Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
By: Steve Jones
3.89
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
By: J.K. Rowling , None , Albus Dumbledore , Newt Scamander
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in th… read more
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"Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance,"-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
"Jacob Kowalski: I'm sure people like you,too. Newt Scamander: No, not really. I'm annoying."-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
"Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts."-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
"Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes"-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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3. Moon
By: James Herbert
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The nightmare begins before you sleep... He had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge i… read more
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4. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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5. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
6. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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7. Hallucinations
By: Oliver Sacks
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty hou… read more
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8. Quidditch Through the Ages
By: J.K. Rowling , None
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that: there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to ev… read more
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9. Magic Cottage, Das Haus auf dem Land
By: James Herbert , Martin Eisele
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Midge und Mike, zwei junge Kunstler, haben ein romantisches Landhaus bezogen. Die magischen Krafte,… read more
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10. The Living Planet
By: David Attenborough
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and m… read more
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11. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
12. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.34
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more
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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
13. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
14. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
15. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
16. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- science
17. Akin
By: Emma Donoghue
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the … read more
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18. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
19. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
20. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
21. Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #1)
By: Thomas Taylor
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls aro… read more
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"The rope swings back towards me. 'Quick, Herbie. Jump!' Now, you've probably worked out by now that I'm not a 'Quick, Herbie. Jump!' kind of guy. I mean, it's not as if there's much need for jumping …"-Thomas Taylor, Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #1)
22. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
23. Gargantis (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #2)
By: Thomas Taylor
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
There's a storm raging in Eerie-on-Sea. Has the mighty Gargantis come back from the deep...? Whe… read more
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24. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
25. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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26. Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor
By: Malcolm Alexander
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out is the unflinchingly honest and moving memoir of rural life in O… read more
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27. Fifty Words for Snow
By: Nancy Campbell
3.85
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Fifty international words for snow – explored by an award-winning writer – that will enchant reader… read more
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28. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
By: Adam Rutherford
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience … read more
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"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
29. Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems
By: Brian Bilston
4.23
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the y… read more
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30. Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
By: Steve Jones
3.89
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivat… read more
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31. How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
By: Philip Ball
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new sci… read more
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