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A sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska by an iconic author with more than three hundred million copies of her books in print.
Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including...
Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including...
3) Alaska
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This saga chronicles the lives and fortunes of four generations of women in the York family, from the Russian occupation of Alaska to the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Detailing the triumphs and trials of what became a dynasty of fish and timber barons during a crucial century in Alaska's history, the novel opens with teenage Nadia Karimoff, a half-Russian, half-Native American orphan living in Sitka, being kidnapped and sold to a...
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Storyteller trilogy volume 2
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In an ancient time of icy splendor at the top of the world, can two people whose spirits belong to each other overcome the senseless violence between their tribes? A wise storyteller and powerful hunter, Chakliux has one weakness: the beautiful Aqamdax, who has been promised to a cruel tribesman she does not love. But there can be no future for Chakliux and Aqamdax until a curse upon their peoples has been lifted. As they travel a dangerous path,...
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Elizabeth Brechenridge sets sail for Alaska to find her brother in Dawson. But when Elizabeth falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister brother-Clint Brady, a cynical bounty hunter who notoriously shoots to kill. Together, this unlikely couple struggle for survival in the wilderness as they make their way north amid the beauty of the Alaskan frontier.
6) Sitka
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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950L
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Frontiersman, adventurer, and sailor Jean LaBarge devises a plan to rid the Alaska Territory--owned by Russia in the 1840s--of Baron Zinnovy, a Russian who seizes control of the territory's fur trade, killing anyone who dares oppose him.
7) Ashana
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A young Athabaskan Indian girl is taken hostage by a Russian fur trader in Alaska in the 1790s.
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2023.
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"It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities --a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The stakes are high, and the snow is piling higher. Will the...
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[2005]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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970L
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In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Inspired by the 5-page memoir written by the real Erinia Pavaloff in 1936.
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