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21) Manhunt
Author
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Scott decides to leave her wearisome Wall Street job and condo to move into a rundown cabin in the woods. The only man she encounters is pilot Michael Casey who is determined to stay single.
22) Sunrise
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Description
A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-and that she'll accept his help when he does.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hoping to further her dream of becoming a serious journalist by tracking down a reclusive best-selling writer in the Alaskan wilds, gossip columnist Carrie Slayton discovers that her subject, Finn, is as mysterious as his reputation suggests before facing a difficult choice between her career and her heart.
Author
Series
Alaskan quest volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Pinkerton agent Helaina Beecham's obsession with capturing a dangerous fugitive dulls her judgment, she is kidnapped and carried off into the wilderness just as an early winter is approaching. Now her only hope is that Jacob Barringer--the man who has captured her heart--will find her before it is too late.
25) The snow child
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
26) Northern lights
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeking to rebuild his life, ex-Baltimore cop Nate Burke takes a job as Chief of Police in the tiny, remote Alaskan town of Lunacy, where he comes face to face with the independent Meg Galloway and an unsolved fifteen-year-old-crime.
27) Bad blood
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 20
Language
English
Description
One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim. When a second murder that looks suspiciously like payback occurs,...
28) Hold the dark
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When wolves begin attacking children in Keelut, Alaska, at the start of a particularly brutal winter, Russell Core arrives to investigate and must keep an abusive husband from finding his missing wife after beginning a grief-fueled rampage.
29) Killing grounds
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate Shugak is working with Old Sam aboard the fish tender Freya when Cal Meany floats up dead. His reputation as a womanizer, strike breaker, and abusive father ensures that there are several suspects. Ultimately, Kate finds herself in grave danger, as even her aunts join the list of suspects.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 11
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate joins the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fundraisers. But just as she's getting started the campaign is rocked by the murder of the staff researcher, who, Kate discovers, was in possession of some damning information...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. When a geologist disappears from the Suulutaq Mine was it deliberate, an accident, or foul play? Native Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But now Kate is among the missing herself.
32) Charon's Landing
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Paid millions of dollars by a rogue Arab oil minister to sabotage the Alaska pipeline, Russian mastermind Ivan Kerikov accidentally crosses paths with geologist Philip Mercer, who begins to unravel a tangled web of ecological and economic terrorism.
33) A night too dark
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed - suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...
Author
Series
Alaska homecoming volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Deep River, Alaska, Hope Dawson finds her ticket to freedom in the arrival of Silas Quinn, who has returned to tell the town that an oil reserve has been found, pitting neighbor against neighbor.
35) Diamond Willow
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
Author
Series
Alaskan diner mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After all - her love life has recently become a Love Life Crumble, and a chance to reconnect with her roots may be just what she needs. Determined to bring fresh life and flavors to the Bear Claw Diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu, which has grown stale over...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
38) Breakup
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
40) Though not dead
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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