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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
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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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 have a pet termite. His name is Clint. Clint eats wood.

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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
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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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