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Before I let go

Returning to her small Alaska home town after her bipolar best friend's death, Corey uncovers chilling secrets about the townspeople and their treatment of Kyra prior to her drowning.
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My name is not easy

Luke knows his I??upiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students--Eskimo, Indian, White--line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking I??upiaq--or any native language--is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of nature, is ready to slap down those who disobey.
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Welcome to the goddamn ice cube

chasing fear and finding home in the Great White North
2016
When Blair Braverman was eighteen, she moved to artic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, but found work as a tour guide in a glacier in Alaska, determined to carve out life as a "tough girl" on the brink of adulthood.
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Not if I save you first

2018
Maddie and Logan were torn apart by a kidnapping attempt when they were young. They were only kids; Logan's dad was POTUS and Maddie's father was the Secret Service agent meant to guard him. The kidnappers were stopped; but Maddie was whisked off to Alaska with her father, for safety. Maddie and Logan had been inseparable, but then she never heard from him again.
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How raven got his crooked nose

an Alaskan Dena'ina fable
2018
"Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way"--Provided by publisher.
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The bravest dog ever

the true story of Balto
Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.
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Balto and the race against time

Follow the dogs Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia and Titch as they are transported back in time to 1925 Alaska, now as puppies, and must help Balto complete his mission: deliver medicine during the diphtheria outbreak.
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North to the future

the Alaska story, 1959-2009
Looks at the history of Alaska from 1959 when it became the forty-ninth state through 2009.
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Prince William

On Prince William Sound in Alaska, Denny rescues a baby seal hurt by an oil spill and watches it recover at a nearby animal hospital.
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Submerged

Bailey Craig is forced to return to Yancey, Alaska, for a funeral of a loved one and has to face Cole McKenna, the rescue diver whose heart she broke, but when a murderer may be threatening the two must work together to stop him.
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