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« Reply #1300 on: December 01, 2019, 09:32:39 AM »
The Gift of the Magi - O Henry

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« Reply #1301 on: December 01, 2019, 10:54:08 AM »
The Epiphany of an Explorer - Linda Rae Sande
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« Reply #1302 on: December 01, 2019, 11:25:46 AM »
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made - Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author), Evan Thomas

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« Reply #1303 on: December 01, 2019, 12:43:27 PM »
The Book of Secret Wisdom: The Prophetic Record of Human Destiny and Evolution (Sacred Wisdom) - Zinovia Dushkova
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« Reply #1304 on: December 01, 2019, 12:54:34 PM »




Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life -Peter Godfrey-Smith


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« Reply #1305 on: December 01, 2019, 03:13:56 PM »
Dangerous Sea Creatures - Thomas A. Dozier
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« Reply #1306 on: December 01, 2019, 03:18:59 PM »
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

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« Reply #1307 on: December 01, 2019, 03:29:27 PM »
That is such a good story NS! I loved it when I was young as I did 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.

The Blue Planet - Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes (forward by David Attenborough)

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« Reply #1308 on: December 01, 2019, 03:36:06 PM »
Red Planet - Robert Heinlein

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« Reply #1309 on: December 01, 2019, 03:46:23 PM »
Only to Sleep - Laurence Osborne
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« Reply #1310 on: December 01, 2019, 04:24:52 PM »
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

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« Reply #1311 on: December 01, 2019, 04:41:17 PM »
Insomnia - Stephen King
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« Reply #1312 on: December 01, 2019, 05:00:53 PM »
3 A.M. - Chloe Spencer

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« Reply #1313 on: December 01, 2019, 05:18:47 PM »
British Longcase Clocks - Derek Roberts
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.
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« Reply #1314 on: December 01, 2019, 05:31:17 PM »
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

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« Reply #1315 on: December 01, 2019, 06:58:29 PM »
A Brief History of Time-wasting - the lovely, much-missed Linda Smith
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.
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« Reply #1316 on: December 01, 2019, 08:29:52 PM »
Wrinklies Wit & Wisdom - Rosemarie Jarski
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« Reply #1317 on: December 01, 2019, 08:33:53 PM »
Wilt  - Tom Sharpe

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« Reply #1318 on: December 01, 2019, 10:46:28 PM »
Sharpe's Tiger - Bernard Cornwell
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« Reply #1319 on: December 02, 2019, 06:49:35 AM »
The Tiger in the Smoke - Phillip Pullman

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« Reply #1320 on: December 02, 2019, 05:22:20 PM »
Watching Wildlife In London:  Marianne Taylor
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« Reply #1321 on: December 02, 2019, 05:53:59 PM »
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

(First novel in one of my favourite recent series)

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« Reply #1322 on: December 02, 2019, 06:29:07 PM »
The Bargees - John Toft
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« Reply #1323 on: December 02, 2019, 06:35:45 PM »
The Wench is Dead - Colin Dexter

(Set on a long boat - well the crime is)
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« Reply #1324 on: December 02, 2019, 06:40:15 PM »
I've seen that book somewhere, think my husband has it.

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? - Ethan Brown
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