New from Pisgah Press
RF Wilson’s latest Rick Ryder Mystery, Deadly Dancing
Rick Ryder, RF Wilson’s one-armed attorney and private eye is back with another challenging case against powerful, well-connected enemies … who will stop at nothing to get their way, including framing him for murder!
Approaching his office one Sunday morning, environmental lawyer and investigator Rick Ryder is greeted by the strobing lights of emergency and police vehicles – and the body of a naked stripper. The police quickly tag him for the young woman’s murder.
Ryder, trying to find out for himself what’s happening to his life, soon discovers suspicious links between illegal tree-cutting on National Forest land and a tawdry nightclub. Battling his own alcoholism and powerful political forces, his investigations have to go into overtime, both to root out the true source of corruption … and clear his name.
A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Finger Lakes Trail
Heather Houskeeper is a Certified Herbalist and well-known hiker and blogger who has thru-hiked the world-famous Appalachian Trail, NC’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail (twice), and the Finger Lakes Trail System in New York – where she set the record as the first person to hike the entire FLT System in one continuous trek.
Her easy-to-use, in-depth, practical guide helps every reader – the novice, experienced trekker, or even the backyard forager – identify and utilize the plants found along the FLT as well as the rest of NY State’s rolling hills, deep river valleys, rugged mountain tops, grassy meadows, and even the edges of freshly sown farm fields.
No matter where the hiker may be on or off the trail, food and medicine abound. Houskeeper shares her expertise in sustainable harvesting techniques as well as proper processing of plants and plant parts – along with easy-to-follow recipes for food and medicine.
Known as “the Botanical Hiker,” Houskeeper previously wrote A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Mountains to Sea Trail.
Musical Morphine, written by Robin Russell Gaiser
The buzz is on for Robin Russell Gaiser’s amazing new memoir of her work as a Certified Music Practitioner (CMP), a trained specialist who provides therapeutic music to the ill, the elderly, and the dying in hospitals and hospices.
Coming out as both a paperback and audiobook on June 1, Musical Morphine describes how Robin’s bedside acoustic music offers patients, families, and friends respite from the pain, fear, and confusion that often accompanes the dying process.
In the words of Hospice and Palliative Care Physician Claire Hicks, “Once you read what music can do when you’re ill, you’ll want to have someone like Robin Gaiser at your bedside.”
Pisgah Press books are available in bookstores throughout Western North Carolina and can be purchased at www.pisgahpress.com.
