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  • Death in a Gilded Frame

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Newport Summer 1899-yachts, balls, and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society's "Queens."Western silver heiress Val Mackle DeVere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to "sit" for a portrait for her beloved Roddy, only to stumble on a scene of bloody, grisly homicide at an art gallery.Like a figure from Pompeii, the dead Newport gallery manager screams in silence, his hands like claws clutching at ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

    The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    This illustrated Gilded Age etiquette guide offers "proof that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as informative as it is entertaining." (Alida Becker, The New York Times Books Review)Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Gilded Drowning Pool

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    As a girl in the West, Valentine Mackle dodged quicksand along the rivers of the mining camps, but as Mrs. Roderick W. DeVere of New York's Fifth Avenue, Val is sucked into Society's own quicksand in spring, 1899, when a weekend at a country estate in the Hudson Valley turns deadly. Val's "soul sister" drowns on family property, and the host's best "practical jokes" double as death traps.A Gilded ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Gilded Death

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    A formal dinner in palatial, Gilded Age Newport stuns Val DeVere when her closest friend whispers a terrifying rumor. The friend's ultra-rich auntie's fatal heart attack at Mrs. Astor's annual ball last winter was murder.When the aunt's reclusive daughter-and heir-succumbs to "heart failure," Val and husband Roddy probe the deaths to shield their dear friend who is next in line to inherit the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Jazz Age Cocktails

    History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series
    How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground”“Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: women’s right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The privations of the Great War were over, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Fatal Gilded High Note

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    New York's "Diamond Horseshoe" balcony in the Metropolitan Opera House glittered with ladies' jewels in January 1899, and Society seated in private boxes heard Mozart's murder victim sing his song of death-unaware that the sudden death of a "Coal King" in Box 18 will be ruled a homicide.When opera-goers Val and Roddy DeVere are asked to investigate ("on the q.t."), Val finds herself suspected of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim could be someone like Val's late mother-or her-for the Valentine Mackle DeVere is one generation from the Irish immigrants who now risk their lives toiling in the city that promised a better life.Heartsick, Val joins her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Looking Backward

    2000-1887

    by Edward Bellamy ...
    It is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Midcentury Cocktails

    History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineeringAmerica at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties rippled, but this new Atomic Age promised cheap power and future wonders, while the hallmark of the era ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Reading Country Music

    Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

    Edited by Cecelia Tichi ...
    With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Exposés and Excess

    Muckraking in America, 19 / 2

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series Personal Takes
    From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

    A Historical Exploration of Literature

    by Wendy Martin Ph.D., Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series Historical Explorations of Literature
    This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students.This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and culture through historical context essays, literary analysis, chronologies, documents, and suggestions for ... Read more

    $60.79 USD