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Waratah House

by Ann Whitehead ...

In the tradition of Downtown Abbey comes a vivid story of life in the servant's quarters.Waratah House, a beautiful mansion in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, is the only home Marina has ever known. Orphaned at a young age, Marina finds a new family in the colourful characters that occupy the bustling servants' quarters of this stately house.But not every resident of Waratah House has ... Read more

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In the tradition of Downtown Abbey comes a vivid story of life in the servant's quarters.Waratah House, a beautiful mansion in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, is the only home Marina has ever known. Orphaned at a young age, Marina finds a new family in the colourful characters that occupy the bustling servants' quarters of this stately house.But not every resident of Waratah House has
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An Introduction to Mathematics (Illustrated - Full Mathematical Notation)

by A.N. Whitehead ...

THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF MATHEMATICSThe study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigor of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduction to processes of interest. We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are ... Read more

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THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF MATHEMATICSThe study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigor of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduction to processes of interest. We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are
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The Colossus of New York

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Colson Whitehead ...

Unabridged

3 hours 12 min

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in-or spent time-in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner ... Read more

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In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in-or spent time-in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner
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Harlem Shuffle

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead ...

Series Book 1 - The Harlem Trilogy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

by Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell ...

"An astonishing, unconstrained exploration of the nature and practice of cetacean culture . . . a revolutionary book." —Philip Hoare, author of The WhaleIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks ... Read more

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"An astonishing, unconstrained exploration of the nature and practice of cetacean culture . . . a revolutionary book." —Philip Hoare, author of The WhaleIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks
... Read more
Combat Reporter

Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs

by Don Whitehead ...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime
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Cool Machine

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead ...

Series Book 3 - The Harlem Trilogy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem TrilogyNew York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem TrilogyNew York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era
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Australia Street

by Ann Whitehead ...

Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live forever.'Beautifully told and steeped in the culture of its time, Australia Street and its people. Their ... Read more

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Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live forever.'Beautifully told and steeped in the culture of its time, Australia Street and its people. Their
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The Intuitionist

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the ... Read more

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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the
... Read more
Sag Harbor

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times).Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times).Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30
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Absorbed

by Kylie Whitehead ...

Alison has been with her boyfriend, Owen, since university and now she's working a dull office job and has given up on the book she was writing. She was beginning to forget who she was before she met him, that is, until she absorbed him. ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Alison has been with her boyfriend, Owen, since university and now she's working a dull office job and has given up on the book she was writing. She was beginning to forget who she was before she met him, that is, until she absorbed him.
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