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  • A House Built by Slaves

    African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Readers of American history and books on Abraham Lincoln will appreciate what Los Angeles Review of Books deems an "accessible book" that "puts a human face - many human faces - on the story of Lincoln's attitudes toward and engagement with African Americans" and Publishers Weekly calls "a rich and comprehensive account."Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln ... ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

  • Talking on the Water

    Conversations about Nature and Creativity

    by Jonathan White ...
    During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted interviews, gathered in this collection, with the writers, scientists, and environmentalists who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Garden Club Murders

    by Jonathan Whitelaw ...
    Growing, growing, gone…Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish.Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing.And he’s not the only ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $0.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Village Hall Vendetta

    by Jonathan Whitelaw ...
    There’s a fine art to murder…Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with the painting at its heart.Journalist Jason Brazel is delighted to get the exclusive. Even if his ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 55 Tips for Menopause, Insomnia, and Anxiety

    Practical Doctor-Informed Strategies to Sleep Better, Calm Your Mind, and Reclaim Your Energy During Midlife Hormonal Change

    by Jonathan White ...
    It started with a 3 am waking that made no sense. Then came the surge of anxiety behind the ribs, the hot flash in a cool room at noon, and the question you did not want to ask out loud: is this menopause, or am I falling apart? Every shelf offered a different answer, and the doctor said everything looked normal while you knew nothing felt normal at all.55 Tips for Menopause, Insomnia, and Anxiety ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tides

    The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

    by Jonathan White ...
    In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shipwrecked

    A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery."Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Concert Hall Killer

    by Jonathan Whitelaw ...
    Lights, camera, murderIn the Lake District, someone’s laying on a deadly welcome…The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl.Meanwhile the locals are enjoying the filming – Amita Kahtri and her friends from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Bingo Hall Detectives

    by Jonathan Whitelaw ...
    Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win…An irresistible slice of murder and mystery – there’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they’re the ones to catch the culprit…Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All at Sea

    A death on the ocean, a secret below deck…

    by Jonathan Whitelaw ...
    A murder at sea, a killer below deck?BELOW DECK meets KNIVES OUT in this breathless voyage into murder and mayhem on the high seas…Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. Once an action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Long Run

    The Future as a Political Idea

    by Jonathan White ...
    'Exhilarating' Financial Times'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling' Literary Review'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its faith in democracy' David RuncimanDemocracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War

    The Trials of John Merryman

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD