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61) Dogsled to dread
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Miss Mallard, the famous ducktective, is invited to Alaska to see the start of the famous dog sled race, her skills are challenged by the dognapping of a prize husky.
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Two years after her son drowned in a boating accident, Jenna Rosen flies to Alaska to revisit the scene of the tragedy and learns his soul has been imprisoned by Indian spirits. The part-Indian Jenna turns to a shaman to have the soul freed. A first novel.
63) Capital offense
Author
Series
Nik Kane Alaska mystery volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When a promising young legislator is accused of the murder of a young woman, disgraced ex-cop Nik Kane is hired by a mysterious patron to investigate the case, which is heavily influenced by corrupt forces in the oil industry.
64) Bad blood
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana sit across the river from each other, but Kuskulana's always thrived while Kushtaka is slowly dying out. One hundred years of bad blood between the communities threaten to come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found dead - and questions of love, loyalty, and revenge rise to the surface. Could this one, unexplained death ignite an all-out war? When a second murder that looks suspiciously...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
In her will, a dead dance hall girl promises her son $20,000 if he will kill his father, the man who abandoned her. The son is Nathan Blaylock, 16, of Denver and his father is the legendary lawman, Marshall Wyatt Earp. The novel describes Nathan's adventures en route to kill his father and the showdown.
66) Dawn's prelude
Author
Series
Song of Alaska volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly widowed Lydia Sellers, longing to put the memories of a painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings things she didn't expect: the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill; and the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell?
67) A grave denied
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park's unofficial p.i., seems to have know less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history...
68) Out of the ashes
Author
Series
Heart of Alaska volume 2
Language
English
Description
Katherine and Jean-Michel once shared a deep love that was torn apart by forces beyond their control. Reunited in the 1920s at the Curry Hotel in Alaska, have the years changed them too deeply to rediscover what they had? And when Jean-Michel's nightmares of war return with terrifying consequences, will faith be enough to heal what's been broken for so long?
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 6
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Well along the trail of the Yukon Quest, Jessie is stunned to learn that a young novice racer she met at the start has been abducted and held for ransom. The girl's distraught father has been warned that no one but Jessie Arnold is to be told-especially not the police. Feeling isolated and alone, Jessie must decide what to do in the face of terrible odds.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rachel Wood, Los Angeles mural artist and self-proclaimed queen of impulsive actions, discovers a distant and extremely eccentric relative has bequeathed her a bed-and-breakfast in the wilds of Alaska, she immediately heads north to check it out, commandeering her best friend's geeky brother, Kel, for support. The B and B is deserted and unwelcoming, and weirdness appears to be the order of the day. The tour guide can't find his way.
71) Before I let go
Author
Language
English
Description
When Corey moves away from Lost Creek, Alaska, she makes her friend Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. With every hour, Corey's suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets--but piecing together the truth about what...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Seattle, Montana, and Alaska, "Mountain Time" tells a story about a generation that has reached its time of reckoning. Vividly described, Doig's story brings to light the necessity of settling family issues in order to move on to more satisfying relationships.
73) Forever hidden
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets - including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse - but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?"--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sadie Hoffmiller has gathered her family together to enjoy an Alaskan cruise and to help plan her daughter's wedding. But when her son's birthmother shows up on the ship, relationships become complicated. And once the dead bodies start appearing, Sadie realizes more than one person on the cruise is keeping secrets.
75) Homestead
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150 acres is an opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its promise. For Marie, the land is an escape from the empty future she sees spinning out before her, and a risky...
Author
Series
Time dogs volume 1
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follow the dogs Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia and Titch as they are transported back in time to 1925 Alaska, now as puppies, and must help Balto complete his mission: deliver medicine during the diphtheria outbreak.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel has been kidnapped by the Raven Clan, a powerful Alaskan tribe, and is en route to stand trial in front of their justice council for a puzzling crime that happened years ago. His fiancée Regi--with the help of her sister, Claudia, and friend Wakanda--resolves to follow Samuel to Alaska but soon learns secrets about her fiancé she hadn't bargained for.
Author
Series
Song of Alaska volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Phoebe Robbins learns her family will move to Sitka, Alaska, she is unsure what this wild, untamed land might offer her. But before she even sets foot on this new territory, she has an unexpected encounter with Dalton Lindquist. When he decides to pursue answers to his past, he finds he must leave Sitka. But Dalton is not the only one who has sought Phoebe's attention. His best friend, Yuri, determines to claim her affection, as well.
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2004.
Language
English
Description
NORMAN TUTTLE IS, in a word, awkward. He falls off his fathers fishing boat into icy Alaskan waters. He quietly sweats on gorgeous Laura Magruder at the school dance. He gets himself on the bad side of Leonard Kopinski, an overgrown eighth-grader who shaves. As Norman contemplates a long and lonely adolescence on the Last Frontier, hes sure theres more to life than being the klutziest kid in Alaska. In 15 closely linked stories...
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