"Retrace the footsteps of your favorite characters and authors with this guide to novel destinations you can actually visit. Books transport readers to places they have never been, allowing them to travel in their minds all around the world. BOOKED inspires readers to visit the real-life locations portrayed in beloved works of literature, from distant past to today. Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance...

An anthology of essays, stories, and expressions of gratitude by dozens of famous authors describes the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have provided throughout their careers.

From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, readers will be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novel "Anne of Green Gables." Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley. The lush package includes Montgomery's hand-colourized photographs, the illustrations originally used in Anne of Green Gables,...

How many times have you heard readers argue about which is better, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? The works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne continue to provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Brontë enthusiasts, as well as those of us who never made it further than those oft-cited classics, will devour Miranda Pennington's literary memoir. Pennington, today a writer and teacher in New York, was a precocious reader. Her father...

"An exploration of the quirky, private, and sometimes curious places where great writers work, unveiling the stories associated with them -- and the literature that was conceived and written in them. With specially commissioned illustrations"--