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A first edition! This opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family New Jersey leads the way to historical attractions, children's museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and much more. Geared towards parents with children between the ages of two and twelve, the guide features interesting facts and sidebars as well as practical tips about...
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Discover Queens, New York City's Best-Kept Secret!
Manhattan is touristy; Brooklyn is turning mainstream; and Queens is now the up-and-coming borough in New York. With food from every corner of the world, major sporting venues, quirky nightlife, and rich history and cultural institutions to boot, Queens has just about everything a visitor could want. This handy reference explores Queens neighborhood by neighborhood, and even those familiar with the...
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Lively descriptions of New York breweries and brewpubs, with a history of brewing in the Empire State and information on types of beer produced at each site, tours, food served, and nearby lodging and attractions. The author, a beer connoisseur, recommends a favorite for each brewery.
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Pauline Frommer's highly-personal guide to her own home city has, in previous editions, won prestigious awards as "Best Guidebook of the Year". Though she deals with luxury choices as well as bargains, she makes a special effort to overcome New York's reputation for stratospheric prices, ferreting out scores of moderately-priced options in lodgings, meals, entertainment and more. Like all Easy Guides, this freshly-researched and popular best-seller...
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Grow your own food in the Northeast!
Growing vegetables requires regionally specific information-what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Northeast tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information written by local gardening expert, Marie Iannotti. Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden...
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Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire, Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey.
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67) Secret Brooklyn
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Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Brooklyn offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only, to residents and travelers, who find their way off the beaten track.
An indispensable travel guide for those, who thought they knew Brooklyn well or would like to discover the other face of the city.
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“Insiders' Guide to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country” is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Pennsylvania's "City of Brotherly Love." Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the area.
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Insiders' Guide to Baltimore is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the Maryland's largest city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Baltimore and its surrounding environs.
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Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power-extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barons, whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance.
But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city...
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Rediscover New Jersey's 47 New Deal Post Offices
The United States Postal Service is selling historic buildings. Some of these house historic artwork created during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Not all the murals remain in their original location. In some cases the fate of
the art, and buildings, remains unknown.
Learn which towns have murals and which
murals have been moved. The New Jersey Post Office Mural Guidebook
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• Museums, gardens, mansions, historic sites, wineries, and art galleries
• Outdoor activities and family fun
• Hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and restaurants
The Brandywine Valley, west of Philadelphia, where southeastern Pennsylvania meets northern Delaware, is an increasingly popular tourist destination offering a wide variety of attractions. This full-color insider's guide covers the region's rich history, natural beauty, and cultural diversity....
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Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with “Day Trips Hudson Valley”. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive to and from many top New York destinations. With full trip-planning information, “Day Trips Hudson Valley” helps makes the most of a brief getaway.
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Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, let this first edition of Metro New York Off the Beaten Path show you the metro New York City region you never knew existed. Visit a sizable chunk of the Berlin Wall-in Battery Park. Attend a session of Night Court. Discover isolated and tranquil spots scattered across the five boroughs and beyond-including nearly forgotten islands, tucked away...
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These history travel guides provide an introduction discussing the history and preservation of the present-day site and facilities and include a detailed, walking tour interspersed with first-hand accounts about the cemetery and events that have taken place there. A timeline runs through the walking tour giving descriptions of key personalities who conceived, planned and designed the area with brief and colorful biographies. Also included is information...
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Leave the sensible shoes and the backpacks behind: this isn't your grandmother's guide book. Naughty New York is the first guide written for ladies by ladies that helps you plan a sexy getaway with your man, a weekend on the town with your best friends, or a daring solo adventure on your own in the bustling metropolis. Like all good city guides, it includes the best hotels, shopping, culture, restaurants, and bars. But with Naughty New York you'll...
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Alexandria is one of America's most important Colonial towns. Sitting in the shadow of the nation's capital, it was the home of George Washington, the launching point of the French and Indian war, and the site of the Thomas Jefferson's inaugural ball. Alexandria is now the site of hundreds of architecturally and historically significant buildings, streets named after the heroes of America's founding, and is home to numerous boutiques and gourmet restaurants....
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Pauline Frommer's highly-personal guide to her own home city has, in previous editions, twice been named "Best Guidebook of the Year" by the North American Travel Journalists Association. It has been the best-selling guide to the city for the last five years. Though she deals with luxury choices as well as bargains, she makes a special effort to overcome New York's reputation for stratospheric prices, ferreting out scores of moderately-priced options...
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