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A Monk Swimming - A Memoir

By McCourt, Malachy

We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to Be French

By Emma Beddington

Autobiographies: v. 2

By Sean O'Casey

Blood, Sweat and Treason

By Henry Olonga

Random House 103865 Born to Run Lot de 1

By christopher-mcdougall, McDougall, Christopher

Red Dust Road

By Kay, Jackie

Alex Haley's Queen

By Haley, Alex, Stevens, David

A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love (Winner of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/Biography)

By Zaidi, Mohsin

Home and Exile (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)

By Achebe, Chinua

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

Hogarth's China: Hogarth's Painting and 18th Century Ceramics

By Tharp, Lars

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

By Moody, Anne

O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot and What Chilcot Didn't Say

By El-Taher, Riad

Shemaron: A Beautiful Endeavor

By Malkin, Fiona

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

By Du Bois, W., Elbert, Monica, Gibson, Donald

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging

By Maas, Sharon

The Three of U.S.: A New Life in New York

By Coles, Joanna, Godwin, Peter

Too Afraid to Cry – Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By Eckermann, Ali Cobby

Tell It to the World: An Indigenous Memoir

By Grant, Stan

House at Sugar Beach, the

By Coper, Helene

Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight

By Ruddock, Alan

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)

By Ung, Loung

The Light In The Window

By Goulding, June

When London Calls: The Expatriation Of Australian Creative Artists To Britain

By Alomes, Stephen

GYPSY PRINCESS

By Cannon, Violet

The Bookseller Of Kabul

By SEIERSTAD ASNE, Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen

Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness

By Shaw, Allyson

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

By Davison, Caroline