Books

Ghosts of Newport

Spirits, Scoundrels, Legends and Lore By John Brennan Today's Newport attracts countless visitors from around the world; its streets are alive with art, culture, wealth and beauty. Yet the city harbors echoes of a dark and turbulent past, including a...

Mermaid Quilling Card

Quilling is the art of rolled, shaped, and glued paper that results in creating a unified, decorative design. The art of quilling has been around for centuries, with a remarkably varied historical background spanning across continents. Quilling has...

Adirondack Beach Quilling Card

Send a handcrafted card to your favorite beach buddy with this Quilled Beach Adirondack Chair card. This peaceful scene is the perfect card for any beach goer or friend for any occasion. This design includes two quilled Adirondack chairs from...

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography.... completely absorbing.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire The granddaughter of the...

How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles

This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building's style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for,...

Newport Skyline Cutout and Greeting Card

Great Houses connect people to a nation's heritage and open windows to another age. This unique card captures the beauty and charm of Newport's most iconic skyline in six layers. Each silhouette is exquisitely drawn to capture essential features of the...

Hummingbird Trio Quilling Card

Send this beautifully quilled Hummingbird Trio greeting card to any nature lover in your life! Aztecs believed hummingbirds were messengers between them and the gods and now this handcrafted card will be the messenger between you and your loved one. The...

Quotes For Women: Quotations of Great Americans

This pocket-sized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred assorted quotations from inspirational women that will influence, inspire, and empower people of all ages. About the Publisher: Applewood Books, publishers of America's living past, was founded...

Gilded Summers

Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below. Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something...

Newport Firsts: A Hundred Claims to Fame

by Brian M. StinsonNewport, Rhode Island, has been a city of innovation since its beginning nearly four centuries ago. Some of the claims on a national level are true, while some have been greatly distorted over the years. The freethinking citizens...

America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages

In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the “Eden of America” in the First Geography of the United States. America’s Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages builds on this legendary image of a...

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie’s thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members,...

Dreaming Of Newport Board Book

In this board book for young readers, ages 2-4, we'll learn to count down from 10 to 1, while discovering welcoming mansions, galloping horses, racing sailboats and more! There's so much to see—won't you join me in Newport, Rhode Island for the...

Trees of Newport

During the 1970s, Richard L. Champlin of Jamestown became known as "The Tree Man" in Rhode Island - and records of big trees and inquiries were directed his way. As a librarian at the Redwood Library in Newport he developed an inventory of the Specimen...

Invest In Death: A Newport Mystery

When Newport's most sought after investment adviser meets her death while cruising on a sail boat surrounded by several of her biggest clients, amateur sleuth Caroline Kent finds herself in the middle of another murder investigation. Newport police...

Keep My Secret: A Newport Mystery

Broadway actress Meredith Hackett appears unexpectedly at the Inn At Kenwood Court in Newport, Rhode Island. Owner Caroline Kent is delighted to see her old friend. But their happy reunion is short lived as four days after her arrival, Meredith is found...

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain

Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name...

Songbirds Quilling Card

Quilling is the art of rolled, shaped, and glued paper that results in creating a unified, decorative design. The art of quilling has been around for centuries, with a remarkably varied historical background spanning across continents. Quilling has...