Hey, you know what everyone loves? New books!! Here are a few of this week's releases including the paperback edition of The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis which will break your heart but also fill you with a sense of hope and pride. Sometimes the cost of being yourself seems too much a burden to bear but the rewards are always worth it.

Ever since I was a child I have been all but obsessed with ancient history and knowledge. While other kids were watching The Simpsons or MTV, I was glued to PBS's Nova and other historical documentaries. As a teen I watched The History Channel and Discovery. And through all this time, I mourned the loss of knowledge. From Ancient Greece, to Rome, to the Library of Alexandria. So much was lost, leaving us with the task of learning it all again. But as this book shows us, not all was lost. The Arab world experienced a golden age of knowledge in the midst of Europe's dark ages.

“Ms. Ice Sandwich’s eyelids are always painted with a thick layer of a kind of electric blue, exactly the same colour as those hard ice lollies that have been sitting in our freezer since last summer.”