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SPRING 2021 CATALOG
2020 winner of the Permafrost Prize
GO PLAY OUTSIDE!
Tips, Tricks, and Tales
from the Trails
I THOUGHT THERE WOULD
BE MORE WOLVES
Nancy Fresco poems
Ordering Information . . 2 s a r a rya n
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Contact Information . . 2 FINDING TRUE NORTH
Me e t th e B ra v e T lin git Wo man First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska
worksheets, activities, and reflections for grades 6–12
th a t Ch a n ge d Ala s k a Fo re ver
STUDY GUIDE
“No Natives Allowed!” The sign blared at the young Tlingit girl from
southeast Alaska. The sting of those words stayed with Elizabeth Peratrovich
New Books . . . . . . . . 3
fighter in velvet gloves
all her life. They also made her determined to work for change.
In 1945, when Elizabeth was 34 years old, she gave a powerful speech
before a packed session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. Her testimony
about the evils of racism crowned years of work by Alaska Native people and
their allies and led to passage of Alaska’s landmark Anti-Discrimination Act,
nearly two decades before President Lyndon Johnson signed the US Civil a true story for young teens
Rights Act of 1964.
A l a s k a C i v i l Ri gh t s He ro
Today, Alaskans honor Elizabeth Peratrovich (1911–1958) every year on
February 16 “for her courageous, unceasing efforts to eliminate discrimination
and bring about equal rights in Alaska.” (Alaska Statutes 44.12.065).
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Popular Backlist Titles. 16 FIGHTER IN
It’s the kind of book I wish my own children could have read when they were
in grade school, a moving story that deserves a place in every school library in
this nation. Told in straightforward, readable prose, Fighter in Velvet Gloves is the
biography of an Alaska Native woman who, despite adversity, never gave up as she
Annie Boochever
VE LVET
struggled for equality. Both Native and Non-Native young people should be able
to identify with Elizabeth Petratrovich, who fought her battles in the far north long
before the Civil Rights movement in the American South caught fire.
—Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki author and storyteller, author of Our Stories Remember
We Tlingit people are sensitive about our stories, yet Annie Boochever has del-
GLOVES
icately managed this conundrum and, with Roy, has achieved a respectful and
deeply honest telling of Elizabeth’s life. What I would have given to have had this
inspiring book in my hands in my troubled youth.
—Diane Benson, assistant professor at the Department of Alaska Native Studies
& Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks
TEEN NON-FICTION
University of Alaska Press
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Annie Boochever with Roy Peratrovich Jr.
Molly Rettig
Northern
Garden
Symphony
Combining Hardy Perennials
for Blooms All Season
Cyndie Warbelow
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Cold Latitudes • Rosemary McGuire
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On the cover:
Finding True North cover art by
Corey DiRutigliano
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GO PLAY OUTSIDE!
Tips, Tricks, and Tales
from the Trails
Nancy Fresco
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Go Play Outside!
Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails
NANCY FRESCO
January Go Play Outside! offers practical advice and
210 p. | 6 x 9 engaging reading for new parents, not-so-new-
978-1-60223-439-0 parents, or anyone who wants to encourage
children to enjoy the great outdoors.
978-1-60223-440-6 (ebook)
Stage by stage, from infancy to the teen
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years, enjoy stories and real-world examples as
Outside you journey on delightful and often hilarious
Nature
adventures across mountaintops, rivers, and
canyons—or just down the street to the local
park.
Set in the cold, dark heart of Alaska, the book
paints a picture of life at the extremes, while
making it clear that you don’t have to be extreme
to go play outside.
NANCY FRESCO, Jay Cable, and their twin daughters,
Elizabeth and Molly, live in Fairbanks, Alaska. Nancy
researches climate change and Jay is a system analyst,
both at the University of Alaska; Molly and Lizzy are
now high school students. Whenever possible, they
disappear into the wilds to play outside.
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2020 winner of the Permafrost Prize
I THOUGHT THERE WOULD
BE MORE WOLVES
poems
s a r a rya n
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves offers a bold voice, fierce and
vulnerable. I admire that while it engages pain it does not stay in that
space of hurt but pushes beyond to what’s next.
—ELIZABETH BRADFIELD, author of Toward Antarctica
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I Thought There
Would Be
More Wolves
SARA RYAN
February These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—
112 p. | 6 x 9 they clack and bruise and make loud sounds .
978-1-60223-449-9 In between these lines, in warm places where
978-1-60223-450-5 (ebook) blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted,
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a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and
wolves come out of the woods to run across
Poetry
the frozen water of Lake Superior.
SARA RYAN is the author of the chapbooks Never
Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned (Porkbelly
Press) and Excellent Evidence of Human Activity
(The Cupboard Pamphlet). In 2018, she won Grist’s
Pro Forma Contest and Cutbank’s Big Sky, Small
Prose Contest. Her work has been published in Brevity,
Kenyon Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Prairie Schooner,
Thrush Poetry Journal and other journals. She is a
managing editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.
She received her MFA from Northern Michigan
University, and is currently pursuing her PhD at
Texas Tech University.
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worksheets, activities, and reflections for grades 6–12
STUDY GUIDE
fighter in velvet gloves
a true story for young teens
Alaska Civil Rights Hero
Elizabeth Peratrovich
FIGHTER IN
Annie Boochever
VE LVET
GLOVES
Annie Boochever with Roy Peratrovich Jr.
We Tlingit people are sensitive about our stories, yet Boochever has delicately
managed this conundrum and, with Roy, has achieved a respectful and
deeply honest telling of Elizabeth’s life. What I would have given to have had
this inspiring book in my hands in my troubled youth.
—DIANE BENSON, assistant professor at the Department of Alaska Native
Studies & Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks
6
Fighter in Velvet
Gloves Study Guide
Alaska Civil Rights Hero
Elizabeth Peratrovich
ANNIE BOOCHEVER
February “No Natives Allowed!” The sign blared at the
72 p. | 8.5 x 11 young Tlingit girl from southeast Alaska. The sting
of those words stayed with Elizabeth Peratrovich
978-1-60223-445-1
all her life. They also made her determined to work
978-1-60223-446-8 (ebook)
for change.
Paper $9.95 In 1945, when Elizabeth was 34 years old, she
Sports gave a powerful speech before a packed session
of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. Her testimony
about the evils of racism crowned years of work
by Alaska Native people and their allies and led to
passage of Alaska’s landmark Anti-Discrimination
Act, nearly two decades before President Lyndon
Johnson signed the US Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Today, Alaskans honor Elizabeth Peratrovich
(1911–1958) every year on February 16 “for
her courageous, unceasing efforts to eliminate
discrimination and bring about equal rights in
Alaska.” (Alaska Statutes 44.12.065).
Designed to accompany the original Fighter
in Velvet Gloves written for young readers and
published by UA Press in 2019, this new study
guide helps educators easily use the story of this
Alaska Civil Rights hero in classrooms.
ANNIE BOOCHEVER grew up in Juneau when Alaska
was still a territory. Racism, although subtler than
before passage of the anti-discrimination bill, was still
pervasive. Even as a child, she was painfully aware of it.
After a career teaching music, theater, library and
high school English, Annie earned an MFA in Creative
Writing for Children and Young Adults. Her first book,
Bristol Bay Summer (Alaska Northwest Books, 2014), was
an Alaska State Battle of the Book’s pick for middle-
grades and an International Literary Classic’s winner for
best first novel.
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FINDING TRUE NORTH
First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska
Molly Rettig
With unusually vivid storytelling unfolding across an epic canvas,
Rettig gives voice to the people whose lives trace the history of
modern Alaska. Rettig is one hell of a writer,
and in Finding True North spins one hell of a story.
—SCOTT WEIDENSAUl, author of A World on the Wing and Pulitzer Prize
finalist Living on the WindFinding True North
Firsthand Stories of the Booms that
Built Modern Alaska
MOLLY RETTIG
March Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes.
280 p. | 6 x 9 Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys.
978-1-60223-443-7 These were the images that came to mind when
978-1-60223-444-4 (ebook) Molly Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work
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as a reporter at the local newspaper. An avid
environmentalist, she couldn’t wait to explore the
History
vast, untamed spaces. But when her 72-year-old
neighbor, Clutch, invites her on a tour of his gold
mine—an 800-foot tunnel blasted into the side of
his house—she begins to question many of her
ideas about Alaska, and about herself.
In Finding True North, Rettig takes us on a
gripping journey through the past that brings
alive the state's magnificent country and its
quirky, larger-than-life characters. She meets a
trapper who harvests all she needs from the land,
a bush pilot who taught himself how to fly, and
an archaeologist who helped build an oil pipeline
through pristine wilderness. While she learns how
airplanes, mines, and oil fields have paved the
way for newcomers like herself, she also stumbles
upon a bigger question: what has this quest for
Alaska’s natural resources actually cost, and how
much more is at stake?
This is a book about all the ways wild places
teach us about ourselves. About how one place
can be many things to many people—
and how all of it can be true.
MOLLY RETTIG is communications director at the
Cold Climate Housing Research Center. She moved to
Fairbanks in 2010 to work at the Fairbanks Daily News-
Miner, and still lives there with her husband and two
daughters.
9Cold Latitudes • Rosemary McGuire
Rosemary McGuire is from and of the cold latitudes about which she
writes. It shows in the chop and bang, the beauty and slide of her
words as if lifted directly from the Arctic’s intrinsic difficulty and
elegance. Not to be missed!
—GRETEL EHRLICH, author of Unsolaced
10Cold Latitudes
ROSEMARY MCGUIRE
April From solo voyages down the Yukon River
176 p. | 6 x 9 and part of the Northwest Passage, to working
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with humpback whales in the Southern Ocean,
978-1-60223-438-3 (ebook) to chilling encounters with polar bears, Cold
Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based
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on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and
Memoir
Antarctica. The author was privileged to see
firsthand worlds that few will ever know, while
participating in cutting-edge research at high
latitudes.
It is her friendships with local people, and
with scientific researchers, that form the core
of her experiences. Through these people,
she learns humility and a sense of wonder at
the natural world. Throughout, she examines
human relationships with wilderness and our
growing effects on a fragile planet.
ROSEMARY MCGUIRE works as a biological research
technician in the Arctic and Antarctica. She is the
author of Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman's
Memoir and The Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of
the Sea.
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By carefully guiding readers through the concepts of designing
perennial gardens—including emphasis on bloom succession, balance,
continuity, and the importance of eye movement—Warbelow creates an
easy-to-follow, step-by-step process that every gardener can employ!
—BRENDA C. ADAMS, Writer, speaker, educator, and award-winning
garden designer
12Northern Garden
Symphony
Combining Hardy Perennials for
Blooms All Season
CYNDIE WARBELOW
May Put the power of a garden planning pro to
304 p. | 8 x 10 work for you!
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Using northern gardens as the venue,
long-time Alaska garden designer Cyndie
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Warbelow examines sequential bloom times
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of ornamental perennials as a tool in garden
Gardening design.
The idea of sequential blooming is similar
to the workings of a musical symphony:
a portion of all plants in the garden are
blooming at all times, even though they are
not all blooming at the same time. Given
that each perennial plant blooms for a
limited and specific period of time during
the growing season, it is crucial that a
garden be designed with sequential bloom
times in mind. Warbelow shows you how
to select plants, plan, and plant to compose
your own northern garden symphony.
CYNDIE WARBELOW built The Plant Kingdom
Greenhouse and Nursery, now a well-known spot
to buy locally grown plants in Fairbanks. She
soon started teaching perennial garden design
at many locations including The Plant Kingdom,
the Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the
National Garden Club, and local garden groups.
Warbelow now teaches classes and consults in
garden design.
13A forgotten classic—not only one of the top books about
Alaska Native culture, but one of the best Alaska books ever. . . .
Every bit as fresh and relevant today as it was a quarter century ago.
—NICK JANS, author of A Wolf Called Romeo
and contributing editor, Alaska Magazine
14The Wake of the
Unseen Object
Travels Through Alaska's
CLASSIC Native Landscapes
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January journey to Alaska’s remote roadless
336 p. | 6 x 9 villages, during a time of great historical
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transition, brings us this enduring portrait
of a place and its people.
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Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan
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subjects reveal themselves as entirely
Non-Fiction contemporary individuals with deep
longings and connection to the land and to
their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels
off the Alaska road system, first published in
1991, has endured with a sterling reputation
for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching
engagement with the complexity of
Alaska’s rural communities. The Wake of the
Unseen Object is now considered some of
the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska.
This new edition includes an updated
introduction by the author, looking at what
remains the same after thirty years and
what is different—both in Alaska, and in the
expectations placed on a reporter visiting
from another world.
TOM KIZZIA is the author of the New York Times
bestseller Pilgrim’s Wilderness. His journalism has
appeared in The New Yorker and Best American
Science and Nature Writing 2017. He traveled
widely in rural Alaska as a reporter for the
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