THE TOP 10 FIRESIDE BOKS Books For the month of November 2021 ought to you by Bestselling Title Author Description A Thousand Trails Seth Kantner Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living Home: Living with Caribou alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic. The Nature of Alaska: James An Introduction to Familiar Plants, This beautifully illustrated field guide highlights more than 325 familiar plants and animals and dozens of the state's outstanding natural attractions. 2 Kavanagh Animals & Outstanding Natural Attractions 3 Ordinary Wolves Seth Kantner Two incompatible realities collide, perfectly capturing the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Cold Mountain Path Tom Kizzia This book is a serious environmental history: a meditation on ghost towns and reflections of modern Alaska, and an on- the-ground recounting of the conservation battle to create the country's largest national park. Chickaloonies Dimi Macheras An all ages, Alaskan tribal adventure about legends, language, magic and the journey of discovering one's own story in our ever- changing world. 6. Go Tell the Bees In this latest installment of the wildly popular Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon That I Am Gone it is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Swallowed by the Great Land - And Other Dispatches Seth Kantner A white boy is growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his subsistence Native-style upbringing with the expectations tied to his race. 7 8. Shopping for Porcupine Seth Kantner Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, Shopping for Porcupine provides an intimate view of America's last frontier. 9 Pup and Pokey Seth Kantner A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska s tundra. 10 The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. Order online or come in and browse * Make the World Give You Time to Read! 720 S. Alaska St., Palmer 907-745-2665 Order online now for curbside pick-up! www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com FIRESIDE BOKS THE TOP 10 FIRESIDE BOKS Books For the month of November 2021 ought to you by Bestselling Title Author Description A Thousand Trails Seth Kantner Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living Home: Living with Caribou alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic. The Nature of Alaska: James An Introduction to Familiar Plants, This beautifully illustrated field guide highlights more than 325 familiar plants and animals and dozens of the state's outstanding natural attractions. 2 Kavanagh Animals & Outstanding Natural Attractions 3 Ordinary Wolves Seth Kantner Two incompatible realities collide, perfectly capturing the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Cold Mountain Path Tom Kizzia This book is a serious environmental history: a meditation on ghost towns and reflections of modern Alaska, and an on- the-ground recounting of the conservation battle to create the country's largest national park. Chickaloonies Dimi Macheras An all ages, Alaskan tribal adventure about legends, language, magic and the journey of discovering one's own story in our ever- changing world. 6. Go Tell the Bees In this latest installment of the wildly popular Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon That I Am Gone it is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Swallowed by the Great Land - And Other Dispatches Seth Kantner A white boy is growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his subsistence Native-style upbringing with the expectations tied to his race. 7 8. Shopping for Porcupine Seth Kantner Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, Shopping for Porcupine provides an intimate view of America's last frontier. 9 Pup and Pokey Seth Kantner A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska s tundra. 10 The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. Order online or come in and browse * Make the World Give You Time to Read! 720 S. Alaska St., Palmer 907-745-2665 Order online now for curbside pick-up! www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com FIRESIDE BOKS