"Farmers and Honest Men is a welcome look at a little known chapter in American history. Through the eyes of Henry and John Ruiter we witness the lives of the early settlers in New York who forged their homes from the rugged wilderness and whose lives were uprooted by the American Revolution.

We see the visciousness of a 'civil war' where those like the Ruiters who remained loyal to the crown fought against their former friends and neighbors who embraced the partriot cause. These Loyalists paid a heavy price, and were eventually forced to emmigrate to Quebec Province and start all over again. Henry Ruiter led a long and exciting life as a pioneer farmer, as an officer in the King's Rangers during the Revolution, and eventually as a Canadian militia officer during the War of 1812.

Author Horst Dresler tells his story well."

-Tim Todish
French & Indian War author/historian

Paperback available for $24.95 (US) and now available in hardcover for $34.95 (US)

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The history of a group of nineteen settlers in the Manor of Rensselaerswyk in the colony of New York, specifically in the valley of the Hoosick River. The book recounts the hardships endured by these families: Indian raiders under General Rigaud de Vaudreuil in 1746, the grants by Governor Wentworth to his friends meant to evict them from their land, and the patriots who finally drove them to Canada. The book relates to many of the families that settled in both Ontario & Quebec.

Leatherworker, trader and historian Mark Humpal traces the history of the quahog shell wampum, once used as a food source and ornamentation (and later currency) for generations of New England's native tribes. The book reprints the results of a study of wampum conducted by the New York State Senate in 1900-1901 which was originally published as a bulletin of the New York State Museum. A comprehensive and indepth book including handsome illustrations and two color plates.

Now in its second printing!

Chronicling his life growing up on his family farm in South Woodstock, Vermont during the 1930's through the 1950's, Fullerton's book is a memoir that provides a snapshot of rural New England living at its most idyllic.

SECRETS & LIES is an anthology of comics edited by veteran web cartoonist Cayetano Garza Jr. which will made its debut at the 2008 MoCCA Art Festival in New York, NY.

The book features a wide spectrum of comics creators from all over the United States and from every corner of the comics industry. Comics legends SR Bissette (Swamp Thing, Tyrant) and Rick Geary (A Treasury of Victorian Murder, Gumby, Heavy Metal) share the stage with webcomics luminaries Shaenon Garrity (Narbonic) and Chuck Whelon (Pewfell). The book also features work from alumni, current and upcoming students from the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and the surrounding cartooning community including recent graduates Joe Lambert and Bryan Stone, freshmen Lucy Knisley and Dan Archer and recent Xeric grant winner Colleen Frakes (CCS Class of 07) as well as many, many others.

Click here to visit the official SECRETS & LIES page and read a 55 page virtual preview of this 180 page book, see the complete list of contributors and order a copy for yourself today!

Published with generous support of the Xeric Foundation, Center for Cartoon Studies alum Colleen Frakes' TRAGIC RELIEF is the story of both the luckiest and unluckiest man in the world, his many loves, losses, and the mother that is with him throughout it all. A panel-less comic told in poetic pantomime, TRAGIC RELIEF is a meditation on the themes of sex, love and the "unknowable other". Copies are available for order online at the book's official website.