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The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons,…

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longer contain her grief for the baby she lost many years before. The evening the first snow falls, their mood unaccountably changes. In a moment of tenderness, the pair are surprised to find themselves building a snowman - or rather a snow girl - together. The next morning, all trace of her has disappeared, and Jack can't quite shake the notion…

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its rich natural resources to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. Forrester leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have. Adventurous in spirit, Sophie does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband carves a path through the wilderness. What she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand…

Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret. Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. For Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even…

In the winter of 1885, Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester sets out with his men on an expedition into the newly acquired territory of Alaska. Their objective: to travel up the ferocious Wolverine River, mapping the interior and gathering information on the region’s potentially dangerous native tribes. With a young and newly pregnant wife at home, Forrester is anxious to complete the journey with all possible speed and return to her. But once the crew passes beyond the edge of the known world, there’s no telling what awaits them. With gorgeous descriptions of the Alaskan wilds and a vivid cast of characters — including Forrester, his wife…

РАЗЫСКИВАЮТСЯ, Ли Чайлд Если ты большого роста и выглядишь внушительно, как Джек Ричер — и твой сломанный нос заклеен липкой лентой, кто остановится, чтобы тебя подвезти? Так что, когда его наконец подбирают трое незнакомцев, двое мужчин и женщина, Ричер думает, что ему повезло. Но вскоре становится ясно, что они точно что-то скрывают, а потом впереди возникает полицейский кордон. Может, его попутчики в бегах? В какую неприятность угодил Ричер на этот раз? СНЕЖНАЯ ДЕВОЧКА, Эовин Айви Сказочная история о человеческом горе, действие которой происходит в 1920 году на Аляске. Когда бездетные муж и жена лепят из снега девочку, в ней…

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead--and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

Alaska, in den 1920er Jahren: Mabel und Jack konnten keine Kinder bekommen. Um den Schmerz und die Enttäuschung hinter sich zu lassen, haben sie an der Zivilisationsgrenze Alaskas ein neues, einfaches Leben als Farmer begonnen. Doch Trauer und der harte Überlebenskampf in der erbarmungslosen Natur schaffen zwischen den beiden, die sich innig lieben, eine scheinbar unüberbrückbare Distanz. Als der erste Schnee fällt, überkommt Mabel für kurze Zeit eine fast kindliche Leichtigkeit. Eine Schneeballschlacht mit Jack entspinnt sich, und sie bauen vor ihrer Hütte zusammen ein Kind aus Schnee. Am nächsten Tag entdecken sie zum ersten Mal das…