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: The fusion of place-based writing and art is the sort of thing a small regional publisher like McRoy & Blackburn is perfectly suited for.
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: The story of Bering’s journey across Asia has been told elsewhere, but this is the first account for to cover it in depth for a general audience.
Book Review: In "Deadly Solution," Keenan Powell's first book, an Anchorage attorney with a troubled past investigates a murder.
Book review: Ken McGoogan, an Arctic historian, seeks with this book to lay out the entire story of efforts at finding the Northwest Passage in "Dead Reckoning."
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: This is an intensely personal book and one that will provoke intensely personal responses from its readers.
Book review: The patriarch of the Kilcher clan and father of Jewel recounts a hard upbringing on a homestead in Homer.
Book review: "Minik: the New York Eskimo" tells the forgotten tale of an orphan who was brought from Greenland to New York to be a "living exhibit" at the American Museum of Natural History.
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.
Ben Mezrich's nonfiction account of scientists trying to make a woolly mammoth from scratch gets bogged down in non-sequiturs.
Book review: Readers will be irresistibly drawn into what becomes a tale of humans struggling and sometimes cracking under extreme duress.
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.
Book review: Harper is famed for being the first person to summit of Denali. But Mary Ehrlander's biography demonstrates that the climb was but one part of a life few could equal.
Book review: Tracy Salcedo's "Historic Denali National Park and Preserve" wanders over the park’s landscape, bringing back stories of the people who explored it.
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.
Richard Montgomery's tale comes from a time when surviving in the Arctic required skills gained exploring. Cold, isolation and death were constant companions.
