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Black Woods, Blue Sky

Black Woods, Blue Sky
  • Author(s): Eowyn Ivey
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Birdie’s keeping it together, of course she is. So she’s a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It’s a tough town to...

Song of the Yukon

Song of the Yukon
  • Author(s): Trisha Sugarek
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1921

Alaska was calling! LaVerne’s dream was to follow the poet Robert Service’s footsteps to the wilds of Alaska. At sixteen she was already writing her own music and believed that her talent could only flourish on the back trails...

The Great Alone

The Great Alone
  • Author(s): Kristin Hannah
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love. Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently-returned Vietnam...

The Wind is not a River

The Wind is not a River
  • Author(s): Brian Payton
  • Location(s): Alaska, The Aleutian Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

April 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is...

The Snow Child

The Snow Child
  • Author(s): Eowyn Ivey
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska and inspiration from a Russian fairytale Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead ‘at the world’s edge’ in the...

Blizzard

Blizzard
  • Author(s): Marie Vingtras, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Novella, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A blizzard rages in an isolated corner of Alaska. Few inhabitants live in this desolate place. Scattered across the vast, white expanse, they shelter in solitude from the tempest and the extreme cold. But amid this storm and far...

No Fixed Line

No Fixed Line
  • Author(s): Dana Stabenow
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

… 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...

The Quality of Silence

The Quality of Silence
  • Author(s): Rosamund Lupton
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrive in Alaska. Within hours they are driving alone across a frozen wilderness Where nothing grows Where no one lives Where tears freeze And night will last for another fifty-four...

To the Bright Edge of the World

To the Bright Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Eowyn Ivey
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska’s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its...

Alaskan Travels

Alaskan Travels
  • Author(s): Edward Hoagland
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Hoagland inserts historical facts about the towns and cities he visited, and he provides plenty of appealing natural descriptions of a wondrous landscape. A pleasing combination of personal essays and reflections, a love story and a naturalist’s view of...

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