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62) After the end
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land. When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world...
Author
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A woman taking part in a 1,000-mile dog sled race from Whitehorse, Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska is abducted for ransom. Sleuth Jessie Arnold, herself a racer, takes the case and her probe leads to a confrontation with the abductors in a snow blizzard. By the author of Deadfall.
65) The unpassing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An uplifting Christmas tale, set in the Alaskan wilderness, about finding love where it's least expected...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,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
A series of seemingly different stories which eventually come together. One is on a man who falls from a plane over New Hampshire and survives, another is on a homeless amnesiac in Seattle, a third is on an old couple in Ohio who sell their home and set out to see the world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With her beagle Henry and her new friend Quin, twelve-year-old Tee is determined to solve the mystery of "the Shadow", the ghostly animal that is believed to haunt the Alaskan wilderness near her new home in Nome.
71) Forever hidden
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mail-order bride: Gold River, Alaska, isn't your average town. After being jilted by her fianč, Caroline Myers ends up there--thanks to her matchmaking aunts, who send her on what appears to be a vacation. But Caroline didn't know that her well-meaning relatives had cooked up a scheme. Not surprisingly, they have something different in mind. Something that involves spending a snowy Christmas in ruggedly handsome Paul Trevor's home--as his Mail-Order...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking place in an alternate reality, this hilarious and highly sensual story follows American Christina Krabbe who is hired by the King of Alaska to become the wife of his unruly son, Prince David, a business arrangement that leads to chaos, passion, and--eventually--true love. Original. 30,000 first printing.
74) Cozy in love
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Cozy the musk ox has a clever idea for how to save a trapped friend, his brave efforts help win the heart of the one he admires most."--
76) Island war
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1942 13-year-olds Izzy and Matt become trapped on an Japanese-occupied Aleutian island when the rest of the American population is evacuated and must survive on their own for the duration of World War II"--
77) Down river
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away...Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that...
79) Prickly Rose
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A rhyming story about a girl named Prickly Rose, who follows her ten-foot tall sister Sitka north, riding orcas, and reshaping Alaska's coasts and mountains.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nicolette Scott learns that the pharmaceutical company that sponsored her expedition to Alaska in search of a World War II-era Japanese plane was really more interested in the nearby graves of three victims of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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