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This Month's Featured Books
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Can I Let You Go? A Heartbreaking True Story of Love, Loss and Moving on Cathy Glass One to tug at your heart strings, this is an emotional and thought-provoking read. Faye is 24, she has learning difficulties, lives with her Grandparents and is pregnant. Cathy steps forward to foster Faye until she has given birth, the... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2016 
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The Quick Guide to Parenting Laura Quick Insightful, tender and very, very funny, the images from the author's blog, The Daily Think, have become hugely popular, and the very best of them are collected together in this exquisite and hilarious gift book. The illustrations chronicle all manner of... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/09/2016
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Alpha Abidjan to Gare du Nord Bessora Alpha hopes that his wife and little son are in Paris and he’s desperate to see them. Denied a visa to travel he must make the long, long journey from his home in the Cote D’Ivoire to Europe as an... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/08/2016
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In Order to Live A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom Yeonmi Park Europe is currently dealing with an unprecedented flow of human beings escaping conflict, hunger and political injustice. In Asia there is another flow of refugees undertaking an even deadlier journey from North Korea via China and Mongolia to reach the... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2016
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The Light Between Us Lessons from Heaven That Teach Us to Live Better in the Here and Now Laura Lynne Jackson ‘The Light Between Us’ is moving and fascinating in equal measure. I’m interested in the power of the mind, however I’m sceptical about an afterlife, so will admit to starting to read with an eyebrow ready for raised action. The... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2016
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New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff New Scientist Instant Expert, Graham Lawton, Stephen Hawking From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Witty essays explore the concepts alongside enlightening infographics that zoom from how many people have ever lived to showing... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016
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101 Bets You Will Always Win The Science of the Seemingly Impossible Professor Richard Wiseman Using only your body and everyday household objects, 101 Bets You Will Always Win is both a practical guide and illuminating exploration of the fascinating science that underpins these seemingly impossible challenges. Format: Hardback - Released: 08/09/2016
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Secrets of the Seas A Journey into the Heart of the Oceans Alex Mustard, Callum Roberts A superb visual celebration of life within and beneath the world's seas and oceans. This beautiful book gathers together a selection of his award-winning images and a number of new ones to create a vivid picture of the seas and... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016
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The Big Picture On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself Sean Carroll A synthesis of cosmos-sprawling science and the most profound questions about life, death and our place in it all, The Big Picture is the ultimate guide to the scientific revolution that has taken us from Darwin and Einstein to the... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2016
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The Upright Thinkers The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos Leonard Mlodinow An inspiring and illuminating story of how we have come to understand the world, from the invention of the very first tools to the mind-bending theories of quantum physics. It guides us through the critical eras and events in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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Skyfaring A Journey with a Pilot Mark Vanhoenacker Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice.... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2016
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Politics The Art of the Possible in an Age of Unreason Nick Clegg In 2010, a hung parliament delivered Britain's first coalition government for more than half a century. In this book, the author gives an account of his experiences, from his rise in the 2010 general election, through his years as Deputy... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2016
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Sixty Degrees North Around the World in Search of Home Malachy Tallack Follow the latitude line from Malachy Tallack's home on Shetland and you voyage to Greenland, Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia before coming home, a wiser and more grounded person. We learn more of his troubled background as he travels West, troubles... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2016
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Being a Beast Charles Foster We can never truly know what it is like to be another species and experience their lives as they search for food, or kill and be killed – but Charles Foster has gone further than most in trying to... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2016
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Cartoonist, Robert Crumb said; “When I come up against the Real World, I just vacillate”. Well, he can happily vacillate here for a while. This section features a whole host of books covering subjects as diverse as Mankind’s place in the Universe (Human Universe by Brian Cox), the history of the human journey to work (Rush Hour by Iain Gateley) and the real business of reading books (Bookworms, Dogears and Squashy Big Armchairs by Heather Reyes). This is the ‘Human’ section in our book lovers’ journey.
If you love reading, then you’ll find something here to fascinate you. There are new and interest-piquing passages here from science, philosophy, politics, history, religion, and all of the things that occupy the lives of humans. And we mean ALL of them. The fight against Cancer, the fight for freedom, feminism, fatality, frailty and fame. It’s too big to list. Have a browse through the titles by using our monthly recommendations past and present. We guarantee you’ll be hooked in minutes!
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