North Country / Adirondack Author
Bloated Toe Publishing has released a new nonfiction book, Bullets, Booze, Bootleggers, and Beer: The Story of Prohibition in Northern New York, Volume 1: 1920–1926 (8 x 10, hard cover, 472 pp, $32), by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley. The book chronicles in detail the first seven years of the…
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Bloated Toe Publishing of Peru, New York, is pleased to announce the release of a new nonfiction title, Escape from Dannemora: 170 Years of Escapes, Tortures, and Infamous Inmates at New York’s Most Notorious Prison (311 pp, $24) by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley. The book chronicles not only the…
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Observer-Dispatch, January 31, 2014—New book on Gianini murder released: The Herkimer County Historical Society has several new book titles in its gift shop, including Killing in the Kuyahoora Valley by Lawrence P. Gooley. The book is an account of the 1914 Gianini murder case, when 16-year-old Jean Gianini was charged with the murder of his school teacher Lida Beecher in the village of Poland.
Bloated Toe Publishing of Peru, New York, is pleased to announce the release of a new true-crime title, Killing in the Kuyahoora Valley (126 pp, $18) by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley. The book chronicles the story of Poland, New York, schoolteacher Lydia Beecher, who was brutally murdered in 1914…
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Bloated Toe Publishing of Peru, New York, is pleased to announce the release of a new book by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley. The book, 25 Diabolical Adirondack Murders: The Twisted, Fiendish Deeds of North Country Killers (272 pp, $25), covers the complete story of notable homicides committed across the…
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Bloated Toe Publishing of Peru, New York, recently released History of Churubusco (6 x 9, 287 pp.), a new book by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley, along with three other titles that recently sold out. The new book, Gooley’s ninth, details the history of both Churubusco and the Town of…
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Join author Lawrence P. Gooley as he launches his latest book, History of Churubusco and the Town of Clinton, Clinton County, New York.
Bloated Toe Publishing announces the release of a new book by award-winning author Lawrence P. Gooley. Terror in the Adirondacks: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert F. Garrow, relates the complete life story of the most notorious figure in Adirondack history. Garrow’s horrific crimes incited panic across the Adirondacks…
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A hundred years ago, an epic battle in New York’s Adirondack Mountains left a lasting impact on the nation’s largest state park. Oliver Lamora, a poor Civil War pensioner and lumberjack of French-Canadian descent went toe-to-toe with William Rockefeller, one of the world’s richest men. Their decade-long feud is chronicled…
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