Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.

A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasn’t sure she even believed.

How a small group of New York biologists brought the peregrine falcon and bald eagle back from the brink of extinction.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State’s fourth largest city during the twentieth century.

An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.

Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution.

Compelling stories of intercultural contact and emotional survival in a complex world.

A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Chronicles JFK’s growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.

Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes.

More stories of the outsized and the ordinary from the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers.

An intimate group portrait of contemporary Hudson Valley writers.

A father and son travel across North America in a pick-up truck--talking, laughing, fighting, and bonding.

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.