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Cold storage novels volume 1
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John Straley brings his storytelling abilities to a new level in this completely original period crime story.
It's 1935, and Slip Wilson, rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker, has quit his job at a logging camp, hoping to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in a ditch, and his life takes a hard turn. The woman, Ellie Hobbes, is an anarchist with big dreams—but
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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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With her husband of fifty-five years now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsviely sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that he had planned. Her estranged daughter appears midway in the cruise. Harriet is forced to take a long look back. And in the process she discovers that she's been living the better part of her life under entirely false assumptions.
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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...
6) Homestead
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"From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders. Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150...
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