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Day in Tuscany
More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This second book from Dario Castagno is a delightfully honest mix of memoirs from life in the hills of Tuscany's legendary Chianti region. Set on the day the author arrived home after a three-month tour of the United States promoting his first book, A Day in Tuscany compels readers to experience this...
Spooky South
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective back yard of the Deep South states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of 40 popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from...
by Lois M. Wieder
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Wethersfield, the oldest permanent English settlement in Connecticut, enjoys a rich historic heritage. From the small group of people who came in 1634, the Town has grown to an estimated population of 23,000. Here is the local town history from 1600-1965.
Books and published materials about local...
Iowa Curiosities
Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!
Haunted Greenwich Village
Bohemian Banshees, Spooky Sites, and Gonzo Ghost Walks
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Tales of ghostly goings-on and otherworldly encounters in Greenwich Village
Among New York City’s many treasures is Greenwich Village, a bohemian area filled with creativity and rebellion. Haunted Greenwich Village—a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings...
Haunted Theaters
Playhouse Phantoms, Opera House Horrors, and Backstage Banshees
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Haunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England.
Haunted Highways
Spooky Stories, Strange Happenings, and Supernatural Sightings
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
For most of us, most of the time, the roads we travel are largely forgotten once we get to where we’re going. By day, they usually reveal a familiar, real—living—world. But then darkness comes. Haunted Highways brings together more than twenty of the spookiest stories ever of ghosts, hauntings,...
Haunted Cemeteries
Creepy Crypts, Spine-Tingling Spirits, And Midnight Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial...
Haunted Hollywood
Tinseltown Terrors, Filmdom Phantoms, and Movieland Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Haunted Hollywood brings together more than two dozen stories about historic landmarks, theaters, watering holes, hotels, and houses that are haunted by movie stars, television personalities, and other celebrities. Some of the tales are ones the stars themselves confided, while others tell of stars whose spirits have left Hollywood but have shown up to haunt other places around America.
Minnesota Curiosities
Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the North Star State has to offer!
Visit an art gallery of underground graffiti; an eight-story-tall Iron Man sculpture; and some beautifully designed, no-real-name-for-them architectural oddities.
Meet...
It Happened In Nevada
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Ultimate Smoky Mountains
Discovering the Great National Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
One of the most accessible of the country’s national parks, Great Smoky Mountains NP is by far the most visited**--**averaging some 10 million visitors each year (for comparison, Grand Canyon NP averages 5.5 million annually). It covers 814 square miles in Tennessee and North Carolina.
The...
Food Lovers' Guide to® Boston
The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Food Lovers' Guides
Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights
The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by...
Historic New England
A Tour of the Region's Top 100 National Landmarks
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
National Historic Landmarks are touchstones of our collective past that still resonate with our present. The six New England states have nearly 400 such places. However, important doesn't always translate into interesting and so we have Historic New England: A Tour of the Region’s Top 100 National...