Books

Living with Flowers

Fill your house with blooms with florist Rowan Blossom's debut book, Living with Flowers. This book will teach you the basics every budding florist should know, before showing how to create more than 25 of Rowan's favorite floral masterpieces for...

Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon

Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Grace Kelly, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess.  Oscar-winning actress, muse to one of the greatest...

Wine Time

Wine lovers rejoice! In this updated edition of the bestselling Wine Bites, Wine Time includes more than 65 all-new recipes for simple, scrumptious bites to go with your glass of vino. There are recipes for every occasion, whether a barbeque or...

Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City

The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of...

Edith Wharton at Home: Life at The Mount

By: Richard Guy Wilson The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself,...

An American in Provence

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLet Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike.An...

Cocktails with a Curator

Cocktails with a Curator joins the engaging histories of works of art with creatively inspired cocktails—a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.Based on the critically...

The Pocket Butler by Charles MacPherson

Author Charles MacPherson lays out the essentials of entertaining and business etiquette in this small, easy-to-follow guide. With a combination of his best tips from the first book and a wealth of new information, The Pocket Butler is the...

Saving Narragansett Bay: How People, Passion, and Perseverance made All the Difference

With over 100 pages and photographs, “Saving Narragansett Bay” captures the pivotal battles, rulings and turning points that helped Narragansett Bay improve and recover in the last five decades—from defeating ill-sited energy plant...

King Lehr

King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Lady Decies. The shocking, Gilded Age tell-all that tarnished high society. Item# 3592

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of...

The Women of Rothschild

In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power.From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from...

The American Adventuress: A Novel

"No one writes bright, bold, bad, and beautiful women of history like C.W. Gortner, and he outdoes himself with his latest heroine: Jennie Jerome, American heiress, royal mistress, and mother of Winston Churchill. The American...

A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel

In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a “remarkable and stirring novel” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) based on the inspiring true story of Virginia’s Black Wall...

Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution

For the past four decades, increasing numbers of Americans have started paying greater attention to the food they eat, buying organic vegetables, drinking fine wines, and seeking out exotic cuisines. Yet they are often equally passionate about the items...

A Floral Feast: A Guide to Growing and Cooking with Edible Flowers, Foliage, Herbs and Seeds

How to grow and harvest an abundant supply of edible ingredients from your garden. Flowers have probably been used in cooking for as long as people have been preparing and flavoring food. In China cooks were experimenting with chive flowers in 3000 BC...

Forage & Feast: Recipes for Bringing Mushrooms & Wild Plants to Your Table

Explore the bounty of the natural world through over 85 vegan recipes featuring foraged ingredients “Forage & Feast embodies a commonsense, simple, and joyful approach to foraging and cooking.”—Michel Nischan, chef,...

Cheers!: Cocktails & Toasts to Celebrate Every Day of the Year

Philip Greene, winner of the 13th Annual Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits, pairs each day of the year with a cocktail recipe that represents it, along with a toast in celebration! For every day of the...

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

“Valiant and timely ... ‘The Cure for Women’ reintroduces its subject as a hero for this moment.” ―The New York TimesHow Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood―and the...