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1) 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...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores the impact of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline on culture and society in Alaska, as well as on the environment and Alaskan wilderness. Features commentary by the men and women who worked on the line, as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists, government geologists, and local and national politicians. Examines the conflict between the desire to bring Alaskan oil to market and increase the energy...
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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"Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Alaska, including Anchorage, Denali National Park, Mendenhall Glacier, and cruises along the Inside Passage. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth."--page [4] of cover.
Provides information on accommodations, restaurants, attractions, outdoor activities, national parks, and shopping in Alaska.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries.
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"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...
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222 pages ; 22 cm
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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...
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In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab, sporting a fresh head wound, with a child custody case from hell, and with the clients to match. Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy suits and overused paper shredders....
14) Alaska
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80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, music ; 26 cm.
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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.
15) Alaska
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80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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Introduces the history, geography, industry, and people of the state known as the Last Frontier.
16) Alaska
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"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Alaska"--
17) Salmon summer
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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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.
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325 pages ; 18 cm
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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.
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174 pages ; 19 cm.
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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...
20) 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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