Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book Review: American Predator, by Maureen Callahan (Amazon / Book Depository) In March 2012, Texas Highway Patrol needed a reason to stop a man on their highways. He'd been using the ATM card of missing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who'd been abducted at gunpoint from the coffee stand where she worked in Anchorage, Alaska. When he... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Sun is a Compass, by Caroline van Hemert (Amazon / Book Depository) Biologist and ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert was burning out. PhD completed, nothing about the next steps into work or research felt right. She was happily paired with Pat, the man she'd bonded with over their mutual love of the outdoors... Continue Reading →
Book review: Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer (Amazon / Book Depository) His exact words were: "I think I'm going to disappear for a while." At 24, Chris McCandless was a young man with, on the surface, a lot going for him. His family had provided wealth and economic stability, he was smart and college... Continue Reading →
I used to hold myself to a strict standard of finishing every book I started. It was painful. Why insist on spending precious time finishing something I'm not enjoying just because I made a decision one time to read it? Abandoning feels freeing in its own little way. Time for another look into some of... Continue Reading →
Book review: Tip of the Iceberg, by Mark Adams (Amazon / Book Depository) Travel writer Mark Adams recounts his experiences traveling in Alaska, that "last great American frontier", following the trail of an exploratory expedition run by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman in 1899. That expedition was mapping the state's coastline, and included famed naturalist and... Continue Reading →
Book review: Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murder, by Walter Gilmour and Leland E. Hale (Amazon / Book Depository) Butcher, Baker is the true story from the law enforcement side of the investigation and capture of 1970s/80s Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen. Originally published in 1991, a new ebook edition is being rereleased... Continue Reading →
Book review: Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killer, by Monte Francis (Amazon / Book Depository) There's something exotic about Alaska and its identity in America as our "Last Frontier", compared with what Alaskans call the "Lower 48". I don't know much about it, besides that it used to be Russia, it's the least-populated... Continue Reading →
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