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21) Against the tide
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Brodies of Alaska volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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While running from a dangerous secret in her past, diner owner Liv Chandler gets drawn into investigating a murder in remote Valdez, Alaska with charter boat captain Rafe Brodie.
22) The name curse
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two hikers who drive each other crazy discover they might have a lot to learn from one another about navigating life, love, and living up to family expectations.
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English
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For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,
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"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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"At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village, including the six-year-old boy of Medora and Vernon Slone. Stumbled by grief and seeking consolation, Medora contacts nature writer and wolf expert Russell Core. Sixty years old, ailing in both body and spirit, and estranged from his daughter and wife, Core arrives in Keelut to investigate the...
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Like his brothers, Charles O'Halloran distrusts marriage in general. He also distrusts anyone related to Catherine Harmon Fletcher, the woman who destroyed his parents' marriage. Lanni Caldwell is the only woman Charles has ever fallen for, the only one who might convince him to take the marriage risk. But there's something Lanni hasn't told Charles -- and doesn't want to. She's Catherine's granddaughter. (Bestseller)
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Pr
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Alaska P.I. Kate Shugak gets an undercover job working on an Alaskan fishing boat in order to discover why two crew members mysteriously disappeared.
30) No fixed line
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Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"'... 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 it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carrires a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroineand she needs to be, to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. And throw their worst the wilds have: Kate and Mutt have both been shot.
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A novel told from three alternating perspectives-a former trapper trying to care for his son with muscular dystrophy; a young girl who wishes for her father to be rid of his PTSD from the war; and a wolf fighting for his and his pack's survival. Set in a small Alaskan town, the residents fight for the remote wilds they call home when plans for a building development threatens to upend the peace"--
33) Northern lights
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to rebuild his life, ex-Baltimore cop Nate Burke takes a job as Chief of Police in the tiny, remote Alaskan town of Lunacy, where he comes face to face with the independent Meg Galloway and an unsolved fifteen-year-old-crime.
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English
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Half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dogsled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers, a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect, but Edie's instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world...
35) Enjoy the view
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Series
Language
English
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Former Hollywood darling River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film a documentary about the picturesque small town of Moose Springs, Alaska. The assignment should have been easy, but the quirky locals want nothing to do with River. Well, too bad: River's going to make this film and prove herself, no matter what it takes. Or what (literal) mountain she has to climb. Easton Lockett may...
36) Uncharted
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Survival instincts volume 2
Language
English
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When her solo mission turns into a disaster, pilot Leo Eddowes, with enemies in close pursuit, must team up with Elias Thorne, a criminal both hated and feared by the entire nation who is guarding a dangerous secret, to survive.
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Publisher
Boreal Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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...
38) Cold snap
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While transporting four dangerous criminals on a small flight to Fairbanks, Alaska, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter is stranded when their plane goes down in the wilderness, in the fourth novel of the series following Bone Rattle.
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Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small aircraft leaves ten people dead. Was it a bird strike, pilot error... or premeditated murder? Then an eleventh body is found in the wreckage: a man shot gangland style, twice in the chest and once in the head. In an investigation that reaches to the highest levels of government, justice may not be served, but Kate Shugak is determined that the truth will out, even at the risk of her life...
40) Refuge Cove
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Series
New Americana volume 2
Language
English
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Emily Hunter came to Alaska on the promise of marriage, but is soon on the run from her would-be husband. Stranded in the wilderness, she stumbles across a small plane-- and the rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son. She's wary of trusting John Wolf, but sharing his wilderness home means protection from the predator on her trail. Will he be willing to risk everything to keep her safe?
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