Battling Against Success (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

Battling against Success, an autobiographical novel by Neil Davis, tells the lively story of a boy's coming of age in Alaska's Interior during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Neil Davis

Literature & Fiction

McRoy & Blackburn, Publishers

Alaska at midcentury offered great opportunities to the restless and ambitious people who had survived the Great Depression and World War II. Some of those who came North succeeded; some came and left; some came and managed to beat down every opportunity that raised its ugly head. That's pretty much the story of the narrator of this autobiographical novel and his family, who wrestled with the trees, the mud, the machinery, the bugs, and most of all themselves while trying to make a living on the northern frontier. Some of the characters whose lives touched on this story are the real people who acted to join Alaska to the Union and to the 20th century-or fought bravely against both. Davis draws the reader into the often funny, sometimes sad, and always rich experiences that bring his young protagonist from childhood into adulthood.

Death, gossip, and shifty luck plague the quiet weekend Leona Skavitch expected to share with her husband on their little boat in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Leona can't stay away from any of it, butting her way into what even she has to admit are other people's affairs, and in the process infuriating her husband, the police, and nearly everybody else in a small town suddenly both snowbound and bloodstained. Before long, she's found herself following a tangled line of clues into very deep trouble indeed...

Cut Bait (Thrillers and Mysteries)

C. M. Winterhouse

Literary

When our heroine wakes up in a remote Alaska cabin, alone but for a young wolverine, bruised and bloodied and without memory of who she is and how she got there, what does she do? 
She makes pancakes. 
Before long, the woman who christens herself Jane Doe decides that life in the Alaska wilderness suits her just fine, except for an annoying lack of chocolate—and, of course, a memory. In this refreshingly different take on tales of life and survival in the wilderness, Jane discovers who she really is, but it's not the woman she used to be. And that may not sit so well with some of those she left behind!

The Wake-Up Call of the Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

Nita Nettleton

Humor & Satire

Alaska bush pilot Alex Price was content with his day job flying between the villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, until an urgent call from his best friend, the elegant novice bar owner Renaldo, brought him into 1970s Anchorage and danger. Alaska hovered on the edge of the Age of Big Oil. The smell of money was in the air, and like the smell of blood, it drew predators from far away. Renaldo sent the men offering "insurance"—or else—packing and bleeding, and now his life was in danger. The embattled Anchorage barkeepers pull together long enough to draft Alex as their own combination of Wyatt Earp and Sherlock Holmes. Now all Alex has to do is stay alive long enough to fight off the Russian mob and keep himself and his friends healthy and making a profit...

Happy Hour (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)

Don G. Porter

United States

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Accessories Are Everything in the Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

The place: the flat and frosty empty country of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska. The time: not very long ago. The hero: don't call him that. He'd hate it if you called him that. All in all, bush pilot Alex Price would rather be flying, just flying. True, he had added a private investigator's license to his commercial pilot's ticket. The state troopers can always use someone they can call "Detective" in court, and serving as an extra set of eyes and ears--or an extra gun hand--for the police made a nice change from shuttling the mail and supplies to the mines and villages throughout Bushmaster Air's territory. But that was before someone began killing a few leading citizens in the tiny villages of the delta--and the clues at the murder scenes all pointed straight to Alex's best friend. Now it's up to the bush pilot to play detective for real, before things get even worse . . .

Yukon Murders (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Time has rolled through Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains since Jane Doe recovered her memory, her career as a children's book author, a supply of chocolate, and her family. She's done just fine since then, finding a new life and even sharing an adventurous hike over the Chilkoot Trail with her niece Caly. All's well--except she thinks she's nuttier than a one of her own excellent chocolate chip cookies. She hears music, dances with dust bunnies, and is bedeviled by an alter ego in her dreams, the unflappable and ultracompetent Ms. Berry Pie. Sanity may be overrated, but Jane thinks it would be nice to have some to spare. Just a little, maybe. What to do? Get out of the house and get some distraction, that's the vote of her wise (if also faintly loony) neighbor. So she takes a job for the summer, a nice straightforward job as a cook at a wilderness lodge--except, like everything else Jane tackles, it doesn't stay straightforward for long. Jane's entertaining adventures offer valuable lesson

Nature Runs Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

Can we ever own land--or does the land instead possess us? That question underpins this elegantly written account of a young man's action-filled year in the Wrangell-St. Elias wilderness, where mountains rise to pierce the sky. There he faces dangers hidden behind both the smiles of humans and the beauties of the vast country where Canada and Alaska meet. Jack enters the mountains to work at a lakeside wilderness lodge near his birthplace--a homestead from which his family had been evicted when he was a toddler, as the land became a national park. What starts as a simple summer job helping a family friend with his guiding business becomes a complex struggle for survival among the snares set by bears and glaciers, smugglers and park rangers, bitter weather, and one beautiful, troubled young woman. Jack's adventure makes for a unique coming-of-age story; a genuine mountain man cannot fit easily into the twenty-first century, and he becomes truly a man out of time.

The Devil's Share

Kris Farmen

Genre Fiction

Santa Christina is the wife of Santa Claus, as this cheerful tale tells readers right away, and some doings at the North Pole will never seem the same again. Everyone knows that Mrs. Claus is a kindly helpmate, skilled at baking cookies, knitting mittens, and generally supporting all Santa's efforts, but in these pages the world will find out that she is also quite an athlete, a star at Alaska's official state sport--dog mushing. How this came about and some of the wonderful things that resulted make up the story of Santa Christina and her sled dogs. Amy Cameron's lively illustrations bring George Kelly's charming story to vibrant life, full of happy dogs, playful reindeer, and enough presents to please girls and boys the world over.

Santa Christina and Her Sled Dogs

George William Kelly

Mythology & Folk Tales

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Battling Against Success (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

Battling Against Success (Humorous Historical Fiction Set in Alaska)

Cut Bait (Thrillers and Mysteries)

The Wake-Up Call of the Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

Happy Hour (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)

Accessories Are Everything in the Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

Yukon Murders (Alex Price Alaska Adventure)

Nature Runs Wild (Jane Doe/Berry Wood)

The Devil's Share

Santa Christina and Her Sled Dogs