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"Far, far away at the North Pole, Santa is busy planning his Christmas Eve journey across his favorite place . . . New York [in this retelling of Clement Moore's classic holiday poem]"--Provided by publisher.

February in the Hudson Valley brings a new murder mystery for veterinarian Dr. Kate to solve--two bodies, one a man atop the ice of Lover's Lake, the other apparently his woman, frozen face up under the water. Tragically, the young couple had just been married, and when they learn their animal hospital's tranquilizers had been used in the murders, it is up to Dr. Kate and her vet tech Mari to stop the murderer before he strikes again.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes. Its deepest point is only 210 feet (64 m) underwater. Learn more in Lake Erie.

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes. It is almost equally divided between Canada and the United States. Learn more in Lake Ontario.

Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world; and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.

In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.

An illustrated autobiography of Marisabina "Cookie" Russo, speaking to her childhood and teen years growing up in the 1950s and 1960s with a distant, mostly disapproving father and a highly opinionated mother. When she finds out her family is Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, she finds her whole world thrown into turmoil. "Cookie" must find a way to make a life for her own and find her own voice and beliefs in life.

Presents area-by-area information for travelers to New York State.

Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.