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"I loved this book--the thrill, romance, and danger of fishing in Alaska, and recipes that
celebrate the region's bounty. Cheers to these courageous women for showing us what we
can do." - Christine Keff, award-winning chef of the Flying Fish Restaurant, Seattle
THE FISHES & DISHES COOKBOOK
Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories
from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen
Kiyo Marsh, Tomi Marsh, Laura Cooper
The women featured in this book successfully challenged one of the last frontiers
of male domination-- the commercial fishing grounds of Alaska. A generation ago, they might have been
celebrated as pioneers. In today's world they were simply living their dreams. They worked every job,
from captain to cook and nearly every northern fishery, even the Bering Sea king crab grounds made
infamous by TV's Deadliest Catch.
They share eighty mouth-watering seafood recipes and many funny and harrowing stories of their adventures.
Tempting dishes such as Seafood and Sausage Gumbo and Smoked Salmon and Egg Salad Sandwiches are practical
and unpretentious. Pacific Rim flavors infuse recipes such as Seafood Enchiladas or Salmon Dumplings with
Coconut Curry Sauce or Thai Clam Chowder. These dishes are fresh, original, and surprising easy to make.
Your taste buds will never be the same!
Also Included: Tips for cleaning, preserving, and preparing fish; how to pair wine with seafood; a
glossary of commercial fishing terms; an explanation of fishing methods; on-board fashion tips;
and information about sustainability.
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"A memoir as sparkling and sharp as a spring-thaw icicle and as honest and revealing as
yellow snow."
-Tom Robbins,
author of
B is for Beer
BOOM TOWN BOY
Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier
Jack de Yonge
In an outspoken memoir filled with irony and wit, a former Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor
and reporter recalls his youth in remote Fairbanks, Alaska, a dying gold rush town that booms
again with a wild mix of Russian and American pilots, a busy red-light district and a
round-the-clock bar scene in the 1940s.
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ALASKA CRUISE HANDBOOK
A mile by
mile guide
Joe Upton
This handbook traces the routes followed by most Alaska cruiseships, with maps, photos, and text
keyed to a route numbering/navigational system that is announced frequently on board, allowing you
to follow your ship's progress easily. Included are many of the author's own stories and information
about wildlife, native cultures, landmarks, historical sites, shopping, and much more.
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Alaska Blues
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"Wonderfully ironic and perceptive!" -San Francisco Chronicle
"Funny, thought-provoking, and relevant" -Fort Worth Star-Telegram
GOING TO EXTREMES
Joe McGinnis
This is the third edition of the controversial work by New York Times best-selling author Joe McGinniss
who traveled to Alaska during the oil boom to find out if there is anything left of the
"last frontier." Draw your own conclusions from this enduring bestseller.
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PURELY ALASKA
Authentic Voices from the Far North
Edited by Susan B. Andrews & John Creed
In the vast, roadless expanse of the Far North, the art of story-telling has thrived for many
generations, as it does in this diversely drawn anthology. Men and women share harrowing survival
tales, hunting and fishing adventures, and stories about love, lifestyles, and the hopes and dreams
of independent people in faraway places throughout Alaska. Andrews and Creed also edited the
prize-winning bestseller, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers.
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IN SEARCH
OF THE
KUSKOKWIM
And Other
Endeavors
The Life &
Times of
J. Edward
Spurr
Stephen Spurr
The United States knew relatively little about Alaska when the Klondike
Gold Rush attracted thousands of stampeders north at the turn of the century, and many of them
spilled over into Alaska as more gold was discovered on the Yukon and her tributaries.
The government had few maps of the vast territory it had purchased from Russia thirty years before.
About this time, the federal government commissioned J. Edward Spurr, a geologist, author, and
explorer from New England, to mount two expeditions to explore and inventory Alaska, traveling
thousand miles by canoe and on foot without benefit of telephones, radios, airplanes. The effort almost killed him.
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"This story made me remember what are the important things that even now in modern times hold us together-family,
traditions, sacredness, and ultimately, love."-Velma Wallis, author of Two Old Women
RED THUNDER
David Matheson
Steeped in authentic cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs, this second edition of the rich and wonderful historical
novel follows the times and trials of a family band of the Schi'tsu'umsh Indians, now called the Coeur
d'Alene Tribe in northern Idaho. Through a boy named Sun Bear and his sister, Rainbow Girl, the band's
oral stories are told as it struggles to hold onto what is precious and sacred about life.
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NORTH TO THE FUTURE
The Alaska Story, 1959-2009
Dermot Cole
A journalist-historian offers a fresh, absorbing account of the high and low points of a half-century of
statehood and the challenges faced by a new generation of leaders who have stepped forward to lead
Alaska. Alaskans believed statehood would allow them to control their own destinies, but it didn't
work out quite that way
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New York Times Bestseller
SARAH
How a Hockey Mom
Turned Alaska's Political
Establishment Upside Down
Kaylene Johnson
In 2008, Sarah Palin, hockey mom, former mayor of Wasilla, and governor of Alaska, entered the media
spotlight when John McCain shocked the political world by announcing her as his running mate. This
first biography of Palin, written before her VP quest, describes the formative years that shaped
her as the politician she is today.
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THE SPILL
Personal Stories from
the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Sharon Bushell & Stan Jones
Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground, sixty-two men and women recall what they saw, how they
reacted, and how they coped. Reliving their experiences in THE SPILL are fishermen, Native villagers,
biologists, environmentalists, sociologists, Exxon executives, the governor, mayors,
journalists, workers who washed oily rocks-even the skipper of the ill-fated ship.
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Winner, Faulkner Award
for Excellence in Writing
SURVIVING THE
ISLAND OF GRACE
A Story of Freedom,
A Life on the Wild
Edge of America
Leslie Leyland Fields
As a 20-year-old newlywed, Fields is immersed in dangerous and exhausting world of
commercial salmon fishing on a remote island in the immense Gulf of Alaska.
Here she must learn to live communally with her new family in primitive conditions-no
running water, no electricity, and little contact with the outside world.
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PNW Booksellers'
Award Winner
ALASKA BLUES
A Story of Freedom,
Risk, and Living
Your dream
Joe Upton
An evocative story-teller's account of a season commercial fishing in Southeast
Alaska-the lonely hours at sea aboard his 30-foot boat, the Doreen, as well as the close
community of the fishing fleet; the sudden, violent storms and glorious days of sun; the
difficult, frenzied work and quiet moments of contemplation.
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"Deeply moving"
--Publishers Weekly
MOMENTS BRIGHTLY
PLACED
An Aleutian Memoir
Ray Hudson
In 1964, Ray Hudson, 22, landed in Unalaska village with a brand-new college degree,
eager to teach. Unlike most teachers who came and stayed a year or two, Ray stayed for
two decades. His intimate memoir pays homage to the people he came to teach, and who,
in the end, became his teachers
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COLD CRIME
How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Shocking Cases
Tom Brennan
This is a riveting collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile
criminal investigations of the past 50 years. Step by step, the author guides
readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from confidential
case files shared by police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem,
crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.
Author Tom Brennan is an editor and columnist for a web-based newspaper in Anchorage.
He broke into journalism on the police beat.
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from Tom Brennan:
MURDER AT 40 BELOW
MOOSE DROPPING
& OTHER CRIMES
AGAINST NATURE
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MURDER AT 40 BELOW
True Crime Stories
from Alaska
Tom Brennan
Murder at 40 Below is a collection of stories about ten of Alaska's most notorious murder cases
drawn from interviews with investigators, police files, eyewitness reports, and newspaper archives.
You will be shocked and fascinated by these accounts of failed dreams, schemes that turned
violent, greed, madness, and treachery.
Author Tom Brennan is an editor and columnist for the Anchorage Times who broke into
journalism on the police beat.
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HAUNTED ALASKA
Ghost Stories
from the Far North
Ron Wendt
They are watching us, these ghosts of the North.
They book breakfast, play cards, mine for gold, turn on radios, and play the piano.
A logger sees a ghostly Model T drive through his truck. The smell of tobacco
wafts through a room where no one is smoking
Haunted Alaska is a collection of ghost stories that will make the hair
rise on the back of your neck.
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BIRD GIRL &
THE MAN WHO
FOLLOWED THE SUN
"A wonderful read. Wallis's writing is simple yet rich . . . The story delivers a message of overcoming
hardship, of being true to yourself even when it is the most difficult thing to do."
-West Coast Review of Books
"Wallis's taut, visual prose brings vibrant new life to these ancient stories.
" -Booklist
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