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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally,...
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English
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Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: she can cover any topic she wants but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author ... Digging deep into Finn's past, Carrie develops a theory on his whereabouts. It is the holidays, but her career is at stake, so she forsakes her family celebrations and flies out to...
4) Alaska home
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Series
Midnight sons volume 3
Language
English
Description
Features two novels and a bonus story that center around the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, and campaign to bring women to their small Alaska town inhabited mostly by men.
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"A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated...
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 15
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English
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Former homicide detective J.P. Beaumont may have cut himself loose from the Seattle police force, but that doesn't mean he's out of the game. As he accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, murder suddenly make waves when Beau finds himself the target of a gang of middle-aged divorcees, including a tempestuous lady named Margaret Featherman. When Featherman's fatal fall from the ship is caught by a security...
7) Down river
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English
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"In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away...Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that...
8) Open carry
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 1
Language
English
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“Camerons books are riveting page-turners.” Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Law enforcement veteran Marc Cameron brings an explosive authenticity to this powerful new U.S. Marshal series. Arliss Cutter is a hero for our times. And his hunt for justice cuts straight to the bone. . . . U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter is a born tracker. Raised in the Florida swamplands, he honed his skills in the military, fought in the Middle East,...
9) Stone cross
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cameron's books are riveting page-turners." -Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author. In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets . . . Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska-and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter...
10) Ordinary wolves
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Maxie and Stretch mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, investigate a murder that shatters the quiet in their hometown of Homer, Alaska.
12) The unpassing
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese immigrant family in rural Alaska is shattered by an outbreak of meningitis that ends the life of their daughter, leading the grieving father to commit a devastating fatal error that culminates in a profound revelation.
13) Alaska nights
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Series
Midnight sons volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Features two classic stories that center around the three O'Halloran brothers, who, running a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, campaign to bring women to their small Alaska town inhabited mostly by men.
14) Alaskan Holiday
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English
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"An uplifting Christmas tale, set in the Alaskan wilderness, about finding love where it's least expected--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who's one of America's most beloved storytellers. Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know...
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