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"A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing, as far as the icy Bering Sea Tara Marconi has made her way to "The Rock," a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn't felt at home in a long while -- her mother's death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and...
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Old Keb Wisting, the last living canoe carver in Jinkaat, is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago), in constant pain, and thinks he wants to die. When his grandson, James, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Along with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve, Keb and James...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness.
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting,...
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"The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel -- think of the Bronte sisters and Stephen King." -- Jamey Irving...A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica -- A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy...
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