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2012
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart - he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, 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. This little girl,...
2) Homestead
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"From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award Winner Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders. Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150...
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In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
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©2011
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192 pages ; 23 cm
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Can a middle-aged urban dwelling man survive on his own in the Alaska Wilderness? Denny Caraway is going to find out. Casting off city life that has becoming completely unsatisifying-that is killing his spirit-he journeys north to become a homesteader in the Alaska bush.
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