This scenic stretch of estates along the Hudson offers some of the finest examples of American architecture and landscape design. The edition's thirty-five featured homes were designed in a range of styles by notable architects Stanford White, A. J. Davis, Calvert Vaux, Warren and Wetmore, and more. All pair exquisite interiors with expansive lush lawns and riverfront views. Formerly country homes for eighteenth-century landed gentry and nineteenth-century...

"The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned...

"Surrounded by the beautiful Shawangunk Mountains, Ellenville, New York, is a gateway between the Catskills, the Hudson River Valley, and New York City. Its people and places are what make Ellenville special. Artists, laborers, entrepreneurs, and national figures are among Ellenville's citizens. Its architectural gems include the Ellenville Post Office and Hunt Memorial Building, located in the heart of the village on Liberty Square; both are in the...

Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the wrenching aftermath of an accidental, tragic encounter between these two...

Helen is living the life she's always dreamed of with her career at a top modeling agency on the rise. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a crashing halt when she soon finds herself responsible for her sister's children - Audrey, Henry, and Sarah. No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York, but the transformation from super-hip to super-mom is super difficult. Along the way, Helen finds support from Dan Parker, the handsome young pastor...

"Grandpa's Memories of Main Street is set in the 1940's and 50's in the small town of Cornwall, New York, located along the Hudson River. Every town and village across America at that time had a Main Street that was economically vibrant and socially active. While each community was unique, there were common threads that ran through them all. In this story, a grandfather tells his grandchildren in a letter about his memories of those bygone days. He...

"We all seek to live the good life. In his new book, Ross Topliff ingeniously draws universal concepts from his experience as a chemical engineer and presents them as a guide to help us along our journey. Some of the thought-provoking questions he explores are: What catalysts will propel you in the direction of your goals? Are you solving your problems, or just masking their symptoms? Ross reveals the secret to making an accurate diagnosis. Are you...

"The majority of these poems and stories were written during 2020-2022, many on the author's early morning walks along the lush country streets of Nyack, N.Y. where he lives. Here, along the Hudson River, he shares his life with many close and dear friends."--

Life is like a winding path, with lots of different places to discover along the way. If you could go anywhere, imagine where you might find yourself.