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The Hermit
(April 2014)
A Novel
Mary Sanders Shartle - Author
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Nature of the Beast
(January 2014)
An Easy Taylor Mystery
Roland Keller - Author
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While searching for a missing pit bull, private investigator Easy Taylor explores the unsavory worlds of animal laboratory testing and dog fighting, uncovering bizarre genetic testing that alters the nature of beasts.
Since losing his job and its regular paycheck at an Albany investigative firm, life for private investigator Edward Zachery Taylor, known as Easy, is going downhill. In business for himself—with no boss, no cl...(Read More) |
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Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws
(December 2013)
Prohibition and New York City
Ellen NicKenzie Lawson - Author
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Uses previously unstudied Coast Guard records for New York City and environs to examine the development of Rum Row and smuggling in New York City during Prohibition.
With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, “drying up” New York City promised to be the greatest triumph of the proponents of Prohibition. Instead, the city remained the nation’s greatest liquor market. Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws ...(Read More) |
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William Almon Wheeler
(December 2013)
Political Star of the North Country
Herbert C. Hallas - Author
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An American success story about the life of William Almon Wheeler, a poor boy from Northern New York who became the nineteenth Vice President of the United States.
William Almon Wheeler’s life is an American success story about how a poor boy living near the Canadian border in Malone, New York, achieved fame and fortune. Often referred to as “the New York Lincoln,” Wheeler was a lawyer, banker, railroad president, ...(Read More) |
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Going the Distance
(October 2013)
A Novel
Michael Joyce - Author
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His major league baseball dreams dashed, a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision.
Going the Distance is a baseball novel with a difference; a multilayered love story, a celebration of both America’s game and the New York landscape. John “Jack” Flynn was a major league pitcher with all-star promise. But on the day of the 1979 All-Star game, he finds himself back in the North...(Read More) |
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Up on a Hill and Thereabouts
(September 2013)
An Adirondack Childhood
Gloria Stubing Rist - Author
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Childhood recollections of life in the Adirondack Mountains during the Great Depression.
In the 1930s, life for kids tucked away in the quiet woodlands of the Adirondack Mountains was rich with nature and filled with human characters. This captivating memoir contains the recollections of one woman who spent her childhood on the hillsides and in the woods near Ticonderoga. A child’s-eye view of days long gone, the book descri...(Read More) |
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Key to the Northern Country
(August 2013)
The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution
James M. Johnson - Editor
Christopher Pryslopski - Editor
Andrew Villani - Editor
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Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.
The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the “Key to the Northern Country,” played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revoluti...(Read More) |
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Pardee Holler
(August 2013)
An Easy Taylor Mystery
Roland Keller - Author
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Follows hapless private eye Easy Taylor as he investigates an eco-terrorist plot to stop development in the Catskill Mountains.
When Pardee Mountain and Pardee Hollow, protected tracts of land in the Catskill Mountains, are threatened by a multimillion dollar development plan, trouble brews. The locals are against Deyl MacGreedy’s vision of Crestline Estates and the construction site experiences some minor hassles—...(Read More) |
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