04534cam a2200649 4500 580752856 TxGeo 20220716120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781565126565 1565126564 B003I1WY2K Amazon cd2d96bb-7d65-43ef-be7c-77e96d91d948 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 335747 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Lende, Heather, 1959- If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name [Libby] : News from Small-Town Alaska. Algonquin Books, 2006. funerals. husband. mysterious death. Alaska. neighbors. obituaries . eccentric. Juneau. gold miner. local newspaper. goat hunting. good weather. close knit town. common affair. accessible by air. accessible by water. adventurous live. vanish without a trace. social column. quirky friends. red union suit. no mail delivery. no traffic lights. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2854kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:“Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott, essayist and NPR commentator Heather Lende introduces readers to life in the town of Haines, Alaska . . . subtly reminding readers to embrace each day, each opportunity, each life that touches our own and to note the beauty of it all.” —The Los Angeles Times Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the going-on in this close-knit town—from births to weddings to funerals—she does. Whether contemplating the mysterious death of eccentric Speedy Joe, who wore nothing but a red union suit and a hat he never took off, not even for a haircut; researching the details of a one-legged lady gold miner's adventurous life; worrying about her son's first goat-hunting expedition; observing the awe-inspiring Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival; or ice skating in the shadow of glacier-studded mountains, Lende's warmhearted style brings us inside her small-town life. We meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local lumber yard; their five children; and a colorful assortment of quirky friends and neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, and volunteer undertakers—as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land. Like Bailey White's tales of Southern life or Garrison Keillor's reports from the Midwest, NPR commentator Heather Lende's take on her offbeat Alaskan hometown celebrates life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place. Heather Lende's new book, Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics is available now. . Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-15 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/CD2/D96/BB/IfYouLivedHereIdKnowYourName9781565126565.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CD2D96BB-7D65-43EF-BE7C-77E96D91D948&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/CD2/D96/BB/IfYouLivedHereIdKnowYourName9781565126565.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CD2D96BB-7D65-43EF-BE7C-77E96D91D948&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/CD2/D96/BB/IfYouLivedHereIdKnowYourName9781565126565.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CD2D96BB-7D65-43EF-BE7C-77E96D91D948&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5