Upcoming events
Event: Salon with Memoir Authors Hester Kaplan & Alizah Holstein
Please join us for a salon style discussion, Q&A, and signing with Rhode Island based authors Hester Kaplan ("Twice Born”) and Alizah Holstein (“My Roman History”).
When: Wednesday, June 3rd - 6-7pm
We recommend arriving by 5:30 pm to secure a seat and have time to grab a drink and mingle ahead of the event!
Where: Corner Bar @ The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton Four Corners
Free event, books and drinks (wine/beer/non-alcoholic) available for purchase.
Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com
About ‘Twice Born’:
Longlisted for the NBCC Award for Autobiography
A deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy, identity, and the art of writing
Twice Born opens with the death of Hester’s father, Justin Kaplan, known for his award-winning biographies of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Despite his relatively prolific output, Justin rarely wrote, or said, much about himself—even to his daughter. Standing at his open casket, Hester has the realization that while alive, her father never looked her in the eyes.
Hester takes on the challenge of piecing together as intimate a biography of her own father as possible, comparing his story to the lives of his biographical subjects and dissecting the various personas he presents to the world—from which the name “dad,” “daddy,” or even “father” is conspicuously and painfully absent. Parallel to Justin’s story runs Hester’s own journey of development as a writer and a thinker, which begins in the shadow of not only her talented father, but also her novelist mother, and the fiercely protective union the two of them had built, often to the exclusion of their own children.
In sensitive, intimate writing, Kaplan paints a rich picture of the twentieth century literary world that she grew up in, all while reflecting on the deceptive nature of memory, the loneliness of creative pursuits, and the dovetailing paradoxes of biographical and autobiographical writing.
About Hester Kaplan:
Hester Kaplan is the author of novels and story collections including The Edge of Marriage, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories series. She is the recipient of two NEA awards, and was named a Mark Twain Fellow for Twice Born.
About ‘My Roman History’:
“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and Home/Land
“Brilliant . . . A personal intellectual history, a poignant account of how an expected life veers, and a boldly structured piece of writing." —Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, via Instagram
In this exquisite and profound memoir, a medieval historian traces her lifelong obsession with Rome and the encounters with the city’s past and present that became fulcrum points in her life
From the time she first felt called to its gates as a high school student fascinated by Dante and Italian thanks to a life-changing teacher, Rome has been a fixed star around which Alizah Holstein’s life has rotated—despite the fact that she bears no Italian heritage, and has never lived there long enough to call it home.
In this kaleidoscopic yet intimate memoir, her shifting relationship to a vibrant city layered with human history becomes a lens on why we look to the past, on the mysteries of affinity and desire, and on what it means to grow up. Holstein weaves the stories of Romans past and present, and encounters with the city of historical figures from Petrarch to Freud, into the narrative of her evolution from a curious student abuzz with the thrill of discovery, to a lonely researcher in a city to which she feels she belongs despite knowing no one, to an ambitious young historian struggling to find her place in the halls of academia. Following a trail of memories—that first taste of a tartufo cioccolato in Piazza Navona, the ancient walls of the Via Appia blurring from the back of a motorcycle, the smudge of ink on a manuscript left by a scribe's hand over seven hundred years before—she explores what it means to be romana, Roman—and to find solace and self-knowledge in the presence of the past.
An enveloping, original, and deeply resonant account, set against one of the world's most beguiling cities, of the unexpected things that give our lives meaning, My Roman History is a profound depiction of the winding path to self-realization, which—much like history itself—is mysterious, captivating, and ever-unfolding.
About Alizah Holstein:
Alizah Holstein holds a PhD in history from Cornell University and an MFA in nonfiction writing and literary translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her family in Providence, Rhode Island.
Fiction Book Club: June - Kin
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book. Book club meets in our new Corner Bar, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks available for sale alongside a selection of snacks.
Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, June 16th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
June’s fiction book club features “Kin” by Tayari Jones.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK •
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
“Tayari Jones’s storytelling washed over me like a trip back home. . . . Kin is a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you turn the last page.” —Oprah Winfrey
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.
A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
About the Author
TAYARI JONES is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.
Poetry Book Club: July - How About Now
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book. Book club meets in our new Corner Bar, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks available for sale alongside a selection of snacks.
Poetry Book Club - Tuesday, July 14th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
July’s book club features Kate Baer’s recent collection of poems, “How About Now”.
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“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub
"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine Newman
The third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.
Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world.
With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.
How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.
About the Author
Kate Baer is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, and And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, and the New York Times.
Save the Date: Night at the Disco w/author Christian John Wikane
Save the date! Info coming soon!
Save the Date: Author Event w/Debra McGuire!
Save the date! Info coming soon!
About the Book
Dressing the Story: The Art of Costume Design by Debra McGuire
“If it weren’t for Debra McGuire, The Forty Year-Old Virgin, McLovin and Dewey Cox would be naked!” — Judd Apatow
Dressing the Story is a rare, inside-the-room account of how films are truly made—not just written and directed, but seen. In these vivid, candid conversations, celebrated costume designer Debra McGuire, whose film and TV credits include Friends, Freaks and Geeks, The Morning Show, Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad and Walk Hard, reveals how clothing becomes character, how fabric carries emotion, and how the smallest visual detail can shape an audience’s experience without them ever realizing it. Drawing on decades of work across film and television, she takes us from first script reading to final fitting, from instinct to execution, showing how costume design is not decoration but storytelling in its most immediate, visual form.
At once a practical guide, a memoir of creative life, and a love letter to collaboration, this book captures the exhilaration—and the sheer labor—behind the craft. McGuire writes with warmth, wit, and hard-won authority about working with actors, navigating directors and producers, building teams, solving problems under pressure, and trusting intuition when it matters most. Whether you’re a filmmaker, designer, or simply someone who loves cinema, Dressing the Story opens your eyes to an essential, often invisible art—and leaves you watching every film differently.
Presented as a series of conversations with independent producer Jim Stark, and enriched by contributions from Gavin McGuire and longtime collaborator Joe Mastrolia, this book offers a uniquely intimate portrait of the collaborative spirit at the heart of costume design.
Debra McGuire is an award-winning American costume designer best known for defining the look of the hit sitcom Friends over its ten-season run. Her work spans film, television, and theatre, with credits including Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad, Freaks and Geeks, and The Morning Show. Known for blending character psychology with contemporary fashion, McGuire has collaborated with filmmakers including David Mamet, Judd Apatow, and Jake Kasdan, and has become one of Hollywood’s most influential contemporary costume designers. Her website is here.
Fiction Book Club: May - The Rest of Our Lives
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book. Book club meets in our new Corner Bar, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks available for sale alongside a selection of snacks.
Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, May 19th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
May’s fiction book club features “The Rest of Our Lives: A Novel” by Ben Markovits.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
“Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience.” —Ann Patchett
“Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life.
When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his college-bound daughter to Pittsburgh, he remembers his promise to himself. He is also on the run from his own health issues and a forced leave from work.
So, rather than returning to his wife in Westchester, Tom keeps driving west, with the vague plan of visiting people from his past—an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son—en route, maybe, to California. He’s moving towards a future he hasn’t even envisioned yet while he considers his past and the choices he’s made that have brought him to this particular present. Pitch-perfect, tender, and keenly observed, The Rest of Our Lives is a story about what to do when the rest of your life is only just the beginning of your story.
PVD Coven Broom Making Workshop
Broom-Making Workshop with PVD Coven
The artists at PVD Coven lead a 2 hour workshop on the time-honored art of broom-making. During the session, you will learn both history and craft, and receive personalized instruction guiding you through the process of creating a broom from scratch.
You’ll leave the workshop with a deeper appreciation of this practical art as well two to three beautiful and utilitarian handmade brooms (they make great gifts!) and the new skills that created them.
No prior experience necessary.
Limited capacity, reserve your spot by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com or stopping in the store. This workshop makes a great Mother’s Day gift or experience!
Date: Sat, May 9th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Fee: $120/pp includes materials to make 2-3 handbrooms
Buy online:https://square.link/u/6cZslcMw
Location: our new Corner Bar space at The Yellow House, Tiverton Four Corners
About PVD Coven/Artist Bios:
PVD Coven is a broom making workshop started by Ayumi Kodama and Cutter Hutton. The pair lead classes to introduce the craft and techniques of broom making in an effort to share skills and strengthen the creative communities within Rhode Island.
Cutter was drawn to broom making because of its simple hand made nature and the meditative process of the craft. Broom making serves as a counterpoint to his professional work as a product and furniture designer. He also teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Furniture and Industrial Design Departments.
Ayumi is an artist and designer working across mediums, from glass and textiles to the grasses and fibers of broom making. She has integrated broom making into her creative practice, creating sculptural pieces and installations. Most recently at an art residency at the Centre d'art Jardins Racine in Québec, Canada where she made her first site specific broom with grass fibers and driftwood found on the property.
Author Event: Kristy Halvorsen's Perfect Unfolding: Seven Years Migrating Off-Grid Lessons from the Road -- An Interactive Discussion
Please join us for an interactive discussion, Q&A, and signing with author Kristy Halvorsen as she presents her newly released book, “Perfect Unfolding”.
When: Wednesday, May 6th - 6-7pm
Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com
About the Book:
Perfect Unfolding is a thought-provoking travel memoir about a woman who trades her dream home and fourteen-year firefighting career for the freedom and possibility of the open road.
Living off-grid in an Airstream, migrating with the seasons without a plan, Kristy discovers the most challenging wilderness isn’t outside her windows. It’s within. From exploring Arctic shores with an Indigenous guide to hiking the desert canyons of the American West, she navigates not just unmarked roads, but the unmapped territory of living on her own terms.
Perfect Unfolding weaves together three transformative journeys: adventures across breathtaking landscapes where survival awakens true resilience; a mother-daughter bond that transcends distance and past hurts; and an unexpected romance that challenges everything she thought she knew about love.
This raw and refreshingly honest story of self-discovery speaks to anyone who has felt the pull of something bigger—a life beyond expectation, beyond fear, beyond the safe and predictable. You’ll ride in the passenger seat as Kristy navigates the universal tension between following society’s script and surrendering to the unknown.
Perfect Unfolding is an invitation:
How far will you go to find the life that’s calling?
About the Author
If “normal” is a way of being, I am not that. Back in 2017, I sold my house and almost everything I owned, and hit the road.
Without meaning to, I sent myself on a modern-day walkabout. I’ve migrated with the seasons while living off-grid in my 2002 Airstream trailer ever since.
My first career was mechanical engineering, but sitting at a desk was not my jam. So I followed a deeper calling and became a firefighter/paramedic, a role I enjoyed for fourteen years. I founded my mentoring and coaching practice in 2015. That started as a fun side gig, and grew into a full time passion. Then one day, I knew it was time to set out on a grand adventure. (Read the book to find out how that’s going!)
Since hitting the road, work and fun have intermingled. A common thread is helping people realize who they truly are and live their dreams without sacrificing happiness along the way. My word to describe this simple, fun, and beautiful way to live is “coddiwomple”—to live in wonder, embrace the unknown, and trust Life while waking up to the complete freedom available to us all.
As for writing, I’ve been telling stories for as long as I can remember. I was first published at fourteen in the local newspaper. My blog and monthly newsletter have been entertaining and touching readers for almost ten years. Online publications have featured my articles, essays, and life/travel tips. For several years, I’ve been a regular columnist for the Blue Beret magazine. Perfect Unfolding is my first book.
Non-Fiction Book Club: May - Forest Euphoria
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book. Book club meets in our new Corner Bar, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks available for sale alongside a selection of snacks.
Non-fiction Book Club - Tuesday, May 5th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
May’s non-fiction book club features “Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature” by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian.
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“An antidote to the loneliness of our species.”—ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
“A master class in how to love the world.”—MARGARET RENKL
A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.
Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at her—and in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.
Braiding her personal story with science, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, a mystery that scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.
Big Book Club: Spring Session - The Sisters
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as we dive into an epic novel with our new, quarterly Big Book Club. Each quarter we will explore a new tome, classic or contemporary. Sign up for the book club by emailing us or coming in store and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book - your attention span will thank you.
Spring Big Book Club - Tuesday, 4/28 6-7pm
April’s big book club features “The Sisters” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.
An addictively entertaining, internationally bestselling family saga by a National Book Award finalist.
Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger.
Ina meets her future husband when she’s dragged to a New Year’s rave by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress. And Anastasia runs off to Tunisia, where she falls in love with a woman who, years later, will transform her life.
Following the sisters from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. Over the course of three decades, his life intersects with the sisters, from a chance encounter in Tunis to the scene of a fighter jet crash in Stockholm. When Evelyn disappears on a trip to New York, Jonas manages to track her down—and helps her to break the curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for decades. In the process, a shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are.
Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's The Sisters is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order and an addictively entertaining tour de force.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. The Family Clause was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Invasion! won an Obie Award for best script. Khemiri is the recipient of a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and numerous other publications. The Sisters is his first book to be written in English. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family and teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Uncertainty Walking Book Tour w/author Maggie Jackson! Free!
Uncertainty Walking Book Tour
Stretch your legs and learn about the wisdom and wonder of uncertainty! A popular British innovation, a "walking book tour" makes a book literally leap off the page for both readers and authors. At this event, author Maggie Jackson will lead a walk through historic Tiverton Four Corners, sharing local history and stories that bring to life her award-winning book Uncertainand its revelatory findings on the upsides of skillful unsureness in times of flux. We will learn why productive unsureness boosts resilience and how uncertainty fueled the success of heroes past and present, including Frederick Douglass.
The 1.5 hour tour and book-signing will take place rain or shine largely outdoors and involve about a quarter-mile of easy walking.
Date: Saturday, April 25th
Time: 2 to 3:30 pm.
Place: Meet at the Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI (parking available at the shop or throughout the Four Corners village)
Free admission! Copies of the book available for sale at the shop, swing by our new Corner Bar in the shop for a coffee/tea/wine/beer/etc before or after the talk!
Photos courtesy of South Coast Almanac
Corner Bar Opening!
Corner Bar will be open for it’s third official evening on Saturday, April 11th from 4-8pm!
Wine, beer, non-alcoholic options available for sale alongside various snacks and antipasto boxes from Bottega Bocconi!
Corner Bar Opening! Special pop-up w/Little Bitte Cocktails
Corner Bar will be open for it’s second official evening on Friday, April 10th from 4-8pm!
Wine, beer, non-alcoholic options available for sale alongside various snacks and antipasto boxes from Bottega Bocconi.
Pop-up from Willa of Little Bitte Cocktails! Don’t miss her delicious, artisanal drinks!
Corner Bar Opening! Special pop-up w/Exec Chef Erika of Bottega Bocconi
Corner Bar will be open for it’s first official evening on Thursday, April 9th from 4-8pm!
Wine, beer, non-alcoholic options available for sale alongside various snacks.
Pop-up from Bottega Bocconi from 6-8pm! Come say hi to Executive Chef Erika and try some delicious tiramisu samples! We will have a limited amount of Bottega Bocconi tiramisu and antipasto boxes available for sale while they last!
Non-Fiction Book Club: *APRIL* - Eight Million Ways to Happiness
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around two powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.
Non-fiction Book Club - Tuesday, April 7th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
*** NOTE: Due to weather we needed to postpone February’s non-fiction book club to APRIL. This book club event will now take place on Tuesday, April 7th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm.
February’s non-fiction book club features “Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the Heart of Japan” by Hiroko Yoda.
A Shinto cultural historian shares a path to joyful living drawn from Japan’s uniquely flexible approach to spirituality and nature, offering a moving and enriching blend of memoir, cultural history, and guidance for anyone struggling with disconnection in the modern world.
Everyone’s in the pursuit of happiness, but few know how to attain this state of bliss. Millions around the world have turned to Japanese culture to unlock secrets to everything from finding their Ikigai to The Courage to Be Disliked. Yet Japan’s spiritual traditions are the hidden source of so many nourishing aspects of Japanese daily life and culture. Without Japan’s natural spiritual sustenance, Jiro wouldn’t dream of sushi; Hayao Miyazaki’s films wouldn’t spirit us away; and Marie Kondo wouldn’t spark joy.
In her book Eight Million Ways to Happiness, Hiroko Yoda offers the culmination of her decade-long odyssey into the spiritual heart of her homeland, and fills the pages with penetrating and poignant insights. Readers follow Hiroko as she trains as a Shinto shrine-dancer, partakes in Buddhist funeral rituals, ascends holy mountains with Shugendo ascetics, and meets one of Japan’s last living itako, a traditional mystic. She offers a roadmap to a form of spiritual flexibility, by turns ancient and new, mystical and grounded. Hiroko shares personal stories, cultural history, reverence towards nature, and life lessons for readers of any background.
Hiroko awakens readers to the idea of a spiritual flexibility that can nourish them through life’s inevitable ups and downs, wherever they might be, whatever their personal faiths may be. We are all subject to many forces beyond our control, but we are also part of a bigger natural system that can strengthen us—if we first learn how to connect with it.
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"This book is a triumph! Hiroko Yoda dives into Japanese spirituality with an open heart and a lively, questioning mind. What she discovers is religion with a lowercase r: guidance rather than rules, generosity instead of judgement. Please know: No woo-woo spiritual blather here! Yoda's footing in cultural history and talents as a storyteller set this book apart and above."
—Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Gulp and Stiff
“I didn’t know how much I needed this book until I read it. Hiroko Yoda shows us with tenderness and clarity that healing and resolution occur even without certainty. Eight Million Ways to Happiness reminds us that there’s no single path to meaning or to spiritual health and mental health. Eight Million Ways to Happiness is an antidote to burnout culture and binary thinking. We all need this book right now.”
—Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist and bestselling author of Real Self-Care
“Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and cultural history, Yoda’s book provides an invaluable introduction to the spiritual life of Japan. She builds a compelling case for the value of flexibility and resilience in the face of chaos.” —Laura Allen, author of Murakami
Non-Fiction Book Club: March - Bread of Angels
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.
Non-Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, March 24th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
March’s non-fiction book club features “Bread of Angels: A Memoir” by Patti Smith.
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A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids
"God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the imagination. Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.
The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter.
She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Here, she invents a room of her own, a low table, a Persian cup, inkwell and pen, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family.
A series of profound losses mark her life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
About the Author
Patti Smith is the author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids, as well as Woolgathering, M Train, Year of the Monkey, and Collected Lyrics. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Her global exhibitions include Strange Messenger, Land 250, Camera Solo, and Evidence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, Smith is also the recipient of the ASCAP Founders Award, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, and the Legion d’honneur.
Buy a copy in store, use our libro.fm site to download the audiobook while supporting the shop, or grab a copy at the library!
Bookselling at The Moth Event in New Bedford
We will be bookselling for The Moth at their upcoming show in New Bedford!! Look for our table in the lobby! The Moth will be hosting an event the day prior (Wednesday, March 18th) at our store!!
About the Event
This Spring, globally beloved storytelling institution, The Moth, is bringing its Mainstage show to New Bedford.
For ONE night, five seasoned storytellers will share extraordinary, true stories that dig deep into the idea of the American Dream.
Does it even exist anymore? FOR WHO? What happens when the dream rubs up against reality? What happens when it’s dashed or deferred? And what happens when the dream comes true?
Come together, sit shoulder to shoulder, and listen to people sharing hilarious, moving, illuminating, astounding stories of their very own
Tickets available through The Zeiterion
About The Moth
The Moth is a nonprofit that believes in connecting humanity through the power of personal storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented over 65,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth produces 600+ live shows annually, as well as the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, and popular The Moth Podcast. You can listen to The Moth weekly on over 540 public radio stations and anywhere you find podcasts.
This performance may contain adult content.
Corner Bar: Preview Week!
Big news! The Yellow House is excited to announce the opening of "Corner Bar," our new bar/cafe space located in the back room of our bookshop. We have a curated, thoughtful selection of wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages available for sale alongside delicious pre-packaged snacks!
Starting April 9th, Corner Bar will be open Thursday through Sunday from 11am to 7pm, offering self-serve non-alcoholic cafe drinks and snacks during the day, and bar service starting at 4pm. (Extended hours coming in the summer!)
Corner Bar will kick off a preview week on Wednesday, March 18th with a workshop led by the renowned storytelling organization, The Moth. This free event will take place at our shop on 3/18 from 3pm-4pm. Space is limited and guests will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. We suggest arriving at 2:30pm to secure a spot.
Preview week schedule:
- Wednesday, 3/18: 4pm - 7pm; after the Moth Workshop
- Thursday, 3/19: 4pm - 7pm
- Friday, 3/20: 4pm - 7pm; with our friends at Little Bitte behind the bar for a pop-up
Bring a friend! Grab a neighbor! Come on down, check out our new space, have a drink with us!
The Moth at The Yellow House! "My Life in Stories: A Guided Journaling Workshop from The Moth"
We are thrilled to announce a very exciting upcoming workshop led by The Moth!
About the Event
There’s a great story in all of us. What’s yours?
Join Moth Senior Director Kate Tellers for a behind the scenes look at how the Peabody award-winning storytelling non-profit helps people from all walks of life find their stories. In celebration of My Life in Stories, a keepsake journal filled with prompts that will help you uncover, reflect on, and share the stories that make you who you are. This one-hour event is free and open to the public. Journals will be for sale on-site.
Where
The event will coincide with the soft opening of our new bar space at The Yellow House! We will have a select menu of wine, beer, and NA beverage options as well as some small snacks available for sale.
The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI 02878 - Parking available at the shop or any of the surrounding Tiverton Four Corners parking areas.
Free event - journals/beverages/snacks available for sale!
When
Wednesday, March 18th
2:30 pm - Meet and mingle
3-4 pm - Workshop led by The Moth
4-7pm - Bar is open! Stay as long as you like and chat with new and old friends :)
Note
We will have copies of The Moth’s new journal available for sale in the shop as well as other blank journals available for sale. If you prefer, please arrive with your own journal and writing utensil. Space is limited, we are not taking RSVPs, we advise you arrive early to secure a spot.
About The Moth
Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories told live and without notes. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.
About Kate Tellers
Kate Tellers is a Senior Director, a host of The Moth’s live storytelling series and Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour, and co-author of their New York Times bestseller How to Tell a Story. Just a few stories into her first Moth event, fortuitously themed BEGINNINGS, she knew she had found her home. Since then she’s developed stories with her heroes from her Pittsburgh childhood to the present day and helmed storytelling events around the world. As the Director of MothWorks she’s designed and led storytelling programs with non-profits including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and Ashoka, as well as the Chicago Bulls, American Express, Spotify, Google, and the U.S. State Department, that harness the power of storytelling to inspire culture and elevate communication. Her story, “But Also Bring Cheese” can be heard on The Moth Radio Hour and is featured in The Moth’s book All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s and The New Yorker. Through it all her love of storytelling runs deep because it gives her the phenomenal opportunity to laugh and cry with strangers.
Fiction Book Club: March - The Café with No Name
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.
March Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, March 10th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
March’s fiction book club features “The Café with No Name” by Robert Seethaler.
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A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER
A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.
“How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge
Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived.
The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now a new wind has been blowing, and the air is filled with an inexplicable energy and a desire for renewal. In the newspapers with which fishmongers wrap the char and trout from the Danube, one can read about great things to come, a bright future beginning to rise from the quagmire of the past. Enlivened by these promises, Robert refurbishes the café and, rewarding him for his efforts and search of a congenial place to gather, talk, read, or just sit and be, customers arrive, bringing their stories of passions, friendships, abandonments, and bereavements. Some are in search of company, others long for love, or just a place where they can feel understood. As the city is transformed, Robert’s café becomes at once a place of refuge and one from which to observe, mourn, and rejoice.
Combining the enchantment of warm prose with tender humor, Robert Seethaler has written a charming parable of human existence animated by unforgettable characters and a kaleidoscope of human stories.
★ “A gem of a novel, whimsical and bittersweet but never sentimental, with indelible characters and a powerful sense of place.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About the Author
Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of eight novels. In 2017 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize with A Whole Life (FSG, 2016). He also works as an actor, most recently in Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth. He lives in Berlin.
Katy Derbyshire translates contemporary German writers, including Christa Wolf, Heike Geissler, and Olga Grjasnowa. Her translation of Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. She was born in London and has been based in Berlin for more than twenty years.
Buy a copy in store, use our libro.fm site to download the audiobook while supporting the shop, or grab a copy at the library!
Galentine’s Market at Mt Hope Farm
From Mount Hope Farm - we will be one of the vendors at this fun, upcoming event:
Forget the usual midweek slump—we’re turning Wednesday, February 11th into the ultimate celebration of friendship! Whether you’re looking for a post-work cocktail or a head start on your favorite local shopping, Mount Hope Farm is the place to be.
Think cozy farm vibes meets a chic night out. Here is what’s waiting for you:
Shop Small: Browse a curated selection of local vendors (perfect for treating yourself or your bestie).
Sip & Socialize: Handcrafted cocktails and mocktails to keep the spirits high from Two Gals Cocktails.
Farm-Fresh Bites: Delicious food to fuel your shopping spree.
The Perfect Backdrop: Capture those "Gram-worthy" moments in our beautiful historic barn.
Preregister for a suggested donation or pay $5 per person at the door.
Fiction Book Club: February - The Bone Thief w/Author Vanessa Lillie
Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.
Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, February 10th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
February’s fiction book club features “The Bone Thief” by Rhode Island based author Vanessa Lillie. We are thrilled to have Vanessa joining us in person for this Feb 10th book club meeting!
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"The Bone Thief is a riveting mystery with a plot that seamlessly blends history with fiction. And Syd Walker is an unforgettable protagonist."
—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
Washington Post ‘Best Mystery Novel’ of 2025
When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate...from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie.
In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker receives an alarming call: newly discovered skeletal remains have been stolen. Not only have bones gone missing, but a Native teen girl has disappeared near the camp, and law enforcement dismisses her family's fears.
As Syd investigates both crimes, she's drawn into a world of privileged campers and their wealthy parents—most of them members of the Founders Society, an exclusive club whose members trace their lineage to the first colonists and claim ancestral rights to the land, despite fierce objections from the local tribal community. And it's not the first time something—or someone—has gone missing from the camp.
The deeper Syd digs, the more she realizes these aren't isolated incidents. A pattern of disappearances stretches back generations, all leading to the Founders Society's doorstep. But exposing the truth means confronting not just the town's most powerful families, but also a legacy of violence that refuses to stay buried.
From the national bestselling author of Blood Sisters (a Washington Post Best Mystery of the Year and Target Book Club pick) comes a new Syd Walker novel that proves the sins of the past are destined to repeat until the truth is finally unearthed.
About the Author
Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, a new series centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, will be released October 28th. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and International Thriller Writers award nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Vanessa was a Sisters in Crime board member and wrote a weekly column for the Providence Journal about her experiences during the first year of the pandemic. She hosts an Instagram Live show, ‘Twas the Night Before Book Launch, where she chats with authors the night before their book is out in the world.
Buy a copy in store, use our libro.fm site to download the audiobook while supporting the shop, or grab a copy at the library!
Valentine's Pop Up: Doughpamine Bagels + Treats
Join us for another delicious pop-up from the good folks at Middletown based Doughpamine Bakery at The Yellow House on Saturday, 2/7 from 12pm - 3pm. There will be an assortment of delicious bagels and sweet treats for sale!
Doughpamine Bakery is a woman-owned micro-bakehouse nestled in the heart of Middletown, Rhode Island.
Fully cottage‑licensed, they handcraft every loaf of bread and bagel using simple, wholesome ingredients, no unnecessary preservatives or chemicals. Their commitment lies in traditional baking methods and pure, nourishing ingredients that deliver flavor and quality in every bite.
They will be in store from 12pm - 3pm or until they sell out! Swing by to meet the bakers, shop local, and support small businesses!
Follow them on Instagram at @doughpaminebakehouse
Follow them on Facebook at doughpaminebakehouse
Author Talk! Libby DeLana's "Cold Joy"
** UPDATE ** 1/28 - We unfortunately are forgoing the dip element of this event out of health and safety concerns brought on by the extreme cold as of late. Our event will still begin at 9am and include breakfast, a talk from Libby DeLana, Q&A, and book signing.
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We are plunging into the new year with author Libby DeLana! Join us on Saturday, January 31st for a talk with Libby, Q&A, breakfast, and optional group plunge!
Date: Saturday, January 31st
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Location: Sakonnet Point Club, Little Compton (note: you need a ticket to attend this event)
Ticketed event - you must purchase a ticket ahead of the event! Email any questions to hello@theyellowhouseri.com.
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Ticket Option 1: Includes author talk and Continental Breakfast + Coffee/Tea/Juice at the Sakonnet Point Club followed by an optional Group Dip nearby - $50 / per person
Purchase OPTION 1 LINK -> CLICK HERE
Ticket Option 2 (includes book): Includes author talk and Continental Breakfast + Coffee/Tea/Juice at the Sakonnet Point Club and a signed copy of Cold Joy followed by an optional Group Dip nearby - $70 / per person
Purchase OPTION 2 LINK -> CLICK HERE
Disclaimer: Group swim is optional (and fun!) - swim at your own risk, The Yellow House and The Sakonnet Point Club hold no responsibility for any safety or health concerns.
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9:00 AM - Breakfast / Author Talk / Q & A
CANCELED DUE TO EXTREME COLD - Group Dip! Optional :) Note - please bring your own towels, gear, and be prepared to leave directly from the water (we will not be returning to SPC after the dip).
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About the book - Cold Joy:
In this exhilarating guide to well-being, creative adventurer and wellness podcast host Libby DeLana illuminates the many physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of cold water. She also explores how creating a daily cold plunging practice taught her self-love, courage, resilience, and the joy of being immersed in a community of adventurous women.
For most of her life, Libby DeLana believed she hated the cold—fear of cold became part of her identity. Then, in the midst of a period of deep personal inquiry, an impromptu dip in icy water in the company of other women cracked something open in her heart, forcing her to reexamine the limiting stories she told herself. If she could learn to love cold, what other beautiful life experiences might await?
In Cold Joy, an all-levels guide to cold plunging, DeLana shares her wisdom and expert guidance on how to create your own cold immersion practice for healing, joy, and self-discovery. It features simple-to-follow practices, personal storytelling, essential safety tips, and fascinating details on the science and history of cold immersion, as well as the vibrant community that has sprung up around the practice, providing everything you need to experience the tremendous power of cold water—whether dipping in a sea, lake, river, or tub.
Equal parts inspiring and instructive, and featuring breathtaking photographs throughout, this enriching guide is a must-have companion for anyone curious about cold plunging and a stirring call to open your heart to new adventures, new possibilities, and new joys.
About the Author - Libby DeLana:
Libby DeLana is an executive creative director, writer, and podcast host who swears by two things: cold water and long walks. She shares her daily dips and wanderings on Instagram (@parkhere, @thismorningwalk @thiscoldjoy ) and cohosts the This Morning Walk podcast with NYT bestselling author Alex Elle. Her work has appeared in NPR, the BBC, Good Life Project, Oprah Daily, and The Isolation Journal. She calls both Massachusetts and the Bay Area home. Libby’s first book is DO/Walk (Do Books). Her second, Cold Joy, from Chronicle Books in October 2025.
Big Book Club: Winter Session - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Introducing a **new** book club! Join our bookseller, Andrea, as we dive into an epic novel with our new, quarterly Big Book Club. Each quarter we will explore a new tome, classic or contemporary. Sign up for the book club by emailing us or coming in store and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book - your attention span will thank you. Our regular fiction & non-fiction book clubs will resume in February after December’s cookbook club.
Big Book Club - Thursday, 1/22 6-7pm
January’s inaugural big book club features “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” by Kiran Desai.
BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss
"A spectacular literary achievement. I wanted to pack a little suitcase and stay inside this book forever.”—Ann Patchett
“A novel so wonderful, when I got to the last page, I turned to the first and began again.”—Sandra Cisneros
"A grand and stirring love story, written in exquisite prose"—Namwali Serpell
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart.
Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India, fearing she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intimacy and inspiration. Sunny, a struggling journalist resettled in New York City, is attempting to flee his imperious mother and the violence of his warring clan. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.
Book Signing: Emily Franklin & Annie Hartnett!
We are thrilled to have a double header book signing at the shop!! Come meet Emily Franklin and Annie Hartnett, both of whom will be in store to sign copies of their latest releases, The Lioness of Boston (Franklin) and The Road to Tender Hearts (Hartnett).
Date: Saturday, December 20th
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Free event, books are available for purchase - get your copies signed between 12-2! Pre-order a copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com.
About the book - The Lioness of Boston:
“Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive—irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world.”—Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children
A deeply evocative portrayal of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the daring trailblazer who not only created an inimitable legacy in American art but also transformed a city.
By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d’art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston’s polite society. But when Isabella first arrived in Boston in 1861, she was twenty years old, newly married to a wealthy trader, and unsure of herself. Puzzled by the frosty reception she received from stuffy bluebloods, she strived to fit in. After two devastating tragedies and rejection from upper society, Isabella discovered her spirit and cast off expectations.
Freed by travel, Isabella explores the world of art, ideas, and letters, meeting such kindred spirits as Henry James and Oscar Wilde. From London and Paris to Egypt and Asia, she develops a keen eye for paintings and objects, and meets feminists ready to transform nineteenth century thinking in the twentieth century. Isabella becomes her own person, painted by John Singer Sargent in a portrait of daring décolletage, and fond of such stunts as walking a pair of lions in the Boston Public Garden. With a mission to make art accessible to the public, Isabella becomes the first woman to open a museum in the United States.
The Lioness of Boston is a portrait of what society expected a woman’s life to be, shattered by a courageous soul who rebelled and was determined to live on her own terms.
About the Author - Emily Franklin:
Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books including The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, now in its tenth printing and recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy! Her poetry, fiction, essays, and photos have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her next novel Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction based on the forgotten—but important life of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s step sister, will be published in April 2026.
About the book - The Road to Tender Hearts:
A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals
“A miraculous novel—an actual and spiritual road trip you won’t forget.”—John Irving
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn’t have much time left—he’s had three heart attacks already.
But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he’s going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back.
Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brother’s grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who’s adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And there’s one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJ’s home.
This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped for—a fresh shot at love and parenting—but does he have the strength to do both those things again? It’s very possible his heart can’t take it.
About the Author - Annie Hartnett:
Annie Hartnett is the bestselling author of three novels: Rabbit Cake, Unlikely Animals, and The Road to Tender Hearts, which won the 2025 New England Book Award for fiction. Annie has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.
Gift Wrapping Fundraiser for Our Local Food Banks
Food bank fundraiser!
When: Sunday, 12/14, from 12-2pm & Saturday, 12/20, from 12-2pm
What: Make both an in-store purchase and a monetary food bank donation and receive **complimentary** gift wrapping. Our team will wrap your gifts beautifully with complimentary paper and ribbon (or you can bring or buy your own paper for them to use)!
100% of cash donations collected will be distributed to the Tiverton High School Food Pantry and the Little Compton Food Bank.
Gift Wrapping Fundraiser for Our Local Food Banks
Food bank fundraiser!
When: Sunday, 12/14, from 12-2pm & Saturday, 12/20, from 12-2pm
What: Make both an in-store purchase and a monetary food bank donation and receive **complimentary** gift wrapping. Our team will wrap your gifts beautifully with complimentary paper and ribbon (or you can bring or buy your own paper for them to use)!
100% of cash donations collected will be distributed to the Tiverton High School Food Pantry and the Little Compton Food Bank.
Holiday Book Club: December Cook Books!
Our December book club will look a little different! Join us on December 9th for a little pre-holiday get together. We will dive into two wonderful cookbooks - feel free to bring a dish from either book to share (finger foods or desserts, anything that is easy to eat in the shop). Making a recipe is definitely not a requirement, feel free to just join us for conversation, to chat about the books, swap recipe stories, and celebrate our book clubs - we will have snacks and treats to share!
Both of these titles also make great gifts. Make a recipe, join us, and then gift the book to a friend!
Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.
Holiday Book Club Gathering! - Tuesday, December 9th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor: A Cookbook by Hetty Lui McKinnon
With Linger, food writer and bestselling cookbook author Hetty Lui McKinnon has invited friends into her home, to share salads, sweets and stories around her dining room table. Linger documents these intimate gatherings, with vegetable-laden, loosely seasonal menus enjoyed and photographed in real time.
With over 100 inventive recipes for meal-worthy salads, smaller bites and simple sweets, Hetty invites you to become a part of an unforgettable shared experience of community, food and friendship.
Scandinavian from Scratch: A Love Letter to the Baking of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Nichole Accettola
Transport the taste of Scandinavia to your home kitchen with the delightful sweet and savory bites compiled in this delightful baking book. From chef Nichole Accettola, Scandinavian from Scratch brings to the page an assortment of baked goods and simple morning and midday meals rooted in Scandinavian cuisine.
After moving back to the United States following more than a decade abroad, Accettola found herself longing for the wholesome breads, buttery pastries, decadent cakes, and cookies that she enjoyed on a daily basis while living in Copenhagen. She set out on a mission to bring the tastes and treats of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to San Francisco and opened her now beloved bakery café, Kantine.
In Scandinavian from Scratch, Accettola has curated 75 delicious bakes, organized by occasion and arranged from simplest to most complex, drawing from her collection of each Scandinavian country’s baking traditions. Fill your home kitchen with the enticing aromas of Coconut Dream Cake, Black Currant Caves, Cardamom Morning Buns, Saffron Rusks, Gravlax and Chive Potato Salad Smørrebrød, and so much more. The easy-to-follow recipes will expand your baking horizons and bring something special to the table, from breakfast and brunch to afternoon tea to holiday celebrations.
Author Polina Chesnakova “Chesnok” Book Signing
We are thrilled to have Rhode Island author, Polina Chesnakova, in store to sign copies of her new cookbook, Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Date: Saturday, December 6th
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Free event, books are available for purchase - get your copy signed between 12-2! Pre-order a copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com.
About the book
A lovingly-documented collection of recipes and stories from growing up and cooking in the Soviet diaspora, by one of the industry’s brightest stars.
Chesnok: Recipes with Love from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Beyond is Polina Chesnakova’s third cookbook, a love letter to the food of her childhood. Born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from Georgia, she grew up cooking and eating at the hip of her mother and aunts.
From Georgian tkemali (sour plum sauce) and Armenian gata (butter pastry) to Ukrainian varenyky (dumplings) and Russian golubtsy (stuffed cabbage rolls) and medovik (honey cake), Chesnok showcases over 110 vibrant regional recipes. Essays, stories, and profiles of the amazing cooks in her life are peppered amongst recipes as diverse as the communities from which they blossomed and the immigrant experience they were subsequently passed down in.
Chesnok paints a potrait of the Soviet diaspora through food, and is for the children of that diaspora, but it is also for anyone looking to expand their palate and pantry and learn the rich history of a people through their most cherished recipes and traditions.
About the Author
Polina Chesnakova was born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from the country of Georgia. She was raised in a tight-knit Rhode Island community of refugees from all over the former Soviet Union, and has cooked and baked in a handful of professional kitchens. She’s had her blog (now newsletter) Chesnok since 2015, and her work has been published in Saveur, Epicurious, The Washington Post, and Food 52. She has written two cookbooks: Hot Cheese and Everyday Cake. She worked for Book Larder in Seattle and presided over the cooking class program as the Culinary Director from 2021-2023. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, Lee, and son, Anton.
Bright Night in Tiverton Four Corners
Holiday Bright Night in Tiverton Four Corners, RI
Friday, December 5, 2025 4-7pm
The Yellow House is excited to be participating in our second Bright Night! We will be hosting Sakonnet Vineyard - come have some wine and browse the books, gifts, and art!
Visit Tiverton Four Corners on Friday, December 5, 2025, 4-7pm for our annual Holiday Bright Night, an evening of energy-filled holiday shopping. Frolic through a festive, brightly lit neighborhood of galleries & shops as you enjoy holiday décor & special offers to complete your list. Santa will be waiting for you at the Cheese Wheel Village Market. Be sure to bring your camera!
Humphrey’s Building Supply is generously sponsoring re-Tree & Bright Night this year. Tiverton Farmers Market, Tiverton Economic Development Commission, West Place Animal Sanctuary, Four Corners Merchants & The Bay Magazine are contributors to the evening events in Tiverton Four Corners.
Luminaries will light the way as you visit an array of shops in the historic & beautiful village. The Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to be hosting their annual re-Tree Community Exhibition opening on December 5, 2025, adding even more lights & magic to the area. re-Tree is a festive showcase of sculptural homemade trees created with recycled & repurposed materials. Come vote for your favorite between 12/5-12/19; popular vote winners will be announced December 19, 2025.
Join Us!!
Wreath Making Workshop with Studio Big Rock
You are invited to kick off the winter holiday season with our Wreath Making Made Simple Workshop hosted by Gina at Studio Big Rock!
In this festive session, you will be craft your very own winter holiday wreath using sustainable, local plant material.
A fun and relaxing activity solo or with friends and family!
All materials included:
· fresh local South Coast evergreens
· pre-made wreath forms
· wire and tools.
What to bring:
· Casual clothing or apron as we will be handling plant materials.
· Optional - Your own garden hand nippers and wire cutter/pliers to cut greens (if you have them)
· Optional - Gardening gloves for delicate hands.
· Optional - Plant material you would prefer to use. Please make sure it is evergreen to survive the season. Think pines and holly.
We will have your wreath making form, a few nippers, a few wire cutters, wire greens, bows, and guidance!
Date: Sunday, November 30th
Morning Session: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Fee: $80 per person includes all materials
RSVP in store or email hello@theyellowhouseri.com
Author Vanessa Lillie “The Bone Thief” Book Signing
As part of our One Year Anniversary Party please come by to meet USA Today bestselling author, Vanessa Lillie, as we celebrate the release of her new book, The Bone Thief.
Date: Saturday, November 29th
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Free event, books are available for purchase - get your copy signed between 12-2! Pre-order a copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com.
About the book
"The Bone Thief is a riveting mystery with a plot that seamlessly blends history with fiction. And Syd Walker is an unforgettable protagonist."
—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate...from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie.
In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker receives an alarming call: newly discovered skeletal remains have been stolen. Not only have bones gone missing, but a Native teen girl has disappeared near the camp, and law enforcement dismisses her family's fears.
As Syd investigates both crimes, she's drawn into a world of privileged campers and their wealthy parents—most of them members of the Founders Society, an exclusive club whose members trace their lineage to the first colonists and claim ancestral rights to the land, despite fierce objections from the local tribal community. And it's not the first time something—or someone—has gone missing from the camp.
The deeper Syd digs, the more she realizes these aren't isolated incidents. A pattern of disappearances stretches back generations, all leading to the Founders Society's doorstep. But exposing the truth means confronting not just the town's most powerful families, but also a legacy of violence that refuses to stay buried.
From the national bestselling author of Blood Sisters (a Washington Post Best Mystery of the Year and Target Book Club pick) comes a new Syd Walker novel that proves the sins of the past are destined to repeat until the truth is finally unearthed.
About the Author
Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, a new series centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, will be released October 28th. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and International Thriller Writers award nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Vanessa was a Sisters in Crime board member and wrote a weekly column for the Providence Journal about her experiences during the first year of the pandemic. She hosts an Instagram Live show, ‘Twas the Night Before Book Launch, where she chats with authors the night before their book is out in the world.
Our 1st Birthday Party!
The Yellow House is turning one!! We are so grateful for the continued support and love from our community! Come celebrate with us!
Treats throughout the weekend!
Author Signing!
Rhode Island author, Vanessa Lillie, will be in store signing copies of her new book, The Bone Thief, on Saturday, 11/29 from 12-2pm.
Discounts!
Friday, 11/28 - 10% off all cookbooks
Saturday, 11/29 - 10% off all kids books
Sunday, 11/30 - 10% off all fiction
Wreath Workshop!
Join Gina of Studio Big Rock in a festive and fun wreath making workshop on Sunday, 11/30 - details here: https://www.theyellowhouseri.com/events/wreath-making-workshop-with-studio-big-rock