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How Do You Say Goodbye to an Elephant?

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By Dianne Barske (Publication Consultants, $14.95)

The blurb: "Should an elephant be here in Alaska's cold climate? She became the source of much caring and concern. Once it was decided that she should be with other elephants in a California animal sanctuary, the community gathered 'round to say goodbye."

Excerpt: "Ironically, Maggie had been brought north as a baby elephant to the Alaska Zoo to provide companionship for another elephant, Annabelle, the Alaska Zoo's 'matriarch.' Many animal experts had pointed out that elephants are herd elephants, best not alone and best in a warmer climate. When Annabelle died in 1997, Maggie was left alone."

Blood on the Tundra

By Rick Rydell (It Happens Publishing, $14.95)

The blurb: "There are life-and-death moments as Alaska tests your fortitude, and awesome triumphs followed by total failures. Moments of utter hilarity followed by instances of sheer terror. Moments of outdoors stupidity followed by flashes of near brilliance. It is Alaska hunting and fishing as raw and unpredictable as the Last Frontier really was as we readied to enter the 21st century."

Excerpt: "The cubs got curious, the sow got agitated. He felt the ground shake, figuring it would be a bluff charge. It wasn't. She bit down on his gun. He got it away as he'd been taken down to the ground. She was dragging him by the foot through the woods. He aimed the gun at her and thought, 'Don't shoot your own foot!' raised the barrel of the 454 Casull and squeezed the trigger. He hit her once. She fell back, gurgled then got up and began to circle. Just as things were getting tense, the cylinder of the gun was jammed and wouldn't rotate."

Revelation Love Is the Edification Concerning Spiritual Love in This Changing World

By Dr. Robert D. Smith, D.D. (Dorrance Publishing Co., $8)

The blurb: "We must continue to manifest genuine Revelation Love in this growing humanist, superstitious, polytheistic society. As Christianity and Christians go forward and continue to carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ and magnify his love and wisdom, that genuine love will influence and determine the morale and values of our lifestyle and activities of mankind." The author is an Anchorage resident.

Excerpt: "I believe I have some suggestions that will teach us how to obtain love, how to appropriate it in Christ and how to make it our own. This will teach us how to walk in love so our conduct will be Jesus-like. If we could learn how to walk in love and make it the business of our lives, we would solve many problems of the human relationship we thought were impossible."

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