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Off the Shelf: A quirky pandemic love story that hits close to home
Hafner portrays the toll forced isolation can take on the human psyche within the context of the COVID-19…
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Off the Shelf: Unfinished Hammond manuscript is biting origin story of Alaska Permanent Fund
When, in 2020, I considered moving to Alaska, there was no shortage of online forums, Reddit threads and…
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Off the Shelf: Small town girl weaves tales of home
Local memoir is an engaging window into what life on the central peninsula looked like in the second…
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Off the Shelf: A powerful record of Alaska Native advocacy
In “Fifty Miles From Tomorrow,” William L. Hensley divulges a lifetime worth of insight into both his childhood…
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Off the Shelf: Inhabited by winter
Juneau writer spins haunting tales of Alaska’s darkest season in 1998 short story collection
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Off the Shelf: Alaska rom-com is a not-so-guilty pleasure
From the start, the story has the same allure of a Hallmark Christmas movie
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Off the Shelf: Majestic landscape marred by narrow perspective
John Muir’s classic “Travels in Alaska” juxtaposes beauty with a writer’s disconcerting bias
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Off the Shelf: Haines obituary writer charms in slice-of-life collection
Heather Lende’s “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name” is as much about Lende as it is…
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Sharing about sharing the land
Local authors Christine Cunningham and Steve Meyer will discuss their book at upcoming KPC showcase
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Moose Pass to receive award for community historical effort
“People, Paths, and Places: The Frontier History of Moose Pass, Alaska” was a collaboration among community members
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Off the Shelf: Athabascan legend enchants, informs
The two women, shocked that they’ve been left behind by their family and friends, resolve that they will…
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Off the Shelf: ‘The bard of the Yukon’ lures with ghostly song
Jaunty tales and folksy rhymes bring the far north to life in Robert Service’s poetry
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Off the Shelf: ‘The Great Alone’ tells beautiful, tragic tale set on the Kenai Peninsula
Isolation, in all its forms, is a central theme of the book
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Off the Shelf: Kantner offers a slice of the Arctic way of life
Seth Kantner’s “Swallowed by the Great Land” shows a reverence for his community
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Off the Shelf: ‘Passion’ begets fulfillment in personal story by local author
When I talked to retired teacher and local author Charlie Stephens about his book, “Passion Over Pain,” in…
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Off the Shelf: Chris McCandless in a new light
I get a lot of podcast recommendations from my friends who work in public radio. Sometimes the recommendation…
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Off the Shelf: Take a walk on the wolf side
“The Wanderer: An Alaska Wolf’s Final Journey,” is the latest book from Alaska writer and photographer Tom Walker
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Taking a wider view
‘A Thousand Cabbages and other poems’ sweeps across time and distance in Mullen’s second outing
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Off the Shelf: Political resistance bound to the personal
“Binded,” a new poetry anthology by Alaska author, confronts nonbinary, rural existence
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Off the Shelf: A glimpse inside ‘One Man’s Wilderness’
Richard Proenneke first visited Twin Lakes, located in the park on the west side of Cook Inlet, in…