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A Bouquet from Alaska Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lard, Melva $14.95 A Bouquet From Alaska, a unique devotional, containing 30 true-to-life drawings of Alaska wildflowers, provides a delightfully different look at the creative wonders of God within the 49th state. Each devotion relates to something about the character of God, His dealings with His people, or our relationships with each other. Arranged as an ARMCHAIR FIELD TRIP, you can experience a great Alaska adventure from the comforts of your home. The route begins in Fairbanks, stops where ever the flowers were found, and ends at the end of the road in Homer. Come along and joyfully celebrate our wise and exalted Creator who spoke Alaska's snowcapped mountains, forests, and tundra into being. Then out of His special love for the minute and fragile, He sprinkled them all with wildflowers -- A Bouquet From Alaska. A Gift for Dusty Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Guy, Glen $6.00 Cautiously, he crawled in the opening, and instantly, he could see nothing. Fumbling in his possible bag he found a lucifer and struck it on the rocky ceiling above his head .... without warning he heard a blood curdling roar, felt a sharp pain start at his head and go all the way down his left side. A pool of blackness started coming over him, he tried to hang on but he felt himself slipping away ... and then nothing. A Love Affair with Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Stefano, Jackie $14.95 A Love Affair with Cook Inlet and Turagain Arm is an inspirational coffee table book! Open to any page and find a pearl of insight, work of art, or charming description of Alaska towns or places around Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, or the Kenai Peninsula. A Love Affair with Cook Inlet and Turagain Arm shows us that we all have the ability to cultivate a deep relationship with earth. Plus, bits of local trivia, musings on healing, the Mind, Body, Spirit Connection, and creative artwork. A Picnic with Friends Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Clement, Becky $9.95 This is the second in the Alaska Adventure Bears Series: A fun, educational story, complete with an Adventure Bear song. A Semi for a Sleigh Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Mendonsa, Mark $15.95 For an old "stick" named Clutch, it's just another blizzard blowing in from the north across the lonely Wyoming prairie. But this is Christmas Eve. On this special night, Clutch begins a journey where mysterious and unforgettable characters will change his life forever. A Semi For A Sleigh is a colorful narrative, complete with original musical score and songs on a companion CD. This timeless tale is destined to become the highway Christmas classic. A Sound of Freedom Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Grant, Walter $15.95 Troubled by a large number of KGB agents operating freely in the US, the lackadaisical attitude of the general population, and the media's irresponsible depiction of communism, an ex-double agent sets out to use all he has learned in his position as a captain in the KGB's western intelligence section. He was all that stood between the soviets and their plan to take control of the first test launch of the Peacekeeper--America's newest ICBM. The soviets aimed to destroy several cities along the southern California coast--an apparent accident. This, they surmised, would show America too incompetent and irresponsible to be allowed to develop high-tech weapons. The Soviet Union would become the world's only super power. The marine has his own demons to fight, both past and present. Complicating his life and his one man war against the KGB is the woman he met and fell in love with--she is a mystery. A Venture In Faith Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Weishampel, Ed.D., Carol $17.95 Stalked by her abusive ex-husband and in fear for her life, Leah Gray plans an escape. Leah's faith in God and in humanity shattered, when she is forced out of her comfort zone, she secretly purchases a used motor home as a mobile hide-out and prepares to pursue a search for a meaningful life. Intrigued by her father's stories of building the Alaska Highway, Leah determines to flee into the Alaska wilderness. On her road trip from Texas to Alaska she encounters empowering women who encourage her on her road to self discovery. Leah's fear of men intensifies when she is forced to trust Barret, an Alaskan mountain man. Can Leah stop running and find healing and love, and return to her faith in God? Above the Arctic Circle Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Kirker, Lorraine $17.95 Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication reached only as far as the echo of one's voice, and when the first order of each new day was survival in the face of unyielding natural elements. This is the time and place chronicled in the personal journals of James A. Carroll: explorer, pioneer, dogsled musher, trapper, trader, husband, and father. It is an authentic first-hand account of a young man's first decade in the territory of Alaska, a straightforward telling of the adversity and adventures of life on the far north frontier. This story, told with honesty and more than a little humor, offers a kind of kinship connecting author and reader thereby extending a personal invitation to take the journey north through time with James A. Carroll -- Above the Arctic Circle. Adventure Fire Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Guy, Glen $9.95 Out of habit Dusty checked his Winchester to make sure a round was in the chamber, and then eased himself forward, keeping out of view of the front window. It was obvious to Dusty, because of the ruckus Little Bear was causing on the porch, that whoever was inside--if anybody--was forewarned, so the element of surprise was not in Dusty's favor. With these thoughts in mind, Dusty said to no one in particular, "Oh well," and he leaped to the porch, with his rifle at the ready. In an instant he was through the partially open door, ready for whatever consequence awaited him inside. Adventure Gold Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Guy, Glen $9.95 The current was pulling at Dusty's legs. It was a sucking feeling and he knew that it was about to pull him under. There wasn't a thing he could do to stop it. The cold was numbing and his arms felt like lead. He struggled for one last deep breath as the surging water pulled him down. Down into what he thought would be his watery grave. Alaska -- The Short And Long Of It Click Picture of Cover for Larger View von der heydt, James $16.95 Take note -- James A. von der Heydt, as formality requires, introduces you to Champagne Charlie. Learn how he got his most interesting name and what drew him to the far north, how he fared once there. Meet, too, Mollie, young lady of the gold rush era, who mined by herself in the Nome goldfields as a proper Victorian lady was not supposed to do. You will like Mollie, alone, pursuing success in a man's world. The memory of Joe Filmore will stay with you, a young wanderer, uneducated, who returns to his boyhood home after many year's absence to find more trouble than any man is entitled to. You will remember well Old Eskimo Simon who fulfills his promise of long before to his own grandfather, to return to that special place, to contact for the last time the ancient spirits of the whale, seal, and caribou. These, and other adventures fill the pages of Alaska, The Short and Long of It. They, as well, merit formal introduction, but to read of them here is the best meeting of all. Alaska Animal ABC Coloring Book Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Thompson, Linda $8.95 Written by a school teacher of children with learning disabilities. Designed as a coloring activity book and a learning tool for all children. Alaska Animal Antics Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lincoln, Elverda $9.95 Alaska Animal Antics, an entertaining book for all ages, is a compilation of stories about life with animals on the Last Frontier. These humorous animal tales come from Elverda's friends, who graciously gave her their written, oral, and taped manuscripts. Alaska Animal Antics is about animals, wild and tame, from moose to mosquitoes, and their involvement with people. You'll soon discover that it is sometimes difficult to decide who you're laughing at -- animals or people. Although Alaska Animal Antics is really about animals, and the funny things they do as they associate with people, without peoples' antics, animals' antics wouldn't be nearly so funny. Life in Alaska is different and challenging -- Alaska Animal Antics proves it. Alaska Animal We Love You Click Picture of Cover for Larger View La Von Bridges, Alice Wright and $16.95 Children everywhere will love the chants and poems in Alaska Animals, We Love You! and accompanying CD. Whether alone or in groups, they will learn to speak and read through this medium. Usuing rhythm, rhyme, ostinatos, isstruments or melody, each poem instructs about langue. Most of these poems or chants teach scientific facts about Alaska animals. The sparkling illustrations will dazzle every animal-loving heart. The CD, which is included in this hard cover book, will add to the fun children will have with Alaska Animals, We Love You!. Alaska Exposed Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Shields, Sharon $19.95 Union bosses work the same mindset of bureaucrats; both enjoy flexing their muscles at our expense. Both union bosses and bureaucrats exist because they have usurped power and authority from the "little people" as they call us. They thrive on the backs of working people and have never been able to keep their hands out of our pockets. Sorry to say stories like the one told in Alaska Exposed is a norm, not the exception. I cannot begin to tell you how many of similar stories I have heard. Stories of outright abuse of power run rampant. If anything, this story has been toned down from the norm. Those of us who wish to make Alaska a better place to live will have to raise hell to get the unions, bureaucrats, and politicos under our control where they belong. Mark Chryson, Chairman, Alaska Independence Party Alaska Gardening Guide Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Roberts, Ann $29.95 If you can garden well in Alaska, with its immense size and varied climates, you should be able to garden in any northern area, from Canada to Maine, from Norway to Northern Oregon. Alaska Gardening Guide is a hands-on, how-to book which reveals the secrets of generations of experts in cold climate gardening. It provides Alaskans (whether cheechako or sourdough) with the special knowledge they need to succeed in their state, and other northern gardeners the techniques that will help them meet their own unique growing challenges, no matter where they live and garden. Alaska Gardening Guide is arranged in three parts; a section on planting basics for the beginning gardener, a more in-depth section dealing with specific problems encountered in the various areas in Alaska (like cold soil, premature bolting to seed, or heavy precipitation), and a final section packed full of techniques and tips for raising particular vegetables. Ann has her own website you may find interesting. Alaska Gingerbread Moose Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Adams, Phyllis $12.95 Alaska Gingerbread Moose evolved when my grandson, Owen, and I began to ad lib after reading and telling other bedtime stories. It grew until Alaska Gingerbread Moose became our main story of the evening. We had great fun imagining the characters and developing new ideas. We used our own Alaska animals and Alaska's beautiful countryside for our story. Alaska Insight Travel Guide Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Melchert, Linda $19.95 Alaska Insight Travel Guide is for those adventurers seeking information as to how to go about arranging the beautiful Alaska dream vacation. Enjoy gorgeous, candid photos, area maps, vacation package samples and discount coupons. This book is user friendly, colorful with tab pages highlighting some of the best Alaska travel has to offer! Use the Alaska Insight Travel guide as a vacation planning tool, a travel resource, a web directory, a place to keep notes, memories and ultimately as one of your Alaska keepsakes. Enjoy! Alaska Insight's travel referral services have been inspired by 20 years dedication to serving, learning, and promoting Alaska's quality travel and tourism product. Alaska: Where the Long Trail Led Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Gilmore, Bob $17.95 Alaska--Where the Long Trail Led chronicles the many facets of a small-town boy's life during the 1930s Great Depression and how his wanderlust steered him in many directions--from a high school dropout "bindlestiff" to an accomplished artist and illustrator. The long trail led Robert Gilmore from Oklahoma's tornado alley to Alaska where he endured the Great Alaska Earthquake. He eventually realized a boyhood dream of exploring the virgin north country and of building a log cabin in the wilderness. The last 45 years have been one continuous adventure as Robert found his real home in the Great Land. Alaska's Builders Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Associated General Contractors $29.95 This is a history of the people who helped open the doors to Alaska -- the people who accepted the challenges of the frozen North and built Roads across the tundra, brought schools to remote villages and spanned the mighty Yukon River with bridges to let the pioneers cross. These hardy builders knew the importance of preserving the land in which they chose to live and, at the same time, of providing the necessities of the life that would bring people to settle the territory and the new state -- the housing, the commerce, the hospitals and the airports. Unless that history is recorded and passed to the next, history's details become lost. This book captures some of the challenges those first builders faced the permanently frozen ground, the vast empty spaces with no readily available transportation. Many of those challenges required solutions -- innovative and ingenious. Alaska's Charter Schools Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Castanza, Gordon $49.95 The public cares so much about the education of its children that schooling frequently becomes a political issue as partisans propose means for improving schools and support them with appealing rationale. This has certainly been the case with the charter school movement. Proponents have seen charter schools as a means to improve student achievement and make schools more accountable to the public. The charter school movement has swept across the country powered by the momentum of these appealing ideas, even without data demonstrating these much touted benefits. Gordon Castanza provides an analysis of the history of the charter school movement and of school accountability. His original research reveals the answer to the question, "Are charter schools more accountable to the public than other schools?" Carolyn H. Chapman, Professor Emerita, U. of Nevada, Reno Alaska's First Homegrown Millionaire Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Tower, Elizabeth $14.95 Alaska's First Homegrown Millionaire is the Life and Times of Cap Lathrop. During half a century in Alaska Cap Lathrop tried, and usually succeeded, in a variety of enterprises helping to assure Alaska's readiness to become a full-fledged member of the United States. He captained a steam schooner; drilled for oil; hauled freight; built apartments and theaters; started banks and radio stations; published a newspaper; served as a city mayor, a state legislator, a university regent, and Republican national committeeman; established a model salmon cannery; developed Alaska's most successful coal mine; and produced a motion picture. So diverse were his activities that each half decade of his long life provides a new story in Alaska's development. His gruff manner scared some people while his warmth charmed many. His final wish, "to die with his boots on," was fulfilled when he died in a Healy River coal mine accident. Cap left assets worth millions, but his personal belongings would scarcely fill a flight bag. Alaska's Homegrown Governor Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Tower, Elizabeth $14.95 Alaska's Homegrown Governor, A Biography of William A. Egan. "Born in Alaska, Raised in Alaska, Schooled in Alaska" was how 25-year-old William A. Egan advertised himself during his first campaign for Alaska Territorial Legislature in 1940. Without an opportunity to attend college, Egan received his political education in the legislature. Fifteen years later, Alaskans chose him to lead the Alaska Constitutional Convention and then serve in Washington, D.C. as an Alaska-Tennessee Plan senator. In 1959, Egan, from small-town Valdez, became Alaska's first state governor - the only governor born and educated in Alaska during the first 43 years of statehood. Alaska Journey: 1919-1934 Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Soberg, Ralph $17.50 Alaska Journey, 1919-1934: An Adventurous Young Norwegian's Coming-Of-Age Allies in Wartime Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Dolitsky, Alexander $29.95 Ancient Tales of Kamchatka Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Dolitsky, Alexander $18.00 Any Tonnage Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Jackinsky, Walter $24.00 Conversations with a Resolute Alaskan Captain Walter Jackinsky Jr. of Ninilchik, 34-year veteran of the Alaska Marine Highway System As Life Passes Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Swensen, Margaret $19.95 As Life Passes, Selected Poetry of America's Western Frontier, a collection of poems written at the turn of the century by Willis Eugene Robison, is a must-have, remarkable keepsake. An assembly of his finest poems, As Life Passes, shows that the values of Willis' time are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Willis' wit, wisdom, and insight is as fresh as today, yet it gives the reader a vivid picture of the frontier in the late 1800s. Willis' poems were popular with friends and family while he yet lived. His poem, Lou Ketchum, was required reading in the local school. Students were challenged to memorize it for its moral values. As Life Passes becomes a more important work as our life passes into new areas of morality, religious awareness, and family values of this generation. Talented in the art of symbolizing emotion, ideals, and experience, Willis makes you cry and laugh, as well as live the life and episodes of this man of the plains, legislature, father, missionary, and church leader.