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What can I say? I really like libraries. Library Development Officer, Cambridgeshire Libraries.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Linton Co-op gets ram raided every year or so, you come to expect it, which is mad.
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Be happy. Watch puffins. Puffin Bank Cam, live from Skomer. www.welshwildlife.org/learn/webcams
25.05.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not sure if it counts as gardening or just plain old child Labour, but somewhere in your collection you should have photos of school children picking rocks out of Linton Village College playing field, circa 1937
05.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I remember debating this one with a much older friend some 40 years ago, so it has long been with us. I favoured s’ but older friend preferred s’s
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Image of Korean embroidered cranes and flowers
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. Cover shows a phone box, old style taxi, Belisha beacon and tea set strewn across a British flag
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The Magic Pudding, The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum by Norman Lindsay. A penguin, a swagman and a nattily dressed koala are in the centre, framed by other characters from the story
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The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. Black and white image of grapes, egg, hambone and mushroom
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Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession. Yellow cover with a fish on it
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12/20
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Red silhouette of a girl on a rooftop. Can You See Me (Expected to fit in, proud to stand out) by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
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11/20
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. Image of a pair of hands holding some beans
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10/20
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A man and a woman back to back in front of a stately home. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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Design of yellow book spines. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, A Novel by Robin Sloan. New York Times Bestseller
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The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. Half of a woman's face, reed lipstick prominent, a hand in a purple glove reaches across her
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White writing on black and image of a skull. A Kusnetsov, Babi Yar. "Superb...one of the most frightful exposures yet of human iniquity" quote from Anthony Burgess
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Book is Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, Rumer Godden, A Young Puffin. Image is two Japanese dolls in kimono holding a paper parasol
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The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris. A journey backwards from old boxes of dark family secrets to a golden era of museums. Image of random artefacts on display shelves
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Book is Blind Spot, Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji and Anthony G Greenwald
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Text: Fever Pitch A Fan's Life Nick Hornby. Image: small boy in outsize football shirt
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A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
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Front cover of The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, showing two mice standing in front of a wall emblazoned a cat and swastika emblem.
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Dinovember adventure at the library - roarsome
