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Concrete Island

Neil Gaiman and J.G. Ballard

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A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. Newly reissued with an...

In Country (1989)

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Directed by Academy Award-winner Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, Agnes of God), this is the portrait of...

The Self-Esteem Workbook: Practical Ways to Grow Your Confidence, Raise Your Self Esteem and Feel Better About Yourself

Judy Bartkowiak

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Learn by doing, not just by reading. People of all ages and all walks of life suffer to a greater or...

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Truckers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #1)

Terry Pratchett | 2004 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

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First book of Terry Pratchett's so-called Bromeliad trilogy (consisting of this, Diggers and Wings) which, I believe, was turned into a stop motion kids TV series in the early 90s.

This follows a race of tiny people known as 'Nomes' from another planet, who have crash landed on planet Earth thousands of years ago and have now all but forgotten their own past, with some living in the fields where they are preyed upon by wildlife and others in a large department store and refusing to believe there is such a thing as 'outside' ('did not Arnold Bros., est 1905, say "everything under one roof" ...')

This belief is put to the test when Masklin - one of the outside Nomes - arrives in the store leading a ragtag group of (mostly older) Nomes, just before said store is about to be demolished, and having to hatch a plan to rescue as many Nomes as he can and get back home safely, aided by 'The Thing' (what we would term a black box computer) that has been dormant for many centuries in (again, what we would term) power-saving mode.