Alaska Books

Ms. Goldstrand knows how to bring the reader into the story and what a story! Steve Buckner is the tall, dark and handsome Alaskan you'd really want to meet. Lauren pulls us into her life in rugged Alaska and has a wonderful comaraderie with her brother, Mark. If you want to see Alaska without really going there, this is the way to go. Alaskan Magic was truly magical.

There are four different stories in this book about love, faith, and secrets. Each story is about 100 pages long so it is a quick and delightful read. If you don't like Christian literature, then this is not a book for you.

In the first book two strangers meet to find that their parents have fallen in love on a cruise ship and are now getting married. Both Victoria and Buck think their parents are acting irrationally and try to break them up. In addition, both of them have also turned their back on God. Do they break up the wedding? Do they find God? What is Victoria's secret about her son's husband?

The second story involves a young widow and how an aunt left her everything she owned in Alaska. Well after losing her husband she decided that moving to Alaska isn't such a bad idea. She meets her aunt's best friend and son. He shows her around Alaska and her inherited house and quilt shop. He is a confirmed bachelor and when Glorianna tells him about something her husband left her with he gets out of the picture fast. Meanwhile another guy will try to marry Glorianna. Will Trapper let Glorianna marry another man? What is her secret? What has her aunt planned all along?

The third storie involves a young woman named Tina who used to live in Alaska and is now returning with her terminally ill grandmother. She runs into her best friend from childhood, Hank. He offers to help her clean up her grandmother's house and gives her a place to stay. He is a lonely widower who wants children and a family. But trouble happens when Lucky, someone Tina knows from Chicago shows up and claims to be her fiance. Who is Lucky? Why is he with Tina? What will Hank do?

The fourth story involves Jackie who has lived in Alaska for 17 years and never married (that we know of). Her friends had met this new pilot and decided to try and set her up with him. Only problem is she already knows him, not only that she has a past with him. What is their past? Will they tell their friends? Or will they both leave Alaska in shame?

Fr. Oleksa's detailed examination of the missionary work of Orthodox Christians in Alaska includes the actual diaries and letters from the missionaries themselves. Oleksa also discusses the native cultures and the effects of foreign intervention on the pre-statehood communities.

Whether you are interested in native history, the Orthodox faith or gripping stories of exploration and life on the frontier, this book will be well worth the time spent.

I am proud to say that my grandmother authored this book, filled with the food my family grew up on. I use the salmon and sourdough recipes regularly- try the sourdough hotcakes recipe for a Saturday morning tradition! Everything else in the book is very tasty, and accompanied by good information and explanations. The drawings throughout are very charming, and add a nice touch to this wonderful cook book!

The photographs are just outstanding, with an emphasis on the real world without a lot of filtering and Photoshop.

In the 1920's General Billy Mitchell declared the Aleutian Islands were the jumping off place for an Americanm attack on Japan. At the same time, the Japanese were sending spies into the Aleutians to "check it out" for their own agenda.

The book ALEUTIAN HEADACHE provides fascinating narrative and pictures about the American buildup in Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the face of aggressive Japanese expansion throughout the Pacific.

Details here of the Japanese seizure of American soil in Alaska and the deadly allied attacks that expelled them. Includes the American air raid that bombed the Japanese on Kiska Island with beer and Coke bottles, when the bottles hit the earth they smashed showering the Japanese occupants with shards of glass.

Book also includes little known accounts of the U.S. Navy - Japanese Navy ship-to-ship fighting (without aircraft) in Bering Sea.

Major chapter on Dutch Harbor bombed.

Attu, Aggatu and Kiska seized by the Japanese.

The Kiska Blitz--"Get Kiska Back"!

American liberation of Attu a ghastly affair

Japanese secretly escape from Kiska thus Americna invasion forces shooting at their own (American) buddies.

Special chapter: How the Japanese did it?

Dozens of rare photographs, maps and charts prepared especially for this book, appendices, bibliography for those who want to know more, Index.

Recommended for those who want to know about the "shooting" war of 1942-1943 on Ameriocan soil

Includes illustrated chapter on how the American soldiers in those frozen Aleutian Islands sent and received their mail by the Army Post Office (APO) system. Role of Japanese-Americans during the Battle of Attu.

If your looking for a book with all of it in it-this is the one. It even covers the Japanese submarine base you never knew existed on the Aleutian Islands.

This book is a fantastic resource for people doing research on mountains. Well written and full of interesting insight, this is a must buy for any researcher.

A nice layout of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, Alaska which will come in handy on our next cruise to Alaska. A must if you rent a car.

Truthfully, I cannot stand biographies. However, my literature class required me to read a biography, which I must admit, I looked upon with much dismay. I happen to be a very lucky indeed, though, because I had really been meaning to read this book forever (I happen to have known Joyce Anders since I was very young and I love her very much, but my review isnt biased), and what could have been a more opportune time than this? I read it with growing relish and it proved to be a very fascinating book indeed. I loved it and I hope other people have enjoyed reading Joyces story as much as I have. It is a history that is, with in itself, unmatched in uniqueness by any other and I whole heartedly recommend it to the biography shy.