Black Soldiers of New York State

Anthony F Gero

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Concise history of the valiant service of New York's African American soldiers. The heroic saga of New York State's African American soldiers, largely... Lees meer

Six Weeks in Saratoga

Brendan O'Meara

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• The inside story of how a three-year old filly captured the hearts of racing fans and cemented her bid to be named Horse of the Year. Semifinalist for... Lees meer

Borderland

Bruce Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Provocative essays on the distinct history and culture of Buffalo and the Canadian border region. Poor Buffalo-so rusty and abandoned, so sadly persis... Lees meer

Oreos and Dubonnet

Joseph H Boyd, Charles R Holcomb

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• A behind-the-scenes look at one of New York's most colorful and influential governors. A unique figure and an outsized personality, Nelson Aldrich Roc... Lees meer

Water Drops

Peter E Black

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• An introduction to our most precious natural resource. In this engaging book, hydrologist Peter E. Black celebrates the wonder of our planet's most pr... Lees meer

Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne

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• Literature's classic race against the clock. Part manhunt, part love story, part social satire, but mostly a race against the clock, Around the World ... Lees meer

Body Shots

Emily Fox-Kales

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case... Lees meer

Vanished by the Danube

Charles Farkas

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• A story of loss and survival. Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth ... Lees meer

The Sphinx of the Ice Realm

Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe

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• The first complete English translation of Jules Verne's epic fantasy novel. Decades after Edgar Allan Poe's longest and weirdest tale, The Narrative o... Lees meer

Shrouds of White Earth

Gerald Vizenor

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• --Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris Winne... Lees meer

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York

Jay Gould

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• A classic history of Delaware County and the border wars written by none other than prominent Gilded Age "Robber Baron" Jay Gould. When Jay Gould died... Lees meer

Jazz with a Beat

Tad Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s-60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature. Finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book ... Lees meer

The Eight

Albert M Rosenblatt

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War. Gold Winner of the 2023 Fore... Lees meer

From Binghamton to the Battlefield

Amy J Truesdell

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-test... Lees meer

Inside the Green Lobby

Bernard C Melewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park. Finalist in t... Lees meer

Fearless

Neil Thomas Proto

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University's first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner o... Lees meer

The Best of New York Archives

New York State Archives Partnership Trust

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Tales of New York State history from the pages of the award-winning publication New York Archives. For readers interested in uncovering the history of... Lees meer

Finding True North

Fran Yardley

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• An evocative and personal history of a unique historic place in the Adirondacks. Silver Winner, for Regional Nonfiction, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of ... Lees meer

Bronx Epitaph

Steven K Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech. When Lou Gehrig stepped to the plate on Independence Day 1939, he... Lees meer

Down from Troy

Richard Selzer

• Paperback | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers. In this beloved classic, Richard Selzer recounts his childhood in Troy, New York... Lees meer

A Beautiful and Fruitful Place

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Second volume of papers from a well respected annual seminar that showcase the latest research on Dutch colonial history in New York State. New Nether... Lees meer

The Tonawanda Senecas' Heroic Battle Against Removal

Laurence M Hauptman

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• The definitive eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Tonawanda Senecas of western New York State. The remarkable story of the Tonawanda Se... Lees meer

But One Race

Margaret Hope Bacon

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis. Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race moth... Lees meer

An Uncommon Cape

Eleanor Phillips Brackbill

• Hardcover | Engels | Excelsior Editions
• Three mysteries precipitate an investigation into an otherwise ordinary suburban property, revealing a past inextricably woven into four centuries of ... Lees meer