--Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist’s long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris

Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley.

The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern.

The definitive eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Tonawanda Senecas of western New York State.

Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.

Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.

A biography of one of America’s neglected grand masters.

Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.

A vivid portrayal of the important role of Jews in American boxing history, and vice versa.

New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.

A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.

A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.

A guided tour of the cuisine, culture, and rich culinary history of the Campania region of Italy.

An architectural and historical tour of twenty-nine of New York State’s finest castles.

A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers.

An inside story of privilege, inherited wealth, and the bizarre values and customs of the American upper crust.

A dramatic and colorful portrait of one of New York’s most remarkable governors, Hugh L. Carey, with emphasis on his leadership during the fiscal crisis of 1975.

Vividly and lovingly recreates a city kid's summer in the Catskills in the 1950s.

Interviews with eighteen Jewish “hidden children” of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.

With an ear for life’s fractured melodies, marine biologist Stephen Spotte recounts his lifelong study of literature and the sea and his search for the mythical place where reason and revelation intersect.

Lively anecdotes retold by an advance man for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.