Rich Frost’s newest book, “Rich in History: A Champlain Valley Reader,” should be read with a pen in hand. There are so many interesting, historic places to visit that readers will need to make a list (I suggest a bucket list!) to keep track of them all. According to the author, the book ...

The short story collections of Saranac Lake authors Tyler Barton and Caperton Tissot are very different, and both delightful. Tyler Barton’s “Eternal Night at the Nature Museum” is filled with wildly imaginative plots and characters. “Once Nothing, Twice Shatter,” introduces a ...

I like to reserve at least one review each year for a classic Adirondack book. That way I play my part in preserving tradition, and perhaps stimulate a few younger readers to sample more broadly regional literature from the past. This time I’ve chosen a book of short essays entitled “In ...

Ever since 2006, when the Northern Forest Canoe Trail opened, it’s been exciting to local paddlers. Yes, you can put a canoe in at Old Forge and, with only a few portages, float all the way to northern Maine. The route is quite pretty, crosses the Canadian border, and traces some ...

Beth Hudson is back with the second volume of the JJ Johnson Suspense Series. The series’ debut novel, “The View from the Fishbowl,” introduces readers to JJ Johnson, a young man who was left paralyzed and mute in a car accident as a teenage boy. Now a quadriplegic, he resides at the ...

Martin has already suffered terribly by the time the reader meets him, while he’s spending the summer in his family’s Adirondack cottage. We learn few details about his life before Cyrus and Nonie adopt him from Father Horrigan’s Home for Boys, where he has lived for a few years. The ...