Books

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella’s world,...

When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our...

All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age

“A timeless and powerful novel of a daring woman who must decide if she will risk everything to follow her passion and find her voice.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author From the moment she was born, the...

The Floral Birthday Book

Discover your Victorian birthday flower and poem and keep track of friends and family occasions in this lovely gift hardback historic reproduction. This reproduction of a Victorian birthday reminder book entwines flowers and their emblems with great...

The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses

The Beekeeper’s Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover, from ecologist Richard A. Jones and writer Sharon Sweeney-Lynch.Part history book, part...

The Gardener's Year

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers. Macmillan...

The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves

Bring in the energy of wild places and work in harmony with the land to grow your own food and live sustainably.In this beautifully illustrated book, award-winning garden designer Mary Reynolds encourages us to create a bond with the land to restore its...

The Wharton Plot: A Novel

Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer.New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and...

White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America

The fascinating historical biography of America’s most memorable first daughter, Alice Roosevelt, whose free spirit and status made her the Princess Diana and Jackie O of the early 20th century.Perfect for readers of female-centric biographies...

The Art of the Handwritten Note: A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication

For those who enjoy writing notes, or those who value doing so but find themselves intimidated by the task, acclaimed calligrapher Margaret Shepherd has created both an epistolary tribute and rescue manual. Just as you cherish receiving personal mail,...

Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy

A visual feast of garden design inspiration that embraces diversity and teaches you how to create a lush, colorful, edible, and meaningful garden wonderland of your own.“Through story and imagery, Garden Wonderland reminds us over and...

The Fragrant Flower Garden: Growing, Arranging & Preserving Natural Scents

Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more...

Why We Garden: The Art, Science, Philosophy, and Joy of Gardening

Explore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art, and philosophy.Whether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, find paradise amongst your patio plants, or enjoy the simply solace of your hands in the soil, there is...

Cocktail Botanica: 60+ Drinks Inspired by Nature

Cocktail Botanica is a celebration of all things floral, herbaceous, fruity, and boozy.Featuring cocktails, punches, and botanical-infused spirits, this book uses herbs, fruits, flowers, and all things botanical that you can buy, forage, or grow...

A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris

Winner of the 13th Annual Spirited Award, for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or SpiritsA history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved.In the Prohibition era, American cocktail enthusiasts...

The Personal Librarian

Over one million copies sold!The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!“Historical fiction at its...

The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss Though Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she suffers a brief but serious...

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties.To F. Scott Fitzgerald’s bemused narrator, Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have emerged out of...

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.  Perfect for readers of Jennifer Robson and lovers of Downton Abbey. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the...

Winnie-the-Pooh and the Wrong Bees

Isn’t it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? The perfect introduction to Winnie-the-Pooh! Classic Winnie-the-Pooh Story Winnie-the-Pooh And The Wrong Bees – With The Original Text By A.A.Milne And Decorations...