A Guide to 100 of the Region's Best Rockhounding Sites
New England is one of the best regions in the country for rockhounds to hunt for minerals, gems, and fossils. The complex geology of the region hosts a stunning variety of material from gold-bearing placers to fossiliferous limestone; from gem-bearing pegmatites to rocks containing some of the rarest minerals on Earth. This book provides detailed ......
The Great Smoky Mountains are home to over 100 official hiking trails just waiting to be explored. But did you know that these mountains also hold a surprising number of myths, legends, and reported incidents of ghost activity? You heard right, the Great Smoky Mountains are filled with a diverse array of ghost stories, mythological tales, and ......
The 50 Easiest, Safe, and Delicious Wild Edible Mushrooms
The word "choice" is widely used in the mushroom foraging community to describe an edible mushroom that is of the best quality and taste. Hence, Mushroom Forager's Choice introduces readers - especially novice foragers and those seeking to learn more about edible mushrooms - to 50 "choice" edible mushroom species that can be found, foraged, and ......
A Field Guide to Harnessing the Power of Creativity, Purpose, and Legacy in Midlife
In Variations on Life After 50, author Jill Timmons provides a new road map for those entering the middle stages of their lives, melding simultaneously the conscious experience of liminal "in-between" space with building an authentically joyous life of meaning, purpose, and legacy. By challenging the traditional notions of what it means to enter ......
A Complete Illustrated Guide to Understanding, Selecting & Enjoying Wine
For those new to wine or for dabblers who could use some help deciphering foreign labels, Wine Basics brings unprecedented clarity to the world's most ubiquitous libation. Whatever your wine IQ, keeping a handle on all the essentials of the world's most captivating beverage is a sobering challenge indeed. Enter Wine Basics, written by a ......
Mark Twain for Book Lovers is a collection of witty and insightful writings about almost everything connected with them by one of the world's greatest writers. The breadth of such a volume is assured by the fact that Mark Twain was intimately involved in every aspect of books--from reading, writing, producing, and critiquing to even marketing ......
Locations, Hatches, Flies, and Seasonal Strategies
The Farmington River is one of the Northeast's premier fishes, providing year-round opportunities to catch trout in a wide range of water types, from tumbling pocketwater to placid pools. In this comprehensive guide, local angler Steve Culton shares his secrets from a lifetime of fishing this hallowed water.
Recognized as a new voice in American Science and Nature writing With the success of Daryln Brewer Hoffstot's first book, A Farm Life, published by Stackpole Books in 2023, this new collection of her writings features 20+ essays of observations and insights about the fields, forest, and farm where she lives in western Pennsylvania. She writes ......
Nearly twenty-five years after 9/11, the families of the victims are still waiting for justice. The president of the United States said in a dramatic speech at the White House that the families of those killed on September 11, 2001, "should have to wait no longer" and that "we have a duty to bring those responsible for these crimes to justice." ......
