Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books

Als Noah Calhoun na de Tweede Wereldoorlog van het front terugkeert naar North Carolina probeert hij de oorlog achter zich te laten. Hij stopt al zijn energie in de restauratie van een oud plantagehuis. Dit huis herbergt zijn mooiste herinneringen en zittend op zijn veranda denkt hij terug aan het...

Sinds haar scheiding gelooft Theresa Osborne niet meer in de liefde. Als ze tijdens een strandvakantie een fles op het strand vindt met daarin een prachtige liefdesbrief, gericht aan ene Catherine en enkel ondertekend met `Garett, wordt ze echter geraakt door de hartstocht die uit de woorden spreekt....

Twee meeslepende titels van de meester van de ontroerende romans in één band The Choice Travis wil heel graag in contact komen met de mooie Gabby, maar zij lijkt er niet van gediend. Ze wijst hem keer op keer af en Travis’ koppige pogingen zijn het begin van een emotionele reis die hen...

Two young men and a girl go scavenging for fossils—but find something entirely different instead. A girl inherits a baby from the estate of her older sister. An apparently aimless young man turns out to have surprising powers. From Journey Prize-nominee Nicholas Ruddock comes an outstanding new...

Nicholas Kilmer's Harmony in Flesh and Black exposes a deep knowledge of the sometimes tricky and treacherous haut monde of art dealers, collectors, and curators. Smartly tailored, well-to-do Beacon Hill collector Clayton Reed has habits so refined that he doesn't even venture out to pick up his own...

Where Light Separates from Dark presents poetry that simply and honestly showcases the views and emotions of life through the eyes of poet Nicholas Olah. He presents written snapshots of his thoughts and portrayals of everything from the outdoors to relationships. These verses offer a ride with him...

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey...

The year is 1978, a simpler snapshot in time, when New York City neighborhoods had both character and characters—lots of them in fact. At once gritty and charming, the Bronx’s Kingsbridge supplies the vivid backdrop for Matt “Bean” Casale and his pals, who unwittingly find themselves entangled...

Evil has many faces. Some are more sinister than others. This is the story of Benjamin Price and his fight with evil. He is a man who chose a life of civility and intellectual pursuits, but that is all about to change in one trip to visit his aunt. Other forces have darker intentions toward this...

Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way. In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the...

Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as “a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me.” In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher...

In Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to “question the questions.” Rescher sees the need to inquire as an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and...

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist-activist Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus is widely recognized as a masterpiece of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. Until now, however, few scholars have dared to explain the book’s political importance. Deleuze’s...

Frommer’s books aren’t written by committee, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. Frommer’s author,Nicholas Gill, has been covering Peru for over a decade and this book hits all the highlights, from iconic Machu Picchu to Lima's vibrant...