The best books about Alaska

Global warming imagery has the earth bleeding co2 and consumed by God knows what. Wildfire and rising sea? War and famine? Pandemic now and pandemic from now on? Asphalt helped shape our environment in so many ways. Now, it might help destroy our environment in one simple way.

Filled with daring exploration and rich history, A Window to Heaven is a brilliant and spellbinding narrative of success against the odds.

But then a body turns up at the site of her last job -- murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She's got 24 hours to clear her name. If she can't unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that's on the brink of exploding.

Frightened, but refusing to give up, Poppy soon ends up in the most unusual witness protection program ever: she'll be temporarily staying with the lead detective's mother. Poppy starts feeling almost at home. She even makes sort-of friends with a girl named Lizzie, and happily befriends Gunner, a beautiful dog with an uncertain future. It's time for new plans now. Get Grandma Beth back home. Don't let the robber catch her. With Lizzie's help, save Gunner's life.

Infection follows groups of survivors that include men, women, and children who struggle to retain both their lives and their humanity in the face of what could be the end of the world at the cold, ruthless hands of the undead.

Instead, he finds Dan’s beautiful daughter, Neesa, who’s risking her life to find her father. Rath looks more like a narco than he does an agent, but he proves himself capable when she’s attacked. They follow Dan’s trail, and as their secrets come to light they are drawn deeper into mystery, danger, and a love neither could have imagined…

Carla Merino, a divorced cocktail waitress with a penchant for picking guys up in the bars where she works in Phoenix, AZ hooks up with the wrong guy: Cosmo D’Angelo, a former CIA gunslinger. In D’Angelo’s bedroom Carla discovers something that could bring down the country’s most powerful and dangerous military contracting company and destroy its founder’s plans to run for President of the United States. Knowing D’Angelo and his organization will stop at nothing to get that secret back, Carla flees and drives north until she runs out of road in the small coastal town of Homer, Alaska, a remote, quiet place more than four thousand miles away. But is it far enough? 

Carla Merino, a divorced cocktail waitress with a penchant for picking guys up in the bars where she works in Phoenix, AZ hooks up with the wrong guy: Cosmo D’Angelo, a former CIA gunslinger. In D’Angelo’s bedroom Carla discovers something that could bring down the country’s most powerful and dangerous military contracting company and destroy its founder’s plans to run for President of the United States. Knowing D’Angelo and his organization will stop at nothing to get that secret back, Carla flees and drives north until she runs out of road in the small coastal town of Homer, Alaska, a remote, quiet place more than four thousand miles away. But is it far enough? 

Lynn Van Swol still regrets the decision she made thirty years ago to place her daughter for adoption so she could be free to pursue her passion for mountain climbing. Frankie Rizzoni is the troubled granddaughter Lynn has never known. And Beth Mahoney is a minister’s wife, and the only one who knows the relationship between Lynn and Frankie. The problem is that she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and doesn’t have long to live. She designs a plan to bring them together, but now narrating from the afterlife, she witnesses its unraveling.

The Damnable Legacy is a story about both love and survival, exploring the importance of attachment, place, and faith, and asking how far we should go to achieve our goals—and at what cost.