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North By Northwestern

North By Northwestern
  • Author(s): Sig Hansen, Mark Sundeen
  • Location(s): Alaska, Washington State
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s-2010s

Sig Hansen has been a star of the Channel 4’s The Deadliest Catchfrom the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one of the most...

North Country

North Country
  • Author(s): K A Tucker
  • Location(s): Northern Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emery McAllister once dreamed of leaving Cold River with the boy next door, but one devastating night destroyed their future and left her heart carefully guarded. Twenty years later, she’s built a life of control: running the town’s police...

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty
  • Author(s): Peter Gent
  • Location(s): Dallas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the...

North Korea’s Hidden Revolution

North Korea’s Hidden Revolution
  • Author(s): Jieun Baek
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

The story of North Korea’s information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country’s borders. One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime....

North of Need

North of Need
  • Author(s): Laura Kaye
  • Location(s): Appalachian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Desperate to escape agonizing memories of Christmas past, twenty-nine-year-old widow Megan Snow builds a snow family outside the mountain cabin she once shared with her husband, realizing too late that she’s recreated the very thing she’ll never have. Called...

North of Normal

North of Normal
  • Author(s): Cea Sunrise Person
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness–a searing story of physical,...

North of Nowhere

North of Nowhere
  • Author(s): Steve Hamilton
  • Location(s): Michigan, Upper Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Summer has finally arrived in Paradise, Michigan, but Alex McKnight doesn’t seem to notice the change in the weather. He’s been retreating into own his private world the past few months and now he barely leaves his cabin except...

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

North of Nowhere, South of Loss
  • Author(s): Janette Turner Hospital
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Dark and gripping short stories set in Australia

North Pole / South Pole: From Pole to Pole: a Flip Book

North Pole / South Pole: From Pole to Pole: a Flip Book
  • Author(s): Michael Bright
  • Location(s): North Pole, South Pole
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Fully-illustrated and with a fun and innovative flip-book format, the book provides the perfect way to explore and compare the extreme environments of the two Poles. Take a trip to the ends of the earth and discover the extreme...

North Sun

North Sun
  • Author(s): Ethan Rutherford
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION From “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure...

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