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All this week, TV station NY1 is airing a segment about the calm, quiet, tranquil places in The Big Apple. It’s Valarie D’Elia’s regular Travel With Val feature on TV1, this week focusing on my new NYC travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City: 139 Tranquil Sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Long title, [...] Children who read ten books this summer can get one free book from Borders, through August 26th. It’s a great deal on several levels — it rewards kids for reading, and the free book helps the family budget. Borders is calling it the Summer Double Dare. It is for kids 12 and under only. Very simple [...] My new travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City, is featured at the Read of the Week on the website Tripatini, a social network for those of us who love to travel. Thanks to the editors at Tripatini for acknowledging the book, which can be purchased online through the Tripatini website and from Amazon. Peaceful Places New [...] The 6th Annual Housing Works Open-Air Street Fair takes over Crosby Street between Houston and Prince in Soho on Saturday, June 5th, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Find thousands of $1 books, movies, records, and CDs. Plus food, beer, live music and more. Best deal is the $20 “all-you-can-stuff” bags of clothing and accessories from [...] Peaceful Places NYC travel guidebook by Evelyn Kanter for residents, visitors This week is Book Week in New York City. It doesn’t matter whether the books you read are hardcover, paperback, or on Kindle, what’s important is that you buy books and read books. Book Week honors authors and publishers, who are hanging out at the Javits Convention [...] Peaceful Places NYC travel guidebook by Evelyn Kanter for residents, visitors It’s mine. Just published. Peaceful Places New York City is your guide to more than 100 of the most tranquil, serene spots in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Most of the sites mentioned are free, and each and every one of them is [...] Skyline Books, a fixture in the Flatiron district for the last 20 years, closed its doors forever on January 31, the victim of rising rents and the inescapable competition of chainstores like Barnes & Noble and online bookstores like Amazon. Each time an independent bookstore closes, it is like a knife in the heart of a [...] Here’s your chance to read a book for free before it’s published. Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, has an website called Read it Forward, which lets you request three soon-to-be-published books each month, read it when it arrives in the mailbox, and then generate some buzz for the book by passing it on to a friend [...] |
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