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Halle Berry

By Daniel O'Brien

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

By Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa

World Wide Webb: Memoirs of a Life in the Universal Church

By Webb, Pauline

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

By Hannah Brown

Shakespeare's Wife

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

The Secret Life of France

By Wadham, Lucy

The Deans: Cathedral Life, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By Trevor Beeson

The Great English Pilgrimage: From Rome to Canterbury

By Christopher Donaldson

Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

By Blades, Jay

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

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

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

By Edwin Frank

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

By Cathy Newman

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

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

By Thomas F. Jackson

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

By Christopher McDougall

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

By Shapiro, James

Orphan of Islam

By Alexander Khan

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

By Norman Jay

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist Leader

By Mary Lawler

Long Walk To Freedom

By Mandela, Nelson

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

The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

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

By Clayborne Carson

Striking Out: Poems and stories from the Camino

By Cottrell, Stephen

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

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

In Every Corner Sing: The Diary of a Country Vicar

By Biles, Timothy

My Family, A Symphony: A Memoir of Global Adoption

By Aaron Eske

Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000

By Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan