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Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Vol. I Click Picture of Cover for Larger View HUdson, Raymond $33.00 The Jesse Lee story opens in the Aleutian Islands with the arrival of well-meaning 19th-century missionaries intent on delivering salvation and civilization to a proud people. Volume I tells of an institution founded in conflict and dissension that grew into a community admired by its neighbors and loved by many of its residents, mostly Native children from coastal Alaska. Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Vol. II Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Pels, Jackie $37.00 People live in so many houses over their lifetimes -- it's not the structures they remember so much. It's the happenings, the stories. ... This book is the best memorial to the Jesse Lee Home." -- Esther Munson Ronne of Seward, founding member of the Qutekcak Native Tribe, original board member of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Jesse Lee Home resident (1935-1942). Far North Adventure Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Walle, Alf $17.95 Unfortunately, most visitors to Alaska have but a few days to explore. As a result, much goes unseen and unknown. Gain the visions you missed by hitchhiking along with my recollections of a ten year foray into the Last Frontier. Drive the Alaska Highway, taking side trips to Dawson City and Valdez. Stalk moose and catch salmon with Athabascan Indians who still follow a subsistence way of life. Observe an Inupiaq whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean. Visit the rural neighborhood where dog sledding heroes, such as Lance Mackey and Ken Anderson, live and practice their sport. Fly by bush plane into remote camps and live with exploration teams. See how frontier boom towns, like Fairbanks and Nome, as well as Native villages, are evolving. These and many more exciting adventures await. You can't see Alaska in a few days. But you can experience it through my eyes and Far North Adventure. Feather From A Stranger Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Schlegelmilch, Marianne $15.95 Four years after losing her new husband in a plane crash in South America, Mara Edwards sets sail for a new life in Alaska. Aboard a northbound ferry, a peculiar run-in with an old man signals that her troubles are not yet over when he hands her a feather and utters these prophetic words: Your present is the future of your past. You will need this to protect your future from your past. All who come here seek the future of their past. As her life becomes unexpectedly entwined with the members of a loving family, a loyal stranger and a wolf-dog named Thor, the new beginning Mara seeks unfolds with all the intensity that crime, passion, loyalty, friendship, love, betrayal, and adventure can provide. In the beauty of pristine Alaska, after four long years of grieving, she learns if she can ever truly be released from her past. Fevering for Gold Click Picture of Cover for Larger View De Vries, Doug $12.00 When Sven Olafsen reads an advertisement about gold in the sand of beaches in Nome, Alaska, he desires to go there and seek his fortune. When his sister Frieda asks to go to Nome as a housekeeper and nursemaid, Sven's dream comes true. Mama reluctantly allows them to go. Share Sven's adventures in the boom city of Nome in 1900 when an estimated 20,000 people arrived to extract gold from sand, and no prospector's claim was safe from claim jumpers. Fish, Oil, and Follies Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Flagg, Loren $17.95 In this spell-bounding memoir fisheries biologist, Loren Flagg, recounts his journey from early Baystate upbringings to the Florida Everglades to Alaska's Cook Inlet and Kenai River. The path along the way is filled with hilarious tales as he and his fellow biologists tangle with logistics, plights and perils encountered in the world of fisheries biology. In the Everglades River of Grass Flagg dodges alligators, poisonous snakes, and a charging wild boar while attempting to conduct his work. Alaska beckons and soon Loren is fully engaged in the fish wars and oil battles of Cook Inlet. Kachemak Bay, the "Richest Bay in the World," is sold out to oil companies and Flagg plays a key role in Alaska's effort to "buy-back" the leases. When the Exxon Valdez goes on the rocks in Prince William Sound, he is called upon by the Kenai Peninsula Borough to head up the response team for the Cook Inlet area. Following retirement Loren becomes a sport fishing guide on the world famous Kenai River where, in pursuit of giant king salmon, he is witness to more humorous and exciting events. Flash Point Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lisenby, Misty $15.95 Faced with unimaginable tragedies, Elizabeth Martin uses all her strength and courage to overcome these unfortunate events. Flash Point begins with her grandparents, Millie and Joe Martin, two young, energetic adults with traditional family values, as they begin life together and establish their family. Joe and Millie's son, Jacob, survives Vietnam, meets the woman of his dreams, and moves to Alaska with two daughters, Mina and Elizabeth. It is those strong, traditional values, instilled within her family, which allows Elizabeth to prevail and develop her own hidden spirit. Discovering her hidden spirit brought Elizabeth to a strange and awkward position, face to face with the law. Flying By The Seat of Your Pants Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Whisenhant, Elizabeth $17.95 Flying by the Seat of Your Pants, with a mixture of flying and skiing, is full of sailing, teaching, coaching, family, church, community, state, and international affairs punctuated with hilarious car exploits, funny practical jokes, and hitchhiking the Alcan Highway. It highlights the life of a man who overcame great obstacles that shaped and molded him to become a wise counselor, well-informed Bible teacher, spiritual and secular leader with endless ideas and energized ingenuity—a man of integrity. Always adventurous, 20-year-old, Jim Whisenhant landed in Fairbanks Alaska with five dollars in his pocket and a dream. What he lacked in money, he excelled in dedication and concern for others. Flying by the Seat of Your Pants is about an Alaskan who left his mark with his name posted on ski trails and written in the heart and soul of those he met. Flying by the Seat of Your Pants takes the reader from Jim's humble beginning, through his youth and college years, his career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, his family and business life, and to his high school ski coaching achievements—even the time he out-waxed the US Ski Team. Forgiving Rose Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Mc Cart, Dick & Janet $14.95 The many-faceted nature of friendship among a group of "forty-something" women is revealed in all its glory and tackiness when the one who struck it rich drowns in her hot tub in Anchorage, Alaska. Forgiving Rose is a novel of mystery, friendship, and romance. Surprising circumstance surrounding the death of a manipulative but endearing friend brings seven women back to Alaska for her funeral, and a most uncommon wake. As old friends reunite, gossip, and relive old times, they find each of them has mixed feelings about their deceased friend, Rose. Details about Rose's hot tub death are revealed as these women connect with the deceased's boyfriend, ex-husband, and stepson. Friendships are tested as ironies unfold, unlikely romances strike -- and extravagant surprises await them. When longtime friends hold a wake for Rose, they find that remembering her is easy, but forgiving Rose takes almost more than they can give. From Dog Sled to Float Planes Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Persons, Jean $16.95 From Dog Sleds to Float Planes is a reflection of those pioneering doctors we read about in history books of the Old West. But, in this case only decades ago when Alaska was still in transition from indigenous cultural ways to modern technology, we find Jean Person, M.D.. It's Alaskan Adventures in Medicine. For What He Could Become Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Misko, Jim $16.95 The story is about Bill Williams, half Irish, half Athabaskan Indian who leaves his native village after a disastrous bear hunt, works on a Yukon Riverboat, searches for gold, helps build the AlCan Highway and goes to war in 1942. Surviving the Battle of the Bulge, he returns to find the village sterile, his girlfriend married to his brother, and the lifestyle not conducive to one who has fought a war through Belgium and Germany. He moves to Anchorage where, after a series of mishaps, he becomes a derelict, suffers alcoholism, unemployment, and homelessness. The untimely death of his dominating brother causes the widow, a woman he has waited for all his life, to give him a second big chance at love, life, and happiness, and shoves him into the Last Great Race on Earth, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Fulltiming Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Grant, Walter $14.95 Fulltiming, based on real places and real events while fulltiming for 12 years, is the story of a cat living in a recreational vehicle with her (human) parents. Honeybee tells the story from her perspective as she travels the highways and bi-ways of America. Curiosity lands Honeybee in many awkward and often life threatening situations. Honeybee takes you from "kittenhood" to a glimpse of the hereafter; from the bold and daring of her youth to the autumn years when watching life pass by her window and reminiscing is enough. Dreams, visions perhaps, of the ancient past haunt Honeybee for the greater part of her life; near the end dreams and reality are often indistinguishable.