Best Alaska books of 2010

By Debbie S. Miller, illustrated by Jon Van Zyle (University of Alaska Press, $9.95)

Children’s book

'Something Fishy This Way Comes’

By Ray Troll (Sasquatch Books, $19.95)

Art for grown-ups

'Once Upon a Knight’

By Jackie Ivie (Zebra Books, $5.99)

Historical romance set in Scotland

'Night Too Dark’

By Dana Stabenow (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $24.99)

The latest Kate Shugak mystery

'Finding Alaska: The Life and Art

of Shannon Cartwright’

By Shannon Cartwright (Greatland Graphics, $19.95)

Art/autobiography

'Take Good Care of the Garden

and the Dogs’

By Heather Lende (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $22.95)

Essays from Haines

“The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History”

By Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass (University of Washington Press, $50)

History/art

'Last Letters From Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW’

By Mary Breu (Alaska Northwest Books, $16.95)

History

'Walking Home: A Traveler in the

Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey Into the Human Heart’

By Lynn Schooler (Bloomsbury, $25)

Wilderness essays

'Descent’

By John Haines (CavanKerry Press, $24)

Memoir/Literary analysis

'The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife’

By Joan Kane (North Shore Press, $19)

Poetry

'Legend of a Suicide’

By David Vann (Harper Perennial, $13.99)

Fiction

(From the list published in the Daily News

Holiday Gift Guide on Nov. 25)

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