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  • A Gilded Redwood Coffin
    Cecelia Tichi
    Western silver heiress Val DeVere expects nothing but joy at an elegant Newport picnic in 1899, only to be abruptly summoned to New York by a close friend’s urgent and cryptic plea: 'PLEASE HELP...THEO B.'In New York, Theo confides in Val, begging her to save his lively cousin Phoebe from a cunning Irish manservant who, he claims, is plotting her 'accidental' death in the Rocky...
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    12,21 €

  • Death in a Gilded Frame
    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 lik...
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    12,26 €

  • A Gilded Drowning Pool
    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 d...
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    12,04 €

  • A Fatal Gilded High Note
    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 he...
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    12,10 €

  • Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park
    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. Heartsi...
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    12,08 €

  • A Gilded Death
    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...
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    12,13 €

  • Jack London
    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, ...
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    37,97 €

  • Civic Passions
    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, i...
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    47,41 €

  • Shifting Gears
    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 ...
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    64,02 €

  • Electronic Hearth
    Cecelia Tichi
    Exploring almost fifty years of writing about television - in novels, cartoons, journalism, advertising, and critical books and articles - Cecelia Tichi defines the role of television in the American consciousness. ...
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    30,15 €