Nancy Lord

M Jackson, a geographer and glaciologist who has written two nonfiction books, applies her extensive knowledge to a new genre.

The book has plenty of the hallmarks of Straley’s crime novels, but a new protagonist gives “Big Breath In” a different perspective.

In “Absent Here,” Bret Shepard, who grew up in North Slope villages including Atqasuk and Browerville, examines themes like absence and desire in a collection infused with landscape imagery.

The science writer returned to the 800-mile Alaska Pipeline corridor, telling his own story within the structure of a time travel through the change that’s facing Alaska

In “Kissing Kevin,” recently deceased Homer author Sara Berg has given today’s Americans a true sense of the Vietnam War as she lived it.

“The Curve of Equal Time” features well-drawn characters and precise and lyrical writing.

In “A Sea Full of Turtles,” author Bill Streever describes his journey to learn everything he could about sea turtles and consider how humans might find hope in a world of so much environmental destruction.

Readers will delight in the company of a traveler who grows into the self she’s happy to recognize.

Author Joan Burleson has risen beyond the hurt and anger to share what it is for a child to live in fear and instability — and how generational family patterns can either continue or be broken.

“Gagaan X’Usyee” is an overdue and invaluable contribution not just to Indigenous and Alaska literature and art but to understandings of how people everywhere live, learn, survive, and pass along knowledge and values.

Anyone with an interest in northern or exploration history will discover in “Discovering Nothing” a studious critique and sometimes reinterpretation of a significant part of Alaska, American and global history.

Readers will very much feel in conversation with the poignant and introspective works, and Alaska readers may especially find resonance with their own lives.

“The North Line” is an all-engrossing, never-dull depiction of Alaska’s “wild west” and those drawn to it.

Theresa “Tiny” Devlin’s memoir offers an intimate look into an Interior life shaped by family and cultural values during a little-explored period of Alaska’s history.

“The Snow Fell Off the Mountain” is an invitation to readers to turn back the calendar and imagine for themselves what Alaska’s coastal life might have been like in a simpler, more slowly moving time, not that long ago.