A Reversible Santa Claus is a brisk Christmas tale in which Meredith Nicholson turns the conventions of seasonal benevolence inside out. Centered on burglary, mistaken identity, and an unexpected moral awakening, the story blends light detective plotting with sentimental comedy. Its prose is polished, urbane, and gently ironic, belonging to the early twentieth-century American tradition of holiday fiction that uses improbability not for escapism alone, but to test social conscience, domest...

A Reversible Santa Claus is a compact Christmas novella that turns the conventions of burglary, domestic melodrama, and seasonal benevolence into a deft comic parable. Centered on a professional thief whose Christmas Eve enterprise is unexpectedly entangled with a child, Nicholson "reverses" the Santa Claus myth: taking becomes giving, criminal cunning becomes moral improvisation, and sentiment is rescued by wit. Its brisk dialogue, ironic plotting, and humane final reversal place it withi...

The House of a Thousand Candles is a deftly constructed romance of mystery in which inheritance, architecture, and secrecy converge around the enigmatic Glenarm estate. Nicholson blends Gothic atmosphere with the brisk plotting of early twentieth-century popular fiction: locked rooms, cryptic messages, hidden passages, and nocturnal disturbances are set against a distinctly American landscape. Its style is elegant yet propulsive, situating the novel within the tradition of adventure-myster...

A comprehensive review of dryland climates and their relationship to the physical environment, hydrology, and inhabitants. Chapters are divided into five major sections on background meteorology and climatology; the nature of dryland climates in relation to precipitation and hydrology; the climatology and climate dynamics of the major dryland regions on each continent; and life and change in the world's drylands. It includes key topics such as vegetation, geomorphology, desertification, mi...

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...

Revealing the impact of civilisation upon our bird life, with particular reference to the species that have come to rely largely on types of habitat greatly modified or actually formed by human action. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comThis, the first book on birds in the New Naturalist main series, is undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to the literature of British ornithology of recent years. Its subject is the impact of civilisation upon our bird lif...

The Mystics of Islam is a concise yet remarkably learned introduction to Sufism, tracing its doctrines, practices, and spiritual vocabulary from early ascetic piety to the mature poetry and metaphysics of figures such as Rumi, Ibn al-'Arabi, and al-Hallaj. Written in lucid, elegant prose, the book combines philological precision with interpretive sympathy, situating Islamic mysticism within both Qur'anic devotion and the wider history of religious thought. Nicholson presents Sufism not as ...

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...

War makes heroes. Power creates enemies. Betrayal changes everything.Set against the brutal backdrop of the Vietnam War and the shadowy world of intelligence operations, The Betrayal follows Captain Bryce Tucker-a legendary Navy SEAL forged in jungle warfare and trained in the darkest corners of the CIA. From the mangrove swamps of Vietnam to the rugged mountains of West Virginia and the sun-drenched Bahamas, Tucker's life becomes a relentless battle again...

Under Cajun Wings is a fictional, inspiring, and triumphant story of the heartfelt tenacity of two young children left to fend fer themselves and survive an unspeakable childhood in the deep, isolated Atchafalaya Swamp of Southern Louisiana.Six-year-old dual protagonists, Daniel and his four-year-old sister Josée, would fish off the deck of their houseboat, kickin their bare feet and splashin each other in the warm, tepid waters. Other days, they would simply play tag runnin and gi...

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...

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...