Montreal and Quebec City Encounter is a guide to these two most European cities of North America that you may easily carry in a pocket or purse. It opens with eleven one or two page highlights, with photographs and brief introductions to several parts of Montreal’s history as found through architecture and neighborhood, a look at one of its grandest churches, and tastes of Montreal's cuisine and a festival in Quebec City.

 

Traverse City, MI -- MyNorth Media (publisher of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine and MyNorth.com), has just released Beautiful Sleeping Bear Dunes, a gorgeous photographic book capturing the serene and evocative beauty of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, recently voted "Most Beautiful Place in America" by ABC's Good Morning America viewers.

 

New York City. Most associate it with just being Manhattan, and the other four boroughs are placed in the peripheral vision. Manhattan is not the center of everything. There is way more to the city than just Times Square and Lady Liberty. Both are really cool sites that I highly recommend visiting if it’s your first time to New York. Otherwise, get out of Manhattan and explore. Don’t get me wrong. I love Manhattan.