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We've compiled the best of the best in Juneau, the Inside Passage, and Southeast Alaska - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Pick up a new or used book for the next leg of your trip here, and also browse the greeting cards and a small selection of magazines and journals. The shop stocks a solid selection of titles by local authors, including Nick Jans and Heather Lende, as well as Alaska-oriented fiction and nonfiction.
The knowledgeable staff and impressive collection of Alaska titles make a visit to Old Harbor a pleasure. The Backdoor Café, a cozy politically progressive hangout behind the bookstore, serves excellent espresso and fresh-baked pastries.
A booklover's bookstore with creaky floors and cozy quarters, Parnassus stocks many Alaskan titles.
Off an alley in a big, beautiful white house that served as a boardinghouse for fishermen and schoolteachers, this shop stocks books on Alaska, best sellers, cards, and gifts.
This small but quaint bookstore carries Alaska titles, children's books, magazines, maps, and gifts. Its moniker is a throwback to the town name's former spelling. The owner, Jeff Brady, ran the local newspaper, the Skagway News, for more than 30 years.
