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Published Jul 2021
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by Andrew Krivak
Published Sep 2017
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by Elizabeth Church
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsIn the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.
by Brian Payton
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThe Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife - separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil - fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands.
by Eowyn Ivey
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsAlaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
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