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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
2) Starry night
Author
Series
Debbie Macomber novel volume 81
Language
English
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Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one...
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English
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Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary -- or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man, in particular, stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon, a quiet, intense sword craftsman, whose...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building, in this gripping debut by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own reasons for investigating the possible murder in this...
Author
Series
Liam Campbell mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Restationed in a remote bush town in the aftermath of a fatal judgment call, Trooper Liam Campbell tackles unexpected challenges in the form of a cutthroat local fishing trade, violent drug dealers, and the murder of an archaeologist who claimed to be on the verge of a great discovery.
Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's thirty-five hundred residents have turned out to celebrate- or to cause trouble. Liam Campbell is...
8) The grey
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
9) Frostbitten
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Investigating fatal wolf attacks on humans near Anchorage, werewolf and new mom Elena Michaels and her husband, Clay, encounter more than they expect in a savage force that awakens their animal natures.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Documents 96 teams attempting to traverse more than a thousand miles in Alaska with nothing but 16 dogs and a sled. Between Anchorage and Nome, man and man's best friend must work together, care for each other, and play a disciplined game of strategy if they hope to be first to cross the finish line. For some, survival is worth much more than actually winning. Bonus feature: a team of top scientists and wildlife filmmakers explore Alaska's remote...
Author
Series
Alaskan diner mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Alaska to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After a breakup, a chance to reconnect with her roots may be what she needs. Determined to bring fresh life to the diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu. But her plans are fried when her head cook turns up dead after a bitter and public fight over Charlie's ideas - leaving...
13) Cold wind
Author
Series
Alaska wild volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Second in a new series set in Alaska from beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, Cold Wind will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's not ready to go back. But as October comes to a close, Benedict is feeling more and more like her new home. Beth has been working on herself: She's managed to get back to writing, and she's enjoying these beautiful...
14) Sunrise
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Pilot Dodge Kingston has always been the heir to Sky King Ranch. But after a terrible family fight, he left to become a pararescue jumper. A decade later, he's headed home to the destiny that awaits him. That's not all that's waiting for Dodge. His childhood best friend and former flame, Echo Yazzie, is a true Alaskan--a homesteader, dogsledder, and research guide for the DNR. Most of all, she's living a life Dodge knows could get her killed. When...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Each story in Hitchcock's collection connects the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and across the American West. From the repercussions of wildfire to the ordinary actions such as ice-skating or going to church, Hitchcock explores fury, secrets, and love so strong it burns a path to the future. -- adapted from jacket.
Author
Series
Last gunfighter volume 21
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska---and into a raging blizzard of violence and death.
18) Runaway train
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Escaped convicts try to elude their pursuers by catching a ride on a freight train, only to find themselves trapped when the train goes out of control.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Just when you thought trucking couldn't get more dangerous, the new season of Ice Road Truckers is back! The Ice Road Truckers return to Alaska, hauling their biggest loads ever across the most dangerous terrain they've faced. But this year, trucking critically needed cargo north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay is just the beginning. The drivers will tackle frozen rivers and swamps out beyond the Dalton Highway, and more.
Author
Series
Alaska untamed mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"No nine-to-five cubicle career will suit Stacie Calder--the naturalist much prefers working in the great outdoors. Specifically, the spacious and spectacular Alaskan wilderness, whose rugged charms she shares with sightseers on the top deck of the tour boat where she works. But one May afternoon, Stacie's passengers see more than glittering glaciers, frolicking harbor seals, climbing bears and soaring seabirds...they also witness a man lying dead...