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“christopher nicholson”

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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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $7.36 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

  • 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

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    A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places.Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. ... Read more

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  • Tasting Sunlight: The uplifting, exquisite BREAKOUT BESTSELLER

    by Ewald Arenz ...
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    An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal … the sublime, achingly beautiful debut that everyone is talking about…`Such a timely tale … hopeful and poignant and lyrically told. A truly compassionate and heartening book´ Culturefly`Poetic in places and, as the title suggests, highly ... Read more

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  • A Bakery in Paris

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    by Aimie K. Runyan ...
    From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating dual timeline historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. ... Read more

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  • Minus Me

    A Novel

    by Mameve Medwed ...
    Diagnosed with cancer, a small-town Maine woman writes a “How To” life manual for her husband in this “smart, funny-quirky” novel about marriage, motherhood, love, and loss (Elinor Lipman, author of On Turpentine Lane).“A reminder that in the worst of times, we sometimes rediscover the very best of ourselves.” —Jodi PicoultAnnie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Possible World

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    by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz ...
    “A brilliantly written, moving story” (The Washington Book Review) about the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a murder, the ER doctor who tends to him, and a woman guarding her long-buried past, from the author of What Could Be Saved.It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Twelve-Mile Straight

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    by Eleanor Henderson ...
    "[A] superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers"—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Ten Thousand Saints ( O, The Oprah Magazine).Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies—one light-skinned, the other dark—are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes

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    by Peter Ho Davies ...
    An NPR Best Book of the Year: "The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience." —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Missing HeartsWinner, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * Winner, Chautauqua Prize *Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize * A New York Times Notable Book * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearSly, funny, ... Read more

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