(on the first anniversary of 9/11) I’VE BEEN THINKING A lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July. Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a deep…
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK an excerpt… The sign on the wall next to the door was in plain brass letters, Pletnikof Investigations. The door opened into a reception area furnished with seating. Copies of PI Magazine were arranged in a meticulous row on the coffee table.…
The sixth volume in NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society)’s invitational collections of atlases of real and imagined places. From the quirky to the straightforward, from hand drawn to AI-generated images, these maps are various, beautiful, and new in every edition, beautifully produced and the atlas itself — mirabile dictu!–is reasonably priced. The maps are produced…
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HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED what a puny little star Polaris is? If you didn’t have the Pointer Sisters on the Big Dipper steering you directly to it, you’d never find it. Except, of course, that it’s the only star that doesn’t move. Not to mention which it’s on the Alaska flag. I was standing outside…
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK At long last, the 23rd Kate Shugak novel is in print! An amuse bouche to whet your appetite… Jim took the other side of the couch and picked up a thick book in an orange and red cover. “You buying books by…
Read more And of course the sexual tension between Kate and Jim continues…with books.
I’m rereading The Lord of the Rings as I do every few years since my freshman English teacher gave the books to me in high school. Many years later I stumbled across a copy of this book in a used book store and pounced on it. It is a tremendous reference for all four novels in Tolkien’s…
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IT IS A MARTIAN LANDSCAPE. A cliff descends from a dark sky, crowned with Rushmore-like heads, if Mt. Rushmore had been carved by Easter Islanders, and then erodes into a delicate lacework frame of what could be either the remains of a condominium for little green men or just the remains of a dear departed…
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK Ta dah!–allow me introduce you to the three winners of “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” contest! Top left is Liene from Greenville, South Carolina (those are her son’s feet in the Mutt socks).Top right Laura from Roanoke, Virginia send…
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Griffiths sets the beginning of this book at the beginning of the Covid pandemic and totally sticks the landing. Archaeologist Ruth Galloway and daughter Kate are living their lives, socializing with friends, family, and neighbors, going out for coffee and to the cinema and shopping when the rumors of this century’s plague begin creeping in.…
…give me a sunny day on the deck of the Millenium Hotel, with the float planes flying into Lake Hood overhead, a plate deep-fried halibut on the table in front of me, and a pint of Alaskan Amber in my hand, and I’m a happy woman. Which was why, when I went to Juneau recently,…
Read more This action was not necessarily inspired by a sense of devoted service to Alaska magazine
