Nicholson: 562 books

A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).   In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story...

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel,...

From a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Critics Award-winning author comes a “small masterpiece” of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding (Publishers Weekly).   In a novel Entertainment Weekly called “intensely funny and moving,” Nicholson Baker takes the reader on an intellectual...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker has established himself as one of our most brilliant observers of everyday experience. With his keen perception, flawless prose, and endless wit, he has composed both fiction and nonfiction that has become an essential part of our literature. Vintage...

In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is "a given," when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their existential...

Are serial killers born or made? When a young girl suffers extreme physical and mental abuse at the hands of family, she internalizes her anger until she snaps, and releases the evil that festers deep inside of her. (This novella, aprox. 22,000 words, contains language and content only suitable for adults).

'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world . . . full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.' Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood As the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as...

"Always surprises and always entertains."- Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder When Mackie Dailey survives a cataclysmic solar storm that wipes out civilization and mutates others into violent killers, he seeks out the one person he cares about most. But...

(Sequel to Charlie's Haunting)Ever since Charlie’s best friend went missing, things have never been the same. That is when the visions and voices started.Wimpy, weird and consumed by guilt, ‘crazy Charlie’, as he is called by his bullies, takes to the bottle.Living...

In Life, we live and Love; But sometimes love can come in forms of hurt. And we live through those times.

From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, “a wonderfully smooth, sinuous, enigmatic, and sexy tale of two love affairs” (Providence Journal) set in Amherst and illuminated by the presence of Emily Dickinson. Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off...

A humorous and exciting story of a burglar who reformed on Christmas Eve and returned the things he had stolen, told in Mr. Nicholson's best vein.

Lorna Schultz Nicholson's popular characters Josh, Peter, and Sam are thrilled to be reunited at a hockey tournament in Kelowna, but a lot has changed. Sam now lives in Ottawa, Josh is dealing with his diabetes, Peter is becoming a major star, and all three boys play on different teams. Can they remain friends as they all compete to be in the gold medal game? [Fry Reading Level - 3.1

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....