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  • The Getting Place

    by Frank Soos ...
    The stories in The Getting Place spring from the places Frank Soos loved best: the coal hills of southwest Virginia, the coves of coastal Maine, and the rivers and tundra around Fairbanks, Alaska. They ask, “Who can know the why of his own life, the why of what he does?” We join his characters when their lives spin beyond their control, when they face unexpected upheavals that change their lives ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wheels on Ice

    Stories of Cycling in Alaska

    Edited by Jessica Cherry, Frank Soos ...
    Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. This collection opens with the first bicycle boom and the advent of the safety bicycle in the late 1800s, at approximately the same time gold was discovered in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. As bicycles ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2025 Guest-edited by Peggy Shumaker

    by Peggy Shumaker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim S. Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, Kelli Russell Agodon, William Archilla, Rick Barot, Lory Bedikian, Jocko Benoit, Fleda Brown, Susan Campbell, Jeanne E. Clark, Madelyn Chen, Kevin Clark, Lindsay D'Andrea, David Daniel, Oliver de la Paz, Mai Der Vang, Stuart Dybek, Leila Farjami, Kevin Goodan, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sean Hill, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Kimberly Johnson, L.A. Johnson, Brian Komei Dempster, Douglas Manuel, Chloe Martinez, Cleopatra Mathis, Jennifer Militello, Triin Paja, Susanna J. Mishler, Hilda Raz, James Richardson, Alberto Ríos, Nicholas Samaras, William Pitt Root, Lis Sanchez, Elaine Sexton, Maurya Simon, Frank Soos, Brian Tierney, Pamela Uschuk ...
    The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bamboo Fly Rod Suite

    Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace

    by Frank Soos ...
    After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here.With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Unpleasantries

    Considerations of Difficult Questions

    by Frank Soos ...
    Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quickly—skiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highways—Soos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of “thinking and doing” onto the ... Read more

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  • Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

    An Eclectic Collection to Honor Alaska’s Public Historian

    Edited by Frank Soos, Mary Ehrlander ...
    This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflections on Cole’s contributions in teaching, research, and service, to topics he encouraged his students to pursue, plus pieces he inspired directly or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Day’s Pay

    Stories about Work from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Robert Abel, Wendy Brenner, David Crouse, Alfred DePew, Carole L. Glickfeld, Melinda Moustakis, Randy F. Nelson, Gina Ochsner, Andy Plattner, Frank Soos, Nancy Zafris, Monica McFawn ...
    Series Book 116 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

    by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts ...
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  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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    One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue ... Read more

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  • The Ice Pilots

    Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North

    by Michael Vlessides ...
    As seen on TV!The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From rookie pilots trying to earn their wings in sometimes hellish conditions to vintage planes that flew over ... Read more

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  • The Designated +1

    A Romantic Comedy

    by Ellie Cahill ...
    Series Book 2 - Cordially Invited
    6 weddings, 2 old friends, 1 childhood crush that left her crushed.Hadley isn’t exactly leading a life that anyone would call #goals: living with her parents and walking dogs for money. This should be the perfect time to avoid seeing too many people, so the half dozen wedding invitations waiting for her RSVP feel awfully judgey. Especially the one from her childhood crush.So when Hadley runs into ... Read more

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  • Shotgun Christmas

    Two Christmas Tales

    by Steve Vernon ...
    Series series Stories to SERIOUSLY Creep You Out
    There is a big old sledding hill not more than two or three good snowballs’ worth of distance from our home, just behind Hank Macabee’s house. That hill was waiting for me and my brand new toboggan. It’s one of those sneak-up kind of hills with a long slow ride down that picks up speed as it goes with a bump-hump at the end that you never see coming.I didn’t see what was coming next, either.The ... Read more

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