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81) Gentle Ben
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2006, c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
84) Protocol zero
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research team has fallen victim to something that seems impossible...
85) Against the wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
When Lane Bishop travels to Dylan Brodie's remote Alaskan fishing lodge to help him renovate it, she finds herself drawn to Dylan, concerned by his daughter's silence, and puzzled by the mysteries that surround the lodge.
Author
Series
Song of Alaska volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Britta Lindquist must choose between the love of her life, Yuri Belikov, or a coveted first chair violin position offered by the English conductor, Brenton Maltese.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Falling for him: "Christian, the youngest O'Halloran brother, has a problem, and her name is Mariah Douglas. The Midnight Sons secretary is always losing his messages, misplacing his files and generally creating chaos. Despite that, he can't get her out of his mind...."--P. [4] of cover.
Ending in marriage: "The clashes between pilot Duke Porter and Seattle attorney Tracy Santiago are legendary. Duke's a tough, rugged individualist who delights in...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Werewolf Maggie Graham can't convince researcher Nick Thatcher to leave Grundy, Alaska, ... and even worse, she can't convince herself to stay away from him. Cross-species dating is problem enough for a harried alpha female, but on top of that, a rival group of werewolves is trying to move into the valley.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Nancy's Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It's spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every day....
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Owen Christiansen has been in a downward spiral since an injury ended his NHL career. A job on an Alaskan crabbing boat offers a fresh start... and maybe even a shot at romance with Elise "Scotty" McFlynn, the captain's daughter. Used to being one of the guys, Scotty doesn't believe in happily ever after. When Casper Christiansen arrives to drag his prodigal brother home, he brings with him a truckload of family drama-- and the news that Casper is...
94) Tough Tug
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tough Tug is a brand-new boat. He likes to swirl and twirl and run and race. He wants everyone to see what he can do. But on his first tow job to Alaska, he finds out what being a tug really means and learns an important lesson in the rough seas. Based on a true incident in which an Alaskan tug cut loose its own barge to rush to the rescue of the foundering tug of another tugboat company.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000, ©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical and heartfelt collection by an award-winning writer that connects the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American west. Each story is unique, yet universal."--
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,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story that follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe, as he sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for thirteen years. Risking his life, Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer before the next body surfaces.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else: Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--
Author
Publisher
Lone Wolf Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jim LaBerg is haunted by a voice from the past. The aging Alaska Wildlife Trooper has been hearing the voice more frequently now that he's been asked to take a stand on the Pebble Mine, the mega-mining project that looms over Bristol Bay and threatens the world's largest run of sockeye salmon. While stuck in a small cabin, Jim resurrects the voice by writing about the summer of 1969 when he was a commercial fisherman in waters now threatened by the...
100) Deadly fate
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Clara Avery, an entertainer working on the Fate, an Alaskan cruise ship, goes to nearby Bear Island, she comes across a scene of bloody mayhem. She also comes across Thor Erikson, who will soon be a member of the FBI's elite paranormal unit, the Krewe of Hunters. Thor's been sent from the Alaska field office to investigate several grotesque killings, with the dead posed to resemble the victims of notorious murderers. The prime suspect is a serial...
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