Kirjahaku

How can a newborn left in the Alaskan forest to die not only survive but also become an educated person who influences a Hawaiian queen and a Russian leader? More difficult is her challenge to be accepted by her Tlingit family whom she has never known. For that, she will need the help of British Captain Vancouver and her hunting pet, Falcon . . . and to break away from the love of her life. SHAGOON is a historical fiction adventure that travels from Alaska to California to Hawaii. Young Ana survives the extreme changes in her life and gains strength as she deals with loss, disease, murder and death; and she learns about the spiritual influences of tribal heritage. As indigenouse people of Alaska begin to interact with strength against the "Cloud Face Tribes," she wonders where she belongs. SHAGOON begins in 1764 with Ana's determined young mother whose intense love for her warrior husband launches a family saga that results in the changing of lives for future generations.

Inlanders of the Pacific Northwest are resilient during Prohibition, making moonshine or riding the rails or dancing for money or smuggling liquor across the Canadian border. Some go to prison or are shot and killed. The lucky ones have the thrill and distraction of falling in love. Be inspired by the optimism, ingenuity, and perseverance of everyday people. The struggle from farms and a sod house to flapper fun, dance halls, drinking houses and serenades on Loon Lake, Washington, where a lake cabin is built in 1928 that becomes the author's sanctuary. A combination of memoir, family history and fiction based on oral legend.

Ana proves that anyone can change the world. A romantic sea adventure, a love story, a search for her mother, a conflict of cultures, all of this faced by Ana, a brave girl who was found as a baby in an Alaskan forest. Raised in a California mission, she is cared for by an Ohlone healer, someone "like a mother." Just as she begins to see a future for herself, the padres send her away. She is to leave the only home she's ever known to travel to her homeland with Captain Vancouver on his ship Discovery. A young Hawaiian on ship who is returning home could change everything. He offers Ana love and a home, but Ana is torn. Vancouver seems determined to fulfill his obligation to deliver her to Alaska, and she has always wanted to find her mother. Meanwhile, Governor Baranov expands Russian America closer and closer to Ana's homeland.