Books

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.

The middle book in a series of three set in the era of the Russian American Company is rich with details from Russian and Native populations from the time.

After penning a memoir and a novel, the author who was born in Sitka and grew up in Anchorage is planning a collection of stories from her childhood.

Nikki Corbett and illustrator Katie O’Connor won a grant and, while juggling their responsibilities as parents and small-business owners, designed a coloring book for teaching the Yup’ik alphabet to young language learners.

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

The book is drawn from the history, creation and uses of parkas, and who provided personal memories and legends that enhance our understanding of their roles in an ancient culture.

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.

Lee Morgan, a veterinarian from Washington, D.C., writes about his introduction to the race and tells tales from along the roughly thousand-mile-long trail.

“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.

Two new books delve into the deep-rooted and newfound reasons for saying no — or waiting — to become a parent

Soldotna sixth-grade teacher Lawrence H. Khlinovski Rockhill established a student exchange that changed the arc of his life, and established longstanding ties between the two regions.

Andrea Robin Skinner said she told Munro about the abuse by Gerard Fremlin starting when she was 9 but she “loved him too much” to leave him.

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.

The follow-up book in the series from Dimi Macheras and Casey Silver continues a new direction for Alaska arts and literature under the Luk’ae Tse’ Taas Comics banner.

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 turnout at Beauty and the Book’s grand opening this month demonstrates the growing popularity — and evolution — of the romance genre.

“What Makes Us Human” has so far been published in 22 languages, and Santos has been involved in a number of other projects centered on Indigenous languages.

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

Amid the murder and mayhem of these mystery novels from beloved authors and some who are sure to become so, there’s history, far-flung locales — and even love.

Chemistry abounds in these new books, perfect to tear into at the beach, by the pool or in a lawn chair.

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.

Crime-fiction fans will find these novels as bracing as a plunge in the ocean.

Kirk’s book, “After the Gulag,” is unavailable in Russia, where the government is attempting to erase the system’s memory.