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Follow the journey of a Santa Fe artist as she maneuvers through life's ups and downs.

Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when his city was under siege. Desperate to talk with this American woman, Varga enlists his grandson Kristóf to translate; and he finds that the woman, Lisa, shares his family's painful heritage. Now his grandson and this young American press him for the story behind the music, and especially behind its shattered ending. For decades he's hidden this story of war, love, jealousy, and loss. Can he bear to tell it now? Can they bear to hear it? Cautiously Varga, Kristóf, and Lisa open the music and its hard secrets, hoping that although pain has extended over generations, perhaps love will extend further still.

Surgeon Jesse Randall serves with Marching Hospital Eight, of Wellington's army in Spain. He loves Elinore Mason, daughter of a ne'er-do-well officer. Can Jesse keep her safe from Major Bones, a terrible lecher?

The abduction of a Timorese friend's fiancé draws FBI Agent Sara Carter into the investigation of the murder of two youths that could ignite a gang war, or portend a more mysterious threat.

Sheriff Ulysses Walker, up for re-election, faces opposition from corrupt officials and criminals who use bribery, extortion and murder to achieve their ends. At stake is the water and culture of Northern New Mexico.

When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran's present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her?

Nearly two decades of living with and writing about life with chronic illness compiled and distilled into often moving, sometimes funny, always poignant and useful essays by Trevis L Gleason.

When two women come to Rosedale Investigations to report their husbands missing, the team wonders if it's the same man. He's gone on the run to escape a killer.

Mercedes Harrigan doubts death by "natural causes" explanation when she finds a corpse in her vintage apartment complex, will she expose the truth or wind up in a Harrigan Mortuary casket?

Patsy Ann was the friendliest dog on the docks in 1930s Juneau, Alaska, but she refused tobelong to anyone. Still, the whole town adopted the hearing-impaired terrier, naming her "Official BoatGreeter."

When a ghost from the past turns his fellow agent's world upside down, Viscount Ware will stop at nothing to save his friend from the hangman's noose.

Kayla Jeffries, home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), once more finds herself involved in a murder case when her boyfriend, restaurateur Jason Banks, is suspected of killing his longtime nemesis.

A daily, mile by mile, journal of one man''s journey with his twenty- two Malamutes, across the vastness and cold of Alaska''s north country. The cold and loneliness of the vastness of Alaska with on the companionship of his faithful dogs.

Our Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks' adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then sea mammals out on the ice in the spring.

One can only hope never to face the life-threatening dangers and distinctly Alaskan annoyances that Mary Ames warns about in this how-to-stay-alive reference that is both useful and entertaining. You'll learn: What to do if your bush pilot keels over at the controls; How to avoid starving in the wilderness by listening to ravens; How to ford a river, cross thin ice, and make snow shoes; HOw to start your frozen car at 40 below zero and thaw your plumbing; Defensive measures for avalanches, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis; Lessons for dealing with wildlife, bad bugs, resident human critters, and bureaucrats.

Whimsical verse in the tradition of Ogden Nash is paired with rare photographs of wild animals and birds of the north in this unusual book that can be enjoyed on two levels by youngsters and adults. The delightful images of wild critters at "work" and "play" from Tom Walker, a widely published writer and one of Alaska''s premier wilderness photgraphers, and humorous verse from Tim Jones, an accomplished writer and editor, will please all who vernture into these pages.

It is 1983, and the anti-war movement Target Seattle is preparing for a trip to Tashkent, Seattle's Sister City in Uzbekistan. Betsy Bell's husband, Don, is the chair of the executive committee of Target Seattle, and co-leader of the trip. Travelling with three thousand copies of a peace petition, as well as her seventeen-year-old daughter and thirty others, Betsy sees first-hand the risks of travelling as an American to the USSR. She also sees the heart-warming stories of people-to-people connections across political boundaries. Upon returning to the US, Betsy pushes to find her own voice in a world where a wife's goals are subservient to her husband's. As tensions between the US and USSR are only increasing, Betsy travels to Washington, DC. She speaks to elected officials and the United Nations in favor of open borders, even as conflicting aspirations and careers become a point of contention in her marriage. With honesty and poise, Betsy chronicles a history of a time when ordinary citizens were transformed into agents of peace

At twenty-four, Connie and her young husband, Harmon "Bud" Helmericks, setout from Fairbanks, Alaska in a homemade canoe. Paddling down theTanana and into the great Yukon River, they leave their known worldbehind. Five months later, they portage a hundred miles across muskegand icing ponds to the Kuskokwim River where they battle shifting iceinto the little town of Bethel near the Bering Sea. Along the journeythey encounter Native villages and isolated settlements, learning fromexperience and the kindness of strangers. Connie's honest and lyricalvoice depicts a changing Alaska and its endangered people during apivotal moment in history.

Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since the most poular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways mountains and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more interested in the scenery, the historic past or the fabulous yarns connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of Alaska and the Yukon: Poorman, Shaman's Village, Chicken and Eek, and will have no trouble imagining the mettle of those pioneers who traveled Moose Pass, shot Sqauaw Rapids or panned in Pure Gold Creek.This alphabetically arranged dictionary detaisl the origins and meanings o fnames for cities, towns and a representative sampling of remote native (both Eskimo and Indian) villages in the state of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. In addition it includes the name sources of many geogaphical features that are of historical significanceTo heighten undersanding of the region, its history, and its developmant, many less prominent place names are included because they explain the flora and fauna (Fireweed Creek, Ptarmigan, Whale and Walrus islands), geology and topography (Platinum, Silver City,Pingaluk River). and exploration and settlement ( Bering Sea, Masaspina and Murir glaciers, Cook Inlet, Mount Vancouver, Sixtymile River, Hydaburg, Watson Lake).

From the brick-paved streets of Boston and New England, to the deserts of Arizona, to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, beloved author and columnist Stewart Holbrook takes his readers down uncharted paths in a series of delightful pieces. Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People is pure Americana that delves into the myths of unhackneyed and motley people, and the places they made famous. Interspersed among character bits are rich historical views of places, the author's own experiences in logging camps, and enthusiastic sketches of the near-extinct Yankee.

James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder," (1838-1916) was a Canadian-American railroad executive with the Great Northern Railway, responsible for building railways across the northern US. Part visionary, part robber baron, part buccaneer, Stewart Holbrook brings his story to life, in brief, as well as the lives of the other movers and shakers in the railway scene of the times.