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Paracom
Non Fiction
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Mat Buckland
Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)
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Margaret Weaver Fellow of Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants
Accounting Made Simple
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Douglas Engh
Archery Fundamentals: A Better Way to Learn the Basics (Sports Fundamentals)
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Austin Kleon
Steal Like An Artist
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Trevor L. Young
The Handbook of Project Management: A Practical Guide to Effective Policies and Procedures (Professional paperbacks)
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Randall Munroe
Xkcd: Volume 0
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Featured library books

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The Amateur Marriage

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Shopaholic Abroad

Sophie Kinsella

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is great. She has a job on morning TV, her bank...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Pirate's Da...

Margaret Cezair Thompson

THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER by Margaret Cezair-Thompson is an unforgettable...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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How Hard Can It Be?

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream... A world where the nonsensical made sense,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Kashmir Shawl

Rosie Thomas

Newlyweds Nerys and Evan Ellis leave the Welsh valleys behind to become...

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From: Dunstable, GB

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Blue Monday: A Fried...

Nicci French

Blue Monday A day for murder... Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Jam and Jeopardy

Doris Davidson

89-year-old spinster, Janet Stouter, takes pleasure in raking up scandals,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Flirt

Kathleen Tessaro

Hughie Venables-Smythe discovers the world of the professional flirt. A...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Midnight's Chil...

Salman Rushdie

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Behaviour Of Mot...

Poppy Adams

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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Quicksand AND Passin...

Nella Larsen

Quicksand, written in 1928, is the first novel to give an open voice to...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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All That I Am

Anna Funder

One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende

After her mother dies in childbirth, Aurora del Valle is raised by her...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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It's a Long Way...

Bill Cullen

It's a Long Way from Penny Apples A very warm, funny, affectionate...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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Featured authors

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Jon Osborne

Jon Osborne has been a newspaper reporter for a decade, most recently for the Naples Daily News in Florida, where he covered everything from bake sales to triple murders. He is a veteran of the United...

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Charles Rosen

Charles Welles Rosen was an American pianist and writer on music. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings, notably the book The Classical...

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Stephen Clarke

Stephen Clarke is the bestselling author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction that satirize the peculiarities of French culture. In 2004, he self-published A Year in the Merde, a comic novel...

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Featured book drops

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Jinney Ring Craft Centre

United Kingdom - Bromsgrove

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The Jinney Ring Craft Centre is located in Hanbury, a picturesque village situated between Droitwich Spa and Bromsgrove. We are only 5 miles from Redditch; 9 miles from Worcester;...

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Caffe Nero Chipping Norton

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

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Our story goes back around 20 years, to our founder Gerry Ford. Armed with a passion for coffee, he had a vision to create traditional Italian cafés across Europe; places that...

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IBEX Industrial Brushes

United Kingdom - Malt Mill Lane

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Welcome to IBEX Industrial Brushes "Book Drop". We have a large array of books waiting to travel all over the world, sitting in our trade counter, eager to move on!

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Featured book shops

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Boekhandel Dominicanen

Netherlands - Maastricht

Book Shop

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Hibernian Books

Spain - Barcelona

Book Shop

Hibernian Books is the only secondhand English Bookshop in Barcelona.

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China Books

Australia - Melbourne

Book Shop

The main office of CHINA BOOKS is located in Melbourne's Chinatown where we also operate a retail book shop (at the corner of Little Bourke & Swanston Streets, above the...

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Featured libraries

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Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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Manchester Central Library

United Kingdom - Manchester

Library

Central Library opening times:
Monday: 9am-8pm
Tuesday: 9am-8pm
Wednesday: 9am-8pm
Thursday: 9am-8pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-5pm
Sunday: closed

The beautifully refurbished...

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Blackheath Library

United Kingdom - High Street

Library

OPENING TIMES:
Monday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Tuesday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Thursday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Friday: 9.30am - 7pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Sunday: Closed

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Featured book news

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Character actors: Australia’s children celebrate 80 years of Book Week

What began in 1945 as a way to promote reading has turned into a highlight of the school year, with children dressing up...

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‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says

Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline Continue rea...

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Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading

Culture minister says government will propose ending the 25% rate, the highest in the world, in its budget bill Continue...

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Australian novel attracts controversy over fictionalised depiction of gay codebreaker Alan Turing

Nick Croydon, the CEO of QBD Books, has faced criticism for his thriller The Turing Protocol Continue reading.........

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Australian Book Week is here – and we’d love to see your children’s costumes

The annual event, which promotes literacy, is celebrating 80 years as part of Australian school life Continue reading......

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Polari book prize cancelled after row over gender-critical novelist

Organisers of the award for LGBTQ+ writers have paused the prize this year, after controversy over the longlisting of Jo...

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Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action

The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British...

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Alex Salmond’s niece criticises Nicola Sturgeon over claims in memoir

Christina Hendry says book tarnishes uncle’s reputation and he would have defended himself if alive Continue reading.......

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‘Skibidi’, ‘delulu’ and ‘tradwife’ among words added to Cambridge Dictionary

Lexicographers give nod to TikTok generation’s enduring influence on English language with latest additions Continue rea...

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