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2) Homestead
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"Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150 acres is an opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its promise. For Marie, the land is an escape from the empty future she sees spinning out before her, and a risky...
4) Cold spell
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With precise and evocative prose, Cold Spell tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both.
5) Alaska
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
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222 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl's skiff, and into her life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak. When Anne Girl and her mother, Marulia, find their skiff flattened by John's boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup'ik women living in a village that has been divided between...
9) Alaska
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80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, music ; 26 cm.
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English
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Surveys the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Alaska.
"Surveys the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Alaska"--Provided by publisher.
10) Alaska
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80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Introduces the history, geography, industry, and people of the state known as the Last Frontier.
11) Alaska
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English
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"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Alaska"--
12) Salmon summer
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A photo essay describing a young native Alaskan boy fishing for salmon on Kodiak Island as his ancestors have done for generations.
13) Denali
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From its base to its tallest peak, Denali measures 20,310 feet (6,190 meters) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in North America. Learn more in Denali, one of the titles in the Seven Summits series.
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174 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. 'Glaciers' follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as...
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325 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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While training a new pack of sled dogs Jessie Arnold must get to the bottom of the arson outbreak that destroys a local tavern and then Jessie's cabin leaving one person dead, discovering along the way if her old friend Annie Holman is just a victim or a killer.
16) The Great Alone
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This landmark saga of adventure and romance spans 200 years against the rich and dangerous wilds of Alaska as a backdrop. The epic begins with the love of a beautiful Aleut woman for a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of a proud breed of native Alaskans, in whose veins flows the blood of the many peoples- Russian, Indian, English, American- who played a part in forging the new land....
17) The great alone
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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