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  • 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

  • Gilded Age Cocktails

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

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series
    A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.”The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and ... Read more

    $11.59 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shifting Gears

    Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear–and–girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to American life saw examples of the new technology on Main Street, on the local railway platform, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Deadly Gilded Free Fall

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series Book 4 - The Roddy and Val DeVere Gilded Series
    Toxic medicine, a fanatic Chicago detective, and a fatal plunge down a steep staircase embroil Val and Roddy DeVere in a dangerous quest for facts in 1899. Roddy's fledgling business teeters as his partner begs him to free him from a detective's "witch hunt." The question: was the partner's wife's fatal free fall an accident? Or was it murder? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Civic Passions

    Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • Jack London, Enhanced Ebook

    A Writer's Fight for a Better America

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political ... Read more

    $30.59 USD