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Born in Nome, Alaska, J. Holger Christensen, joins that exclusive fraternity of master mariners -- skilled seamen who are licensed to operate a vessel on any of the world's oceans regardless of tonnage. Raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington, he sails to distant lands as mariner and ship captain in World War II. Holger always returns to the North Pacific where he challenges the unforgiving waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. In this memoir, he tells remarkable, genuine sea stories in gripping detail. Above all else he loves the sea -- a passion acquired from his father, who left Denmark at age thirteen aboard one of the world's last full-rigged sailing ships.
Bering Sea villagers raid a foreign trawler fleet...a mysterious explosion rocks Juneau...a state ferry fires a bowling ball at a cruise ship...and a beautiful ex-newswoman takes off her clothes to defuse a tense standoff between state and federal troops.
The time is the not-too-distant future. The whole world is watching.
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The island of East Pukapuka lies in the path of a tsunami that will kill everyone but Butter, a girl more worried about the lives of the injured animals she cares for than her own. Butter is rescued by a Loggerhead Sea Turtle who carries her away on his back. As she and her exhausted savior begin to sink, the girl is plucked out of the sea by Jesus Dobby, the boozy owner of a salvage boat who is thrilled to have found a genuine "turtle-girl" hybrid....
Over his 30 years as a wildlife protection officer for the California Department of Fish and Game, Steve Callan conducted some of the most fascinating, complex and highly successful wildlife investigations in California history. He also collected a wealth of true stories – action-packed, suspenseful and often humorous. ...
Gold Dredge No. 8 is one of the most significant relics of mining history in Alaska. Today she sits in the Goldstream Valley just north of Fairbanks, where the giant floating mechanical monster once chewed up the ground in her path, removed the gold, and spit out rock tailings behind her as she floated across a pond that she took with her as she glided across the landscape. ...
Ever wonder why outhouses are marked with a crescent moon or how you survive a visit to an outhouse at 40 below? What do you do when you find yourself sharing an outhouse with a bear?
Nonprofit boards fulfill a vital function in governing organizations that contribute significantly to the health, welfare, education and other life-needs of communities ranging from remote hamlets to large cities. When a nonprofit is not properly functioning, everyone suffers. Walking the Board Walk is intended to help nonprofit board leadership and individuals develop boards in ways that will improve governance and make the experience more satisfying. Rather than a set of instructions about how to organize and manage a nonprofit board, Vaughn Sherman covers those areas that will turn around poor board performance and dissatisfaction....
Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports writer Dan Raley followed basketball standout Brandon Roy from Seattle's Garfield High School to the University of Washington, and then to the NBA.
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This delightful book and award-winning, 11-minute DVD video tells the Muzik family's true story of raising a wild, orphaned Canada goose on Coeur d'Alene Lake in Idaho....
STEPPING UP is the ultimate resource designed for caregivers to provide a rich knowledge base for future planning of compassionate caregiving. It integrates valid medical research, supplemented with personal stories to educate the reader on critical caregiving issues. Issues addressed include: recognizing declining health, caring effectively in the home, supervising care from a distance, understanding common diseases and conditions, services available toward the end-of-life, coping after death, essential legal documents, and online resources....
An enchanting story for young readers about how a mouse came to live in a Tlingit (Indian) clan house in Haines, Alaska and became part of the culture.
As an artist, Janet Bloch created successful strategies for her own career after she experienced the art world from the "gallery side," including seven years as the director at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. Bloch recognized that many artists did not know how to navigate the art world with positive results....
A losing labor strike, a union leader framed for murder, a ragpicker poet and collapsing city bridges, each competes for Sage Adair's attention as he sloughs through the Pacific Northwest rain and mud to find answers before someone else dies....
SNAP DECISIONS is an illustrated Alaska memoir of a raw but talented "street shooter" who chases ambulances in pursuit of sorrow and grief before maturing into a veteran photojournalist at the Anchorage Daily News, where he shares a Pulitzer Prize. In his three decades at the newspaper Jim Lavrakas covered the mighty and the meek in Alaska's biggest city and traveled across the state photographing an astonishing diversity of northern people, remote places, and wilderness lifestyles from the waning years of the oil boom to the rise of Sarah Palin....
This is the history of Alaska's last legacy airline, Alaska Airlines, which transformed from a single-aircraft bush operator in 1932 to a major U.S. carrier serving a present day network stretching from Barrow to Zihuatanejo and Boston to Honolulu. Character & Characters chronicles the unusual stories and colorful people behind this uncommonly independent airline. ...
It is 1972, and the Soviet Union has succeeded in planting a mole in the top echelons of the Central Intelligence Agency. Three years earlier, CIA officer Chris Holbeck took part in a failed mission to engineer the defection of a Soviet KGB officer who may know the mole's identity. His name is Sasha Plotkin. When they were both stationed in Stockholm, Sweden, Chris and Sasha connected on a personal level. Then, on the day of the Soviet agent's defection, Sasha was a no-show. Chris would soon discover the full extent of Sasha Plotkin's deceit. Now Sasha has resurfaced and wishes to make another attempt to defect. Despite the risk to his life and his marriage, Chris answers the call of duty. If Chris succeeds in transporting Sasha to the United States, will the Soviet agent reveal the true identity of the mole? One thing is certain: the lives of the two men will be forever changed....
A secret operative in America’s 1902 labor movement, leading a double life that balances precariously on the knife-edge of discovery, finds his mission entangled with the fate of a young man accused of murder....
What would you do if an orphaned day-old Canada gosling appeared on your doorstep? That was the dilemma for Carol Muzik and her husband, Nick, as they set out to try and find the little gosling its real family and home....
This book is the true story of Nancy Yoshida and her 2009 Iditarod Race. It begins before the race and concludes after the race. It is told by Nigel, one of her dogs, who made a choice that changed the outcome of the race for not only Nancy but the entire team. For Middle School-age readers....
This #1 guide to Alaska cruising features in-depth sections on each port with many insightful stories about the people and the coast. The key to this book's enduring popularity is the lavish 22" x 34" fold-out map with a numbering system for ease of following your ship's position....
When the 240-foot SS Islander hit an iceberg in Alaska's inside waters just twelve miles from Juneau, Capt. H.R. Foote decided to make a desperate run for nearby Douglas Island....
Barry R. Sweet, a former Associated Press photo-journalist, presents this visual time capsule from the late 1960's through four decades. Many of his photos from thousands of news events in the Pacific Northwest and beyond are well-known and recognizable. ...
Hollywood is rocked after a madman kidnaps the remains of one of the most idolized movie stars of the '60s, then uses extortion, blackmail and murder to extract his revenge. Caught in the middle is PI Gideon Kincaid, an ex-cop with a troubled past who is led on a harrowing roller coaster ride through sun and sin drenched Hollywood. While Gideon labors to find out who snatched the dead beauty, he must also contend with some live ones. ...
Francesca di Paoli arrives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1925, during a time of turmoil. The peace is shattered by a massive landslide and flooding, and some local residents are up in arms against new proposals for land use and progressive ideas about racial and ethnic equality. Francesca finds work as a cook at the Sutton family's dude ranch, where the two sons, William and Bryce, vie for her love. But the earth has not finished trembling, nor the river rising. When the flood waters retreat, who will be left standing? ...
When mapmaker Joe Upton and filmmaker Dan Kowalski set out to create videos to accompany Joe's new map of Alaska waters, an iceberg they were shooting suddenly broke in half and capsized, nearly swamping them. Watch this story and others on the DVD. The colorful and richly detailed 22 x 34 map has icons to show where the videos were made. Additional videos may be viewed online at alaskacruisehandbook.com. This DVD and map comprise a stand-alone product or a companion to Joe Upton's "Alaska Cruise Handbook" (Coastal Publishing, 4th Edition, 2012) ...
It's 1902 and two men have disappeared, sending Sage Adair on a desperate search that leads him into the stygian blackness of Portland's underground to confront murderous shanghaiers, a lost friendship and his own dark fears....
In 2002 Toe was a political cartoonist living and working in Alaska's capital city when a little-known, small town mayor named Sarah Palin began a run for statewide office. The satirical cartoons that would follow over the next several years would garner national attention and become a reader favorite. ...
With bravado, good humor, and just a smattering of French, a dauntless American family begins a year-long adventure living and absorbing the local culture, customers, and language in the South of France.