Books

What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age A richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it.Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and...

Katherine Warren: A Passion for Preservation

By Alyssa LozuponeToday, Newport is renowned as one of the most historically significant and architecturally intact cities in America. In the years following World War II, this heritage was under siege; the city's rich collection of colonial buildings...

Newport History Bytes

In 2011, the Newport Historical Society launched a blog to highlight tidbits of Newport County’s rich history. Intended to be a fast read, and to occasionally illustrate the countless aspects of historical popular culture that are connected to...

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...

Cooking My Way by Jacques Pepin

Master chef Jacques Pépin shares his expert insights on cooking economically at home—how to save money, time, and effort—in Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way, with over 150 recipes. All great chefs know not to...

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling gilt edges, creamy pages and stitched binding, Chilterns Publishing has reimagined the classics into a collection of the most beautiful books published in this genre. Jane Austen’s original books...

Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations

Celebrated interior designer and renowned tastemaker Charlotte Moss turns her eye to the garden as a resource for interiors, entertaining, and good living. Charlotte Moss’s greatest muse is the garden, and this book shows the myriad ways the garden...

The Cocktail Workshop: An Essential Guide to Classic Drinks and How to Make Them Your Own

Learn to craft a perfect, classic drink, or workshop that creation into a unique, flavor-forward spin with The Cocktail Workshop, an indispensable guide to foundational cocktails and the tools to elevate them into master-level creations. In this...

Ghostly Tales of Newport

Ghostly Tales of Newport by Jennifer Cameron Welcome to the spooky streets and shores of Newport! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know that a flaming phantom...

The Mystery Mansion

Fire your imagination with these fun storytelling cards. Reviving the Victorian craze for ‘myrioramas’, a picture made of several sections combinable in different ways so as to produce a variety of scenes, the twenty picture cards can be...

Gilded Death: A Newport Mystery

By Anne-Marie Sutton Amateur sleuth Caroline Kent and Newport Police Detective Hank Nightingale are reunited in this second in the Newport Mystery Series. What had begun as a promising relationship between the two in Murder Stalks A Mansion has ended It...

Scrimshaw Bookmark, Newport Bridge

Scrimshaw, a timeless art form that originated on 18th-century whaling vessels, celebrates the rich legacy of maritime craftsmanship. Now, you can bring a piece of this history into your daily life with our Newport scrimshaw bookmark, featuring the...

New York Splendor: The City's Most Memorable Rooms

Design authority Wendy Moonan takes the reader on a tour of some of New York City's finest residential rooms--past and present.The selection of interiors is about the "wow" factor--New York residential spaces that elicit gasps of pleasure and surprise...

Just Being Jackie by Margaret Cardillo

A stunning and inspirational nonfiction picture book about the life and style of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from Margaret Cardillo and Julia Denos. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for...

A History of New York in 27 Buildings

by Sam Roberts From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it.As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent...

Murder Stalks a Mansion: A Newport Mystery

By Anne-Marie Sutton (paperback)Murder Stalks A Mansion: A Newport Mystery, quickly transports you to Bellevue Avenue, the Cliff Walk, Thames Street and the harbor, and of course to stately Kenwood, the fictional Newport mansion which is home to the Kent...

Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagers

Concise, witty, written by Walter Hoving, former chairman of Tiffany's of New York, and illustrated with humor and style by Joe Eula, this classic guide to good table manners has delighted readers of all ages since 1961. This book is a step-by-step...

A Golden Cage: A Newport Gilded Age Mystery

The author of A Gilded Grave returns to Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, where headstrong heiress Deanna Randolph must solve another murder among the social elite.With her mother in Europe, Deanna is staying with the Ballard...

Robert's Guide for Butlers & Other Household Staff

Full of humor and wit, this book was commissioned in 1827 to give household staff a handbook so they might more efficiently perform the duties for which they were being paid. Item# 172