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Author
Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A mother of two is shot in a hotel in Alaska and a labor leader is arrested when police find the murder weapon in his room. The labor leader hires PI Cecil Younger to prove his innocence. The murder turns out to have roots in a gun battle which took place between workers and ex-servicemen in Washington State in 1919. By the author of The Music of What Happens.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of stories by the former books editor at Oprah.com about women and girls living the frontier Alaskan lives we associate with men"-- Provided by publisher.
Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
After several years spent recovering from a devastating knee injury, champion musher Jessie Arnold is working to get back into shape for the Iditarod, but when she stumbles upon a corpse during a practice run down a local trail, she is sidetracked by the hunt for a killer.
4) Lost angel
Author
Series
Nik Kane Alaska mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
5) White Fang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man.
6) Cold snap
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for attacking a female jogger. Investigators believe they have finally found their suspect. But one deputy is sure they have the wrong man. In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Alaska, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts four...
Author
Series
Cold storage novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...
Author
Series
Christiansen family novels volume 7
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Owen Christiansen has been in a downward spiral since an injury ended his NHL career. But a job on an Alaskan crabbing boat offers a fresh start ... maybe even a shot at romance with Elise 'Scotty' McFlynn, the captain's daughter"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
In July of 1897, the S.S. Portland sailed from Skagway, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold--its arrival setting off the famed Klondike Gold Rush. Now, a hundred years later, amid great fanfare and publicity, another ship is recreating the fabled voyage. But this time Death is on board. A true Gold Rush buff, Alex Jensen is thrilled to be representing the Troopers on the Spirit of '98's historic journey down Alaska's spectacular...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
Author
Series
Storyteller trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A historical novel on the Aleut people, who inhabited prehistoric Alaska. The hero is Chakliux, a trader of hunting dogs who becomes embroiled in tribal intrigues, leading to murder and the massacre of dogs. Lots of detail on the Aleut way of life.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Foregoing her sled dog training after knee surgery, a bored Jessie Arnold goes to help in an Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair, but when the event is overshadowed by a murder and the disappearance of her lead dog, she finds herself targeted by a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
That Wintry Feeling: After watching the man she loves walk down the aisle with her sister, Cathy Thompson needs to get away. Alaska--beautiful, remote, and far from bitter memories--sounds like the perfect place to start over. But a brand-new life comes with brand-new challenges--namely Grady Jones, a pilot and single dad who has a solution to both their problems: a marriage of convenience.
Thanksgiving Prayer: Seth immediately recognizes that Claudia...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" -- Amazon.
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