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81) North to Alaska
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The Klondike. 1900. A hard-drinking, hard-driving prospector must protect his claim to a gold-mine ... and a San Francisco beauty.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a residency at a top hospital and a boyfriend she adores, Lauren appears to have her entire life figured out. When she loses both her job and her beau on the same day, Lauren reluctantly accepts a residency position in Alaska. After slowly embracing her simple life up North, Lauren gets the position she originally hoped for and must choose between the life she always wanted and her new life in Alaska.
Publisher
Buck Publishing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A documentary of an epic solo journey across 1000 miles of the most remote wilderness in America, the Brooks Range in northern Alaska.
"One summer I set off alone in an attempy to cross a thousand miles of the most wilderness in America, the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. It was a journey of mountains and solitude, river crossings and rapids, mountain passes and gravel bars, wolves, grizzlies and caribou."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's summer in Alaska and the light surrounding the shipping-container-turned-storage-shed where Liv Russo is being held prisoner is fuzzy and grey. Around her is thick forest and serrated mountains. In front of her, across a clearing, is a low-slung cabin with a single window that spills a wash of yellow light onto bare ground. Illuminated in that light is the father of her child, a man she once loved. A man who is now her jailor. Liv vows to do...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska...
89) A night too dark
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a man believed to have committed suicide reappears from the wilderness, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Trooper Jim Chopin struggle to identify the remains of a mysterious victim, a case that is complicated by political factors at the local gold mine.
90) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the fierce Alaskan wilderness to the gaiety of San Fransisco society; the familiar peaks of Bergren, Norway to the dark, churning waters of Cape Horn; witness the glorious conclusion of the Northen Lights family saga.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national park trail crew—and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready for a new challenge, she joined a Glacier National Park trail crew as a seasonal “traildog”
93) Down the Yukon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But for the fact that Kate, too, is among the missing . . .
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne, follow the five-month migration of 123,000 caribou over mountain ranges and icy rivers to their calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, becoming the first humans to ever join a herd on the trek.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a man shot gangland style is found in the wreckage of a mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness, Kate Shugak, as the investigation reaches to the highest levels of the government, is determined to find the truth, risking her life and the lives of those she loves most."--
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.
98) Mayday!
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 184
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
You are the copilot along with your cousin, Eddie, on a small Polaris 180 airplane. Through bad weather and mechanical difficulties, you and Eddie fly supplies to people who live in remote areas all over Alaska. Things start to go wrong when Eddie is knocked unconscious and you have to fly the plane all by yourself.
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on "Cinderella," this story is set in Alaska, the fairy godmother is an eagle, and the hero, the son of a cannery owner, finds his true love through her Sitka slipper, a heavy rubber boot she left at the Silver Salmon Festival.
100) Leaving Protection
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.
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