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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Druett, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUBayard, Louis.
Summary: A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYTarshis, Lauren
Summary: It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series TarshisJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENPayton, Brian
Summary: "A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story set amid a barren and starkly beautiful landscape during one of the least-known events of World War I, the Japanese occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Payton 2014Peterson, Tracie
Summary: Allan Brennan lands an apprenticeship to a wilderness guide at Denali, a position that will allow him to investigate his father's death on the mountain, and he finds an unlikely ally in his dangerous search for answers in his boss's daughter, Cassidy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2017Bergren, Lisa Tawn.
Summary: The sagas of Kaatje, Elsa, Tora and Karl continue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferies 2015Moss, Helen
Summary: "It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities ––a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC MOSPeterson, Tracie
Summary: Cassidy Ivanoff and her father, John, work at the new and prestigious Curry Hotel outside Mt. McKinley. While John will be expedition and wilderness exploration guide for the wealthy tourists, Cassidy has signed on as a cook's assistant. Both are busy as the hotel prepares to welcome the president of the United States on his way to drive in the golden spike to officially complete the railroad....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "In 1891, when Madysen Powell's supposedly dead father shows up, her gift for forgiveness is tested and she's left searching for answers. Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, longing to start fresh after the gold rush leaves him with only empty pockets, and finds employment at the Powell dairy. Will deceptions from the past tear apart their hopes for a better future?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETHall, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALMoustakis, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOUChakraborty, S. A.
Summary: "The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: Surviving the rugged frontier of Alaska is a daunting task. But even in that hostile wilderness, God allows the tender flower of love to bloom. From the gold rush, through a diphtheria epidemic, to the building of the Alcan Highway, each story is filled with human emotion - loneliness, anger, fear, joy, and love. But can romance truly flourish in a frozen frontier?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: A couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ISHDyson, Cindy.
Summary: Accompanying her boyfriend to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, cocktail waitress Brandy struggles to forget her painful past, while in a parallel tale, generations of Aleut women share an ancestral bond of tragedy and heroic obligation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYSThom, James Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHarrison, Sue.
Summary: The story, set in Alaskan prehistory, of three individuals from different tribes who find their destinies intertwined as they fight for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC L'AMRideout, Tanis.
Summary: A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIDCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: After the British establish a fort on the Penobscot River, the Massachusetts patriots--among them General Peleg Wadsworth and Colonel Paul Revere--mount an expedition to oust the redcoats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cornwell 2010Bass, Rick
Summary: When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005