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  • A Northern Light

    • ASIN: 0152053107
    • ISBN: 0152053107
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Harcourt Paperbacks

    Carnegie Medal Winner, United KingdomLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.Sixte... [Read More]

  • Straight Man: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0375701907
    • ISBN: 0375701907
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo.   William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.... [Read More]

  • In the Bleak Midwinter (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries)

    • ASIN: 1250006511
    • ISBN: 9781250006516
    • Brand: Brand: Minotaur Books
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

    It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a... [Read More]

  • Nobody's Fool

    • ASIN: 0679753338
    • ISBN: 9780679753339
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Size: Paperback
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who... [Read More]

  • Among the Wicked: A Kate Burkholder Novel

    • ASIN: B019N4X1ZE
    • ISBN: 1466867272
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

    Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as... [Read More]

  • In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time

    • ASIN: 0399536477
    • ISBN: 0399536477
    • Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

    Based on a popular New York Times Op-Ed piece, this is the quirky, heartfelt account of one man's quest to meet his neighbors--and find a sense of community. **As seen in Parade, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, and more.**Winner of the Zocalo Square Book Prize, and recently named a first selection by Action Book Club. "It's i... [Read More]

  • The Theory of Death: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Decker/Lazarus Novels)

    • ASIN: B00U1SXUBC
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of h... [Read More]

  • Walking Shadows: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Decker/Lazarus Novels)

    • ASIN: 006242498X
    • ISBN: 9780062424983
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young... [Read More]

  • Hope: a Tragedy: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1594486468
    • ISBN: 1594486468
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God.   Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless... [Read More]

  • All Mortal Flesh (Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries)

    • UPC: 884179210817
    • ASIN: 1250018552
    • ISBN: 1250018552
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

    One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in Millers Kill, where nothing is as it seems . . . and betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside quaint farmhouses.Russ Van Alstyne figures his wife kicking him out of their house is nobody's business but his own. Until a neighbor pays a friendly visit to Li... [Read More]

  • The Risk Pool

    • ASIN: 0679753834
    • ISBN: 0679753834
    • Brand: Russo, Richard
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly goi... [Read More]

  • Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York

    • ASIN: 1596297697
    • ISBN: 1596297697
    • Brand: Brand: The History Press
    • Manufacturer: The History Press

    Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. M... [Read More]

  • One Was a Soldier (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries)

    • ASIN: 1250003873
    • ISBN: 1250003873
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

    On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The Rev. Clare Fergusson wants to forget the things she saw as... [Read More]

  • I Shall Not Want: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries Book 6)

    • ASIN: B0010SEOOE
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

  • Ink and Bone

    • ASIN: B0176M3VGO
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

  • The Double Cross: A Someday Quilts Mystery featuring Nell Fitzgerald

    • ASIN: 0452296420
    • ISBN: 0452296420
    • Manufacturer: Plume

    Book #3 of the Someday Quilts Mystery seriesA knotty new Nell Fitzgerald mystery in the series that's beguiling cozy fans and quilters alike. Nell Fitzgerald and the Someday Quilts ladies are asked to lead a quilting workshop at a new bed and breakfast in upstate New York. However, the retreat quickly takes an unexpected dark turn. When a body is f... [Read More]

  • To Darkness and to Death: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries Book 4)

    • ASIN: B002Q1YDK4
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

  • Signal

    • ASIN: 0312617763
    • ISBN: 9780312617769
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area―alien meaning "from someplace else"―and Campion claims to come from someplace e... [Read More]

  • Everybody's Fool: A novel

    • ASIN: 0307270645
    • ISBN: 0307270645
    • Brand: Alfred a Knopf Inc
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    A New York Times 2016 Notable BookAn immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nob... [Read More]

  • Out of the Deep I Cry (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries)

    • ASIN: 1250016045
    • ISBN: 1250016045
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur

    A pivotal book in this award-winning series, and nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel―Julia Spencer-Fleming's Out of the Deep I Cry is a triumph not to be missed.On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night o... [Read More]

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