Nancy Lord

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.

With fully realized characters and local flourishes, “Cold to the Touch” by Kerri Hakoda manages to provide more depth than many Alaska mysteries.

“Arctic Traverse” by Michael Engelhard is an exceedingly well-crafted work that combines travel with natural history, anthropology and cultural concerns.

In “Rivers and Ice,” author Susan Pope’s account spans five generations of Alaskans, investigating what draws people to Alaska and also what draws any person into, away from, and back to family.

The works of three Alaskans are featured within the latest “Alaska Quarterly Review,” including poets Sara Eliza Johnson of Fairbanks and Mistee St. Clair of Juneau.

Following up on his esteemed first novel “There There,” Orange has again brilliantly succeeded in enlarging and complicating what it means to be American.

In “Treaty Justice,” author Charles Wilkinson examines the Boldt Decision, a ruling in Washington state that continues to influence issues of Native sovereignty and resource allotments well beyond those borders.