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Dan L. Walker

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Dan Walker is a homesteaders’ son who grew up to become a teacher and a writer. He spent most of his life in Alaska but went to college in Idaho and spent a year in Texas one summer. Dan has over thirty years in education and was named Teacher of the Year for Alaska in 1999. Today, Dan shares life on a lake near Seward Alaska with his college sweetheart and muse, Madelyn. His debut novel, Secondhand Summer, was released in June 2016.
His second book, a memoir, was released in 2018.
The sequel to Secondhand Summer, BACK HOME, was released in April.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 88 ratings · 23 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Secondhand Summer 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back Home 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader's Son 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One-Man Iris Davis Fan Club (Sam Barger #3) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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We just had the inside of the house painted and as a result, we're sorting through art, books, keepsakes, and memorabilia, the flotsam and jetsam of 50 years of marriage and perhaps too long in the same town. Moving from the previous house to this one 16 years ago was only a matter of tossing things in the back of a pickup truck and driving a mile, so there was little winnowing then. Part of Read more of this blog post »

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Want to understand women of the twentieth century? Interested in good story not set in LA or NY? Cather holds up under the test of time. Her story is a great tale of life on the great plains in the early twentieth century.
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