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Gatsby Cocktails: Classic Cocktails from the Jazz Age

Get out your cocktail shaker and re-live the speakeasy experience with this collection of authentic cocktails.Gatsby Cocktails features more than 20 classic cocktails inspired by the 1920s. Try re-creating the classic Sidecar, comprising brandy,...

A Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport

A Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport: The Stories Behind the Stones by Lewis Keen While now known as America’s summer playground, Newport was at one time the nation’s fifth-largest seaport, containing a diverse population that is...

Women Know Everything: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks

With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each page offers wisdom, wit, and...

Planting for Butterflies: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Flutter

Butterflies are brilliant pollinators and add vibrancy and color to the garden. A summer's day wouldn't be the same without the gentle fluttering of delicate wings. They connect us with living and breathing nature and are an essential part of a dynamic...

50 Ways to Wear a Scarf

From the Audrey to the Paris, the Top Down, or the Easy Breezy, there are 50 scarf styles in this book for any occasion or mood. Vibrantly illustrated and packaged as a compact hardcover, this book begs to be gifted with a scarf and displayed on a...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey is the story behind the Highclere Castle, the inspiration for the PBS Show Downton Abbey. The story follows Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon -- the inspiration for the character Lady Cora Crawley. Like the...

Legendary Ladies

Goddesses Mythology Inspiration Readers who have enjoyed Warrior Goddess Training or Women Who Run with the Wolves will love Ann Shen's Legendary LadiesGoddesses from mythology: Goddess mythology from our past are celebrated...

A Newport Summer by Nick Mele & Ruthie Sommers

An intimate love letter to summertime in Newport from photographer Nick Mele and interior designer Ruthie Sommers Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the last bastions of American high society. The grand Gilded Age houses that top its oceanside cliffs and...

Fashion and Satire

During the opening years of the 20th century, illustrative commentary filled magazine pages as a means of exploring humanity within a societal context. Satirist Orson Lowell, a noted illustrator from this period, created fashion-filled compositions that...

Paris in Bloom

“Brilliantly captures the splendor of French fleurs with lush photographs and elegant prose . . . A masterpiece!” —Laura Dowling, former chief floral designer at the White House “An intimate look at Paris. . . . Keep it...

Build a Flower: A Beginner's Guide to Paper Flowers

Lucia Balcazar is a paper-flower artist with a sophisticated yet approachable style. Her new book, Build A Flower is ideal for any crafter & flower lover. The results are stunning but the steps to get there are achievable at any skill level...

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of...

Boards and Spreads: Shareable, Simple Arrangements for Every Meal

Go beyond cheese with 65 recipes for delicious boards and epic spreads, whether you’re in the mood for a girl dinner or appetizers, breakfast, snacks, and more.In Boards & Spreads, you won’t find cheese boards--instead, you’ll...