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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

    $17.09 USD

  • 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

    $25.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln

    by Jonathan W. White ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln Jonathan W. White challenges this reigning paradigm in Civil War historiography, arguing instead that the soldier vote in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.79 USD

  • 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 $7.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Adventure Collection: Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, Gulliver's Travels, White Fang...

    by Jonathan Swift, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Howard Pyle, Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Contents : Treasure Island The Jungle Book Gulliver's Travels White Fang The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood takes us to Sherwood Forest, where the brigand and his band of "merry men" rob from the rich to give to the poor—to the consternation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Jungle Book transports readers into a wondrous world where danger lurks behind every ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventure Collection: Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, Gulliver's Travels, White Fang...

    by Jonathan Swift, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Howard Pyle, Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Contents : Treasure Island The Jungle Book Gulliver's Travels White Fang The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood takes us to Sherwood Forest, where the brigand and his band of "merry men" rob from the rich to give to the poor—to the consternation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Jungle Book transports readers into a wondrous world where danger lurks behind every ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Dying of Whiteness

    How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

    by Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white voters they promise to help**"A provocative, instructive contribution to the literature of public health as well as of contemporary politics." —**Kirkus ReviewsNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by Esquire and the Boston GlobeI... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales

    The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America…

    by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, William Dean Howells, Ayn Rand, Samuel Butler, Milo Hastings, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, John Jacob Astor, Edward Bellamy, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Lester Del Rey, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Irving E. Cox, Francis Bacon, Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert Cromie, Philip K. Dick, August Derleth, Richard Stockham, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, E. E. Smith, Stanley G. Weinbaum, E. M. Forster, Fred M. White, Garrett P. Serviss, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Edwin Lester Arnold, George Griffith, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish, Gustavus W. Pope ...
    Translated by Lewis Page Mercier, Ellen E. Frewer, Eleanor E. King, Agnes D. Kingston, Frederick A. Malleson ...
    In the expansive anthology, "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales," the reader is transported through a rich tapestry of speculative fiction that traverses time and space. This collection boasts an unparalleled variety of themes, from the mysteries of distant planets and the intrigue of forgotten worlds, to the stark realities of dystopian ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

    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

    $16.59 USD