In 1850, Sarah Owen Burgess, twelve year old daughter of a Nantucket sea captain, took up her pen to begin a personal journal. Over the years she created, albeit unintentionally, a fine history of her beloved island as it was transformed from an island made wealthy by the thriving whaling industry to an island suffering the economic blow of the coming of the railroad to the mainland, thereby, making the transportation of whale oil and its by-products, easier to transport. It is a story of one girl's coming of age on the cusp of two major economic epochs in American history complete with...

Liz and James are on their honeymoon in Puerto Rico hoping to spend their time swimming, walking, eating great food and naturally, doing what honeymooners do. But, when a sweet young woman is murdered and they make a promise to find her killer, despite being far out of James' jurisdiction, things get sticky. A deadly fish tail has taken another victim but this time it seems it was planted to do murder. When James is called home to Ireland, Daphne and Liz join forces to keep that promise but everyone from a crazy police chief appropriately named Loci to a dishonest lawyer named Rex King manage...

In the third book in the India Street Nantucket cozy mystery series, India's teacher, mentor and good friend Maggie West inherits a castle in Provence. She invites India to become her partner in the Castle Restaurant. A really tempting offer India loves the South of France, but she is fully vested in her own fledgling business, the Blue-Eyed Scallop Catering Co. back home on Nantucket Island. Recently reunited with the love of her life, Ben Thatcher, who has also returned to the island, she is happily tied to her new life. If only she could live two wonderful lives simultaneously. When...

A timely expose of all the lies about the deadly Genetically Modified Organisms in your diet. Startling revelations everyone who consumes food should be aware of, now Whether or not you have read Wheat Belly...by William Davis M.D. Gluten: The Enemy Within is a must read. Finding your way through the avalanche of conflicting information about the gluten free lifestyle can be exhausting and confusing. Save yourself time and energy by reading this one book based on hundreds of hours of research "threshing" for the truth about the "new" wheat. The author went gluten free and now she is sharing...

Diana and Karin Talbot were devoted and loving sisters unfortunately in love with the same man. Diana met Theo first and fell head over heels in love with him. Theo was older and a successful chef, while Diana was just beginning to find her way, just beginning to figure out the direction of her career as a painter following college. Then, Diana introduced him to her beloved older sister Karin. The years passed, Theo married Karin, Diana married Oliver, and the four of them spent their summers together in the Talbot family cottage in Truro on Cape Cod. What came to pass was a testament to the...

Working with wool to make art can be a meditative journey. Follow listed folk artist Cynthia Gallant-Simpson's creative journey with wool from Penny Ruggs (old spelling) through Primitive Hooked Rugs and Sailors Woolies. What is a Sailors Woolie? In the 19th century, bored but creative British sailors, long at sea, who wanted to share their adventures with those at home created "paintings" out of what was at hand. Thread, wool, canvas, yarn, whatever the ship's mending basket had to offer they used to make wonderful wool art. It took a sailor (a 21st century American folk artist) to rebirth...

Having made his fortune in the Alaska and California gold rushes Joshua Cantwell headed to Cape Cod to build the family summerhouse that had long been his dream. Considered by the locals to be crazy for building on the shore because of the terrible mosquitoes and exposure to the worst weather, Joshua persevered at a time when shore property had no value to anyone but him. Five generations of Cantwells summered at Bay House filling the house with happy children and the bay with catboats. Fifteen year old Teddie Cantwell's mysterious death in the brackish pond behind Bay House in 1925, although...