Nancy Lord

Book review: Written by Connie and Bud Helmericks, self-described “explorers” of Alaska’s Arctic regions, “We Live in the Arctic,” “Our Summer with the Eskimos” and “Our Alaskan Winter” have been newly reissued.

Review: AQR seeks the best, most innovative and imaginative writing from anywhere, and it’s always a pleasure to find Alaskans in the mix.

Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the works they found most enduring and meaningful.

In the eighth book of the series, an imprisoned Younger can only narrate the part of the story that takes place beyond the walls as his teen daughter acts as her own Nancy Drew.

Book review: Amy Butcher’s memoir details the trauma of her own life and how being with trucker Joy Wiebe for a few days on the Dalton Highway rescued her from her fears.

“The Book of Timothy” opens with a 2002 phone call from author Joan Nockels Wilson’s brother in Chicago, where they two had grown up. The story of clergy abuse in Boston had just hit the news, and, upset, Tim told his sister in Anchorage: “It happened to me.”

Book review: “Alaska Women Speak” is an eclectic gathering of work worthy of the term “amateur” in the very best sense — drawn from the word’s root of lover, enthusiastic admirer, devotee.

Book review: Tabitha Gregory served as director of the Valdez Museum. She wondered why there was next to nothing to tell the story of how the entire town was moved and set out to recover the story.

Book review: This book examines the impact of the two-month cruise, during which a group of scientists, artists, and nature writers gathered over 100 trunks of specimens and took 5,000 photographs.

Book review: Matt Caprioli’s depictions of poverty-level Alaska counterbalance the usual tropes of Alaska as a sublime wilderness.

Book review: Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell is an original, a poet for our times as well as our place.

We find ourselves recalling how much Dave Roberts influenced our decisions to take our own adventures and writing lives to Alaska.

Book review: Beautifully written and deeply introspective, “A Thousand Trails Home” may be the book Kantner has been aiming his powers at all along, a masterwork only he could deliver.

Book review: Kale Williams, a science and environment reporter for The Oregonian, began his polar bear journey in 2016 when a young polar bear cub named Nora arrived at the Portland zoo and became an instant celebrity.

Book review: Following the route Eric Sevareid detailed decades earlier, the duo battled treacherous conditions and sometimes each other — and even took in a stray dog.