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"Wonderful romantic suspense . . . took my breath away! Readers of Dee Henderson and Nora Roberts will love it!" —Hannah Alexander, award-winning author
USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble brings her signature blend of suspense and romance to the beautiful—and deadly—Alaskan wilderness.
"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're
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"In the winter of 1885, Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition up the Wolverine River to pierce the untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his pregnant wife, Forrester records his experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal, the living...
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"Detective Cara Kennedy thought she'd lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder-and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof. On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice....
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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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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Discover America volume 2
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Full of facts and information, text covers the state's past and present.
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"Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get from Ohio without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
"It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly
McCandess...
"It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly
McCandess...
11) Stranded
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Alaskan courage volume 3
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English
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"While investigating a friend's disappearance, Darcy St. James discovers a dangerous operation--and becomes its next target. The McKennas need to find her before it's too late"--Provided by publisher.
12) Open carry
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 1
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English
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Skilled tracker U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter must leave his comfort zone in the Florida swamplands to investigate the murder of a Tlingit Indian girl in the wilds of southeast Alaska.
13) Alaska
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Alaska.
14) Homestead
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2023.
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"From Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders "Moustakis has oceans of talent." --Pam Houston "A writer who truly has everything." --Jaimy Gordon 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,...
15) Northern lights
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2004
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Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fly you into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who are searching for love and redemption...
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite...
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite...
16) Submerged
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Alaskan courage volume 1
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English
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Returning to small-town Yancey, Alaska, to bury a loved one killed in a mysterious plane crash, Bailey Craig is not the same woman she was went she first left Yancey and Cole McKenna, a former lover who has also changed.
18) Alaska
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Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
19) Building Alaska
Publisher
Great Projects Film Co
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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"From the Emmy Award® winning and Oscar® nominated producers of the four-part PBS series Great Projects: The Building of America, now comes Building Alaska, a century-long journey with the dedicated and visionary men and women who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote and forbidding part of the United States. This feature-length documentary tells the stories of the great railroads and highways of the late 19th and...
20) Dawn's prelude
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Song of Alaska volume 1
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English
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Newly widowed Lydia Sellers discovers that through an unforeseen fluke, she is the sole recipient of her husband's fortune. But instead of granting her security, it only causes strife as her adult stepchildren battle to regain the inheritance for themselves. Lydia, longing to put the memories of her painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings two things she didn't expect....