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Book review: "March Toward the Thunder"
Colton, NY, Feb 03, 2010 — Many villages in the North Country have a statue or a plaque memorializing men who fought in the Civil War. Some of those soldiers were very young, and some of them were Native American. Betsy Kepes reviews Joseph Bruchec's novel for young adults, March Toward the Thunder, A Native American Perspective on the Civil War. Go to full article
An Adirondack hermit's journals, decoded
Dec 28, 2009 — In 1946, the Adirondack hermit, Noah John Rondeau, wrote entries in his annual journal in a complicated code. Fifty years later a young man and an old man deciphered the symbols. William J. O'Hern uses the 1946 journal as the basis of his new book, Noah John Rondeau's Adirondack Wilderness Days, a Year with the Hermit of the Cold River Flow. Betsy Kepes has this review. Go to full article
Book review: "Goldengrove" by Francine Prose
Colton, NY, Nov 24, 2009 — Francine Prose begins her novel, Goldengrove, with a drowning in Mirror Lake, a fictional lake somewhere in the mountains near Albany. Betsy Kepes has this review. Go to full article
Book Review: "Living Waters"
Colton, NY, Oct 27, 2009 — For those of us in the North Country the St. Lawrence River is a summer playground or the wide water below us when we take the bridge to Canada. For author Margaret Wooster, the giant river is part of the Great Lakes watershed, and an ecosystem in danger. Betsy Kepes reviews Wooster's book Living Waters, Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes. Go to full article
Book Review: "Chains"
Sep 30, 2009 — Potsdam native, Laurie Halse Anderson, now lives in Mexico, New York where she writes books for children and young adults. Her latest book, Chains, was a National Book Award Finalist. Betsy Kepes has this review. Go to full article
Book Review: "Lost Pond"
Aug 12, 2009 — It's summer, and time for a few beach books. Betsy Kepes reviews Mark Holdren's Lost Pond. Go to full article
Review: The Adirondack Reader
Jul 30, 2009 — Paul Jamieson arrived in the North Country in 1929, a flatlander English professor who grew to love the landscape and literature of the Adirondacks. Betsy Kepes reviews his third edition of The Adirondack Reader. Go to full article
Book review: "Return to Sender"
Burlington, VT, Jul 14, 2009 — Acclaimed Latina author Julia Alvarez's new novel for young readers tackles the issue of illegal farm works on North Country dairy farms. She lives in Vermont. Betsy Kepes reviews Return to Sender. Go to full article
Book review: Saving Troy
Troy, NY, Jul 01, 2009 — What kid hasn't dreamed of riding in a fire truck as it screams along Main Street, all the ordinary traffic moving out of its way? William B. Patrick rode with the Troy Fire Department for a year and reports on his experiences in his book Saving Troy, A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City. Betsy Kepes has our review. Go to full article
Book Review: "The Lamoille Stories"
Hinesburg, VT, May 05, 2009 — The characters in Bill Schubart's The Lamoille Stories are rural Vermonters with bottles of blackberry brandy in the pockets of their wool shirts and rusting "parts cars" in their front yards. Betsy Kepes has this review. Go to full article
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