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Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

By Armstrong, Karen

Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging

By Freedland, Jonathan

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

St Augustine

By Serge Lancel, Antonia Nevill

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

By Jonathan Mildenhall

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter

By Angela Hui

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year

By Sly Stone

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to the Dragons' Den

By James Caan, Caan, James

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (Routledge Classics)

By Gilroy, Paul

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

Will In The World

By Greenblatt, Stephen

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Freud: A Life in Our Time

By Peter Gay