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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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Unruly Catholic Women Writers
(November 2013)
Creative Responses to Catholicism
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.
This unique literary anthology is devoted to unruly Catholic women. In short stories, poems, personal essays, and drama, the contributors describe women’s struggles with Catholicism and also complicate contemporary understandings of women’s relationships to their faith. Catholicism often oppresses the women in these creative pieces, but it al...(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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From Kristallnacht to Watergate
(September 2013)
Memoirs of a Newspaperman
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
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An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as it laid bare the criminal wrongdoings of the Nixon administration.
In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second ...(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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