Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

50 Ways to Help Save the Bees

Have you heard the buzz? Bees―the tiny insects that pollinate nearly all our fruits and vegetables―need our support. If you like to eat your fruits and vegetables (and even if you don’t!), you should value our planet’s bees. Yet, because of...

Astor: The Rise and Fall if an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...

Little Genius Architecture

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. A first architecture book for little geniuses!Architects are artists and scientists as well.They design the spaces where we shop,...

Manners: A Modern Field Guide

Good manners aren't about cutlery, codes, or brains--they're about kindness.Good manners are not about knowing what to wear for drinks at six, being pretentious, or catching people out with some mysterious salad fork-related regulation. Writers and...

How to Read Houses - A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture

By Will JonesSmall enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this charmingly illustrated book is the ultimate field guide to domestic architecture. This sixth entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide...

Scrimshaw Bookmark, The Breakers

Scrimshaw, a timeless art form that began on 18th-century whaling vessels, offers a unique glimpse into the rich maritime history of the past. Now, you can bring home a piece of this fascinating tradition with our Newport scrimshaw bookmark, featuring a...

Murder At Ochre Court - A Gilded Newport Mystery

In the summer of 1898, reporter Emma Cross investigates a shocking death among the bright lights of Newport's high society . . .After a disappointing year as a society columnist for the Herald, Emma has returned to the salty air, glittering ocean vistas,...

Father's Secret: A Paranormal Mystery with a Twist on History

November 22, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas. Isn't it time we all knew what really happened?"With the carefully researched history of Newport architecture and society, Markwith has...

Gatsby's Speakeasy

Bring a little of East Egg to your next party. Gatsby's Speakeasy is a book of ten pop-out coasters and cocktail recipes inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Each beautiful coaster showcases one...