Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It i…

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