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The Lily Garden

The Lily Garden
  • Author(s): Barbara Josselsohn
  • Location(s): Chicago, Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She held the letter that she had found in the garden, and noticed the distinctive curls of her father’s handwriting etched on the worn paper. Her life had already been turned upside down by one family secret, would his...

Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon

Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon
  • Author(s): P H Liotta
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

Naturalist and U.S. Air Force pilot P.H. Liotta spent an unforgettable season in the Adirondacks attempting to bridge the chasm between man and nature by teaching orphaned falcons to fly. And he found that in mastering flight, falcons, like...

A Northern Light

A Northern Light
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle...

Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun
  • Author(s): Beth Lewis
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Summer 1982. Deep in the Adirondack Mountains, over three hundred people live off-grid in a secret community. Atlas is a refuge for broken souls who long for a different life. Founded by the enigmatic Sol, the group now prepares...

In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Author(s): Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Clare Fergusson, St. Alban’s new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Millers Kill, New York. She is not just a “lady,” she’s a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody’s fool. Then a newborn...

Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice (Wolfe & Lamb)

Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice (Wolfe & Lamb)
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Adirondacks, New York State
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Join Kat Wolfe and her best friend Harper Lamb on the winter holiday of a lifetime in Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice – full of mystery, intrigue, snow and huskies, by bestselling author Lauren St John! Kat and Harper...

Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
  • Author(s): Anne LaBastille
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Many have dreamed of building a cabin in the wilderness and living there alone in the solitude of a region that is far from civilization. Here is the unusual story of a young wildlife ecologist who has done just...

Zero Visibility

Zero Visibility
  • Author(s): Georgia Beers
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): LGBTQ+, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

At eighteen, Emerson Rosberg was poised to become an Olympic skiing sensation. Growing up in the Adirondack ski town of Lake Henry with a world-renowned ski champion for a father gave her an edge over the competition… until the...

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