Filter By Subjects
Alaska Description and travel Governors Alaska Biography Haines (Alaska) Biography Lende, Heather 1959- Natural history Alaska Presidential candidates United States Biography United States Politics and government 2001-2009 United States Politics and government 2009- Wilderness areas Alaska Women governors Alaska BiographyFilter By Subjects
Alaska Description and travel Governors Alaska Biography Haines (Alaska) Biography Lende, Heather 1959- Natural history Alaska Presidential candidates United States Biography United States Politics and government 2001-2009 United States Politics and government 2009- Wilderness areas Alaska Women governors Alaska BiographyRozell, Ned
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ROZWejchert, Michael
Summary: "The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 WEJKizzia, Tom.
Summary: Kizzia captures an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.805 HALE, ROBERT KIZKantner, Seth
Summary: "Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Fountain, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.2 FOUCoyne, Amanda.
Summary: The story of America's last frontier and oil province from the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, to its crossroads today after Governor Sarah Palin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 COYLende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 Lende 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENBerglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.73 BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BERHaines, John Meade
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1989
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Murphy, Brian
Summary: Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CRANE, LEON MURVan Hemert, Caroline
Summary: For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANLende, Heather
Contents: Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENDE, HEATHER LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem LendeKeith, Katherine
Summary: Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEITH, KATHERINE KEILende, Heather
Summary: "Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENDE, HEATHER LENNickerson, Sheila B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1996
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Young, Samuel Hall
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peregrine Smith Books 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 YOUMcGinniss, Joe.
Summary: Presents a study of the illusion and the reality of Sarah Palin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PALIN SARAH McGMooallem, Jon
Summary: The Good Friday, 1964, Anchorage, Alaska earthquake, and newscaster Genie Chance remaining on-air to broadcast events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 MOOFord, Corey
Summary: A splendid account of the final voyage of explorer Vitus Bering and of the life of naturalist Georg Steller (1709-1746), who accompanied Bering on the 1741 crossing into the uncharted North Pacific.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1966
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.798 FORJans, Nick
Summary: "No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 JANKent, Rockwell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.984 KENKrakauer, Jon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 KRAServid, Carolyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000