Book review: Tom Walker’s “Wild Shots” is an examination of a life that reveres other life, studies it in often uncomfortable circumstances, and achieves a blissful satisfaction with a realized image.
Book review: A beautifully arranged collection, with a stunning cover by Fairbanks artist David Mollett, gives fans a retrospective of Morgan’s early work while serving as an introduction to new readers.
Book review: “Warrior’s Creed” is the story of how elite Reconnaissance Marine and Air Force pararescuer Roger Sparks trained and served, backed with the philosophy that has guided his beliefs and actions.
Bill Streever, the Anchorage-based writer best known for “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” sets out to tackle “humanity’s presence beneath the waves.”
Book review: In this first novel by Chia Chia Lin, an immigrant Taiwanese family living near Anchorage in the 1980s confronts isolation and possibility.
Book review: Marin Sardy’s “The Edge of Every Day” should open a wide window into the reality of people coping with mental illness.
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.
