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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

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

Myself When I am Real

By Gene Santoro

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

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

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

By Thomas F. Jackson

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

By Sam Skye Lee

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)