Book review: The now-classic tale "Johnny's Girl" tells Kim Rich's childhood growing up in the underworld of Anchorage in the 1960s and '70s. "A Normal Life" picks up where that book left off.
Review: Bill McKibben’s novel celebrates free spirits, small-town friendliness, local commerce, radio, and winter.
Book review: Sherman Alexie calls Mailhot “the metaphorical love child of Emily Dickinson and Crazy Horse.” The New York Times has called the book a “sledgehammer.” Both are appropriate descriptors.
Book Review: In "Deadly Solution," Keenan Powell's first book, an Anchorage attorney with a troubled past investigates a murder.
Book review: Juli Berwald, the author of "Spineless," is an ocean scientist who left her job to be a science writer and to follow a private enthusiasm for all things jellyfish.
Book review: The patriarch of the Kilcher clan and father of Jewel recounts a hard upbringing on a homestead in Homer.
Book review: These two memoirs, together or apart, are songs to the value of wilderness, the attachments of family and the power of adventurous living.
Book review: Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan's book contains fascinating history about the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm corridor.
ADN book reviewers David James and Nancy Lord have looked through their libraries for their most memorable finds of the last year.
Meagan Macvie’s debut novel for young adults is about Meri Miller, a 17-year-old Soldotna girl who can’t wait to get out of town and start her life.
The volume contains 12 exceptionally fine short stories and selections from 33 poets, along with a special feature of photographs and short narratives related to contemporary art from Papua New Guinea.
Excerpt from novel "pH": The numbers of birds today were mere fractions of what he’d observed in the 1970s. Especially murres. They used to be as thick as flies.
