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  • A House Built by Slaves

    African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

    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

    $17.99 USD

  • Shipwrecked

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

    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

    $25.99 USD

  • Talking on the Water

    Conversations about Nature and Creativity

    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

    $10.99 USD

  • The Garden Club Murders

    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

    $7.99 USD

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

    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

  • The Bingo Hall Detectives

    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

  • Nymphing – the New Way

    French leader fishing for trout

    French nymphing, or European nymphing as it is often known in the US, is the most important new development in flyfishing for a generation. The use of ultra-long tapered French leaders provides huge advantages both in terms of reducing drag and dramatically improving fly presentation.These methods, which have already revolutionised the world of competition flyfishing, are now also proving ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let Creation Rejoice

    Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis

    "Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes." Psalm 96:13The Bible is bathed with images of God caring for his creation in all its complexity. Yet in the face of climate change and other environmental trends, philosophers, filmmakers, environmentalists, politicians and senior scientists increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a so-called perfect storm of factors ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Long Run

    The Future as a Political Idea

    '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

    $16.99 USD

  • Tides

    The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

    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

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sophie: The Final Verdict

    by Senan Molony ...
    Narrated by Jonathan White ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    'This is the book that puts all the evidence before the people' Jean-Pierre Gazeau, uncle of Sophie Toscan du Plantier'An outstanding and compelling read' Micheál Martin TD'A comprehensive and compelling collection of circumstantial evidence' Irish TimesJournalist Senan Molony was the first national crime correspondent on the scene of Sophie Toscan du Plantier's brutal murder in December 1996, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Summit of All Fears

    Series Book 2 - The Parker Sisters Mysteries
    Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD