country homes

Contains a collection of black-and-white photographs depicting eighty years of Long Island country houses and architects from 1860 to 1940 and chronicles nearly one thousand estates built by prominent families including J.P. Morgan, the Hearsts, Astors, and Vanderbilts.

A peaceful Christmas weekend in the Berkshire countryside is disrupted by tragic events that no one, not even clever aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould, anticipated.

Alice Moore is eight years old in 1915 when she goes to live with her grandmother in southern Ireland. Alice discovers that her life of privilege is reserved for the Anglo-Irish as she comes to know others outside her circle. In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, Alice is torn between her heritage and her conscience.

Art master Walter Hartright comes to the aid of his student, Laura, whom he has fallen in love with, after the woman's husband steals her fortune and identity, and while helping her, Walter finds a connection between Laura's situation and a mysterious woman in white.

Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeeper--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.