alaska

"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else: Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--.

John Ottway has found the job at the end of the world, working as a hunter for an oil-camp on the North Slope of Alaska. It?s brutal, cold, and isolated, and there?s little he needs to do but wait for the day when he has the courage to end his life, as he plans to, some day, ?at a time to be determined.? But the plane that ferries him and the other camp workers between the Slope and civilization crashes in the tundra, leaving Ottway alone with a handful of terrified survivors to face a punishing landscape, wolves who see them as an invading pack, and, ultimately, the prospect of a death he didn?t choose in its most insistent, inexorable form. As he battles to save the lives of those with him, he looks into the darkness of an unforgiving nature and must weigh the abysses in himself and the wrongs he carries against what he leaves behind, and choose whether his own life is worth saving, or not.

Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative.

In Ken Waldman's TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH, there are poems of praise for people and places the poet has known, poems about the life of the musician and the places of traditional music in communities, poems of personal longing, and poems of prayer.

This is the first full volume of poetry published by Ken Waldman. These poems describe his residence in Nome, its frontier citizens, his role as a musician, schoolteacher, and poet, and the crises that nearly cost him his life.

Explores the history of Alaskan aviation, discussing small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States.

When detective Beaumont decides to go into semi-retirement, he starts by helping his grandmother on a cruise to Alaska. But an onboard murder forces him into a terrifying conspiracy that could destroy the future of the world they hope to return to.

Liam Campbell, an Alaskan State Trooper on at his last posting in Newenham, AK. He walks into a crime scene as he steps off the plane and must unravel the intricate web of intrigue.