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A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000

By Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan

My Family, A Symphony: A Memoir of Global Adoption

By Aaron Eske

Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

By Clayborne Carson

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

Striking Out: Poems and stories from the Camino

By Cottrell, Stephen

In Every Corner Sing: The Diary of a Country Vicar

By Biles, Timothy

Bishop Peter's Pilgrimage: His Diary and Sketchbook

By Peter Nott

Growing Up Native American: An Anthology

By Patricia Riley, Ines Hernandez

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

By Edwin Frank

The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

In Search of the Lost: The Death and Life of Seven Peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood: The Modern Martyrs of Melanesia

By Carter, Richard, Richard Carter

Long Walk To Freedom

By Mandela, Nelson

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist Leader

By Mary Lawler

Mister Good Times: The enthralling life story of a legendary DJ

By Norman Jay

Orphan of Islam

By Alexander Khan

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

By Shapiro, James

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

By Christopher McDougall

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice

By Thomas F. Jackson

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Composition in Black and White

By Kathryn M. Talalay

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

By Lings, Martin

March: Book One

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Myself When I am Real

By Gene Santoro

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Gypsy Bride: One girl's true story of falling in love with a gypsy boy

By Sam Skye Lee