #JuvenileFiction #Chapterbook box 77
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Julie’s Wolfpack

#paperback #stephanierowe #chill #romance #suspense #thriller #alaska #boston #antiques #betrayal #survival 

Louisiana

Alaskan bush pilot Luke Webber finds a bleeding woman on his doorstep and realizes the past he tried to leave behind eight years ago is about to catch up with him—in a very deadly way.

Chill

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#hardcover #fiction #humor #theseaplaneonfinalapproach #newrelease #paperback #hummor #alaska 

Minnesota

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER * A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel that "perfectly telegraphs the suspended animation of tourist-trap life within an eerie life-changing season, the gravity of which will only be felt decades later" (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch).


"Humor, insight and just the right amount of raunch."--Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House

 

"Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect."--Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House 

 

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage.

 

Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's also busy gleefully nursing twin obsessions: building a working theory of what constitutes "sleaze" and pursuing a young fisherman she deems the embodiment of all things deliciously sleazy. Her plans become more perverse and elaborate, even as life on Lavender Island starts to unravel.  

 

By midseason, it becomes clear that Stu, the jovial, predatory patriarch of the lodge, has turned his sexual attentions to another young employee. As the mood of the lodge spirals into chaos, the inhabitants realize just how isolated Lavender Island really is.  

 

The Seaplane on Final Approach brilliantly illuminates the mirage-thin line between the artificial and the feral. In this daring and psychologically razor-sharp debut, Rukeyser's characters tear aside the facade of good manners to reveal all of our deepest needs and naked desires.

The Seaplane on Final Approach

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1st printing 1971; dust jacket has normal wear with a few edge tears, else book is clean and tight. #hardcover #alaska

Washington

The Embattled Frontier

A description of Alaska, its land, people and wildlife and effects of commercial exploitation.

Alaska

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A Life in Alaska

"Miranda Weiss's Tide, Feather, Snow is beautifully poetic, her observations are expansive, and the pace and rhythm in which she writes are perfect." -- Lynne Cox, author of Grayson and Swimming to Antarctica

"Tide, Feather, Snow is about the resplendence and subtleties of coastal Alaska, and about one woman's attempt to be fully present in them. Weiss serves as a skilled and poetic witness to a place undergoing incessant change." -- Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector

A memoir of moving to Alaska--and staying--by a writer whose gift for writing about place and natural beauty is reminiscent of John McPhee (Coming into the Country) and Jonathan Raban (Passage to Juneau).

Mark Kelley (Photographer); John Hyde; Linda Daniel (Text by); Scott Foster

Alaska's Watchable Whales

John Straley

Blown by the Same Wind

Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Matthew Continetti

The Persecution of Sarah Palin

James A. Michener

Alaska books

Dana Meachen Rau

Arctic Adventure

Nora Roberts

Northern Lights

Rich Shapero

Wild Animus

Dana Stabenow

Less Than a Treason

Katharine E. Hamilton

McCarthy Road

Barbara Dunlop

Finding Paradise

Carol Crane; Michael Glenn Monroe (Illustrator)

L Is for Last Frontier

Kaylene Johnson

Sarah

Adam Weymouth

Kings of the Yukon

John Straley

The Woman Who Married a Bear

Dana Stabenow

No Fixed Line

Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Marieke Nijkamp

Before I Let Go

Iris Yamashita

City under One Roof

Jean Craighead George

Julie’s Wolfpack

Stephanie Rowe

Chill

Rebecca Rukeyser

The Seaplane on Final Approach

George Laycock

Alaska

Miranda Weiss

Tide, Feather, Snow