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More Alaska Bear Tales by Larry Kaniut - Used
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Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman by Betty John - Used
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Coming Back Alive/ The True Story of... by Spike Walker - Used
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Alaska - An American Colony by Stephen Haycox - Used
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Salmon Patties and Rosehip Pie Cookbook - Art, Food and the Coastal Life in Halibut Cove, Alaska by Marian T. Beck - Used
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Home is the North by Walt Morey - Used
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The Big Both Ways by John Straley - Used
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Ancient Land: Sacred Whale by Tom Lowenstein - Used
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Coming Back Alive/ The True Story of... by Spike Walker - Used

Coming Back Alive/ The True Story of... by Spike Walker - Used

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When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.

One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.

Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as "masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea." In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.

Alaska - An American Colony by Stephen Haycox - Used

Alaska - An American Colony by Stephen Haycox - Used

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Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change.

In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state's cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska's transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region's systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources―furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil―and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska's past.
Home is the North by Walt Morey - Used

Home is the North by Walt Morey - Used

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A portrait of the land and people of wilderness Alaska presented through the experiences of an orphan whose year of decisions, responsibilities, and growth help him to accept the future.
The Big Both Ways by John Straley - Used

The Big Both Ways by John Straley - Used

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Alaska, 1935: Slippery Wilson is on his way out of town when he runs into a woman, her neice, and a crashed car. His life is about to get a lot more complicated.
 
It's 1935 and jobs are scarce, but Slippery Wilson walks off his job at a logging camp after a gruesome accident kills a coworker. He's headed for Seattle with all his savings; he plans to buy a piece of farmland and be his own boss.
 
When he stops to help a woman get her car out of a ditch, his life takes a serious detour. The woman is Ellie Hobbs, an anarchist from the docks of Seattle who watches out for her young niece and dreams of flying planes. But right now, she's got one busted nose and has just stuffed a dead man's body into the trunk of her car. So begins the action that will take Slip, Ellie, her niece, and her noisy yellow bird on a heart-stopping adventure up the Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska
Ancient Land: Sacred Whale by Tom Lowenstein - Used

Ancient Land: Sacred Whale by Tom Lowenstein - Used

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A chronicle of the lives and culture of the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, is based on a long series of poems that detail the ritual year and its stories.