Paul Greci

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

In Paul Greci's The Wild Lands, Travis and his sister are trapped in a daily race to survive—and there is no second place. Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must cross hundreds of miles in search of civilization. The wild lands around them are filled with ravenous animals, desperate survivors pushed to the edge, and people who’ve learned to shoot first and ask questions never. Travis and Jess will make a few friends and a lot of enemies on their terrifying journey across the ruins of today’s world—and they’ll have to fight for what they believe in as they see how far people will go to survive. The Wild Lands is a pulse-pounding YA thriller full of shocking plot twists. It’s the ultimate survival tale of humanity’s fight against society’s collapse. An Imprint Book “This rugged survival story places a group of teens in a dark, burned-out post-apocalyptic nightmare. Your heart will pound for them as they face terrible dangers and impossible odds. Gripping, vivid, and haunting!” —Emmy Laybourne, international bestselling author of the Monument 14 trilogy “A compelling story that wouldn’t let me stop reading. Greci has created both a frightening landscape and characters you believe in and want to survive it.” —Eric Walters, author of the bestselling Rule of Three series

The Wild Lands

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New Mexico

Inuit Life in the 1800s

Arctic Adventure

Jimmy Settle

Don Rearden

Idaho

From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights As an Elite Special Ops PJ

The epic memoir of an Alaskan pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator, and decorated war hero.

"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving wounded Rangers and SEALS in blazing firefights at war, the PJs are the least known and most highly trained of America's warriors.

Never Quit is the true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero. After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in the rugged Watapur Valley in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a heroic rescue, the bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. In a cross between a suicide rescue mission and an against-all-odds mountain battle, his team of PJs risk their lives again in an epic firefight. When his helicopter is hit and begins leaking fuel, Jimmy finds himself in the worst possible position as a rescue specialist--forced to leave members from his own team behind. Jimmy will have to risk everything to get back into the battle and bring back his brothers.

From death-defying Alaskan wilderness training, wild rescues, and vicious battles against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, this is an explosive special operations memoir unlike any that has come before, and the true story of a man from humble beginnings who became an American hero.

Never Quit

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Marieke Nijkamp

Ohio

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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Maryland

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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Ram Papish

Alaska

An Alaska Adventure

The northern fur seal spends most of its life in the open ocean of the North Pacific, from California up through Alaska and down to Japan. These seals travel hundreds of miles, farther than any other seal or sea lion, to reach their remote breeding grounds. Most fur seals go to the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, where, historically, several million fur seals converged annually, but the population counted in the Pribilofs in 2008 was less than one million and dropping rapidly. Ram Papish s richly illustrated story follows these magnificent and increasingly vulnerable creatures through the most important part of their lives."

The Little Seal

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Adriana Anders

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Everyone's talking about Survival Instincts, a scorching hot forced proximity survival romance series like no other: *FATED MATES best of 2020* *BOOKPAGE best of 2020* Leo Eddowes is afraid of nothing and no one. So when she's asked to evacuate a man from the wilds of Alaska, solo, she doesn't hesitate. But, with enemies in close pursuit and the weather changing at the last minute, what should have been a simple mission turns into disaster. When Elias Thorne disappeared, he was America's most wanted--a criminal both hated and feared by the entire nation. He's spent more than a decade in one of the most remote places on earth, guarding a dangerous secret. Leo's arrival, quickly followed by a team of expert hunters, shakes up his uneventful existence, leaving him no choice but to join forces with her--and run. Injured and alone, Leo and Elias must battle the elements, a deadly paramilitary team, and an expert hunter in order to stop a bloody massacre. Neither is prepared for their partnership to flare into something as wild and untamed as the world around them. As the enemy draws ever closer, they must learn to dig deep, trust in each other, and forge a bond as strong as the forces of nature.

*BRAND NEW* Uncharted

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Fatherhood, Fly-fishing and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska 

Missouri

Backcast

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

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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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Barbara Dunlop

Florida

A woman bush pilot in Alaska finds love where she least expects it in this new novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Dunlop.

Hailey Barosse always knew what her wealthy family expected of her- marry an affluent Georgia man, run a charitable organization, and provide her parents with two or three grandchildren. But Hailey rebelled. Instead, she moved far away from that suffocating life, and for six years she's built her independence by flying bush planes in the tiny town of Paradise, Alaska. Then a suave, handsome businessman arrives, shaking up her world and reminding her of her controlling family. Parker Hall wants to invest in her boss's airline, but Hailey doesn't trust him at all. He might be confident and charming, but she knows all about self-centered cutthroat industrialists-and Parker is one of them.

Parker Hall prides himself on being a self-made entrepreneur. He earned his fortune by working day and night, expanding his gold mine and investing in new businesses that support his growing dream. His next opportunity is in Paradise, but his plans are quickly derailed by a fierce, beautiful pilot who both fights and fascinates him. The closer he gets to the feisty Hailey, the more she pushes him away. But Parker's not giving up, not on Paradise and not on Hailey. He's come a long way in life by being laser-focused on his passions, and this time is no different...

Strangers in Paradise

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#hardcover #alaska #romance #historicalfiction #basedonarealstory #fiction #hardcover 

Virginia

On the treeless shores of Itta, Greenland, as far north as humans can settle, sixteen-year-old Inuit Billy Bah spots a ship far out among the icebergs on the bay--a sight both welcome and feared. Explorers have already left their indelible mark on her land and its people, and a ship full of white men can mean trouble.
The ship carries provisions for Robert E. Peary, who is making an expidition to the North Pole. As a child, Billy Bah spent a year in America with Peary's family. When her parents went to America years later, they died in a tragic scandal. Now, Peary's wife, daughter, and crew are in Itta to bring him supplies. Winter comes on fast, and when the ship gets caught in the ice, Billy Bah sets out to find Peary. The journey will imperil her life, and that of the man she loves.
By turns lyrical and gripping, Between Two Worlds is an impassioned coming-of-age novel set in a land of breathtaking beauty and danger, where nature and love are powerful and unpredictable forces.

Between Two Worlds

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Tom Kizzia

New York

Travels Through Alaska's Native Landscapes

A journey to Alaska’s remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely contemporary individuals with deep longings and connection to the land and to their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system, first published in 1991, has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities. Wake of the Unseen Object is now considered some of the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska. This new edition includes an updated introduction by the author, looking at what remains the same after thirty years and what is different—both in Alaska, and in the expectations placed on a reporter visiting from another world.

The Wake of the Unseen Object

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Velma Wallis

An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska

From the author of the bestselling Two Old Women comes the story of two Native Americans who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure in the unknown. For a headstrong young woman, it means defying her family's expectations to brave life on her own. For a curious young man, it means forsaking the safety of his homeland.

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun

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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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In this sexy, suspenseful adventure by the USA Today bestselling author of Hot Ice, beautiful widow Lily Munroe battles to win the Iditarod race across Alaska and the love of sexy playboy and secret agent Derek Wright.

On Thin Ice first edition hard back

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Washington

High school senior Ruthie learns dark secrets about her best friend Zahra who goes missing after Ruthie returns to Anchorage to live with her father.

I Know You Remember

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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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#paperback #fiction #alaska #alaskanbush #pilots #debbiemacomber  #midnightsons #volume3

Falling for Him Ending in Marriage Midnight Sons and Daughters

Lonely men in Hard Luck, Alaska, looking for women. Our town might be cold, but our hearts are warm. Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men). But the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to town.

Alaska Home

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Gary Paulsen

Ex library book as pictured, otherwise excellent 

The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.


Winterdance

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Rebecca Rukeyser

Tennessee

A Novel

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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New Jersey

A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of five struggling to make ends meet in rural Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together. When eleven-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected, too. She did not survive. Routine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father, increasingly guilt-ridden after Ruby’s death, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank, which results in the death of a little girl. In the ensuing chaos, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Lin explores the fallout after losing a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher, but ultimately more profound, reality.

The Unpassing

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#paperback #Wolf #Newberry #animal #Adventure #Alaska #JuvenileFiction #Chapterbook box 77
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