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1) On thin ice
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On Thin Ice
Enhanced Collector's Edition
Originally Published 2004
A top pick "Hot action in a cold climate! The setting of the Iditarod for this latest thriller gives an exciting and fascinating new edge ...Adair is a romantic suspense maestro" - Romantic Times Magazine
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cherry Adair takes readers on a thrill ride through the frozen north where there are dangers greater than the bitter cold-and
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From the Anthony and Macavity award-winning author of Murder at Five Finger Light.
After healing from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and her dogs must work hard to qualify. Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along the trail—a dead body. What the kid was doing on a musher's trail with no sled or dogs is anyone’s guess. And in a...
After healing from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and her dogs must work hard to qualify. Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along the trail—a dead body. What the kid was doing on a musher's trail with no sled or dogs is anyone’s guess. And in a...
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"Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored--so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But murder becomes an attraction here as well--an especially brutal one--when the corpse of a small-time hoodlum slain by a double-blade axe blow to the skull turns up on the fairgrounds. Jessie shouldn't...
4) Sunrise
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Sky King Ranch volume 1
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"A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-- and that she'll accept his help when he does"--
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Rosalie MacKenzie is headed nowhere until the day she sees Smokey, a Siberian husby suffering from neglect. She rescues him and they become immersed in the world of competitive dogsled racing. She discovers that behind the modern sport lies a tragic history: the heartbreaking story of the Chukchi people of Siberia. When Stalin's Red Army displace the Chukchi in 1929, many were killed and lost their beloved huskies that were the soul and livelihood...
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"Jessie and her team of dogs are competing in the toughest dog sled race in the world--the Yukon Quest. Alone in the vast white wilderness, she's suddenly facing a danger worse than anything Nature has to offer. A young novice racer she met at the start of the race is abducted, and the girl's frantic father is warned that no one but Jessie Arnold is to be told or the girl with die. Jessie's in the competition of a lifetime as she forges ahead in a...
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The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness -- takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, the prize is survival. Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska's premier...
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2019.
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327 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's...
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2016.
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viii, 262 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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Describes the author's experiences as a middle-aged mom whose initial resolve to train for and complete the Iditarod failed when her dogs refused to finish the race, detailing how she overcame daunting challenges to succeed during a second attempt. --Publisher's description.
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Alaskan hearts volume 1
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[2017]
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248 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Lauren Dalton's world shattered the day her father died. It shattered again when she found a box of old keepsakes commemorating a life she'd never even known he lead. Heartbroken but determined, she accepts a seasonal job in rural Alaska to look after an injured musher's dogs while searching for the truth about her father's hidden past. But her cantankerous new boss comes with dangerous secrets of his own. When a fire ravages part of the property,...
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