Explore the eastern most reaches of the Russian wilderness and join in the hunt for the world’s largest (and possibly rarest) owl species, the Blakiston’s fish owl. These massive birds inhabit only the wildest places, feasting on salmon and trading eerie calls across the snow-covered landscape. Slaght makes you feel like you’re part of the …
As a lifelong insomniac I am perpetually in search of anything that will help me drift off in a timely manner. This surprisingly soporific collection of cozy vignettes fits the bill perfectly. Full of richly written moments in which to lose yourself and interspersed with recipes and meditations, this book is like a collection of …
We recently honored Alaskan author/bookseller Eowyn Ivey with a 2013 PNBA Award for her novel The Snow Child. Thanks to Ivey for sharing this essay with us in celebration of the award (See posts from Jonathan Evison and G. Willow Wilson and look for essays from the other three winners in the coming weeks). Palmer, Alaska readers are invited …
“I read this as slowly as possible over the course of a year, and when I finished it, started right back at the beginning.”—Ruth, Fireside Books, Palmer, AK. Buy Pilgrim at Tinker Creek from Fireside Books.
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 …
Thanks to three Alaska bookstores, a Federal District Court in Anchorage has ruled to protect free speech, halting enforcement of a broad statute that would have made anyone who operates a website criminally liable for posting, selling, or loaning material that’s “harmful to minors.” The bookstore plaintiffs were Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, and Title Wave Books …
“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 …
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, …
