18 Ergebnisse.

Wander is a tale about love, loss and betrayal set in the frigid wild of Alaska, where a young news reporter faces the winter alone, discovering too late that the biggest threat lies not in the harsh landscape around her, but in her own fickle heart.

Marie Tozier's Open the Dark is an exquisite collection of poems depicting a generational tapestry woven with the shared ebb and flow of land and sea and time. Loving hands, dyed sweet with raspberries and lingonberries, pass ancestral knowledge-of the hunt for seal and crab to pressing ironless, ruler-straight seams-from grandmother to mother, mother to daughter. This is a collection that beckons, like a mother's warm embrace, into the vibran...

From women cowboys to arctic villages, Mary Odden's linked essays transport the reader along light-filled paths at the top of a shrinking world.

Against the backdrop of the rising commercial fishing industry in an Alaska Native village, Under Nushagak Bluff is a powerful mid-century tale of women, love, loss, resilience, and the unexpected strength found in storytelling.

Toward Antarctica is an innovating lyric travelogue of photographs and writing by poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield. A book that challenges, documents, and queries one of the most iconic wild corners of the world, any reader with a passion for poetry and worldly excursions will delight in Bradfield's ecotour of Antarctica.

A packet of letters discovered in the frame of an eighteenth-century Chinese painting starts a search in western Alaska for a remarkable orchid.

One Water is a book about Alaska through the lens of a young drifter seeking meaning in this world and discovering it in the Alaskan backcountry and in the stories of some of the people who take a ride in his taxicab.

A woman, her dogs, and their journey North on the Iditarod trail.

In this posthumous collection of essays, Eva Saulitis meditates on mortality, the art of living fully, and her advancing illness and nearing death, confronting the waiting question without fear or sentimentality: how are you going to live when you know you are going to die?

The lyric poems in Every Atom explore how identity is formed, the layers of the mother-daughter relationship, and the ravages of dementia.

How to make sense of moving to, and living in, Alaska? In James Engelhardt's debut collection, these questions form the narrative and meditative frame for a landscape of domesticity and wilderness. Change comes quickly in the Far North, and transformation is the only constant.

In an Alaskan island's oral traditions, a baby's cry sucks in the northern lights, a man marries a tree, the muskeg swallows a restaurant, and the dead go to Seattle: discover forty-three linked tales in a story-cycle of life, death, and climate catastrophe in the frigid cold of Alaska.

Pause, Traveler is a journey through the dark heart of the American landscape, from New York City to Alaska. These poems search for redemption in the most unlikely places: Circus World Museum, an Iceworm Festival, a frozen gas station in Alaska. Traversing the difficult terrain of damaged relationships and misplaced affection, this collection finds hope in the fractured beauty of the world.

I wanted to know about the world she had left behind. I wanted to hear about the lions, the tigers, the tropical rain forest, the endless summers... She laughed. Her country was not like that at all. It was dirt roads, arid dusty fields, no wildlife to speak of and, as far as the tropical forest was concerned, there was almost none left. She talked about her family. Her father and mother remained in Africa. She hinted at a relationship which s...

Steam Laundry is a novel in poems based on the true story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, a minerÆs wife during the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes. Her journey began as she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. She stayed there three years as the townÆs boom and her marriage burned out. In 1903, she left her husband and sons to start over in Fairbanks, Alaska, with another man. Based on archival research and incorporating histo...

111:1-5 Perish the hands of Abu Lahab, and may he perish too, neither his wealth nor what he has earned will avail him anything. He will roast in a flaming fire, and his wife will be a carrier of fire-wood, she shall have a rope of fibre around her neck." The phrase "In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful" launches 112 of the 114 chapters of the Koran. If compassionate is defined as being aware of the suffering of an other and w...

A historical and motivational context, as I have been providing in my books on the Koran is important in understanding the Message, but, perhaps even more significant is knowing what revealed truths (immutable facts communicated to a mortal by a god), as inconceivable as it may seem, have been abrogated i.e. repealed or modified by an ostensibly omniscient deity. Cover art is a rendition of a picture of George Burns from a poster for the 1977 ...

Allah's Apostle said, "Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords." Bukhari 52.73 9:111 Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth in return for Paradise, they fight in the Way of Allah, kill and get killed ... Rejoice then at the bargain you have made with Him, for that is the great triumph. ---- Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped ...