In 1888, Owney, a stray puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks discovering new vistas and friends along the way.

All Aboard, Owney! The Adirondack Mail Dog

Children's Books

Sattler, Jennifer Gordon

Animals

Nicholas K. Burns Publishing

Ten-year-old Winks and thirteen-year-old Josh inadvertently bring a serial murderer back to life when they use his hat and scarf to dress a snowman for a winter carnival, freeing him to seek revenge against the vigilantes who killed him.

Frostie the Deadman

Richards, Zackary

An American original, the Adirondack guideboat is noted for its graceful lines, elegant curves, maneuverability, and speed. With this book, the amateur woodworker can construct his or her own fully ribbed wood stip reproduction of the guideboat Virginia, built in 1905 and in the collection of the Adirondack Museum, using laminated spruce ribs, cedar strips, and lightweight fiberglass. The authors explain the assembly and the finish work and they even include tips on the transporting and maintenance of the builder's beautiful new boat. Your Adirondack guideboat will have: *Strong laminated rib construction. *A smooth wood strip, fiberglassed hull. *All of the accessories of the traditional guideboat. *The classic look, feel, and performance of the traditional guideboat.

Building an Adirondack Guideboat: Wood Strip Reproductions of the Virginia

Olivette, Michael J.

According to naturalist Ed Kanze, "Life in all its endless manifestations amazes and astounds me, and I find great pleasure in celebrating." Celebrate with Kanze the wild Adirondacks, where nature revels through the night; danger lurks in the wild terrain; the forest, animals, and lakes creep into your soul; and discovery generates excitement and wonder. Kanze astutely describes man's wild nature calling him to the forest, and then his civilized, social nature driving him home. Laugh out-loud as Kanze wages a hilarious war on deer mice that have invaded his home when he attempts to outsmart the persistant creatures rather than kill them. And, see how our relationship to the outdoors and its creatures has evolved in the John Burroughs Association Outstanding Published Natural History Essay, "In Search of Something Lost." Readers will discover the natural world of the Adirondacks, at once wild and gentle, teeming and hushed, restless and at peace, and along the way get to know themselves a little better.

Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist

Edward Kanze

The first Adirondack history to faithfully reproduce facsimiles of all of the log marks recorded in the Queensbury Book of Log Marks. The massive number of logs in the great river drives of the upper Hudson required a system of identification, like cattle branding out west. So, the owners hammered their identification marks into the ends of the logs. This was so the mills could tell who owned the logs, and to prevent theft. Log Marks on the Hudson not only reproduces facsimiles of the log marks, but also tells the story of the men who owned them.

Log Marks on the Hudson

Richard C. Merrill

Mary MacKenzie's sweeping history begins with the hardy farmers from New England who first settled North Elba in 1800. Some of them became hoteliers as tourists discovered the enchanting scenery. Free African Americans settled here, too, and the famous abolitionist, John Brown. These were self-reliant Adirondackers, people of courage and conviction. But Lake Placid's story also includes dashing actors and producers from the silent movie studios who found the rugged scenery perfect for their rousing epics. Sports heroes careened down the bob-run and ski slopes where members of the Lake Placid Club virtually invented winter sports in America, culminating in two Winter Olympics! And MacKenzie includes stories of local heroes, North Elbans of disctinction, all told in her delightful style: precise, confident, and with a touch of Garrison Keillor's sense of small town humor.

The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake Placid:Collected Writings of Mary MacKenzie

Mary MacKenzie

Based on the Earl Derr Biggers novels, Death, I Said: A Charlie Chan Mystery finds the Honolulu police inspector and internationally renowned detective on the case when an old friend's plea for help turns into a mystery as thick as its fog-shrouded San Francisco setting. Years after their first meeting in the midst of a Hawaiian murder case, John Quincy Winterslip appeals to Chan to discreetly delve into the secrets of a respected San Francisco university. Not as challenging a case, Chan thinks, as those which brought him professional satisfaction and worldwide celebrity. Still, it's an opportunity to see daughter Rose and other family-and to help the young Winterslip. But something is amiss in the academic community, and Chan's powers are put to the test as violence and death visit the quiet campus. Who is threatening one professor after another with blackmail and death? With wit, wisdom, and intuitive intellect-and the help of Winterslip and daughter Rose-Chan will crack the case and unmask the guilty.

Death, I Said: A Charlie Chan Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Swann, John L

Mystery

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