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books set in AK

Jul

16

2021

5

remarks

How I Saved a Bookstore and a Bookstore Saved Me

Amy Kane, who owns the bookstore in Haines, the tiny Alaska town where I live, tells everyone that my books, especially the most recent one, Of Bears and Ballots, published June 30, 2020, saved her business during the pandemic, but really, The Bookstore saved me. “Bottom line is without that book we wouldn’t be here,” …

Dec

24

2020

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Set in Alaska in the 1920s, a husband and wife are drifting apart. Unable to have their own child, they create one out of snow one night, and it changes their whole lives. This novel is full of rich imagery and wonderful characters. Eowyn Ivey has written a beautiful fairy tale that really reaches out …

Oct

12

2020

The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler

Welcome to Moose Springs, Alaska, where locals are grumpy, the tourists are sometimes overly touristy, and the moose love to cause mischief. I’m not ashamed to admit I stayed up way too late reading every page… Perfect for anyone who needs a little rom-com to lift their spirits.” –Melissa, Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, WA This …

May

21

2019

It Happened Like This book cover

From Shelf Awareness: Women and Wildness: Forging New Paths in Alaska

Originally published in Shelf Awareness for Readers April 5, 2019 Among explorers, hunters and fishermen, Alaska was long known perceived as a man’s world. Women have often had to fight for the chance to love this harsh, beautiful land and prove they can handle its challenges. Sophie Forrester, military wife and aspiring photographer, is initially …

Aug

31

2018

National Book Festival badge 2018

National Book Festival Saturday, September 1, 2018

The Library of Congress National Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together best-selling authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings and other activities. Over its long history, the National Book Festival has become one of the pre-eminent literary events in the United States. Attendees can interact …

Jun

15

2018

James Crossley

Books Gave Us Gravity: A Postcard from the Edge

Non-fiction for the cold, hard facts, fiction for flights of fancy. One grounds you while the other sets you spinning. Most of the time, maybe, but my experience this week perfectly inverts that paradigm. I’ve been reading a brand-new book from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris, who is best known as the filmmaker behind such projects …

Feb

22

2018

Smell of Other People's Houses

Alaska-set Fiction: Two Staff Favorites
from Eagle Harbor Books

The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock This profound young adult novel, written by a fourth-generation Alaskan, examines the 70’s-era culture of so many small towns in that part of the world, where domestic violence, alcoholism, child abuse and poverty are still the highest in the nation. The story is told in alternating …

Nov

7

2017

1

remark

Straight Outta Soldotna: Debut Novelist Meagan Macvie

When I met Meagan Macvie, during the first minutes of our three-year MFA program, she was buried in a book, occasionally peeking up through her glasses to observe us all getting to know each other. An introverted bookworm, I thought, and I was right about the bookworm part. Just check out her answer below when …

Jan

13

2017

Eowyn Ivey

Another Reason to Love Indie Bookstores: An Essay by 2017 PNBA Award Winner, Eowyn Ivey

When my first novel, The Snow Child, was published, people often asked me if I had done a lot of research during the writing process. In truth, I hadn’t. I discovered several retellings of the Russian Snegurotchka fairy tale, and at one point I interviewed an elderly man who had grown up in Alaska and …

Oct

13

2016

The Quality of Silence

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

English astrophysicist Yasmin and her deaf 10-year old daughter Ruby arrive in Anchorage to join their wildlife filmmaker husband/father who has being staying in a tiny Inupiat village in the far north. At the airport they are met not by Matt but by the police, who inform Yasmin there’s been a tragic accident and everyone …

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