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  Kate Shugak: Book 1

  A Cold Day for Murder

  by Dana Stabenow

  When a National Park ranger is reported missing and the man sent to find him disappears as well, former investigator Kate Shugak decides to brave the cold wilderness of north Alaska to crack the case.
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  The Ivory Carver Trilogy: Book 1

  Mother Earth Father Sky

  by Sue Harrison

  In a time before history, in a harsh and beautiful land near the top of the world, womanhood comes cruelly and suddenly to beautiful, young Chagak. Surviving the brutal massacre of hertribe, she sets out across the icy waters off Ameria's northwest coast on an astonishing odyssey that will reveal to Chagak powerful secrets of the earth and sky... and the mysteries of love and loss.
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  Kate Shugak: Book 3

  Dead in the Water

  by Dana Stabenow

  Two crewmen of the crab vessel Avilda are missing-presumed dead-under very suspicious circumstances. The Bering Sea offers ample means and opportunity, but without bodies, a motive, or evidence of foul play, the DA doesn't have a case. And so, freelancing again for her former employer, Kate Shugak finds herself working undercover in one of Alaska's most dangerous professions: crab fisherman. It's an assignment... (more)
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  Kate Shugak: Book 8

  Killing Grounds

  by Dana Stabenow

  Like Nevada Barr, Dana Stabenow writes mysteries so firmly rooted in the natural world that their sense of place becomes a vital part of the plot. In this book about Native Alaskan crime solver Kate Shugak, the ocean and the men who fish it for salmon are described in such vivid detail that you'll never look at a salmon steak the same way again. When a particularly nasty fisherman is murdered, there's no... (more)
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  Aleutian Sparrow

  by Karen Hesse

  In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the entire native population living west of Unimak Island was gathered up and evacuated to relocation centers in the dense forests of Alaska's Southeast. With resilience,... (more)
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  Kate Shugak: Book 2

  A Fatal Thaw

  by Dana Stabenow

  When a man goes berserk on the first day of spring and kills nine people, Kate Shugak, once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, begins an investigation.
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  Kate Shugak: Book 6

  Blood Will Tell

  by Dana Stabenow

  At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. AB. "
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  Kate Shugak: Book 10

  Midnight Come Again

  by Dana Stabenow

  Reeling from the shocking murder that shattered her world, private investigator Kate Shugak has vanished into the vast Alaskan wilderness just when Jim Chopin needs her most. The dauntless Alaska State Trooper is ensnared in an intricate case involving the Russian Mafia and a cache of stolen plutonium--a case that will launch him on a treacherous solo undercover FBI assignment in the far western reaches of Bering.... (more)
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  Kate Shugak: Book 18

  Though Not Dead

  by Dana Stabenow

  In the newest entry in Dana Stabenow’s New York Times bestselling Kate Shugak series, Kate and the rest of the Park rats are stunned by the death of Old Sam, Kate’s eighty-seven-year-old uncle and foster father. In his will, he leaves almost everything to Kate, including a homestead deep in gold mining country that no one knew he had and a letter that reads simply, “Find my father.” Easier said than done,... (more)
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  The Storyteller Trilogy: Book 3

  Call Down the Stars

  by Sue Harrison

  On that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son. And this young, innocent female from a far-off... (more)
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  Kate Shugak: Book 4

  A Cold-Blooded Business

  by Dana Stabenow

  A string of drug-related accidents at an oil company's rig in the Arctic Circle forces Kate Shugak to go undercover to scope out a cocaine connection along the TransAlaskan Pipeline. Reprint. AB. LJ.
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  Kate Shugak: Book 7

  Breakup

  by Dana Stabenow

  April in Alaska is the period of spring thaw, what the locals call breakup . For Kate, this year's meltdown brings nothing but mayhem. First, the snow uncovers a dead body near Kate's home. Than a woman is killed in a suspicious bear attack. Kate is drawn further into the destruction of breakup - and into tha path of a murderer... • Winner of the Edgar Award for her book A Cold Day for Murder • The next... (more)
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  The Ivory Carver Trilogy: Book 3

  Brother Wind

  by Sue Harrison

  In a time before time at the top of the world -; in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -; courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter. Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin must sacrifice her love for the sake of her tribe and the safety of her children. Left widowed and helpless amongthe Whale Hunters, Kukutux now faces the impossible challenge... (more)
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  The Storyteller Trilogy: Book 1

  Song of the River

  by Sue Harrison

  Returning to the harsh and breathtaking landscape she so vividly recreated in her bestselling Mother Earth, Father Sky, author Sue Harrison brings us the first book of her remarkable Storyteller Saga. It is the tale of Chakliux, abandoned as a baby to die on the Arctic ice, only to be rescued and raised to manhood by K'os, a cold and cunning woman seeking vengeance on the men who defiled her. At the age of... (more)
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  Kate Shugak: Book 17

  A Night Too Dark

  by Dana Stabenow

  A Night Too Dark is New York Times bestselling writer Dana Stabenow’s latest, the seventeenth in a series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America’s last real frontier. In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak’s Park, they’ve been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners... (more)
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  The Seal Wife FIRST EDITION

  by Kathryn Harrison

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  Kate Shugak: Book 19

  Restless in the Grave

  by Dana Stabenow

  “I, ah, got access to some of Grant’s records last night,” Kate said. “Did you,” Liam said, and took a fortifying gulp of coffee. “Notice I do not ask how.” –from Restless in the Grave
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  Kate Shugak

  Wreck Rights

  by Dana Stabenow

  Paul Kameroff was found at the bottom of an icy hill, hands and ankles neatly bound, with a bullet hole in the back of his head. They don't think it was suicide. A Kate Shugak short story.Previously published in the Wild Crimes Anthology.
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  Kate Shugak

  Cherchez la Femme

  by Dana Stabenow

  There’s one in every village. They don’t have to be young, they don’t even have to be pretty, but there is one woman in every Alaskan village whose very presence short circuits something in the nervous system of the male of the species, resulting all too often in events that spiral into intervention on the part of a professional peace officer. In Niniltna, it was Dulcey Kineen. Emphasis, it seems, on the was. A... (more)
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  Kate Shugak

  Nooses Give

  by Dana Stabenow

  "The bodies had fallen around the table like three cards from a spent deck. Jeremy Mike, the jack of spades. Sally Jorgenson, queen of hearts. Ted Muktoyuk, the king of diamonds." A person has to be pretty drunk to play Russian roulette. And usually a person has to work pretty hard to get drunk in a dry Native village. Most of the words Kate has for “bootlegger” are unprintable. A Kate Shugak short... (more)