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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

by Bill McKibben

"The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives. In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"--indeed, for many of us, they have... (more)

Glenn Beck's Common Sense

The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

by Glenn Beck

"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...." In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems. One... (more)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)

Haunted places of Western New York: A supernatural tour guideMason Winfield

Haunted places of Western New York: A supernatural tour guide

by Mason Winfield

Too Close to the Falls

by Catherine Gildiner

Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon, and television has only just arrived. At the tender age of four, Cathy accompanies Roy, the deliveryman at her father's pharmacy, on his routes. She shares some of their memorable deliveries-sleeping pills to... (more)

Home to Big Stone Gap: A Novel (Big Stone Gap Novels (Hardcover))

Home to Big Stone Gap: A Novel (Big Stone Gap Novels (Hardcover))

by Adriana Trigiani

Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap , she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan Machesney and her family for generations. She’s been... (more)

Alive in Necropolis

by Doug Dorst

A fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace—and maintain a grip on reality—in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, is the only incorporated city in America where the dead outnumber the living. The longtime cemetery for San Francisco, it is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and aviation... (more)

Dancehall

by Bernard F. Conners

On June 4, 1982, the body of a young woman surfaced from 300 feet of water in Lake Placid, New York. Because of the depth and intense cold of the water, the body, which was determined by medical examiners to have been submerged for over twenty years, was remarkably well-preserved. At the time, the authorities were unable to establish the identity of the woman but concluded that her death had been violent.

Twenty Boy Summer

by Sarah Ockler

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it." "Okay." "Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?" "Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?" According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first... (more)

Buffalo Lockjaw

by Greg Ames

" Buffalo Lockjaw , like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. . . . A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love." --Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land "Ames knows how to build up the world with a light hand while still getting to the complicated and painful ways we muddle... (more)

The Bike Path Killer

by Michael Beebe, Maki Becker

He raped...Altemio Sanchez was a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde - a family man who resided in Buffalo, New York, with a wife and two sons, worked nights as a machinist, and concealed a terrible secret. Once a year, after his shift, he'd make a side trip to a secluded spot where women would ride bikes and jog. He was called 'The bike path rapist' - until he crossed the line from rape to murder. He Killed...For fourteen... (more)

Niagara Fall: A Novel of Crime and Comedy

Niagara Fall: A Novel of Crime and Comedy

by Stephen Wilcox

"Slowly I turned . . . page after page." Niagara Fall , a different kind of crime novel, by Stephen F. Wilcox. Not-so-wise guys, novice hit men, and gals with guns and comfortable shoes cross paths with a lovelorn ex-monk toting an empty camera and a falls fetish in America's honeymoon capital. From the notorious Love Canal neighborhood to the precipice of the famous falls itself, Niagara Fall will keep you... (more)

Called to Be His Servant, H.C. Kiser, Jr.: A BiographyBeverly Harding-Mullins

Called to Be His Servant, H.C. Kiser, Jr.: A Biography

by Beverly Harding-Mullins

Let the Record Show: The True Story of Hack Smithdeal and Johnson City's Trial of the Century

Let the Record Show: The True Story of Hack Smithdeal and Johnson City's Trial of the Century

by Patty Smithdeal Fulton

The true story of Hack Smithdeal, a successful Johnson City, Tennessee, businesssman and the events that lead to his involvement in the shooting of Roy Faircloth. Faircloth's death led to the most sensational trial in Johnson City's history, complete with Roy Acuff as a key witness. Though her sympathies understandably rest with her father, author Patty Smithdeal Fulton related the facts of the mysterious shooting... (more)

A View from the Mountain

by Jack Kestner

A collection of Jack Kestner's columns from the Bristol Herald Courier (Virginia)from 1987 until 2005. He was a keen observer of nature, people, and politics.

Mob Boss: A Biography in Blood

by Mike Hudson

Don Stefano Magaddino murdered his way from the sleepy Sicilian village of Castellammare del Golfo to the mean streets of Brooklyn before heading to Western New York and seizing control of the notorious Buffalo mob. They called him The Undertaker, for the fortress-like funeral parlor he ran in nearby Niagara Falls, and by the end of Prohibition he ruled a criminal empire that stretched from Toronto to Youngstown,... (more)

Bike Path Rapist: A Cop's Firsthand Account of Catching the Killer Who Terrorized a Community

Bike Path Rapist: A Cop's Firsthand Account of Catching the Killer Who Terrorized a Community

by Jeff Schober, Dennis Delano

For nearly three decades, a series of rapes and murders occurred around Western New York by a nameless, faceless man dubbed “The Bike Path Rapist” by local media. Authorities had his DNA and knew his tendency to use a ligature, but could never capture the elusive criminal. His first known attacks were in the mid-1980s, continuing regularly through 1994. After a twelve-year gap, in September 2006, he returned by... (more)

Day the Falls Stood Still, The

by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves. 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she is impatient to return to her... (more)

Niagara Falls Confidential

by Mike and Rebecca Hudson

From a cursed cave and a haunted castle to the shocking scandals unfolding today, Niagara Falls Confidential takes you on a whirlwind tour of one of the world's natural wonders, providing a sometimes disturbing vision that visitors rarely get to experience. Chock-full with tales of murder, mayhem and madness in what is still called the Honeymoon Capital of the World, Niagara Falls Confidential takes an unsettling... (more)

Hidden Southern California (Hidden Travel)

Hidden Southern California (Hidden Travel)

by Ray Riegert

The ultimate guide for enjoying the Southern California sunshine, with details on over 100 beaches and parks, including more than 250 hiking trails and over 100 surfing spots. In-depth coverage of the area’s two big cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, include its many small jewels such as Santa Barbara, La Jolla, Palm Springs and Santa Catalina Island. Many distinctive lodging options are reviewed including... (more)

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