The Great Alone
In 1970s Alaska, a family searching for a new beginning finds themselves battling the wild and each other. When Ernt Allbright, a volatile Vietnam veteran, m...
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Beneath the Fells
A missing woman. A quiet valley. A truth buried deeper than anyone imagined. When hotel cleaner Lina Marković disappears from a Lake District lodge, Detecti...
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Midnight on Derwentwater
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“Powerful and deeply moving”
I was completely swept away by Kristin Hannah’s vivid, atmospheric portrayal of Alaska: the wild beauty, the isolation, the rawness of the landscape. The sense of place is easily one of the novel’s greatest strengths,...
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