Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a bizzare, amazing place called Loon Lake.

The story of Tink Puddah, an extraterrestrial orphaned on Earth when his parents die, is mistaken for a runaway slave. The novel deals with the lives he touches and the preacher who tries to save a soul that Tink may or may not possess.

When a woman is dumped by her fiancée she spends her marriage money on a trip to a ski resort and falls in love with a ski instructor there despite his past.

Fourteen-year-old Leo's summer job with an elderly man and his family in the Adirondacks gives him self-confidence and a greater understanding of people.

Love and family are more important than money or career accomplishments. When Isabelle Weston takes leave from work to help her brother, Finn, overcome the depression he's been in since losing his legs, Isabelle's mother convinces her that spending time at the family's lake lodge in the Adirondacks is just the thing Finn needs to regain perspective and start over. She also believes that the surest way to keep him there is to invite along his best friend, Mateo Elizondo. The trouble is that Mateo is also Isabelle's former fiancée.