title: Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North
author: 32 writers from rural Alaska
description: Purely Alaska portrays the stunning physical world of Alaska and its spectacular challenges. These stories open hearts and memories to reveal the pain and strength, the joy, endurance and faith of those who survive and thrive within Alaska's often unforgiving wintery power. ----William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow<br /><br />Here is a fascinating guided tour of the real Bush Alaska, not the prettified version we see in tourist brochures. Here we meet the good and the bad, the happy and the sad... ----Stan Jones, author of Village of the Ghost Bears<br /><br />Here are the beginnings of a true indigenous literature from modern rural Alaska. These stories describe amazing situations in matter-of-fact style. Within the raw immediacy of the writers experiences, we find great human themes of life in transition pain and loss, redemption and exaltation all depicted before the astonishing backdrop of Alaska s natural and cultural landscapes. -- --Tom Kizzia, author of The Wake of the Unseen Object<br /><br />Winner - One of America's Best Regional Books 2010 --Foreword Magazine<br /><br />Here are the beginnings of a true indigenous literature from modern rural Alaska. These stories describe amazing situations in matter-of-fact style. Within the raw immediacy of the writers experiences, we find great human themes of life in transition pain and loss, redemption and exaltation all depicted before the astonishing backdrop of Alaska s natural and cultural landscapes. ----Tom Kizzia, author of The Wake of the Unseen Object
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  # BY LOREE LOUGH
  
  
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  _Love Finds You in North Pole, Alaska_  
  © 2009 by Loree Lough
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-935416-19-7
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
  form, except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without written
  permission of the publisher.
  
  
  All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
  
  
  The town depicted in this book is a real place, but all characters are
  fictional. Any resemblances to actual people or events are purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Cover and Interior Design by Müllerhaus Publishing Group,
  [www.mullerhaus.net](http://www.mullerhaus.net)
  
  
  Back cover photo and interior photos of North Pole, Alaska, taken by Kevin
  McCarthy, [www.northpolegallery.com](http://www.northpolegallery.com).
  
  
  Published by Summersi