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BOOK Look-Alikes By Joan Steiner. Published September 1998, 32 pages, Hardcover, Bk&Cd-Rom edition. ISBN: 0316812552

Claverack, New York Artist Joan Steiner took three and a half years to complete this wonderful picture book that uses everything from acorns and broccoli to yard sticks and zippers — hundreds of common and not-so-common everyday objects in its scenes. The results — a striking three-dimensional world — a land where things are not as they appear. Great fun... hours of enjoyment for young and young at heart. Full color illustrations, photographs by Thomas Lindley.

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BOOK Look-Alikes Jr.: Find More Than 700 Hidden Everyday Objects by Joan Steiner, Thomas Lindley (Photographer). Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover - 32 pages (September 1999) Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd); ISBN: 0316813079

Steiner brings the dazzling ingenuity of her debut, Look-Alikes (1998) to a series of less dense, but no less savory, sight games for younger children. Using approximately 50-100 common objectsdoilies, dog biscuits, buttons, combs, snack food, cans, crayons, bits of this or thatfor each, she assembles 11 scenes, from a busy construction site to a tidy classroom, then invites children to deconstruct them. --From Kirkus Reviews

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Look Alikes 2001 Calendar Look by Joan Steiner. Calendar Wall edition (August 2000) Workman Pub Co (Cal); ISBN: 0761120033

Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Looking at the cover, can you find the baton? The old-fashioned vinyl suitcase, the juicer and peanuts, toy crown and pairs of scissors? Joan Steiner's bestselling LOOK-ALIKES CALENDAR offers twelve delightfully puzzling tableaux that invite the whole family to look-and look-and look again. Adapted from Look-Alikes, her bestselling book, the calendar continues the obsession of taking hundreds of everyday objects and using them to create inventive three-dimensional collages-all perfectly familiar, and yet so perfectly, wonderfully strange.

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Hudson Valley Bounty: A guide to farms, fine foods, and open-air markets. By Jan Greenberg. Paperback. Published 1996. ISBN: 0936399759

Travel guide, source book, and mouth-watering read for all food fanatics, this is the only book about Hudson Valley foods and farmers. From fresh fois gras to traditional farmstead cheeses, apple fed fallow deer to plump range poultry and game, picking your own and buying the best, Great Fresh Foods covers it all. In a light-hearted, friend-to-friend writing style, Jan Greenberg gives detailed descriptions of products, directions to each entrepreneur, farm, store, and market, plus explanations on how each product is made. Also included are charts for ready reference, a map showing the towns and villages of the region, and listing of some of the region's best restaurants that feature locally produced food as well as recipes from their kitchens.

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BOOK Crisis in the Lower Hudson Valley By John R. Zehner. Published September 1998. ISBN: 0911183469

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BOOK The Hudson River Valley Cookbook: A Leading American Chef Savors the Region's Bounty By Waldy Malouf, Molly Finn. Published September 1998. ISBN: 1558321438

Long celebrated for its beauty and rich cultural history, the Hudson River Valley, with its magnificent waterways and mountains, once inspired the early Indian and American settlers as well as the Roosevelts and Vanderbilts. In his stunning culinary debut, Chef Waldy Malouf provides more than 200 recipes that embrace the region's extraordinary variety of produce, game, fish, and dairy products. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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BOOK Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings By J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt.. Paperback, Published 1998. ISBN: 156718362X

From the expert author of at least six books on UFOs since 1976 comes a book that hits all Hudson Valley residents right in their own back yard. A must-read for those intrigued with the unsolved questions and mysteries of the great cosmos and beyond.

New Year's Eve 1982 marked the beginning of one of the most puzzling UFO cases in recent times: the Hudson Valley "siege." The siege begot over 7,000 sightings of a boomerang-shaped craft or crafts moving silently through the sky over New York and Connecticut between 1982 and 1995. Night Siege is the collaborative effort of Hynek, Imbrogno, and Pratt to report the data gathered from witnesses of this mystifying experience, without speculation of what it might be. If you missed the first edition of Night Siege, this is your chance to delve into the Hudson Valley mystery. If you have read the first edition, you may be interested in the additional data covering sightings from 1986 to 1995, the graphical analysis of the UFO's appearance, and the chronology of the sightings. Aside from the purely factual value of the catalog of reports in Night Siege, its coverage of an undeniable series of events that somehow went largely untouched by the local authorities and the national media invites speculation into the origins of these silent objects. --Brian Patterson

Synopsis--In 1983, just a few miles north of New York City, hundreds of suburbanites were startled to see something hovering in the sky. They described it as a series of flashing lights that formed a "V", as big as a football field, moving slowly and silently. Now, expert UFO investigators reveal the amazing evidence. Considered one of the best researched UFO books to date, NIGHT SIEGE has been revised and expanded with sightings up to 1995.

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BOOK Sometimes the Soul: Two Novella of Sicily By Gioia Timpanelli. Published August 1998, 192 pages. ISBN: 0393027449

Bearsville, NY author Timpaelli weaves hauntingly beautiful fiction about two women, solitude, art, and transformation. In "A Knot of Tears," a woman's locked-up life is transformed by a parrot who tells tales; her story becomes a subtle and surprising meditation on the necessity of being true to oneself and others. In "Rusina, Not Quite in Love," a strange and lovely retelling of the story of the Beauty and the Beast, a young woman escapes family and society to find consolation and beauty in nature and its muse. In each case, women of very different backgrounds — one aristocratic, one impoverished — find solitary spaces from which they can emerge as artists and shapers of their own destinies.

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BOOK The ABCs of Real Family Values: The Simple Things That Make Families Work By Steven M. Lewis.. Published 1998. ISBN: 045227860

Author of "Zen and the Art of Fatherhood," Lewis writes about his own family's experiences in a new book that holds a wealth of solid, common-sense advice. Lewis divides his time between freelance writing and teaching creative writing and literature at Empire State College in New Paltz.

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Paperback Listing The Flaming Corsage By William P. Kennedy. Published April 1997. Paperback, 224 pages. ISBN: 0140242708

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Hardcover Listing The Flaming Corsage By William P. Kennedy. Published May 1996. Hardcover, 209 pages. ISBN: 0670858722

Kennedy's latest addition to the famous Albany cycle of novels — from whence come the likes of Ironweed, his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. The Flaming Corsage is a return to the same place, different time. Bouncing back and forth from 1884 to 1912, Kennedy's story is of wealth and class in Albany.

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Listing An Albany Trio: Threes Novels from the Albany Cycle: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed By William P. Kennedy.. Paperback, 606 pages, reprint edition. Published April 1997. ISBN: 0140257861

Now together in one volume, here are three early works from critically acclaimed author William Kennedy's Albany Cycle: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed.

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Listing Dark Tide By William P. Kennedy. Published March 1996. Paperback, reprint edition. ISBN: 0312957769

Anticipating a week of sun and sailing aboard a luxury yacht, the Chesters and the Hunters find themselves at the mercy of the captain, wo has hidden millions of dollars in stolen diamonds on the ship.

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Paperback Listing Ironweed: A Novel By William P. Kennedy.. Published August 1989. 227 pages, paperback, published by Penguin USA. ISBN: 0140070206

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Listing — Audio Cassette Ironweed By William P. Kennedy.. Published May 1988. Pub Group West Audio. ISBN: 0886901308

Albany's "favorite-son," author William P. Kennedy writes of family, the magical and the terribly real — a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Francis Phelan, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present.

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