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|author=Homer Hickam
|title=Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator
|rating=5
|genre= Geberal Fiction
|summary=Elsie and Homer Hickam were West Virginians and knew how to make their tales as ''tall as the hills that surrounded them on all sides''. There is a Hickam family legend that has been told and retold so many times over the years that the lines between myth and reality have become well and truly blurred. ''Carrying Albert Home'' is the story of a man and his wife, a sweet pet alligator and a very lucky rooster who decide to take a road trip to Florida in 1935; the year of the Great Depression. What follows next is all completely true, well, except for the parts that are made up...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000815421X</amazonuk>
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|author=Jane Hissey
|summary= We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, women's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. Best known for his ''Time Traveller's Guide'' history books, Ian Mortimer here gives the reader a whistle-stop tour through ten centuries. ''Human Race'' contains the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no-one could have predicted. The question here is which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest change in human history?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593386</amazonuk>
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