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  • The Mirror Book

    Mirror Sailing from Start to Finish

    by Peter Aitken, Tim Davison ...
    Series Book 2 - Start to Finish
    The Mirror dinghy was a significant factor in the boom of dinghy sailing in the 1960s, introducing thousands to the delights of sailing. While sailing has come a long way since then and there have been a lot of far more exotic craft launched, the Mirror remains a fantastic boat in which to learn to sail and to compete at the highest levels. With this second edition, The Mirror Book has been bought ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wha's Like Us

    Bo'ness - The People

    by Peter Aitken ...
    There have been many books written over the past few years about the town of Bo'ness. The majority of these have dealt with the history of the town and only scratched the surface with regard to the townspeople and the wealth of characters that have lived here both past and present. The aim of this book is to present the amazing array of talent that this town has produced over the years. From ... Read more

    $8.04 USD

  • C Programming in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself

    by Peter Aitken, Dean Miller, Bradley Jones ...
    Series series Sams Teach Yourself
    Sams Teach Yourself C Programming in One Hour a Day, Seventh Edition is the newest version of the worldwide best-seller Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days. Fully revised for the new C11 standard and libraries, it now emphasizes platform-independent C programming using free, open-source C compilers. This edition strengthens its focus on C programming fundamentals, and adds new material on popular C ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Susan Effect

    by Peter Høeg ...
    Translated by Martin Aitken ...
    Series series
    You'll tell her your darkest secretsSusan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head.Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Disaster Health Management

    A Primer for Students and Practitioners

    Edited by Gerry FitzGerald, Stacey Pizzino, Penelope Burns, Colin Myers, Mike Tarrant, Ben Ryan, Marie Fredriksen, Peter Aitken ...
    The second edition of this leading textbook provides the definitive guide to disaster health management. From the key concepts, principles and terminology, to systems for mitigation, planning, response and recovery, it gives readers a comprehensive overview of every aspect of this emerging field.Split into eight parts, the book begins by drawing the parameters of disaster health management before ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Elephant Keepers’ Children

    by Peter Høeg ...
    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 46 min

    Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Fin├©, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is as it ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Quiet Girl

    A Novel

    by Peter Høeg ...
    Narrated by James Gale ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 50 min

    Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • After the Fire

    by Henning Mankell ...
    Translated by Marlaine Delargy ...
    Henning Mankell's last novel, about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire.Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quicksand

    What It Means to Be a Human Being

    by Henning Mankell ...
    A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.“Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New StatesmanIn January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dying Detective

    A Mystery

    by Leif GW Persson ...
    Translated by Neil Smith ...
    ***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017******WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime Novel 2012)******WINNER OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel 2012)******WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2011)******WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel of ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Dust and Ashes

    Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Ten

    by Anne Holt ...
    Series Book 10 - A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
    The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne Wilhelmsen series—bestselling in Norway and throughout Europe—from Scandinavia’s most celebrated female crime writer, Anne Holt.Police investigator Kjell Bonsaksen is a contented man in most areas of life, but for one mistake he made years ago that has rankled like a stone in his shoe ever since: in 2001, a two-year-old girl ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide

    by Greg Perry, Dean Miller ...
    Series series Absolute Beginner's Guide
    Updated for C11Write powerful C programs…without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has neverbeen this simple!Who knew how simple ... Read more

    $20.89 USD