On the same day that Ann Patchett held the grand opening for her new bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, another Parnassus Books was celebrating its move from one location, across a creek, to another, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Owner Maggie Freitag says that the publicity from Patchett's store generated a fair amount of …
Big congrats to Debby Dahl Edwardson, whose new young adult book, My Name is Not Easy, was named as one of the finalists for a National Book Award today. Check out the trailer for her book < Winslips – Amazing Lottery Application! a title=”Edwardson trai The Dark Side Of Fat Loss ler” href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcsxHUgdymQ”>here. The Barrow, Alaska author …
Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win; her Mom named her after a character in The Lord of the Rings) Ivey came to Fireside Books about seven years ago after working as a reporter with the local newspaper for nine years. She’d had the realization that her heart wasn’t in journalism and that she wanted to work more closely with …
“Fireside Books has a new bestseller, and it’s a debut by Alaskan Don Rearden. . . The gist of the book – post apocalyptic Bush Alaska. A deadly epidemic sweeps through an Alaska village, and the main character has to strike out on his own to find help. Critics have compared it to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road …
“A story of a contemporary family living in the wilds of Alaska and their struggles reconciling the desire for a simple life and the many temptations of the modern world outside. Winner of a 2005 PNBA Award.”—The Bookloft, Enterprise, OR
Alaska author Heather Lende has a lump-in-the-throat of a Thanksgiving column about being grateful for her messy, loud, doghairy family that’s in the current issue of Woman’s Day. Lende is the author of indie favorites If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name and Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs. She also writes …
In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father’s suicide.—recommended by Mary Ann at Fireside Books in Palmer, …
“Let me start by saying that this is more—much more—than a cookbook. Yes, it’s filled with recipes—delicious, creative, and inspired ones to be sure—and this alone would be enough. They’re that good. It’s also a beautiful book that feels good in one’s hands, pleases one’s eyes. Full of pictures, stories, art work, and lore of …
Gulliver’s Books is the Northernmost indie bookstore in the United States and boasts not only the best selection of Alaskana books around but also the best mushroom soup, which sounds like it might just be worth the trip up the Alaska highway. The store offers a popular program in which anyone can exchange a gift …
