Search Results: Authors starting with A from Publication Consultants

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 3/1/18. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Time travel. It’s always been a crowd-pleasing topic for most. The power sought after and craved by everyone—whether they missed the lottery by a single digit or had a rough childhood that they decided needed changing. But, despite all the fantastic dreams, the world knows time travel isn’t real. Enter Jericho Johnson Not only is time travel very real to him, he’s used it in the usual ways one would expect—getting rich, predicting world-changing events and, more importantly, traveling to whenever he chooses just for kicks. But just when he thinks his secret is safe, he discovers two other time travelers. One politely wants him to stop while he’s ahead. The other wants to end time as we know it and bring the planet to the brink of destruction. So, no pressure.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 8/15/19. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Hyroc is different than boys his age. This has earned him a place as an outcast and has even made people fear him. Nothing he does seems to make a difference. Still, he has been able to live a relatively normal life. But an accident shatters all this. Hunted by an enemy that will only stop with his death, he is forced to leave behind everything he has ever known. Alone, and with no one to turn to for help, every day is a challenge to survive. Through his struggle he finds his way to a place where not everything he has been taught to believe is true. Inexplicable events surround him here and his past begins to be revealed. It’s what he always wanted, but as the answers unfold, it seems more is going on than he realized and one danger may have blinded him to another.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 8/1/06. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Little Dragonfly is making a quilt for Mother’s birthday. But what color should it be? As Little Dragonfly flits across the Alaska tundra, Hummingbird, Butterfly, and Tundra Swan offer their suggestions for a quilt the color of Alaska’s wildflowers. Oh, yes, Caribou, Bunny, and Bear help too. Little Dragonfly’s friends help her solve the color puzzle. And Mother’s birthday quilt is quite a surprise!

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 4/1/18. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “This is a story of a magical time and place that was very real. Magic is the power to transform. See for yourself how a couple of young men transformed an ordinary ferry ride into Ferryboat Music. Their music touched and changed the lives of thousands who saw them every weekend on the sparkling waters of Puget Sound. This is a story of transforming fear into love, mundane into miraculous, and isolation into connection. Feel the heart and the humor in every story in these pages.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 10/1/16. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Tatiana is a unique story from the early 1800s brought into the 21st century by oral tradition. Tatiana recalls the genuine romance and fearful adventures of a young girl born in Cook Inlet during a season of cultural con ict, violence, greed, and extreme hardship. She was forced to choose between the simple desires of her Dena’ina Athabaskan mother and the adamant demands of an adoring yet intensely stubborn Russian father. Her decision changed history during that era and inspires this generation with rich cultural knowledge and values. “At that time of the world, every family was its own last resort. e innocent were forced to defend themselves, o en emerging less than innocent...if they emerged at all.”

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 10/1/17. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “New ways of life often provide benefits while simultaneously inflicting pain. This tendency is especially true when indigenous, ethnic, and rural people face the impacts of the modern world. Polar Bear Inc. portrays these pressures through the depiction of a fictional indigenous community and the tensions and challenges occurring in the wake of social and economic transitions. By visiting a struggling and evolving community, the reader witnesses the tensions, rivalries, and dysfunction arising due to outside intrusions and internal wrangling. Meet a wide cast of characters who must take sides in a tale of power, control, and identity as some people embrace their heritage while others turn away from it. “

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 8/1/10. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Unfortunately, most visitors to Alaska have but a few days to explore. As a result, much goes unseen and unknown. Gain the visions you missed by hitchhiking along with my recollections of a ten year foray into the Last Frontier. Drive the Alaska Highway, taking side trips to Dawson City and Valdez. Stalk moose and catch salmon with Athabascan Indians who still follow a subsistence way of life. Observe an Inupiaq whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean. Visit the rural neighborhood where dog sledding heroes, such as Lance Mackey and Ken Anderson, live and practice their sport. Fly by bush plane into remote camps and live with exploration teams. See how frontier boom towns, like Fairbanks and Nome, as well as Native villages, are evolving. These and many more exciting adventures await. You can’t see Alaska in a few days. But you can experience it through my eyes and Far North Adventure.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 7/1/20. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Robert Hansen, Alaska’s most notorious serial killer, hunted his victims. Andrea Altiery was one of his victims. Andrea’s body has never been located or recovered. After leaving Alaska in 1983, author Robert Algeri, spent the next thirteen years unsuccessfully trying to piece together what happened to his friend, Andrea Altiery Fearing the worst, Robert returned to Anchorage, Alaska in 1996 hoping to gain insight into Andrea’s fate. Andrea’s Dream, Enchanted Alaskan Proprietress’ pages are filled with delicious tension as he gets bruised, battered and beaten down across the city of Anchorage, Alaska in his grass-roots search for Andrea Altiery Realizing the fragile futility of his actions, Robert becomes entangled in an urban Alaska adventure while searching for lost love; love that never gets found; and love that maybe never was.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 4/1/20. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “I met Andrea Altiery in 1981; the first thing she asked was, “Do you like the rock band Aerosmith?” I responded, “Yes.” She smiled and slapped me on my left shoulder telling me, “Dream on my friend.” Later that year Andrea was taken from us by the most notorious serial killer to ever hunt in the state of Alaska. Get ready to collectively ride an emotional ride through urban Alaska while looking through a steamy window for lost love; love that’s never found and love that maybe never was. I can only imagine the helplessness; the complete feeling of being alone these women had; Andrea must have had, preyed upon all of their spirit’s gathering together now. Victims of circumstance; none of these women deserved to be mistreated like Andrea; dehumanized, erased from our minds. One last chance to give Andrea a voice, each woman asking us can you hear me, do you see me now?

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 8/1/05. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Children everywhere will love the chants and poems in Alaska Animals, We Love You! and accompanying CD. Whether alone or in groups, they will learn to speak and read through this medium. Usuing rhythm, rhyme, ostinatos, isstruments or melody, each poem instructs about langue. Most of these poems or chants teach scientific facts about Alaska animals. The sparkling illustrations will dazzle every animal-loving heart. The CD, which is included in this hard cover book, will Alice Wright graduated from California State University, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and a minor in Music. She received a Master of Arts in Special Education from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Alice’s teaching assignments have included regular classroom, orchestra, bilingual, and special education. She is a violinist, having played in Shreveport Symphony, Anchorage Symphony, and… Read More

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 12/1/16. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Just as they love the first book, Alaska Animals, We Love You!, children everywhere will adore Alaska Animals, We Love You! 2. The fun of learning about animals with music is simply delightful. The musical education and science learning are too special to miss. The drawings and the CD bring LaVon and Alice right into the home or classroom for all to enjoy. “

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 6/1/11. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Cut From The Wilderness is about survival. It is filled with adventure, hardships, lonesomeness, poverty, and adaptation. The story reveals the author’s strength of character—and acceptance of what life dealt. Through the eyes of a young girl, Cut From The Wilderness gives a glimpse of what it was like growing up on a homestead in rugged Alaska. She demonstrates that people made do with what they had instead of society dictating the needs of people—Alaskans sufficed with far less. Blending her story with her great grandparent’s and grandparent’s story gives a remarkable history lesson of what Alaska was like during territorial days.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 7/1/11. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Cabbage has been heralded as a cancer inhibitor in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, is loaded with vitamin C, only has 11 calories per serving, and may be added to enhance almost any recipe. It can be fried, boiled, baked, frozen, canned, or dried, and then ground in a food mill and used to thicken soup. Making it into sauerkraut is an added bonus because it is ready to us--as you will find in You Put What In My Dessert?. Sauerkraut got its start more than 2,000 years ago when the laborers building the Great Wall of China pickled cabbage in wine to supplement their diet. Genghis Khan came along and liked it so much he took it back to fortify his Tartars as they plundered their way through Europe. The Germans enjoyed the pickled cabbage and named it sauerkraut, meaning sour cabbage. Captain Cook knew of its importance when he carried sauerkraut on his ships to ward off scurvy.… Read More

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 1/1/13. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “The First Easter Bunny! A colorful array of watercolor illustrations with scripture references brings to life the unique story of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to his ascension into the heavens; all through the eyes of one small rabbit named Arnebeth. Included inside is a photograph of a real Israeli rock rabbit known as a hyrax just like Arnebeth!

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 12/1/09. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Cuppycake Sam shares his six-plus years experience of having a chronic illness. Sam’s purpose for writing Opening Hearts is to provide hope and encouragement for kids who are chronically ill, and to open hearts of people throughout the world. To build an understanding that we should not judge others, for we do not know the trials and challenges that all individuals must face.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 5/1/03. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “My Name is Ick introduces children and parents to Ick, a gentle creature in a hurry to grow up. As this character faces what must be a traumatic experience in the life of a young caribou, the reader is introduced to phrases containing wonderfully predictable rhyming words. Rhyming is a very important skill for children to develop as a precursor to reading. Not only does it sharpen listening skills and encourage sound manipulation, but it’s also a lot of fun.”

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 6/1/13. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Robby was sent tumbling over the side of his family’s pickup and hitting the wheel and tire--hard. He finds himself battered and broken hiding out in a storm outside Palmer, Alaska. He’s three-hundred miles from home and his only compass is the tug of his heart and memory of his girl. His nose points south and he dares to face the cold grip of Alaska’s edge of winter and the cold city “”that ain’t no place for a dog.”” Over mountain and city streets he journeys at the edge of his endurance. The hungry empty-bellied wolves and killing-frost his constant fears. Wounded and sick--nearly drowned, his iron-will and courage urges him on. For he knows in his heart that only a true dog--a great dog, stops at nothing to get home to his human. Robby knows he’s honor bound to be by his Miss’s side--or die trying.eys and find her true voice? “

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 7/1/00. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “As a sequel to Gold in Trib 1, Doug’s new book, Mystery in Trib 2 is an interesting blend of fact and fiction; factual in terms of the flying, hiking, and gold-mining two friends enjoyed; fictional in the form of a cleverly woven mystery concerning the loss of a World War II military aircraft. The story is well researched and so masterfully formulated the reader will be hard pressed to separate historical fact from fiction. Mystery in Trib 2 portrays wilderness Alaska accurately and as it can be experienced by anyone fired with a lust for outdoor adventure.

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 6/1/15. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “Douglas Anderson, the author, was born in Derbyshire, England. After his father passed away, Douglas went to live on his Grandfather’s farm. Never very interested in animal husbandry, he leaned more toward the mechanical aspects of farming: maintaining and operating machinery. After an apprenticeship in the mechanical field, Douglas joined Rolls-Royce and began an interesting and diverse career. In the ensuing years, that career encompassed: jet engines, rocket engines and industrial gas turbines. Douglas immigrated to Canada in 1967, to the USA in 1977 and back to Canada in 2001. An adventurous fourteen years while supporting RR products in Alaska prompted Douglas to write and to become a published author. For many years, Anderson traveled and represented the company. Representing covers those years and some of the situations, humorous and otherwise, that he and his fellow Reps… Read More

“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 10/1/09. First Edition. Perfect Bound. Like New/Like New. “The war in the Pacific is raging, the rudimentary Alaska-Canada military road is completed, and vast quantities of supplies are being moved northwest to deter a Japanese invasion of Alaska. Shinichi Oda, a pilot of the Japanese Imperial Navy, is launched on a daring mission to disrupt these shipments and, hopefully, weaken the resolve of the enemy. His actions were to set in motion a sequence of events that could never have been foretold. Shinichi soon finds himself alone and struggling to survive in an unforgiving northern wilderness. He’s tenacious and resourceful but how can he ever find a way to return to his distant homeland? It seems impossible but, against all odds, he must try. Lost in a Foreign Land provides a fascinating conclusion to what was formerly a matter of question. Herein, the story describes a desperate situation for the Shinichi Oda. As the story unfolds, his dilemma… Read More