Sheila Nickerson chooses to observe the world around her with all the attention she can bring to it, and to use as her guides some of the early explorers and naturalists she’s researched along the way.
Book review: “Hemlock Needle,” by Keenan Powell, is the second mystery novel in a series featuring recovering alcoholic and former public defender Maeve Malloy.
Journalist Mark Obmascik, best known for “The Big Year,” takes readers into the experience of the fierce three-week-long battle on Attu in May 1943, which resulted in the deaths of 3,000 Japanese and 529 Americans.
“You Are No Longer in Trouble” should be read not just by those who love language and poetry but widely by educators, parents, and anyone who works with young people in any capacity.
Book review: “This Much Country” by Kristin Knight Pace joins a strong run of books by adventurous Alaska women.
Who in her right mind would choose the kind of extreme adventuring that Anchorage resident Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Patrick Farrell endured? That thought is swept away by gratefulness that they did.
Alaska Quarterly Review continues to attract and publish excellent writing from all over.
A reader seeking a single book about the current state of our warming world should find “The End of Ice” an ideal summary.
The story about decades of efforts to find the wreck of the Kad’yak is rich in details and personalities, and will absorb anyone with a taste for adventure — especially those with an interest in Alaska’s early history.
The authors of “Ice" and “The Secret Lives of Glaciers” are keenly aware of and concerned about what today’s rapid melting will mean to our lives—physically, imaginatively and for our planetary health.
Leland Hale dug deep into police records, newspaper accounts and his own interviews to present a disturbing narrative about the murder of eight people aboard a fishing boat in 1982.
