Peter Nichols
1) The rocks
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, "The Rocks" opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.New Bedford, Massachusetts, was fertile ground for this country's first multimillion-dollar industry. Founded by assiduous Quaker merchants seeking refuge for their austere religion, the town also lent unparalleled access to the high seas. The combination...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 298 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.
In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2004, ©2003
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .
This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle , precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, and how the clash between FitzRoy's fundamentalist views and Darwin's...
Author
Publisher
Carol & Graf, c 1999
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
342 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter Nichols' novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on best-seller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing combination of high-seas adventure and human folly. It is also filled with authentic detail, since Nichols is an experienced sailor who has made a solo journey across the Atlantic. Carl Schenck is fabulously wealthy, but he aspires to be a great...
8) Joe Egg
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
A deeply moving play about the problems of a young couple struggling to cope with and raise their only child--a severely handicapped young girl. Although they try to maintain a sense of humor the difficulty and seeming futility of their efforts takes an emotional toll that eventually threatens to destroy their marriage.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
294 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil."--Back cover.
11) Joe Egg: [play]
Author
Series
An Evergreen original volume E462
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[c1967]
Physical Desc
87 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
13) Passion
Author
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
Book Club ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) Granite harbor
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in small-town Maine, an English novelist-turned-detective investigates a serial killer preying on the historic town."--
15) The best DVDs you've never seen, just missed or almost forgotten: a guide for the curious film lover
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 489 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
