Dagg, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWMoustakis, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUDagg, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAGIvey, 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 2016Ivey, 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2012Moustakis, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUIvey, Eowyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
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