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Alaska Fiction Alaska History 1867-1959 Fiction Fairy tales Adaptations Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Haines Haines (Alaska) Biography Haines (Alaska) Social life and customs Lende, Heather 1959- Magic realism (Literature) Outdoor life Alaska HainesDagg, Carole Estby
Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DAGNewman, Leigh
Summary: Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier-- and what we believe about hope and human connection. -- adapted from jacket
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: The account of the day-to-day explorations and activities of Dick Proenneke as he built a cabin in the remote wilderness of the Twin Lakes Region of Alaska.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bob Swerer Productions 2004
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALOSummary: This follow-up to "Alone in the wilderness" continues the account of the day-to-day explorations and activities of Dick Proenneke in his 30-year adventure in the remote Alaskan wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bob Swerer Productions 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALOIvey, Eowyn
Summary: In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Dagg, Carole Estby.
Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAGMurphy, Claire Rudolf.
Summary: Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 MURLende, 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...
Format: text
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 LENMoustakis, Melinda
Summary: Collection of short stories in which the author 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUIvey, Eowyn.
Summary: "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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2012Lende, 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.
Format: text
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 LendeMoustakis, Melinda
Summary: "From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUDodson, Peggy Rouch
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beistline Enterprises 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 DODIvey, Eowyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION IVEPeterson, Tracie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETSouthwell, Rex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Word 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.465 SOU1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.465 SOU