Epicenter Press


Publisher info

We are a regional press founded by Journalists from Alaska

What we are
Since its founding in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1988, Epicenter has become the largest publisher of books about Alaska. In that time, Epicenter has published more than 100 titles covering a broad range of nonfiction touching on history, memoirs and biographies, adventure, aviation, humor, true crime, mystery and the unexplained, sled dog mushing, women's stories, Native American culture, and more.

Our Mission Statement
We are a regional press founded in Alaska whose interests included but are not limited to the arts, history, environment, diverse cultures and lifestyles of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. We seek both the traditional and innovative high-quality trade books and occasional color gift books.

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Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon    by Mary Albanese
Price: $9.99 USD. 61090 words. Published by Epicenter Press  on April 11, 2012. .

A young upstate New York woman begins an adventure of a life-time as she moves away from her safe and conventional path. She is unable to resist the excitement and challenge of a chance to become a geological explorer in Alaska, where she maps remote wilderness areas and journeys to the depths of her own heart.
Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier    by Jack de Yonge
Price: $9.99 USD. 65530 words. Published by Epicenter Press  on April 7, 2012. .

A newspaper reporter recalls his youth in Fairbanks, Alaska, a dying gold-rush town that comes alive again with a wild mix of Russian and American pilots, a busy red-light district, and a round-the-clock bar scene in the 1940s war years.
SHIPWRECKED: A Peoples' History of the Seattle Mariners    by Jon Wells
Price: $9.99 USD. 88380 words. Published by Epicenter Press  on March 14, 2012. .

This is the book baseball people are talking about. In his candid and colorful book reminiscent of "Moneyball," veteran baseball writer Jon Wells asserts that the Seattle Mariners is the only team in the American League never to have gone to the World Series due to its years of mismanagement and obsessively putting profits before pennants.


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