Maureen Howard deepens her inquiry into the meeting place of history and family in this stunning and accessible novel. Isabel Murphy renounced silent-film stardom to raise a family in Rhode Island. No
After a short, difficult stint in the US Navy, where I developed paranoid schizophrenia, I lived in several places. I lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding area, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and
This is the perfect book for beginning to intermediate gardeners and home landscapers living in New England (including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).New
Wildflowers of New England describes and illustrates more than 900 species commonly encountered in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. This comprehensive guide
Honey Crisp. Puritan. Fuji. Twenty-One. Rhode Island Greening. Newtown Pippin. Jerseymac. What's a cook to do with the varieties of apples appearing at supermarkets, orchards, and farmer's markets al
Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as "quiet modernism." Their Rhode Island-based firm, Estes/Twombly Architects, builds modestl
"From the largest state Alaska to the smallest Rhode Island to the first state Delaware and the 50th Hawaii, there's so much to know about the United States! Show Me the United States has more than 10
These stunning tales about family, identity, and the lives of American Jews in the new century mark the debut of a spectacularly gifted writer. Forced together on a trip from Manhattan to Rhode Island
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant-an anthropologist obsessed w
CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth and glamour as "Vanderbilt."When Cornelius Vanderbilt, the teenaged son of a ferryman who worked in New York Harbor, decided to go into business on his own, few would have believed that within six decades he would come to epitomize American business, magnate of a shipping and railroad empire that made him the richest man in the country. In the wake of his death in 1877, Cornelius's heirs bitterly fought over his estate, sowing familial discord that would last for decades. For the generations of Vanderbilts who followed, fortunes were lost and made and lost again. In this tide of success and failure, a particularly American excess displayed itself. By 2019, when the last Vanderbilt left the Breakers-- the estate in Newport, Rhode Island, his son and namesake Cornelius Vanderbilt II buil
Lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family Rhode Island beach house in Barbara Delinsky's bestseller.One phone call is all it takes to lure real estate photographer Mallory Aldiss back to her family Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone—running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with her first love. But going home is fraught with emotional baggage—memories, mysteries and secrets abound.Mal's thirteen-year-old daughter, Joy, has never been to the place where Mal's life was shaped and is desperate to go. Fatherless, she craves family and especially wants to spend time with the grandfather she barely knows.In just seven watershed days on the Rhode Island coast three women will test the bonds of sisterhood, friendship and family, and discover the role that love and memory plays in defining their lives.
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?? How did Rocky Mo
Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island in the town of Warren, Brown University was the seventh in a series of Colonial higher-learning institutions that now make up the Ivy League. The univers
"From the largest state Alaska to the smallest Rhode Island to the first state Delaware and the 50th Hawaii, there's so much to know about the United States! Show Me the United States has more than 10
Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep
"Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every pries
Liam Mulligan is back in the follow-up to the 2011 Edgar Award–winning novel, Rogue Island Prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island for more than a decade. Liam Mulligan, an old-school
Prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island for more than a decade; Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter at dying Providence newspaper, suspects the governor has been taking payoffs to
Reamer (social work, Rhode Island College) has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings, and has lectured and written extensively on a wide range of human service issues. H
