Home » All Products   Mountain Biking in New Jersey, 3rd Edition. Details  50 Off-Road Rides By Christopher Mac Kinnon This third edition is chock full of up-to-date information on fifty off-road rides in the Garden State, including expanded South Jersey coverage. 2006; Freewheeling Press; 6"x 9"; 144 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-965273-39-3 Price: $16.95 Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson. Details  By Mrs. Mary Rowlandson In February 1676, during King Philip’s War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by a party of Nipmuck Indians and completely destroyed. As relief from Concord approached, the attackers withdrew, taking with them 24 captives, including Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and her three children. For almost three months the little family was forced to live with their captors and endure exposure to a New England winter.The youngest child, who had been injured during the attack, failed to survive. Eventually ransom was paid and the family released. Mrs. Rowlandson’s account of her experience was published in 1682. It became a"best-seller" of its day and created a new literary genre, the captivity narrative. Such accounts were in part responsible for the mistrust and hatred of the Indians that plagued the country for centuries. It is also the first publication in English by a woman in the New World. 1682; Chapman Billies; 4.50"x 7"; 94 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-939218-20-8 Price: $9.95 Old Christmas. Details  By Washington Irving Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott This handsome edition of Washington Irving’s Old Christmas contains all of the 110 illustrations that Randolph Caldecott originally prepared for it. The text of Old Christmas first appeared as five chapters in Irving’s Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published in 1819-20. This is the classic that contained his Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - a cornucopia, indeed. Irving’s "celebration of the celebration" preceded Dicken’s Christmas Carol by nearly a quarter century and helped to nurture America’s recognition of the holiday. An early review of the 1875 edition claimed, "the book is intended for the fireside of the reading folks of all classes. Surely it has seldom happened in the history of illustration that an author should be so very closely followed-if not overtaken-by his illustrator." 1819; Chapman Billies; 6"x 9"; 110 pages Hardback; ISBN: 0-939218-15-1 Price: $22.95 Old Man Rasin - Coming in October. Details  Boss Politics in Gilded Age Baltimore, 1867-1907 By Tracy Matthew Melton From his humble office at the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas, Isaac Freeman Rasin ran the city and built an envialbe fortune. This is narrative history at its best, packed with action, colorful detail and ruthless men. Melton traces how a political boss and his associates gained power-and held it-in a city noted for political violence. Rasin now takes his place beside New York's Boss Tweed and George Washington Plunkett as one of the truly memorable big-city bosses. Melton is the author of Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854-1860. He lives in Oakton, VA. 2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 494 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-963515-99-3 Price: $25.00 Old Manse, The. Details  By Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne’s talent for descriptive writings was never exercised on a happier theme than the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. Built in 1765 by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather, it was Emerson’s temporary home for three different periods. Emerson wrote his "Nature" in the small back room on the second story, looking out upon the river, the North Bridge and the battlefield. When Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in July 1842, they took up their abode in the Old Manse. Here they passed three years in idyllic happiness. 1845; Chapman Billies; 4.25"x 7.50"; 96 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-939218-00-3 Price: $9.95 Open-Hearth Cookbook, The. Details  Recapturing the Flavor of Early America By Suzanne Goldenson and Doris Simpson "Food cooked in the fireplace tastes better than food cooked in most conventional methods today," say the authors and this book shows how twenty-first century folks can enjoy hearth-cooked meals today. Surprisingly few pieces of special equipment are needed, especially for camping families. The authors emphasize the appliances and techniques that make open-hearth cooking realistic in today's homes where the fireplace is not in the kitchen. The authors explain the art of building a good cooking fire and maintaining the three basic temperatures - low, medium and high - needed to prepare almost all foods, and suggest ways to keep the hearth clean and the cook safe. Each chapter on technique tells how things were done in the old days, and then goes on to demonstrate techniques for today. The authors have added substantial new material since original publication in 1982, and completely updated the resources section of the book. Suzanne Goldenson and her husband are serious cooks and collectors of early American cooking implements. Doris Simpson is co-owner of a restaurant and once helped cook a Thanksgiving dinner over an open hearth for Craig Claiborne. 2005; Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.; 6"x 9"; 192 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-911469-26-5 Price: $15.00 Scythe Book, 2nd Edition, The. Details  By David Tresemer, with an Addendum by Peter Vido In the last few years, interest in the scythe has grown remarkably; and so have the sales of The Scythe Book. Now Peter Vido, who has written two outstanding articles for Small Farmer’s Journal on the use of the scythe, has contributed an addendum for this book on the practical use of the scythe based on his own extensive research and experience. 2001; Alan C. Hood & Company, Inc.; 5.50"x 8.50"; 160 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-911469-19-2 Price: $16.50 Some Gave All. Details  A History of Baltimore Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1808-2007 By Steven P. Olson and Robert P. Brown From Baltimore's earliest days as mobtown to current drug and gang violence, this memorial volume, written by two veteran officers presents brief biographies of the 124 men and women of the Baltimore Police Department who lost their lives serving their city, with emphasis on the circumstances surrounding the death of each. 2007; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 248 pages Hardback; ISBN: 0-963515-95-0 Price: $25.00 « Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next »

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