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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Alistair MacLean
Her Benny
Silas K. Hocking
Vedere din Parfumerie
Silvia Kerim
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
Bertrand Russell
The Analects of Confucious
Confucius
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
William James
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
New Scientists Books Staff, New Scientist
Mutual Aid
Pyotr Kropotkin
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Olivia Fraser, William Dalrymple
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fingal's Ghost

Fingal's Ghost - Kathleen Fidler This gets 5 stars for the strangest reason. It's just my feeling that every single episode of Scooby Doo was based on the structure of this book. Or maybe it's the eternal structure of a "meddling kids" fable.

Granted, the accusation was originally "nosey" not meddling in this book. And the curiosity and odd bravery of the kids was notched up a gun belt for WWII readers. The bloodthirsty young heroine who's always saving her male compatriots was strange and compelling.

Finally, despite living within spitting distance of Fingal's cave for quite some time, I was able to read the legend of Fingal and the Giant's Causeway really for the first time.