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Local Authors

Homer has long been a hotbed of local talent in many fields. Many of the finest authors in the State of Alaska have either lived in the Homer area or currently reside in the Homer area.

AUTOGRAPHED COPIES OF MANY OF THE BOOKS LISTED BELOW ARE AVAILABLE

Due to the popularity of local authors' books, combined with the limited availability of some authors (who often travel much more frequently than the rest of us), it is difficult to keep signed copies of all local books in stock at all times. Fortunately, authors are very accommodating about signing their books so we will endeavor to acquire autographed books from them, for our customers.

(Some titles may not be currently in stock. Prices are subject to change.)

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​​Brenda Adams

  • There's a Moose in My Garden: Designing Gardens in Alaska and the Far North

  • Cool Plants for Cold Climates: A Garden Designer's Perspective

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Brianna Allen

  • Momologue Collective​

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​A. W. Anderson

  • Ramblings of an Alaskan Bush Poet

  • Alaska Bush Cop

  • Before the Badge​


Jeannette Aragones

  • I Am Oscar: I Am In Charge

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Michael Armstrong

  • Bridge Over Hell

  • Truck Stop Earth

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Jean Aspen

  • Child of Air

  • Trusting the River

  • Arctic Daughter

  • Arctic Son

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Barbara Atwater

  • Walter's Story


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Larry Baxter

  • Abandoned: History & Horror of Port Chatham

  • Justice, Morals and Other Fairytales

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Marian Beck

  • Salmon Patties and Rosehip Pie Cookbook

 

Sara Berg

  • Kissing Kevin - An American Nurse in the Vietnam War

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Jennifer Bernard

  • Mine Until Moonrise

  • Yours Since Yesterday

  • Wicked In Winter

  • Head Over Heels for the Holidays

  • Ice Falls

  • Fire Peak

  • Smoky Lane

  • Snow River

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Sheridan Bishop IV

  • Red Fox

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David Brame

  • Wildmen of Denali

 

Bumppo Bremicker

  • Everlasting and the Great River

  • Everlasting and the Great Ocean

  • Everlasting and the Great Land


Daniel Bunker

  • Limpy Chesterton

 

Scott Burbank

  • Interior Waypoints - Sailing to Columbia
     

Sharon Bushell

  • We Alaskans

  • We Alaskans II

  • Trouble with Bernie

  • Bernie Jones and the Blazing Bandits

  • The Spill: Personal Stories From the Exxon Valdez Disaster

 

 
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Linda Chamberlain

  • Howling with Huskies

 

Richard Chiappone

  • Uncommon Weather

  • Hunger of Crows

  • Water of Undetermined Depth

  • Opening Days: A Fly Fisherman Writes

 
Dottie Cline

  • Fall to Flight: An Alaskan Eaglet's Story of Survival

  • Raven Paints the Birds

  • Paul Banks: Alaskan Music Man

  • Mary's Gift: Alaska's Remarkable Mary Epperson

 
Anne Coray

  • Late Fall Bucolics

  • Lake Clark National Park and Preserve

  • Bone Strings

  • Ivory

  • A Measure's Hush

  • Lost Mountain


Daniel Coyle

  • Culture Playbook

  • Talent Code

  • Little Book of Talent

  • Culture Code


Dan Crane

  • Poems Without Rhyme or Reason and a Couple of Yarns

 

Drift Creek

  • Oregon Tsunami

 


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DeVita

  • Every Family's Handy Guide to Prediction During Social Decline and Collapse

 

Diana Dirkby

  • Overlife: A Tale of Schizophrenia

 

Ann Dixon

  • Blueberry Shoe

  • Sleeping Lady


Doug Dodd

  • Hero Unaware

  • Man in Hole: Love, Lies, Addiction, and Butting Porcupines


Joan Brown Dodd

  • Welcome to 1960s Dutch Harbor, Alaska

  • Cow Woman of Akutan

  • ​Beggar's Gift and Other Stories: Fables for These Times

 

Orion Donicht

  • Hand-Dug Well Full of Snakes

 

Henri Duffy

  • Athletic Supporter (Frank Pooler #1)

  • Biologic Imperative (Frank Pooler #2)

  • Chef's Choice (Frank Pooler #3)

 

Jane Duhn

  • My Rainbow: An Introduction to Our Feelings


Jane Dunn

  • My Rainbow

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Lonnie DuPre

  • Alone at the Top

  • Life on Ice: Twenty-Five Years of Arctic Exploration

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Wendy Erd

  • Of Darkness and Light

  • It's a Crooked Road But Not Far to the House of Flowers



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Kris Farmen

  • Fireweed


Jonathan Faulkner

  • Odysseys from Homer


Nina Faust

  • Alpaca Relaxation Guide


Conrad Field

  • Alaska Ocean ABCs

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Pamela Fraley

  • Sad Salad (board book)

 

 
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Carey Gear

  • Dusty Milligan's Christmas Adventures

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Shelley Gill

  • If I Were a Fox (board book)

  • If I Were a Whale (board book)

  • If I Were a Bird (board book)

  • If I Were a Bear (board book)

  • Alaska's Dog Heroes (board book)

  • Prickly Rose

  • Sitka Rose

  • Alaska's Dog Heroes

  • Thunderfeet: Alaska's Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Critters

  • Alaska's Three Bears

  • Swimmer

  • Kiana's Iditarod

  • Danger the Dog Yard Cat (with Libby Riddles)

  • Big Blue

  • Alaska Mother Goose

  • Up on Denali: Alaska's Wilderness Mountain


Betty Jo Goddard

  • If You Can't Train Them, Love Them: The Dogs in My Life

 

J. R. Goodrich

  • Jungle Never Sleeps

 

Mike Gordon

  • Naked Alaskan

  • Dagnabit!

  • Learning the Ropes

 

Linda Graham

  • Kid's Stuff

  • A Long Road Home​

 

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Bonnie Hahn

  • A Lifetime of Alaskan Adventures

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Jessica and William Hahn

  • Pirreco's Journey/ El Viaje de Pirrecco

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George Harbeson Jr.

  • Homesteaders in the Headlights

  • Shadowed Times: Alaska Stories of Another Age

 

Madeline Hawthorne

  • Christmas Parade

 
Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand (w/ Malcolm MacPherson)

  • Time Bandit, Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs

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Jim Hjelmgren

  • Alaska Blue & Brown

  • Forgotten Badges

  • Homer Cast Aways: Shipwrecked Alaska

 

Erin Hollowell

  • Corvus and Crater

  • Pause, Traveler

  • Every Atom

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Suraj Holzwarth

  • Heart Like a Mountain

 
Homer Garden Club

  • Kachemak Cultivating from Seaside to Summit

 

Homer Foundation

  • Kachemak Bay Alaska

This is the only photo book of the local area. Published by the non-profit Homer Foundation, it is a beautiful collaborative project featuring many local photographers plus short essays by a few local writers. Proceeds benefit the Homer Foundation.
 

Clancy Hughes

  • Globalism or Democracy You Can't Have Both


Sidney Huntington, as told to Jim Rearden

  • Shadows on the Koyukuk



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McKibben Jackinsky

  • Too Close to Homer? Living with "drill, baby" on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula


Cherry Jones

  • More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women



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M. R. Katzke

  • One Good Man

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Peter Kaufmann​

  • Round Whisper of No Moon


Atz Kilcher

  • Son of a Midnight Land: A Memoir in Stories

  • Son of a Midnight Land on CD (unabridged), read by the author with 20 original songs


Eve and Eivin Kilcher

  • Homestead Kitchen

 

Mairiis Kilcher

  • Arlyn of the Forest

  • Bella Queen of the Cows​

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Ruth Kilcher (Mariott)

  • Voice of an Initiate (foreword by Jewel Kilcher)

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Tom Kizzia

  • Cold Mountain Path

  • Pilgrim's Wilderness

  • Wake of the Unseen Object

 

Janet R. Klein

  • Kachemak Bay Communities, Their Histories, Their Mysteries

  • Archaeology of Kachemak Bay

  • Alaska's Dinosaurs and Other Cretaceous Creatures

 

Naomi Klouda

  • Alaska Glacier Dictionary



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Emma Teal Laukitis & Claire Neaton (the Salmon Sisters)

  • The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage

  • The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska​

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Jim Lavrakas

  • Snap Decisions: My 30 Years as an Alaska News Photographer

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Brianna Lee

(Illustrator) The Inner Garden


Eartha Lee

  • Fleeing the Country: Rural Alaska Through the Eyes of a Child

 

Judith Lethin

  • A Wonderful Terrible God
     

M. R. R. Lopez

  • Founders Keep

 

Nancy Lord

  • pH: A Novel

  • Fish Camp: Life on an Alaskan Shore

  • Green Alaska: Dreams From the Far Coast

  • Beluga Days: Tales of an Endangered White Whale

  • Rock, Water, Wild

  • Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate Changed North

  • Man Who Swam with Beavers

  • (Editor) Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories From the Salmon Project

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​Tom Maloney

  • Carpenter's Sawhorse

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Donna Maltz

  • Living Like the Future Matters

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Linda Martin

  • I Follow in the Dust She Raises

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PJS Martin

  • Floaters: The Professor and the Captain

 

Dena Matkin

  • Alaskan Love Stories: A Researcher's Life


Sandy Mazen

  • Kiyonuk: An Arctic Alaska Boyhood


Neil McArthur

  • (Co-author) Alaska's Mushrooms


Mike McCann

  • Return to the River

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Ingrid McKinstry

  • Louie the Puffin's Burrow of Boots

 

Erin McKittrick

  • A Long Trek Home

  • Small Feet, Big Land

  • My Coyote Nose and Ptarmigan Toes

  • Mudflats and Fish Camps

 

Scott Miller

  • Alice Needs a Friend

 

Molly Montgomery

  • Beachcomber's ABC's

  • Messages From the Earth

  • Tide Pooler's Numbers

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Simone Nakada

  • Dysfunctional​​

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Katherine Norberg

  • Fool's Gold

  • Birthplace of the Winds​​

 


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Sally Oberstein

  • Shooting Steven​



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Elsa Pedersen

  • Kachemak Bay Years, An Alaska Homesteader's Memoir

 

Mary Haakenson Perry

  • Onward Crispy Shoulders: An Extraordinary Life with an Extra Chromosome

  • A Lot to Be Thankful For

  • Mystery on Cheechako Island

 

Sara Budinger Peterson

  • Alice: An Alaskan Pioneer

  • Alice Meets Inupiat Eskimos
     

Tracy Philpot
Original White Animals
 
Joyce Baker Porte

  • (Editor) Invisible Ink: A Collection of Short Pieces from Writers Ink Homer Writers Group

 

Lee Post

  • Articulations of a Porpoise Skeleton, Vol. 1 - A Step-by-Step Guide to Assembling Small Whale Skeletons

  • The Sperm Whale Engineering Manual, Vol. 2 - OR, Building a Large Whale Skeleton

  • The Whale Building Book, Vol. 3 - A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing and Assembling Medium-Sized Whale Skeletons

  • Pinniped Projects, Vol. 4 - Articulating Seal and Sea Lion Skeletons

  • The Bird Building Book, Vol. 5 - A Manual for Preparing Bird Skeletons with a Bone Identification Guide

  • The Moose Manual, Vol. 6 - How to Prepare and Articulate Large Hoofed Mammal Skeletons

  • Building Bear Bones, Vol. 7 - A Guide to Preparing and Assembling a Bear Skeleton - OR, Plantigrade Possibilities

  • Canine Construction, Vol. 8 - A Guide to Preparing and Assembling a Wolf Skeleton - OR, Digitigrade Designs

  • The Small Mammal Manual Manuscript, Vol. 9 - A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing and Articulating Small Mammal Skeletons

  • Bone Builder's Notebook, Vol. 10 - OR, More Than You Really Wanted to Know About Preparing Animal Skeletons for Articulation

  • Bone Guide to Selected Land Mammals of the Northwestern States

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Charles Rainwater

  • Gumboot Cowboy

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Jim Rearden

  • Alaska's Wolf Man

  • Wolves of Alaska: A Fact-Based Saga

  • Old Alaska: Events of the 1900s

  • Old Alaska II: Events of the 1900s

 
Tom Reed

  • Moved by a Mountain: Inspiration from an Alpine View in Alaska

 

Bill Richardson

  • Making Do or Doing Without

  • Corky and the Alaskan Bears

  • Corky's Courage

  • Corky and the Alaskan Gold Digger

 

Libby Riddles

  • Storm Run: The First Woman to Win the Iditarod

  • Danger the Dog Yard Cat (with Shelley Gill)


Don Ronda 

  • I Wanted to Fly

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Randy Rosencrans​

  • The Believers

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Karen Roush

  • The Rambling Bitch: Stories and Poetry of the Mundane and the Not So Mundane

  • Diary of a Silly Woman

  • Tales of a Dogsitter

  • More Tails of a Dogsitter

 

Lela Ryterski

  • Samurai Meets a Buddha

  • World Peace Through Inner Happiness

 


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Eva Saulitis

  • Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist

  • Many Ways to Say It

  • Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery & Loss Among Vanishing Orcas

  • Prayer in the Wind

  • Becoming Earth

 

Linda Schandelmeier

  • Coming Out of Nowhere: Alaska Homestead Poems

 

Marianne Schlegelmilch

  • Gaston's Crow's Nest: An Alaska Tale

  • Raven's Light

  • Feather From a Stranger: An Alaskan Mystery

  • Coho Waterboy

  • Two Tickets and a Feather

  • Drift Feather on the Alaska Seas

  • Slugs Forever

  • Feather for Hoonah Joe

  • Feather for Forever

  • Lavender White Arctic Blue

 
Shannon Schrader

  • Up from Darkness

 

Harold Shepherd

  • Return to Ekeunick's Time


Marilyn Sigman

  • Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

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Brian George Smith

  • Golden Boy

  • Ida Mae Joy

  • Pearl
     

Rebecca Snow

  • Glassmusic


Gail Sorensen

  • Ah Lee: My Days as Grandmother to Alaska's Emergency Services System


Dana Stabenow

  • The Harvey Girl (forthcoming in 2026)

 

  • Death of an Eye (Eye of Isis #1)

  • Disappearance of a Scribe (Eye of Isis #2)

  • Theft of an Idol (Eye of Isis #3)

  • Abduction of a Slave (Eye of Isis #4)​

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  • Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell #1)

  • So Sure of Death (Liam Campbell #2)

  • Nothing Gold Can Stay (Liam Campbell #3)

  • Better to Rest (Liam Campbell #4)

  • Spoils of the Dead (Liam Campbell #5)

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  • A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1)

  • A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak #2)

  • Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak #3)

  • A Cold Blooded Business (Kate Shugak #4)

  • Play With Fire (Kate Shugak #5)

  • Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak #6)

  • Breakup (Kate Shugak #7)

  • Killing Grounds (Kate Shugak #8)

  • Hunter's Moon (Kate Shugak #9)

  • Midnight Come Again (Kate Shugak #10)

  • The Singing of the Dead (Kate Shugak #11)

  • A Fire and Better Snow (Kate Shugak #12)

  • A Grave Denied (Kate Shugak #13)

  • A Taint in the Blood (Kate Shugak #14)

  • Whisper to the Blood (Kate Shugak #15)

  • A Night Too Dark (Kate Shugak #16)

  • Though Not Dead (Kate Shugak #17)

  • Restless in the Grave (Kate Shugak #18)

  • Bad Blood (Kate Shugak #19)

  • Less Than a Treason (Kate Shugak #20)

  • No Fixed Line (Kate Shugak #21)

  • Killing Grounds (Kate Shugak #22)

  • Not the Ones Dead (Kate Shugak #23)

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  • Prepared for Rage

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Robert Stark

  • Just Like a Soldier

  • Warflower - A True Story of Family, Service, and Life in Alaska

 

Derek Stonorov

  • Watch the Bear


Chris Story

  • Born To Live


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Taz Tally

  • Backroads and Byways of Alaska: Drives, Day Trips and Weekend Excursions

  • 50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula

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Jim Thurston

  • Terminal Velocity

 

Jimmy Tohill

  • The Spirit of Alaska

  • The Spirit of Alaska Vol. 2

  • The Spirit of Alaska Vol. 3


Renn Tolman

  • Tolman Alaskan Skiffs



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Miranda Weiss

  • Tide, Feather, Snow


Kyle Wentz

  • The Return (Of Storms & Stars #1)

 

Lorraine Williams

  • You Know You're in a Small Town When

  • You Know You're in a Small Town When Vol. 2

 
Wilma Williams

  • This is Coffee Point, Go Ahead

  • Alaska Sea Escapes

  • If You've Got It To Do


Cassondra Windwalker

  • Ghost Girls and Rabbits

  • Bury the Lead

  • The Almost Children

 

Sally Wills

  • Tackle Box Fairies

  • The Mason Jar Fairy: An Alaskan Tale


Charles Wohlforth

  • Our Story in Many Voices


Steve Wolfe

  • Call Us Champions


Jerry Wood

  • Discovery to Catastrophe

 

 

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Thomas Young

  • (Contributor) Heart Horse: Soulful Stories of Equine Healing, Grace & Companionship

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