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Niendra Goisien is a special investigator for the Gyllethian Queen, Betelial Tim-Amre. As a Witch, she has magics that aid her in her endeavors, but the murder of the magnate Soro Divver draws her into a mystery that leads to her death. Five-hundred years later she returns as a revenant to find out not only who killed her, but the very reason the capital of Gylleth, Ramashur, reduced to an undead infested necropolis. Can she solve this mystery before she is killed again?

Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when his city was under siege. Desperate to talk with this American woman, Varga enlists his grandson Kristóf to translate; and he finds that the woman, Lisa, shares his family's painful heritage. Now his grandson and this young American press him for the story behind the music, and especially behind its shattered ending. For decades he's hidden this story of war, love, jealousy, and loss. Can he bear to tell it now? Can they bear to hear it? Cautiously Varga, Kristóf, and Lisa open the music and its hard secrets, hoping that although pain has extended over generations, perhaps love will extend further still.

A daily, mile by mile, journal of one man''s journey with his twenty- two Malamutes, across the vastness and cold of Alaska''s north country. The cold and loneliness of the vastness of Alaska with on the companionship of his faithful dogs.

It is 1983, and the anti-war movement Target Seattle is preparing for a trip to Tashkent, Seattle's Sister City in Uzbekistan. Betsy Bell's husband, Don, is the chair of the executive committee of Target Seattle, and co-leader of the trip. Travelling with three thousand copies of a peace petition, as well as her seventeen-year-old daughter and thirty others, Betsy sees first-hand the risks of travelling as an American to the USSR. She also sees the heart-warming stories of people-to-people connections across political boundaries. Upon returning to the US, Betsy pushes to find her own voice in a world where a wife's goals are subservient to her husband's. As tensions between the US and USSR are only increasing, Betsy travels to Washington, DC. She speaks to elected officials and the United Nations in favor of open borders, even as conflicting aspirations and careers become a point of contention in her marriage. With honesty and poise, Betsy chronicles a history of a time when ordinary citizens were transformed into agents of peace

At twenty-four, Connie and her young husband, Harmon "Bud" Helmericks, setout from Fairbanks, Alaska in a homemade canoe. Paddling down theTanana and into the great Yukon River, they leave their known worldbehind. Five months later, they portage a hundred miles across muskegand icing ponds to the Kuskokwim River where they battle shifting iceinto the little town of Bethel near the Bering Sea. Along the journeythey encounter Native villages and isolated settlements, learning fromexperience and the kindness of strangers. Connie's honest and lyricalvoice depicts a changing Alaska and its endangered people during apivotal moment in history.

Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since the most poular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways mountains and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more interested in the scenery, the historic past or the fabulous yarns connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of Alaska and the Yukon: Poorman, Shaman's Village, Chicken and Eek, and will have no trouble imagining the mettle of those pioneers who traveled Moose Pass, shot Sqauaw Rapids or panned in Pure Gold Creek.This alphabetically arranged dictionary detaisl the origins and meanings o fnames for cities, towns and a representative sampling of remote native (both Eskimo and Indian) villages in the state of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. In addition it includes the name sources of many geogaphical features that are of historical significanceTo heighten undersanding of the region, its history, and its developmant, many less prominent place names are included because they explain the flora and fauna (Fireweed Creek, Ptarmigan, Whale and Walrus islands), geology and topography (Platinum, Silver City,Pingaluk River). and exploration and settlement ( Bering Sea, Masaspina and Murir glaciers, Cook Inlet, Mount Vancouver, Sixtymile River, Hydaburg, Watson Lake).

Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, this new collection of insightful and hair-raising stories introduces readers to more of the men and women who brave Alaska's annual 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome.Champions Doug Swingley, Martin Buser, Jeff King, and others tell how they came to love the race, how they train their dogs and themselves, and how they challenge the harsh weather and conditions found in the Last Great Race.