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Nathan Active mysteries volume 4
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English
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Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center that killed eight people, including the town's basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from the village of Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
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English
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Private investigator Kate Shugak is determined to find the evidence to convict Louis Deem, who has been arrested and tried for serious crimes but never convicted. When a double homicide occurs after his latest acquittal, Kate investigates.
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 3
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English
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Blizzards, tundra, and bush pilots enliven this thrilling mystery starring Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active, who has been assigned to the remote Arctic town of Chukchi. Though born an Inupiat Eskimo, Active was raised in Anchorage by Caucasian parents and has little knowledge of his native culture. During the long months spent in Chukchi, he rallied against the icy weather and struggled to understand his two cultural identities, but he has realized...
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
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English
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An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo and "white man's" justice. Trooper Nathan Active, child of a fifteen-year-old unmarried Inupiat Eskimo girl, was given up for adoption and raised in Anchorage, where he graduated from the university. Now that he has been posted to his remote birth village, Chukchi, he longs to return to civilization. Before that happens, he is confronted with atypical suicides. Eskimos are notoriously at risk for self-slaughter,...
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
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English
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Nathan Active is regarded as 'half white' by Alaskans. He is a state trooper, adopted and raised in Anchorage, but now serving a tour of duty in Chukchi, the village of his birth, where he is called upon to investigate the murder of an Inupiat tribal leader. The victim was killed with an antique ivory and wood harpoon returned to the community by the Smithsonian, in accordance with the terms of the Indian Graves Act, just a few days earlier together...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
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English
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Cecil is hired to investigate the motive of a murder. The danger lies in the meaning of a Tlingit myth.
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 4
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English
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Cecil Younger is a man who takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe. And the universe is obliging him, with a joint phone call from his lawyer and his shrink, to convey a job offer from another client: all Cecil has to do is kill a man. Though common sense tells him murder just isn't a good career move, his finances tell him it can't hurt to meet his potential client. The decision will lead Cecil from a pathetic small-time murder to a decades-old...
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Avon
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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310 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Someone is systematically killing the top competitors in the Iditarod, Alaska's famous 1100-mile dogsled race. As the "mushers" thread their way along the trail, Sergeant Alex Jensen races to find the murderer.
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 2
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English
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Sitka defense investigator Cecil Younger takes the case of Louise Root, who wants Younger to break through corporate cover-ups and police apathy to find evidence against the man who raped her in an isolated mining camp
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
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English
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Private investigator Kate Shugak returns to her hometown to protect a Native American woman who is running for state senate, but when the staff researcher is killed, Kate must find out who wants the campaign to end before all their lives are put in danger.
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National parks mystery volume 2
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English
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In a remote corner of Alaska, Investigative Services Bureau agent Felicity Harland squares off against a mysterious cult leader with potentially deadly motives when she joins with her partner, Hux, to investigate the deaths of a young couple in Gates of the Arctic National Park.
While enjoying a rare weekend off from her duties as an agent with the Investigative Services Branch, Felicity Harland learns that a young couple has turned up dead in Gates...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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English
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case. Working undercover as—of...
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Cold storage novels volume 1
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English
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In this gripping tale of survival, betrayal and murder set in the Pacific Northwest in 1935, Slip Wilson is just trying to find work, food and a little justice when he hooks up with a bottle-blonde, Ellie Hobbes, who drags him into her edgy, ragtag life. At the last minute, Ellie, a notorious red union organizer who faces mounting problems with anti-union forces, and her young niece hop aboard the same rickety boat Slip is escaping on that's traveling...
15) Submerged
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Alaskan courage volume 1
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English
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A sabotaged plane. Two dead deep-water divers. Yancey, Alaska was a quiet town...until the truth of what was hidden in the depths off the coast began to appear. Bailey Craig vowed never to set foot in Yancey again. She has a past, and a reputation -- and Yancey's a small town. She's returned to bury a loved one killed in the plane crash and is determined not to stay even an hour more than necessary. But then dark evidence emerges and Bailey's own...
16) The great alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the...
17) Northern lights
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Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Nate Burke, a Baltimore police detective, blamed himself for the death of his partner in a shootout, and the resulting anger and grief sent him into a depression so dark and deep he thought he would never climb back out. Then Nate decides to accept the position of police chief in the small town of Lunacy, Alaska, and it seems as if life is giving him one more chance. Things are certainly different in Lunacy, and Nate begins to enjoy his encounters...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 3
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English
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Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Shrill, confrontational, and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Fired from her defense team, Younger stays with the investigation. He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case -- Priscilla's sister, his lost...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When the body of a man shot gangland style is found in the wreckage of a mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness, Kate Shugak, as the investigation reaches to the highest levels of the government, is determined to find the truth, risking her life and the lives of those she loves most."--
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