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Chasing Shadows

By Gryn, Hugo

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank

By carol ann Lee, Buddy Elias

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By McBride, James

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion, Elie Wiesel

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

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.

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

By James Caan, Caan, James

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

By Benjamin Ferencz

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

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

By Sly Stone

Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter

By Angela Hui

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

By Julie Welch

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

By Jonathan Mildenhall

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

By Michael Vatikiotis

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation

By Stourton, James

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

By Armstrong, Karen

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson