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

By Maas, Sharon

A Monk Swimming - A Memoir

By McCourt, Malachy

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

The Light In The Window

By Goulding, June

Stanley

By McLynn, Frank

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

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

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

By Ung, Loung

Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight

By Ruddock, Alan

House at Sugar Beach, the

By Coper, Helene

Tell It to the World: An Indigenous Memoir

By Grant, Stan

Too Afraid to Cry – Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By Eckermann, Ali Cobby

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

By Coles, Joanna, Godwin, Peter

Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal

By Parini, Jay

God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations

By McDonald, Chine

The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art

By Philippe Costamagna, Frank Wynne

A Personal Odyssey

By Sowell, Thomas

Beckett In Dublin

By Wilmer, Steve, Lawlor, Tom

Oscar Wilde

By Richard Ellmann

Caravans and Wedding Bands: A Romany Life in the 1960s

By Petulengro, Eva

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past through Its Proverbs

By Yen Mah, Adeline

Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York

By Gopnik, Adam

Kaffir Boy in America

By Mathabane, Mark

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

By Alondra Nelson

Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life & Times)

By Leo Zeilig

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

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

By Momaday, N Scott