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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Buck is a canine hero who faces adventures in a turn of the century Alaskan mining town and the surrounding area of Forty-Mile. Buck spends his time with his human friends Miles, and Miles' friends John and Adoley Thornton. Miles is a 15-year-old boy whose life will be forever changed after he encounters the heroic and powerful Buck.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A quirky, black comedy about Paul Barnell, a nearly bankrupt Alaskan travel agent whose wife, Margaret, is on the brink of insanity. When he finds a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office, Paul thinks this is answer to his financial problems. He tries to pass the body off as his long-lost brother to collect on the insurance money. Not only does he have to worry about an unrelenting investigator and two aspiring hit men are also after him, his...
3) Ice quake
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a massive crack in the earth's crust brought on by a horrible earthquake causes deadly gas to erupt from deep within the earth's core, it is up to a geologist and his family to save the world by stopping the crack from spreading and the gas from getting into a nearby cave system that would destroy the planet.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Storm and sorrow: "The true story of one woman's (Lori Singer) journey from inexperienced climber to respected team member on the mountaintops of Russia. Co-starring Marcia Cross."--Container.
Legend of the Ruby Silver: "A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. But when the mine doesn't produce as they expected, its dangers become more and more real."--Container.
Escape from Alaska: "A faulty pipeline threatens to bury the city...
Author
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
6) The Grey
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a group of oil drillers are led across the icy terrain by their company marksman while they are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves.
7) The proposal
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
Author
Language
English
Description
Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The plight of the NY-bred Joel Fleischman, a medical intern forced to repay his scholarship by serving for four years as a doctor in the remote town of Cicely, Alaska, a tiny village filled with odd inhabitants and even stranger happenings. This title has been Repackaged.
13) The spoilers
Series
Pub. Date
2004, c1942
Language
English
Description
Two adventurers in the Yukon quarrel over land rights and the town's sexiest saloon girl. Cherry Mallotte must choose between the honest captain and the charming-but-no-good kingpin.
15) North star
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nome, Alaska in 1889 teems with new riches, but not for Hudson Santeek. He's run up against an unwritten golden rule: mining boss Sean McLennon has the gold--and he makes the rules. McLennon falsely claims the rich lode Hudson vows to protect on Inuit land. The mining boss may have firepower, but Hudson's fighting savvy is as good as gold.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With a residency at a top hospital and a boyfriend she adores, Lauren appears to have her entire life figured out. But when she loses both her job and her beau on the same day, Lauren reluctantly accepts a residency position in Alaska. After slowly embracing her simple life up North, Lauren gets the position she originally hoped for and must choose between the life she always wanted and her new life in Alaska"--Container.
17) Sweet Virginia
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger sends shockwaves through a close-knit community in this nerve-jangling slice of raw suspense. In the wake of a triple murder that leaves the residents of a remote Alaskan outpost on edge, tightly wound drifter Elwood checks into a motel run by Sam, a former rodeo champion whose imposing physical presence conceals a troubled soul.
18) Mystery, Alaska
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.
19) The gold rush
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl....
20) Love Alaska
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It may not be the happiest of circumstances, but two childhood friends, Maggie and Finn, have come home and are reunited in Love, Alaska. While starting their lives again and dealing with their pasts, these two get a second chance at love.
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