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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 enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants or...

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Men and Measures by Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy is a fascinating exploration of the evolution of measurement systems and the individuals who shaped them throughout history. The book delves into the origins and development of weights and measures, tracing their journey from ancient civilizations to the modern era. Kennedy examines the practical and scientific challenges faced by early societies in standardizing units for trade, construction, and daily life, highlighting the ingenuity and pe...

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The book is a travelogue of 23 years gap year travel. Mr. Tambourine Man is a book written up from a travel diary describing the experiences of and places visited by author. This is a truthful account of an author experiences traveling and this offer a wide breadth of information, experience, and knowledge. This shares about other people, other countries, other customs and cultures.

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A.E. Nicholson

Threads, the debut short story collection from A.E. Nicholson, covers a world from deserted station platforms to quiet pubs, sandwich shops and newsagents, following the residents of Guide Bridge and East Manchester as they navigate the slow ache and occasional tenderness of the season.Set in the final weeks before Christmas, each story traces a singular thread - of memory, grief, hope, or quiet defiance - and finds unexpected resonance in the textures of everyday life.Firm...

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The book is a short history of how to make enough money to have eighteen gap years from the age of forty-six. It details the authors travels all over the world and finishes with his favorite recipes and lists of films and books that he has enjoyed.

For a time, it seemed that a great storehouse of women’s treasure had been forever lost; the stories of heroines who had awoken to the call to adventure, and faced down challenges, in order to bring the gifts born through their trials into the world. The Heroines Anthology its stories before time began. It travels alongside some of the forgotten women of history, and imagines itself all the way into the unknown territory of our future world. With a focus on reimagining the heroines of lege...

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Nicholson Baker

Paul Chowder is a poet, but he's fallen out of love with writing poems. He hasn't fallen out of love with his ex-girlfriend Roz, though. In fact he misses her desperately.As he struggles to come to terms with Roz's new relationship with a doctor, Paul turns to his acoustic guitar for comfort and inspiration, and fills his days writing protest songs, going to Quaker meetings, struggling through Planet Fitness workouts, wondering if he could become a techno DJ, and experimenting with...

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M.M. MacLeod, Jay McKenzie, Andrew Humphrey, Thomas Nicholson, Damir Salkovic, E.F. Ritter, Rex Burrows, Mike A. Rhodes, Alistair Rey, Isabelle Nygren, SJ Townend

Book 3 of Frost Zone Stories - Ten tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strangeStories by: Jay McKenzie, Andrew Humphrey, Thomas Nicholson, Damir Salkovic, E.F. Ritter, Rex Burows Mike A. Rhodes, Alistair Rey,Isabelle Nygren, and SJ Townend

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Nicholson Baker

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER’S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDERA New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the “erudite, unpretentious, and often hilarious” (The New Yorker) Paul Chowder.Chowder really needs to write an introduction to his new anthology of verse, O...

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Nicholson Baker

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age.With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, D...

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Richard E. Nicholson

Unveiling the Gritty Journey of a War Hero from Vietnam to West Virginia: A Tale of Survival, International Corruption, and Romance Amidst Human Trafficking sets the stage for a thrilling narrative.Set in the early 1990s, Face of Evil is a deeply moving story that follows the life of Nuna Polinski, a young widow from West Virginia, and Captain Bryce Tucker, a highly decorated war veteran. Nuna, caught in the aftermath of a loveless marriage, navigates thro...

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Berthold Auerbach, Laurel Emberford

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E. Nicholson

Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza is a historical-biographical novel that dramatizes the intellectual and spiritual formation of Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher excommunicated from Amsterdam's Sephardic community. Written in a lucid, reflective prose, the book blends documentary seriousness with the moral animation of the Bildungsroman, situating Spinoza's quest for truth amid the tensions of faith, reason, communal authority, and emerging modern philosophy. It belongs...