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SARAH
How a Hockey Mom
Turned Alaska's Political
Establishment Upside Down
by Kaylene Johnson
Sarah Palin, then 39, a hockey mom and former mayor of Wasilla, thought her dream of
making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over in 2004 when
she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican party and fell out of favor with
Gov. Frank Murkowski over issues related to ethics and openness in government.
Yet, the former high school basketball star and one-time TV journalist could not shake
the feeling that she was destined for something bigger. Two years later, she became a
long-shot candidate for governor, promising reform.
Then, fate intervened. Her populist message suddenly became front-page news when a major
political scandal rocked Alaska politics. Alaskans began listening to her. And they
liked what they heard.
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"Sarah Palin is a politician of eye-popping integrity." -- Fox News Network
"Wildly popular, she's more than just a pretty face." -- Alaska magazine
"There's an undeniable national buzz surrounding the first-term governor,
seen by many Republicans as a fresh, new face to represent the party's
future."-- Chicago Tribune
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SAVING FOR THE FUTURE
My Life & the Alaska Permanent Fund
by Dave Rose as told to Charles Wohlforth
From modest beginnings in Queens, New York, Dave Rose became the first director of the Alaska Permanent
Fund, the multi-billion-dollar savings account created by voters after discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay.
Rose's insider account, as told to award-winning journalist and author Charles Wohlforth, reveals the
inner workings of a unique institution that converts earnings from investment of oil wealth into annual
dividends for every Alaskans.
"This is the warm, funny, and inspiring story of Dave Rose, who followed the American Dream and was living proof
that smarts, courage, and integrity can be found in public service.” --Tony Knowles, Governor of Alaska, 1994-2002
"This fascinating book tells how Alaska, suddenly having oil riches beyond its imagination,
protected the money from free-spending politicians and shrewdly invested it in what became
a $40 billion fund paying annual dividends to its citizens.”
--John Strohmeyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska
April release
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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assn. Award winner
ALASKA BLUES
A Story of Freedom, Risk, and Living Your Dream
by Joe Upton
For seven months, Joe Upton steered his thirty-foot boat, the Doreen, through the open
channels and narrow, twisting passageways of Southeast Alaska, living the life of an itinerant
commercial fisherman far from home. This is his account of that season- the lonely hours at sea
as well as the close community of the fishing fleet; the sudden, violent storms and glorious
days of sun; the difficult, frenzied work and quiet moments of contemplation.
Alaska Blues is a powerful evocation of time and place-of a people and their way of life, and
haunting, beautiful shores that draw them back, season after season.
"A beautifully written book about commercial fishing in coastal waters. Joe Upton delivers
both the reality and romance of Southeast Alaska." -- David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars.
"One of the most unique sea sagas ever written…wonderfully awash in salt air and water." -- Ernest K. Gann,
author of The High and the Mighty
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2nd Edition
WILD CRITTERS
by Tim Jones & Tom Walker
A journalist-poet and one of Alaska's premier nature photographers have teamed up to
create a delightful book for children and adults combining whimsical verse in the tradition
of Ogden Nash with rare and heart-warming photographs of wild animals and birds with
their offspring.
Tom Walker's unforgettable images of the wild critters at "work"
and "play" and Tim Jones' witty verse will delight all who venture into these pages.
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Building the Alaska Log Home
Photos & text by Tom Walker
From discussion of tools and site selection to foundation work and bush cabin
etiquette, this book includes everything you need to build with logs. The detailed drawings and insightful
text in which the author explains every step clearly and concisely take you from standing timber to the
finished home.
"This book on traditional hand-hewn log construction has a warm, friendly text and 192 pages
of full-color photos of work at some amazing home sites." -- Washington Post
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2nd Edition
New epilogue
MOMENTS RIGHTLY PLACED
memoir by Ray Hudson
Along a thousand-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands, Unalaska is perched at the end of
the world, or, as some prefer to say, the beginning. In 1964, Ray Hudson, 22, landed in Unalaska
village with a brand-new college degree, eager to teach. The Aleuts had seen many outsiders who
had come but seldom stayed more than a year.
Yet Hudson was no short-timer. Captivated by Unalaska and the history and traditions of its enduring people,
he stayed. As the years passed-one, then five, ten, then twenty-he was embraced by his Aleut neighbors,
sharing their celebrations and tragedies, teaching their children, exploring their language,
and, much to their surprise, learning their delicate art of grass basketry. Ray Hudson's
intimate memoir weaves together landscape and language, storytelling and silence, ancient mythology
and day-to-day village life. Ultimately he pays homage to the people he came to teach, and who, in
the end, were his teachers.
"One of Alaska's 67 best books"-Alaska Historical Society
June release
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2nd Edition
New epilogue
COLD
STARRY
NIGHT
Memoir by
Claire Fejes
In 1946, young Claire Fejes was a painter and sculptor in New York City. She held the unconventional
view that her career was as important as her husband's. But the custom was "whither thou goest, I will
go," so Claire went-to Fairbanks, last stop on the Alaska Railroad, in the heart of the immense
northern territory, where Joe Fejes intended to mine for gold.
In her refreshingly candid memoir, Fejes tells of a remote outpost where a hardy breed of Alaskans
overcomes loneliness and of her own soul-aching artistic and cultural isolation. She describes
characters such as Eva McGown, a one-woman social-service agency who wears powerful violet
perfume and speaks with a sweet Irish brogue; and Fabian Carey, a trapper who loves the
wilderness as fervently as he does opera, literature, and art. Like her vivid paintings, the
author portrays the men and women for whom survival and self-sufficiency are foremost in postwar Alaska.
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KAY FANNING'S
ALASKA STORY
Kay Fanning & Katherine Field Stephen
"Kay Fanning was the Joan of Arc of journalism."-Jay Hammond, former governor of Alaska
Kay Fanning, 38, an ex-debutante once called "the Grace Kelly of Chicago," loads her
three children into a battered station wagon and heads north to Alaska in 1965 after
her divorce. She is looking for a new life. She finds it at the Anchorage Daily News,
a morning newspaper struggling against the powerful Anchorage Times, voice of the
establishment. She and her new husband buy the News, ignoring predictions that
the paper won't survive. Kay explains later: "Profit is not the purpose of the
press…the free, unfettered flow of ideas is," Public interest became the paper's specialty.
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As seen on PBS!
ONE MAN'S WILDERNESS
An Alaskan Odyssey
by Keith Richards from the journals & photographs of Richard Proenneke
Many have dreamed about living a self-reliant life in the wilderness. Richard Proenneke
lived his dreams. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the
land, recording a simple account of his day-to-day exploration and activities. "
"One Man's Wilderness is the best modern piece of prose about Alaska, the one that
gives the truest picture of what living in the bush today is like for the lone
individual."-Anchorage Daily News
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THE COASTAL
COMPANION
The Inside Passage
Cruise Guide
Joe Upton
Explore the dramatic Northwest coast and the Inside Passage, mile by mile, with veteran traveler
Joe Upton, author of the award-winning "Alaska Blues" and "Journeys Through the Inside Passage."
This is a rail-side guide keyed to a unique milemaker system for easier orientation among these complex
waterways. Included are stories, photographs, and an elaborate fold-out map that is the best available
to cruise ship passengers headed north.
The guide include information about birds, boats, fish and whales, ports, art, and other
features of the Inside Passage, B.C. waters, and Puget Sound.
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COLD CRIME
How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Shocking Cases
Tom Brennan
This is a riveting collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile
criminal investigations of the past 50 years. Step by step, the author guides
readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from confidential
case files shared by police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem,
crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.
Author Tom Brennan is an editor and columnist for a web-based newspaper in Anchorage.
He broke into journalism on the police beat.
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Other titles
from Tom Brennan:
MURDER AT 40 BELOW
MOOSE DROPPING
& OTHER CRIMES
AGAINST NATURE
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MURDER AT 40 BELOW
True Crime Stories
from Alaska
Tom Brennan
Murder at 40 Below is a collection of stories about ten of Alaska's most notorious murder cases
drawn from interviews with investigators, police files, eyewitness reports, and newspaper archives.
You will be shocked and fascinated by these accounts of failed dreams, schemes that turned
violent, greed, madness, and treachery.
Author Tom Brennan is an editor and columnist for the Anchorage Times who broke into
journalism on the police beat.
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HAUNTED ALASKA
Ghost Stories
from the Far North
Ron Wendt
They are watching us, these ghosts of the North.
They book breakfast, play cards, mine for gold, turn on radios, and play the piano.
A logger sees a ghostly Model T drive through his truck. The smell of tobacco
wafts through a room where no one is smoking
Haunted Alaska is a collection of ghost stories that will make the hair
rise on the back of your neck.
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BIRD GIRL &
THE MAN WHO
FOLLOWED THE SUN
"A wonderful read. Wallis's writing is simple yet rich . . . The story delivers a message of overcoming
hardship, of being true to yourself even when it is the most difficult thing to do."
-West Coast Review of Books
"Wallis's taut, visual prose brings vibrant new life to these ancient stories.
" -Booklist
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RAISING OURSELVES
A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
American Book Award, 2003 winner
"A brave and tender memoir about hope and survival…" -Homer (Alaska) News
"Velma tells a kick-ass story of growing up Gwich'in. If you want to know the truth about
being Indian in a white-dominated world, read this book."
-Duncan Sings-Along, author of SPRINTING BACKWARDS
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