Caught in the Sluice is a lively collection of some of the fictional but accurate adventures, heartbreaking to hilarious, that have befallen the men and women who have worked the gold-bearing gravels of Alaska's Interior region.

Caught in the Sluice: Tales from Alaska's Gold Camps (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

Engineering & Transportation

Neil Davis

Engineering

McRoy & Blackburn Pub

Moose John strides daydreaming through the first pages in this collection of mining tales, followed by Wilfred Winchester Wilkensfield III, who discovers an unexpected prehistoric hazard while mining for gold in permafrost. The Olgilvie Gold Fibulator creates bonanzas for miners and Shakespearean actors alike, Double-Dose Dobson demonstrates that he can teach his sons a thing or two even from the grave, and an implacable little lady has a showdown with a gigantic dredge. Davis, a miner and geophysicist, takes his lifetime of experience in mining and the North and spins a few lively yarns around the workings of the sluicebox and the human heart.

After the birthday party on Mrs. Atkins' lawn, a little girl in a purple kuspuk recounts her adventures there to her mother, who sinks slowly down into her chair as the delights unfold in rhyme. Truly everything was fine (depending on your point of view) until that elephant arrived. This illustrated romp through the perils of peppermint pie, leaky garden hoses, compost heaps and large numbers of young birthday guests stimulates the imagination and tweaks the funnybone. Chandonnet, poet and author of historical fiction and cookbooks, has teamed up with watercolorist Fiedler to get right into the exuberant spirit of a rollicking good time. Preschool and up.

The Birthday Party (Children's Books, for Young and Old)

Children's Books

Ann Chandonnet

Action & Adventure

The story of a crucial summer in the life of a boy growing up on the shores of Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska, Keep the Round Side Down melds tall tales and wild adventures with carefully observed accounts of life devoted to and dependent upon the sea. Ages 10 and up.

Keep the Round Side Down

Teen & Young Adult

Jones, Tim

Ogle, Susan

Literature & Fiction

A grizzled old fisherman raises a boy of mysterious origins on the shores of the spectacular, resource-rich but unforgiving Prince William Sound. Sven dubs the boy Orca, after the whales who bring the baby boy to shore, and gives him as good an upbringing as he can, teaching him the ways of the sea. Orca grows up learning to set nets and read from a first aid manual; he spends his hours listening to the tall tales of garrulous sailors and the sound of rain on water, until the crucial summer when Miss Priscilla M. Braithewaite of the Alaska Department of Social Services, Division of Child Welfare, comes to pay a call and perhaps change his life forever. Jones' novel is illustrated with numerous wash drawings by noted Alaska artist Susan Ogle; both author and illustrator live on Prince William Sound.

Keep the Round Side Down (Children's Books, for Young and Old)

Tim Jones

A novel. Your best friend is found dead, murdered bizarrely with three other men at a remote camp high in Alaska's mountains. The police have a pretty good idea who did it, but they're not eager to hunt him down; they think the dangerous wilderness into which he's fled will serve just fine as his judge, jury, and executioner. But you know that the tundra and forests of Alaska can be friend as well as foe to those who understand them, and the killer knows them well. What will you do? If you're Jepsen "Jeep" George, topnotch hunting guide who learned wilderness skills from his Athabascan grandfather, you track the killer-no matter if the trail leads across half of Alaska.

Raven's Prey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Randles, Slim

Mystery

2009 McRoy Blackburn trade paperback, Don G. Porter (Happy Hour). Alex Price, Alaska bush pilot must defend his friend Renaldo from a murder charge. Serious instrument flying and boating on a luxury yacht take them from Seward to Cordova and the islands in Prince William Sound. Kisti, the topless dancer from San Francisco and her lover Tony may have murdered the heiress, but if she's still alive her return is worth a million bucks. They find her held hostage by a gang of fur seal poachers. The question becomes, are Alex and Renaldo more apt to be killed by the poachers, Kisti and Tony, or renegade Fish and Wild Life officers. - Amazon

Humpy Cove (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)

Porter, Don G.

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Caught in the Sluice: Tales from Alaska's Gold Camps (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

Caught in the Sluice: Tales from Alaska's Gold Camps (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

The Birthday Party (Children's Books, for Young and Old)

Keep the Round Side Down

Keep the Round Side Down (Children's Books, for Young and Old)

Raven's Prey

Humpy Cove (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)