Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’
Nightmare on the Northern Dream, by Greta McKennan
Nightmare on the Northern Dream, by Greta McKennan Junetta Beale, owner of the Shipshape Bookshop, is happy to welcome her former fiancé and his bridal party to her small Southeast Alaska town. They plan a brief cruise of the Inside Passage on her floating bookmobile, the Northern Dream. She maintains that she no longer harbors…
Read MoreHonor at Last, by Aurora Hardy
Honor at Last, by Aurora Hardy History honors the Navaho CodeTalkers who helped the US military win World War II against the Japanese. Unknown to many, at the same time in Alaska, Alaska Natives, men and women, old and young, signed up to serve in the Alaska Territorial Guard or ATG. This book is based…
Read MoreThe Beast in the Dark, by John Smelcer
The Beast in the Dark, by John Smelcer After a ferocious beast attacks a small Alaskan village, a mysterious shaman helps a courageous teenage boy prepare to defeat it. A classic hero-journey story like The Lord of the Rings where the smallest and seemingly weakest among us overcomes obstacles even the biggest and strongest could…
Read MoreA Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska, 3rd Ed., by Doug Vandegraft
A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska, 3rd Ed., by Doug Vandegraft The Lower 48 have created myths and legends about Alaska. Things in Alaska are bigger, colder, wilder, fiercer, more rugged, more independent, more resourceful, to name just a few of the qualities that define the Alaska myth. However, the one that says…
Read MoreHill of Dead Horses, by Sarah Birdsall
Hill of Dead Horses, by Sarah Birdsall In the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thomas Findlay and Emily Wells dig post holes for a cabin on that very hill…
Read MoreSecret Places, by Don Stuart
Secret Places, by Don Stuart Three days before the season opening, Native Alaskan commercial salmon fisherman, Johnny Ingman leaves his hometown of Sweetwater bound for the fishing grounds and disappears. Johnny’s disappearance comes at a time of deep frustration in Johnny’s tiny home village. Changing pressures, values, and demands from the outside world are increasingly…
Read MoreDeath at the Shipshape Bookshop, by Greta McKennan
Death at the Shipshape Bookshop, by Greta McKennan Junetta Beale is living in paradise. As owner of the Shipshape Bookshop in Southeast Alaska, she sells books in town, operates a lending library for the locals, and serves the villages in her floating bookmobile. She loves her peaceful coastal life. That peace is shattered when she…
Read MoreDeath in the Underworld, by Betsy Longenbaugh
Death in the Underworld, by Betsy Longenbaugh Federal Marshal Frank Leishke is called to the scene of the vicious murder of a prostitute in Douglas, Alaska, in 1916. The site of the largest gold mine in the world, Douglas was also home to numerous bars, prostitutes, and itinerant workers. Leishke is aided in his work…
Read MoreChasing the Dark, by Joseph Jackson
Chasing the Dark, by Joseph Jackson Joe Jackson’s life has seemed to follow the hours of low light; waking in the pitch-dark to beat the sun and lingering until it’s long gone. The stories told in between range from hunting snowshoe hares in the cold of Alaskan winter; Spey casting monotonously to king salmon and…
Read MoreMercy Pilot, by Dirk Tordoff
Mercy Pilot, by Dirk Tordoff Joe Crosson, a brave and skilled pilot, became a national hero between the world wars flying mercy missions in the North. He pioneered air routes throughout Alaska and foresaw the future of commercial aviation. Above all else, he loved to fly. In 1929, Crosson generated newspaper headlines worldwide flying a…
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