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Summary: Kizzia captures an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.805 HALE, ROBERT KIZMcGinniss, Joe.
Summary: Presents a study of the illusion and the reality of Sarah Palin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PALIN SARAH McGKeith, Katherine
Summary: Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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Summary: For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, MIKE WILDunn, Geoffrey.
Summary: A critical biography of the former vice-presidential candidate discusses personal secrets about Palin's marriage, her extremist religious views, her selection as John McCain's running mate, and her presidential aspirations for 2012.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PALIN, SARAH DUNHarris, Josh
Summary: Presents a portrait of the late star of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch," revealing his high-risk private life of tempestuous affairs, drug-fueled parties, and motorcycle riding, as well as his virtues as a devoted friend, loving father, and steadfast captain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.56 HARPalin, Sarah
Summary: Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 PALWard, Bonnie Rose
Summary: "Winds of Skilak traces a young couple's adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-tempered Skilak Lake. As Sam and Bonnie adapt to a life without running water, electricity and telephones, the unforgiving, desolate environment tests their courage early on. Facing sub-freezing temperatures, unfriendly bears, and cabin fever, the Wards find strength in new friends, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Tree Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WARLende, Heather
Summary: "Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENDE, HEATHER LENDean, Patrick
Summary: "In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size--occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface --and position as the Earth's northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world's deadliest mountains. Although its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 DEALende, Heather
Contents: Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENDE, HEATHER LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem LendeRozell, Ned
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ROZBerglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.73 BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BERKantner, Seth
Summary: "Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANTNER, SETH KANTaliaferro, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.802 TALKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 KRAMurphy, Brian
Summary: "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, LEON MURBraverman, Blair
Summary: "A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats. 30,000 first printing,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAVERMAN, BLAIR BRALende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 Lende 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENJans, Nick
Summary: "No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 JANKent, Rockwell
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.984 KENServid, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.82 SERBreece, Hannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995