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Lily Dale

awakening
2008
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Body, boots, & britches

folktales, ballads, and speech from country New York
1979

Farmer boy

1961

John Jay

diplomat of the American experiment
2006
A biography of John Jay, the first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States examining his life and political influence in the foundation of the new nation.

Secret Island

1977
Visiting relatives in post-Civil War upper New York State, John Allen becomes involved in tracking down robbers of Union money and secret Southern sympathizers.

Daughter of liberty

a true story of the American Revolution
1999
A chance encounter with General George Washington in upstate New York during the Revolutionary War leads a young woman to volunteer for a dangerous mission involving the retrieval of valuable papers.

Basket moon

1998
After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.

The headless horseman

2003
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

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