Imagine a place where people know each other by the color of their parkas, where dogs are citizens, and where a handshake is as good as currency. Imagine a time when the wild went on forever, and the only link to the outside was a brave pilot with a shy smile. Imagine a world blanketed in snow and warmed by peopleÃ¢Â€Â¦ In the season of the long dark, fending off the isolation and cold of winter near the top of the world, it is the small town that can save Alaskans from themselves. The romantic image of the hardy loner braving the wilderness dominates popular thinking about life in the north, but the little towns of Alaska ar the last great secret of the Last Frontier. True Alaska living is found in small villages of scruffy cabins and odd characters, presented here as the ficitional town of Kahiltna. In this classic of Alaska fiction, the array of mushers and pilots, cheechakos and sourdougs who call Kahiltna home are exuberantly true to life, from the hilarious to the horrible.

The Long Dark: An Alaska Winter's Tale

Literature & Fiction

Slim Randles

Humor & Satire

McRoy and Blackburn, Publishers

It seemed a fine project for a woman with an incurable itch to write: research the background of a couple of victims of accidents and one suicide, create a fictional set of connections among them, generate a homicidal villain, and thus produce a book. And so Heather Adams set out to write her mystery novel, but somehow the world wouldn't cooperate. There was her irrepressible grandson Andrew, always capable of providing distraction. There was her dutiful son Rowe, always ready to help even if she wanted none; there were her own cantankerous parents, demanding help from her even though they lived a continent's width away. There were visiting college chums; there was the fifty-below weather of a Fairbanks winter. Everything seemed to conspire against Heather's completing her book project-including the circle of writing friends who had inspired her to tackle it in the first place. Slowly, Heather began to fear that her fiction was becoming far too real for comfort-or for safety. If an actual murderer did lurk out there, the would-be author was right on track for becoming the next victim.

Alaskans Die Young

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Susan Hudson Johnson

Mystery

<p>Memories have a way of coming back, drowning the present with the ghosts of the past. Out of Alaska's little-known lake country comes this darkly elegant tale that is part romance, part mystery, even part ghost story: the red mitten leaves its unique mark on many people. Chief among them is Katie Gibson, a dream-haunted young woman scarred within and without by the events that led to her self-exile from her childhood home in western Alaska. Returning now as an adult to the harshly beautiful shores of Lake Ilmenof, she must confront the memories--and the reality--of the two brothers who were her friends and lovers, the father who seemed to turn away from her and her mother just when he was most needed, the friends who peopled her life at the lake, and the tragedy that brought that life to a halt. It is only by uncovering the truths underlying that tragedy that Katie can once again begin to live fully, and to move toward love.</p>

The Red Mitten

Sarah Birdsall

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