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« Reply #75 on: May 20, 2018, 06:18:08 PM »

 
Dragon in the Woodshed: A Collection of Poetry with Exercises (? Zumba)
by John O'Leary

(There's a lovely sweet poem which starts, "I found a small dragon in the woodshed", don't know if it's in this collection)
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« Reply #76 on: May 20, 2018, 06:43:55 PM »

Guards! Guards! ( It's about Dragons, well mostly ) The Late Great Sir Terry Pratchett.
For the sake of my sanity I will now endeavour to aid Atheists in their thinking not do their thinking for them✝️✝️✝️

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« Reply #77 on: May 20, 2018, 07:00:41 PM »
Juvenal's Satires



(Where the phrase 'who guards the guardians' comes from)

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« Reply #78 on: May 20, 2018, 07:12:38 PM »
Spitting Image Annual 1988 - Various

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« Reply #79 on: May 20, 2018, 07:20:34 PM »
Image and Imagination - C S Lewis
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« Reply #80 on: May 20, 2018, 07:21:50 PM »
Polishing the Mirror - Ram Dass

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« Reply #81 on: May 20, 2018, 07:26:34 PM »
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu

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« Reply #82 on: May 20, 2018, 07:29:09 PM »
Through a Glass, Darkly - Jostein Gaarder

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« Reply #83 on: May 20, 2018, 07:50:02 PM »
Schaum's Outline of Fourier Analysis with Applications to Boschaum's Outline of Fourier Analysis with Applications to Boundary Value Problems Undary Value Problems - Murray R Spiegel



(Glass - Mirror - Spiegel, German for mirror)

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« Reply #84 on: May 20, 2018, 07:59:09 PM »
The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie

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« Reply #85 on: May 20, 2018, 08:04:25 PM »
The Devil's Dozen - Gemma Gary

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« Reply #86 on: May 20, 2018, 08:06:00 PM »
The Devil Rides Out - Dennis Wheatley

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« Reply #87 on: May 20, 2018, 08:14:13 PM »
The Diary of Dennis the Menace - Steven Butler



(The Devil Rides Out led me to the following link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_de_Richleau


The biography of the character is brilliant)

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« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2018, 08:20:36 PM »
The Diary of a Provincial Lady - EM Dellafield (one of my most favourite books ever)

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« Reply #89 on: May 20, 2018, 08:30:08 PM »
Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster

I loved the book and the (late) author.
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« Reply #90 on: May 20, 2018, 08:32:28 PM »
The Whole Woman - Germaine Greer

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« Reply #91 on: May 20, 2018, 08:37:15 PM »
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
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« Reply #92 on: May 20, 2018, 08:38:13 PM »
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

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« Reply #93 on: May 20, 2018, 08:48:51 PM »
Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Meat-free Eating for Pleasure by Sarah Beattie
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« Reply #94 on: May 20, 2018, 09:43:29 PM »
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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« Reply #95 on: May 20, 2018, 10:26:11 PM »
City on the Moon by Murray Leinster
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« Reply #96 on: May 20, 2018, 10:29:49 PM »
A Witch Alone: 13 Moons to Master Natural Magic by Marian Green

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« Reply #97 on: May 20, 2018, 10:32:59 PM »
How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane

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« Reply #98 on: May 20, 2018, 10:43:53 PM »
Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christie

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« Reply #99 on: May 20, 2018, 10:49:58 PM »
10 Rillington Place - Ludovic Kennedy
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane