Innate how the wiring of our brains shapes who we are —Mitchell, Kevin J. (Professor of genetics), author.

What makes you the way you are - and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to t...

The Sans Pareil mystery —Charlton, Karen, author.

On a cold February night in Regency London, a dark curtain falls on the Sans Pareil Theatre following the death of April Clare, a promising young actress, whose body is found in mysterious circumstances. Detective Stephe...

The adventures of Robin Hood

From run-ins with the Sheriff of Nottingham to gathering the merry men in Sherwood Forest, this abbreviated collection of Robin Hood's most notable exploits both delights and educates while an included read-along feature...

The invention of Russia the journey from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war —Ostrovsky, Arkady, 1971- author.

A breathtakingly ambitious book that reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation. With the deep insight only possible of a native son, Arkady Ostrovsky introdu...

Our picnics in the sun —Joss, Morag, author.

For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. To help with finances, they decide to turn Stoneyridge into a bed-an...

The time machine —Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, author.

An English scientist constructs a time machine and uses it to travel back and forth through time. On his journeys he encounters extraordinary places and futuristic societies.

Knight Kyle and the magic silver lance —Pötzsch, Oliver, author.

Beyond the great forest and towering Dragon Mountain lies fairyland, a land of elves and trolls, dragons and giants, magicians and fairies. And in one corner, Fairyland East, lives Knight Kyle. Kyle's great-grandfather o...

The midnight bell —Higgins, Jack, 1929- author.

"In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as...