The Alaska Literary Series - Poetry

“There are only a handful of people on this planet who could write a book like this one. X̱'unei Lance Twitchell’s is a voice of healing, one that shows us what is possible, one that provides for the next generation

Ice to Water is a raw portrayal of survival, loss and love, and the hidden complexities experienced by those whose lives are profoundly transformed by climatic changes

Enjoy this children’s book about how giant humpback whales are connected to little herring in the sea. This hardcover book was written by Alaskan author, Linda Buckley, and illustrated by Robbin K. Robbins.

From a remote village perched on Arctic permafrost to the Badlands of South Dakota, searching for answers about his brother sets Arliss Cutter on an icy trail of murder and madness into the darkest heart of the Alaskan wilderness. New York Times bestselli

Mike Rostron Fjord Land - Rostron, M E

The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, there near the end of the gold rush. Buffal

Shgagwéi, as it was first called centuries before by the Tlingit for the “bunched up water” in its baycaused by strong winds, was “discovered” in 1887 by a father and son with visions of a gateway port to the riches of the Yukon and Alaska. Ten years lat

Longlisted for the National Book Award, this well-reviewed 2022 collection of Alaskan short stories was mostly written by the author at Alderworks Alaska Writers and Artists Retreat in nearby Dyea.

For over three quarters of a century Carl Mulvihill has been riding trains, taking photographs, and documenting the growth and changes of the White Pass & Yukon Route in Skagway. From the authority on WP&YR history, here's a railroader's dream volume.

Judged Alaska’s best sports and outdoors columnist for the past decade, Skagway, Alaska writer Andrew Cremata has collected his "Fish This!" stories into one entertaining volume. More than a compilation of fishing stories, Fish This! An Alaskan Story tel

All politics is local so it’s said. All local politics is hard, but as Heather Lende shows us in of Bears and Ballots, nothing worth doing is supposed to be easy. Her fights and conflagrations as a member of the Haines, Alaska Borough Assembly are a pe

Varios 1time sales The Caribou Hotel - Firth, John

For more than a thousand years, the Chilkat and Chilkoot Tlingit controlled a 2.4 million acre homeland called Jilkaat Aani at the terminus of North America’s largest fjord. Seated at the confluence of glaciers, vertical mountains, forested valleys, and I

Ghostly footsteps and flickering lights, a silhouette in the window of an abandoned building, a restless presence at the scene of a sunken ship, spectral wails and poltergeist theft of office supplies, mythical Native American legends, and other paranorma

Skagway author Candace Cahill lost her son. Twice. The first time to adoption and the second not long after reuniting with him. An intimate view of child relinquishment and loss, the definition of motherhood, and how to things can be true at one time.

YA - Natural disasters an a breakdown of society have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and sister Jess must cross hundreds of mile in search of civilization.

In this traditional Tsimshian story by one of the 'Mollie in Denali' writers, a young man who is teased by his brothers for being lazy and dirty trains secretly with a spirit and gains superhuman strength.

In this long-awaited second volume of an Alaskan classic that first appeared in the mid-1990s, readers will glimpse the activities of a small town Alaska police department as chronicled by SPD officer Dave Sexton. The blotter chapters are separated with

Pierre Berton's classic book about the storied Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. Exhaustively researched by the noted Canadian journalist who grew up in Dawson City hearing the true stories from the sourdoughs.

Henry Stillwater was once a big shot in the world of finance, until he went to prison. Now he is out and has been given a ticket north to a new life on the edge of the wilderness in the tiny old gold rush settlement of Dyea (pronounced Di-eee) near Skagw

In this history of life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal.
The spirit of Alaska in the old days — impetuous, free-wheeling, and bounty-blessed — lived on in the neve

"A Thousand Trails Home is a book of supernal majesty, a book to break and restore your heart. Seth Kantner’s devotion to the living pulse and unity of the skein of wonder that is the Alaskan wilderness haunts and inspires me." -- Louise Erdrich, author o

Five classics from the Bard of the North: "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," "The Law of the Yukon," "The Cremation of Sam McGee," "The Spell of the Yukon," and "The Song of the Wage-Slave"

Todd Communications A Wolf Called Romeo