Central New York Books: Non-Fiction - Author used to live in CNY
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt.
(Random House, 1994).
The author grew up in Central New York.
ISBN: 0679429220 (hardcover, 388 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679449574 (hardcover, 1996) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679449442 Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679751521 (paperback, 386 pages, Vintage Books, 1999) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679762833 (paperback, large print, 562 pages, 1995) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0375402314 (CD, abridged, Random House, 1997, Anthony Healt, narrator) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679438025 (cassette, abridged, Random House, 1995, Anthony Healt, narrator) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0679460802 (cassette, unabridged, Random House, 1997, Jeff Woodman, narrator) Try Amazon.com.
[nonfiction,formerly]
- Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois: Accommodating Change, 1500-1655
by James W. Bradley.
(Syracuse Univ Pr, 1987).
Part of the series Iroquois Book.
ISBN: 0815624042 (hardcover) Try Amazon.com.
[topic,history,formerly,nativeamerican]
- Phantom Voices in Tibet
by June Calendar.
(Creative Arts Books, 2000).
The author formerly lived in Cazenovia.
ISBN: 0887392407 (paperback, 56 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,travel]
- Bob Costas: Costas on Sports
by Bob Costas.
(Bantam, 1997).
ISBN: 0553067222 (hardcover) Try Amazon.com.
[sports,formerly]
- Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball
by Bob Costas.
(Broadway Books, 2000).
ISBN: 0767904656 (hardcover, 179 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0767904664 (paperback, due April 2001) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0553502638 (unabridged audio cassette, Bantam-Books Audio, 2000) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 055371211X (unabridged audio CD, Bantam-Books Audio, 2000) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0783891865 (large print hardcover, 236 pages, G K Hall & Co, 2000) Try Amazon.com.
[sports,formerly]
- The Black Riders & Other Lines
by Stephen Crane.
(1905).
Stephen Crane attended Syracuse University for one semester.
[formerly,poetry]
- War is Kind & Other Lines
by Stephen Crane.
(1899).
Stephen Crane attended Syracuse University for one semester.
[formerly,poetry]
- The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews and Built a Village in the Forest
by Peter Duffy.
(HarperCollins, 2003).
The author is son of local newscaster Nancy Duffy.
ISBN: 0066210747 (hardcover, 320 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,history]
- Aftermath: In the Wake of Murder
by Carrie Freitag.
(Chevron Publishing Corp., 2003).
The author is a native of Skaneateles. http://www.chevronpublishing.com/product.cfm?dispprodid=604
ISBN: 1883581354 (paperback, 206 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,topic,biography]
- All the Right Moves: A Financial Road Map for College Seniors and New Graduates
by Zachary David Grossman & Janis G. Landis.
(Lincoln Nebraska: Writers Club Press).
paperback, Zachary David Grossman used to live in Manlius.
[formerly]
- Beautiful Outboards
by Peter Hunn.
(Devereux Books, 2002).
ISBN: 1928862047 (hardcover,128 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,transportation,sports]
- The Golden Age of the Racing Outboard
by Peter Hunn.
(Devereux Books, 2000).
ISBN: 0964007096 (paperback, 224 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,transportation,sports]
- The Old Outboard Book
by Peter Hunn.
(International Marine, 1991).
Replaced by newer editions.
ISBN: 0877422656 (paperback,214 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,transportation,sports]
- The Old Outboard Book, 2nd edition
by Peter Hunn.
(McGraw-Hill, 1994).
Replaced by third edition.
ISBN: 0070312818 (paperback, 288 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,transportation,sports]
- The Old Outboard Book, 3rd edition
by Peter Hunn.
(McGraw-Hill, 2002).
ISBN: 0071383093 (paperback, 320 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,transportation,sports]
- The Land of Opportunity
by Alma Aquilino Ilacqua.
(Pine Tree Press).
The author is a retired professor of LeMoyne College.
ISBN: 1886166005 (139 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[biography,topic,formerly]
- Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
by Ted Koppel.
(Knopf, 2000).
The author was a student at Syracuse University.
ISBN: 0375410775 (hardcover, 320 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0375416390 (abridged audio cassette, Random House, 2000) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,journalism]
- The Star in the Window: Select Stories of World War II Veterans
by Louis C. Langone.
(Hickory Hill Books, 2002).
ISBN: 0972285601 (hardcover, 491 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,history,biography]
- Your Fate Is In Your Hands: Using The Principles of Palmistry to Change Your Life
by Donna McCue & Stacy Donovan.
(Pocket Books, 2000).
Donna McCue grew up in Mattydale.
ISBN: 067103877X (paperback, 256 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,parapsychology]
- A Bowl of Cherries: A Memoir
by Teckla Dennison Miller.
(PublishAmerica, 2002).
ISBN: 1591296900 (paperback, 201 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,biography]
- The Warden Wore Pink
by Teckla Dennison Miller.
(Biddle Publishing Company, 1996).
ISBN: 187941824X (paperback, 240 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,biography]
- Building Urban Little Schools: Where Children Succeed with Dignity
by Robert E. Newman.
(Cambridge, Mass: Brookline Books, 2000).
The author is a professor emeritus of Syracuse University.
ISBN: 1571290761 (paperback, 301 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,education]
- Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates.
(penguin, 1995).
The author attended Syracuse University.
ISBN: 0525940456 (hardcover, 181 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0452275008 (paperback, 181 pages, Plume, 1996) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0140862161 (abridged audio cassette, Penguin Audiobooks, 1995) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly]
- His Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John
by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal.
(Billboard Books, 2001).
Part of the series The author attended Syracuse University..
ISBN: 0823088936 (hardcover, 544 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[music,biography,formerly]
- Why Me, Lord? One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood With Commentary and Complaint
by Betty Bone Schiess.
(Syracuse University Press, 2002).
The author served at Grace Episcopal Church of Syracuse soon after she was one of the first women ordained into the Episcopal priesthood.
ISBN: 081560744X (hardcover, 176 pages, 2003) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,topic,publisher,religion,biography]
- A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination, and the Church
by Fredrick W. Schmidt, Jr. & Betty Bone Schiess.
(Syracuse University Press, 1996).
Part of the series Women and Gender in North American Religions.
Betty Bone Schiess served at Grace Episcopal Church of Syracuse soon after she was one of the first women ordained into the Episcopal priesthood.
ISBN: 0815626835 (hardcover, 194 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 081560372X (paperback, Syracuse University Press, 1996) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,topic,publisher,religion,biography]
- Lucky
by Alice Sebold.
(Scribner, 1999).
The author attended Syracuse University. The book is of her experience as a rape victim.
ISBN: 0684857820 (hardcover, 240 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0316096199 (paperback, 272 pages, Back Bay Books, 2002) Try Amazon.com.
[biography,formerly]
- Prince of Providence: The True Story fo Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayer, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
by Michael Stanton.
(Random House, 2003).
The author attended Syracuse University.
ISBN: 0375507809 (hardcover, 464 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,biography,history]
- Married to Laughter: A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara
by Jerry Stiller.
(Simon & Schuster, 2000).
ISBN: 0684869039 (hardcover, 320 pages) Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 0684869047 (paperback, 336 pages, Touchstone Books, 2001) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,biography]
- Nature's Medicine: Plants that Heal
by Joel L. Swerdlow.
(National Geographic Society, 2000).
Author is from Dewitt.
ISBN: 0792275861 (hardcover, 400 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,health,nature]
- Sandro's Dolphins
by Karen Winnick.
(1980).
ISBN: 0688419445 Try Amazon.com; ISBN: 068851944X Try Amazon.com.
[formerly]
- '59: The Story of the 1959 Syracuse University National Championship Football Team
by Gary Youmans & Maury Youmans.
http://syracusefootball.net/ Maury Youmans was a member of the 1959 squad.
[topic,formerly]
- Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
by Koren Zailckas.
(Viking, 2005).
The author attended Syracuse University.
ISBN: 0670033766 (hardcover, 368 pages) Try Amazon.com.
[formerly,biography]