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  • The Elephant Keeper

    A Novel

    "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

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  • Winter

    "[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

    $12.99 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!

    ​ 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

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  • Railways in the Peak District

    A History

    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

    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

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  • Sisters of Fortune

    A Riveting Historical Novel of the Titanic Based on True History

    Readers of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé will be captivated as the USA Today bestselling author expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this vivid, surprising, emotionally powerful novel about longing for independence and love—and the moments that irrevocably change even the best laid plans. Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads ... Read more

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  • The Road to Grantchester

    by James Runcie ...
    The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war.Returning to London ... Read more

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  • The Lambs

    My Father, A Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep

    by Carole George ...
    "A thoughtful document that dispels any assumptions that sheep are 'just dumb farm animals' who do nothing but follow . . . an enchanting book." ―Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceIn this touching memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs. Throughout her years ... Read more

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  • The Twelve-Mile Straight

    A Novel

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  • The Weight of Him

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