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  • The Elephant Keeper

    A Novel

    by Christopher Nicholson ...
    "Enchanting . . . a strange tour of late eighteenth-century England, a natural history of elephants and the story of a most unusual friendship." — The Washington PostA poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter

    by Christopher Nicholson ...
    "[This] beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy's life" ( The New York Times).A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and this is a fictionalized ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How Many Kids with ADHD Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

    52 Tips, Tools & Tidbits (1 each week for a year) to help you help your ADHD kid!

    by Christopher Nicholson ...
    ​ This book is for every parent who wants to help his or her ADHD kid. Written by an ADHD specialist teacher with 20 years experience, the book offers a weekly dose of information, tips, and tools for a year. There are 52 easy to understand, simple to implement insights, strategies and suggestions.  Using a blend of humor and candor to tackle this sometimes overwhelming topic, the author covers ... Read more

    $7.27 USD

  • One Hand Washes The Other

    by Christopher Nicholson ...
    When Thandi Dladla undertakes to coach a young soccar team in a rural school in South Africa she little realises how it will change her life. When levelling the terrain to make a field she discovers two skeletons wich reveal how ninety percent of people become right-handed.The leads Thandi on a journey of discovery which helps her not only to coach her team to success but also to find the murderer ... Read more

    $4.53 USD

  • Postcards from the Edge

    Remote British Lighthouses in Vintage Postcards

    by Christopher P. Nicholson ...
    We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weather on our holidays or where we're visiting next on our travels. A hundred years ago we sent postcards with more serious messages - important, personal information about births, marriages and deaths, urgent requests for help, or just to keep in touch ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Railways in the Peak District

    A History

    by Christopher Nicholson, Peter Barnes ...
    The Peak District has always been a formidable barrier to transport links across it, particularly railways. The first crude horse-drawn tramways fed canals on its eastern and western flanks, but in 1830 – only five years after the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened – a standard gauge line climbed over the top of the Peak District and down the other side on fearsome inclines to connect canals at ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Future of Medical Device Regulation

    Innovation and Protection

    Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price II, Christopher Robertson, Carmel Shachar ...
    Regulators have been more permissive for medical devices compared to their drug and biologic counterparts. While innovative products can thereby reach consumers more quickly, this approach raises serious public health and safety concerns. Additionally, the nature of medical devices is rapidly changing, as software has become as important as hardware. Regulation must keep pace with the current ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Rock Lighthouses of Britain

    by Christopher P. Nicholson ...
    Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world’s most famous lighthouses in this classic book which has become the standard work on the subject. It brings the story of the rock lighthouse completely up-to-date – from the day the first granite block was laid, through construction, automation, the disappearance of the lighthouse keeper, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Countryside Camera

    The Photographs of Roger Redfern

    by Christopher P Nicholson ...
    Roger Redfern – author, writer and photographer – had been writing about his travels and exploration of different areas of Britain and abroad for over 50 years, most notably as a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper’s Country Diary feature. He is the author of over 30 books and was once described as ‘the doyen of countryside writers’, an accolade that recognised his lyrical and poetic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Novel

    by C.C. Humphreys ...
    The Alice Network meets The Nightingale in this romantic and suspenseful novel about a female spy who must push herself to her very limits to save herself and everything she holds dear—from nationally bestselling author and master of historical fiction C.C. Humphreys.It’s 1939, and Stockholm is a sea of spies. Yet Eve Sinclair couldn’t care less. Nineteen years old, beautiful, born in Montreal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    by Kathleen Kaufman ...
    **As spiritualism reaches its fevered pitch at the dawn of the 20th century, a Scottish girl crosses the veil to unlock a powerful connection within an infamous asylum in this thrillingly atmospheric, exquisitely evocative exploration of feminine rage and agency for readers of Sarah Penner, Alice Hoffman, and Hester Fox.Now available in paperback!**Leaving behind a quiet life of simple comforts, ... Read more

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  • Sisters of Fortune

    A Riveting Historical Novel of the Titanic Based on True History

    by Anna Lee Huber ...
    Readers of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé will be captivated as the USA Today bestselling author expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this vivid, surprising, emotionally powerful novel about longing for independence and love—and the moments that irrevocably change even the best laid plans. Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads ... Read more

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