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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Debut memoir by a new Alaskan writer. A true and inspiring story of family, service and life in Alaska.

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

In the tradition of Heather Lende and Seth Kantner, these dispatches from the Kuskokwin are insightful and funny and fully human. Dan Branch has written a heart-breaking book that is also filled with wit and wonder. A true joy to read. —Brian Castner, aut

The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores just what happens when a community's glaciers slowly disappear. Meticulously detailed, each chapter unfolds complex stories of people and glaciers along the southeastern coast of Iceland, exploring the history of glac

A woman running from her past must outwit the deadly assassins on her trail. "A gripping thriller" set in Alaska by one of the state's best known writers.

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

A personal story by award-winning Whitehorse, Yukon journalist-author Eva Holland about not only facing but conquering fears.
In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to confront her greatest fear when her mother had a stroke and suddenly passed away. After the s

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

Varios 1time sales The Caribou Hotel - Firth, John

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"