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Store Events & Features
COPIES AVAILABLE: Gagaan X’usyee/Below the Foot of the Sun, the first book of poetry from Lingit author X̱’unei Lance Twitchell of the local Lkoot tribe.
HAPPY MAY – WELCOME VISITORS!
May is when things blossom for the summer season in Skagway! Our bookstore is now fully stocked with Alaska and Yukon titles to help you learn about our special corner of the world. At the end of the month we will welcome the North Words Writers Symposium. See below!
As always, if you can’t find a book in our store or in our e-commerce shop, you also can visit our partner Bookshop.org page for access to thousands of titles.
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NORTH WORDS AUTHORS’ BOOKS! The 15th annual North Words Writers Symposium will be May 28-31, 2025 in Skagway with Alaska novelist Eowyn Ivey as keynote. We have her new novel, Black Woods, Blue Sky! Check out the North Words website and watch for additional faculty books by Andromeda Romano-Lax, Eva Holland, Marc Cameron, dg nanouk okpik, Nickole Brown, and Bailey Williams. Authors will be signing books in our store May 28-30.
Proud to be a North Words Writers Symposium sponsor since 2010!
Featured LCP Titles
Skagway: City of the New Century
NEW revised & expanded paperback edition! 436 pages of feature stories from Skagway’s amazing history compiled and edited by local writer Jeff Brady. Revised edition published in 2019 (includes nearly 400 photos). Signed Editions in our Store!
SPECIAL 40% OFF first edition signed hardbounds of this classic!


Best of Skagway Police Blotter – Volume 2
The long-awaited second volume of the best from the log books of the Skagway, Alaska Police Department along with items from the popular Heard on the Wind column in The Skagway News, choice comments and questions from visitors that make everyone laugh. $14.95. Compiled and edited by Dave Sexton and Jeff Brady and released in summer 2016 by Lynn Canal Publishing along with a revised edition of the Classic Volume 1. Signed Copies Available!
See these and more Lynn Canal Publishing titles!

The Dyea Convicted Felons Club
In this sequel to Nowhere Else to Go, but Dyea, we find transplanted white collar ex-convict Henry Stillwater with his poker-playing fellow “felons” in the middle of a mystery set in the historic ghost town of Dyea (pronounced Di-eee). Stillwater has settled into a new life and love in the valley at the end of Alaska’s Inside Passage, but his peace is disturbed by the discovery of a body, and a treasure of sorts that seemingly eludes all who pursue it, including wild, unruly critters large and small. Complicating Stillwater’s life is a visit by his attorney daughter who sent him away to Alaska, but she too is absorbed by the mystery and where it takes them – to the summit of the Chilkoot Trail. A new novel by Nita Nettleton with cover art by Courtenay Birdsall-Clifford.
READ ADN REVIEW OF BOTH OF NITA’S DYEA BOOKS
Watch for more New Arrivals and see more store updates and news on our Facebook page @skagwaybooks!
Alaska short story collection long listed for the 2022 National Book Award, paperback now in stock!
If you can’t find what you are looking for, try searching on our Bookshop.org page. We are a proud affiliate: 10% of every purchase goes to our store and the book will be shipped directly to you!
