Books of local interest
“Historic Tales From the Adirondack Almanack” has been published by The History Press, Charleston, S.C., as part of its American Chronicles series.
The tales are a collection of columns from the blog of author John Warren. He discusses everything from the history of the snowmobile, gambling, bank robbers, buried treasure and earthquakes.
Mr. Warren, of Chestertown, Warren County, is a historian, educator and filmmaker. His work has appeared in a variety of media, from the History Channel to Adirondack Life magazine.
“Historic Tales” sells for $19.99 at www.historypress.net.
North Country Books, Utica, has published third-generation Adirondack photographer Mark Bowie's “The Adirondacks: In Celebration of the Seasons.”
Mr. Bowie, Pittsfield, Mass., has two other photo books on the Adirondacks: “In Stoddard's Footsteps” and “Adirondack Waters.”
The new book sells for $19.95 and is available on Mr. Bowie's Web site, www.markbowie.com and at northcountrybooks.com
Port Leyden resident Irene Uttendorfsky has self-published, through Spruce Gulch Press, Rome, “Adirondack Mouse and the Mysterious Disappearance,” the latest book in her Adirondack Mouse series.
In 2006, “Adirondack Mouse and the Perilous Journey” was selected as the year's best children's book by the Adirondack Center for Writing. In the new book, the Adirondack mouse tries to solve the mystery of his best friend's disappearance.
The book sells for $9.95 and is available on Ms. Uttendorfsky's Web site, www.ireneuttendorfsky.com.
Cindy Didas Lewis, Harrisville, has self-published, through PublishAmerica, “Get Them Out of There.”
“The fictional work is about a glass house with my two kids, Suzy and Clay, on the seventh floor,” Ms. Lewis wrote in a press release. “Weird-looking alien guards with very strange powers are holding them hostage.”
The book sells for $24.95 and is available at publishamerica.net
More than 35 photographers from New York, Vermont, and Quebec are represented in “The Water in Between — A Photographic Celebration of Lake Champlain” published by Huntington Graphics, Burlington, Vt.
The book features 120 color photos of Lake Champlain and the surrounding region. “It's a visual feast presenting both the Vermont and New York sides of the lake as well as images from Quebec and the Richelieu River,” the publisher said in a release.
It sells for 29.95 at huntingtongraphics.com
Compiled by Times staff writer Chris Brock
