by Lisa Alexia | Aug 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips has relevance for AlaskaSet in the Kamchatka peninsula of far northeastern Russia, debut novelist Julia Phillips writes in Disappearing Earth about the interior worlds of women, the importance of community, and the impacts of...
by Lisa Alexia | May 16, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Fighter in Velvet Gloves is “a true story for young teens about Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich” By Annie Boochever with Roy Peratrovich Jr., published February 16, 2019 by Snowy Owl Books, (University of Alaska Fairbanks Press). ...
by Lisa Alexia | Apr 1, 2018 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Village School Libraries When I first moved to a small village in rural Alaska, I would go hang out in the school library. A lot. It was the public internet access point, and as such, a gathering place for the village. I was amazed to find so many books there, in this...