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Author: Margret Kingrey Publisher: Infinity Publishing ISBN: 0741434202 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 329
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Alaska Stories: A Memoir recounts Margret Riddle's quest for adventure, romance, and self-discovery during her four years as an occupational therapist and kayaker in Alaska.
Author: Margret Kingrey Publisher: Infinity Publishing ISBN: 0741434202 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 329
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Alaska Stories: A Memoir recounts Margret Riddle's quest for adventure, romance, and self-discovery during her four years as an occupational therapist and kayaker in Alaska.
Author: Melinda Moustakis Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820344907 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
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In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival. The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path of destruction—sometimes a harsh snowstorm, sometimes each other—and live to tell the tale. While backtrolling for kings on the Kenai River or filleting the catch of the Halibut Hellion with marvelous speed, these characters recount the gamble they took that didn't pay off, or they expound on how not only does Uncle Too-Soon need a girlfriend, the whole state of Alaska needs a girlfriend. A story like “The Mannequin at Soldotna” takes snapshots: a doctor tends to an injured fisherman, a man covets another man's green fishing lure, a girl is found in the river with a bullet in her head. Another story offers an easy moment with a difficult mother, when she reaches out to touch a breaching whale. This is a book about taking a fishhook in the eye, about drinking cranberry lick and Jippers and smoking Big-Z cigars. This is a book about the one good joke, or the one night lit up with stars, that might get you through the winter.
Author: Tom Kizzia Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307587835 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 338
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Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Author: Ron Wendt Publisher: Epicenter Press ISBN: 9780945397779 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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These astonishing stories tell of miners terrorized by spirits wandering their claims, of roadhouse owners visited daily by ghosts, and of reindeer herders who run in fear as one of their own departed comes back in spirit form to continue his duties after death.
Author: Mike Doogan Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA) ISBN: 9780945397946 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 0
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A rich collection of personal stories -- both whimsical and contemplative -- in which the writers open their hearts and homes to reveal the Alaska that few tourists ever see.
Author: Barbara Brown Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR) ISBN: 146684518X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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An Alaska family celebrates Hanukkah with a stubborn moose in their backyard and the Northern Lights as the best-ever menorah. Hanukkah in Alaska is unlike anywhere else. Snow piles up over the windows. Daylight is only five hours long. And one girl finds a moose camped out in her backyard, right near her favorite blue swing. She tries everything to lure it away: apples, carrots, even cookies. But it just keeps eating more tree! It's not until the last night of Hanukkah that a familiar Jewish holiday tradition provides the perfect—and surprising—solution.
Author: Margret Kingrey
Author: Margret Kingrey
Author: Bill Sherwonit
Author: Larry Kaniut
Author: Melinda Moustakis
Author: Tom Brennan
Author: Tom Kizzia
Author: Ron Wendt
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Author: Mike Doogan
Author: Barbara Brown