Alaska on My Mind

No Fixed Line

Kate Shugak: Book #22

By: Dana Stabenow
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board—responsible for investigating aviation incidents) unable to reach the crash site,... Read more

The Hunger of Crows

By: Richard Chiappone
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

After a one-night stand with the wrong man, Carla Merino is hiding out in Lost Bay, Alaska, living in a camper and waitressing to stay afloat. She'd taken a memento from the evening (a habit of hers), a photograph from the man's wallet, a younger version of himself and some very important military men. But she quickly realizes who the men... Read more

The Snow Child

A Novel

By: Eowyn Ivey
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.

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... Read more

The Great Alone

A Novel

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 15 hours 1 minute

“Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone is a powerful, compelling story of survival - survival of the natural elements and of the human spirit. It's 1974, and 13-year-old Leni Allbright lives with her devoted mother, Cora, and abusive father, Ernt, who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam. America is changing after the war, and Ernt thinks their best... Read more

Ordinary Wolves

A Novel

By: Seth Kantner
Narrated by: Neill Thorne
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Iñupiaq Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness

Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only... Read more