Chris Shaw’s “The Manager — A Tale of the Cold War” covers a lot of ground. It begins in Saranac Lake in 1982 and ends in 2015 at Standing Rock, North Dakota. On a snowy February night, magazine editor Walter Loving picks up Igor Chernyenko, the manager of the Russian hockey team, ...

Walt McLaughlin’s newest book, “Beyond the High Peaks: Exploring the Lesser-Known Regions of the Adirondacks,” is just that. Short essays concentrate on Wild Forest and Wilderness areas outside of the High Peaks region. He reminds us there’s more to experience in the region than ...

Chateaugay Lake has been the quiet home and vacation utopia of a slew of famous people and “solid” folk since the 1830s. Getting there, from anywhere, has never been easy, but the peaceful beauty of the lake and surrounding area continues to draw in visitors seeking inspiration and ...

Keene resident Robyn Shumer’s memoir chronicles her struggle with the eating disorder that surfaced in her childhood. By the time she was 8 years old in 1982, she was terrified that the scale in her doctor’s office would show her to be over 40 pounds. The New Jersey school she attended ...

Revisionist history can be perplexing. Simply the passage of time may allow more neutral views of events. Long hidden documents may be unearthed. Better understanding of context can come to the fore. In a new book, Martin Klotz takes a comprehensive look at Robert Rogers (1731-1795), famous ...

Our headline today comes to us courtesy of wilderness preservationist John Muir, via Debbie R. White’s new self-published book Mountain Escapades. It’s one of the epigrams that lead into her 50 chapters on becoming an Adirondack Forty-Sixer and then a global mountaineer. The unusual book ...