For readers who love short stories, especially ones about local ghosts, “Adirondack Ghost Stories” is packed with 15 of them in a little over 200 pages. The reading level appeals to a wide range of ages from middle school to adults. Edited by Dennis Webster, who contributed “Chocolate ...

I received two recent prompts to read Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel about a murder in the Adirondacks. A friend whose taste I trust recommended it, having picked it up because a grandchild was reading it for school. And in her Adirondack Life essay about novels set in the Adirondacks, Amy ...

I’m hesitant to review travel guides. I’ve written a few of my own, and I don’t want to be accused of any bias. Many turn out to be listings that someone could do entirely at a computer station without visiting many of the places described. Others simply don’t offer information in ...

Stephen Cernek and I have some things in common. We both grew up in towns on the edge of the Adirondacks whose economies were shaped by paper mills — he in Corinth, myself in Plattsburgh — and we both graduated from high school in a turbulent time — he in 1969, one year after I ...

Holly Chorba packs a lot into her latest book, “Forest Bathing in the Adirondacks: A Guide for House or Forest.” In only 66 pages, the photographer and author defines and provides a brief history of forest bathing, describes a guided forest bathing experience, discusses the history of the ...

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, ...