Lamar Public Library

Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced, including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.

"Veterinarian Marie Lehr knows unrequited love all too well after pining for her best friend, only to watch him marry another woman. It's a mistake she will never make again, especially not when she can practically hear the clock ticking on her childbearing years. The trouble is, she can't seem to find anyone who appeals to her even a fraction as much as that burly bush pilot did. Competitive musher Tyler Brady certainly doesn't, especially not after...

Five challenging years have passed in the lives of the ladies of Bad Girl Creek. Beryl, Nance, Ness, and Phoebe have experienced their share of hardship and heartache but also much love and happiness. Beryl now lives with Earl in Alaska, where the fissures in their relationship have started to spread. But then Earl disappears one wintry night.

Kate Shugak joins the security staff for a Native woman running for the Alaskan state senate. The candidate has received anonymous threats--and soon her campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher. Kate must retrace the researcher's steps and delve into the past, in particular the grisly murder of a "good time girl" during the 1915 Klondike Gold Rush.

Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son, William. The prosecution convinced the jury that she set fire to her home while both of her sons were trapped inside. WIlliam died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again denied her guilt.

"Alaska, 1925: the diphteria serum s 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. Nome, Alaska, sits on the edge of the Bering Sea two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few more forbidding places on earth, especially in winter. Dr. Curtis Welch knew that his patients, many of them children, would die without a shipment of fresh serum. The port was icebound and the nearest railhead was almost 700 miles away across mountains,...

"Alaska is a place where anybody can bury their history and start fresh, for any reason, and this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid in the path of a receding glacier, with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he had been missing for months" -- JACKET.

"Growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, Jackson has always prided himself on being tough. His family lives in a tiny cabin where their neighbors are grizzlies and wolves. The nearest store is a three-day walk away. Jackson loves his life . . . until a fire destroys the family's cabin, and they have to move to the town of Valdez. Adjusting to fifth grade isn't easy. And then Jakckson has to face an earthquake of terrifying strength. As the ground...

Nora Roberts flies us into Lunacy, Alaska, population 506, and into a colorful, compelling new novel about two lonely souls who find love--and redemption. Lunacy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die--and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as chief of police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by midafernoon and temperatures plunge to zero and below, will bring some kind of solace. It isn't...

In a dramatic new series, a host of characters is drawn to the rugged Yukon to start life anew. Fleeing an arranged marriage, Grace escapes to Alaska. Peter, a widower, must choose between parenting his young children and following his dream, while Karen chooses to strike out on her own in search of a missing family member.