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

By Alomes, Stephen

A Monk Swimming - A Memoir

By McCourt, Malachy

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

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

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

Shemaron: A Beautiful Endeavor

By Malkin, Fiona

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

By El-Taher, Riad

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

By Moody, Anne

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

By Tharp, Lars

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

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

By Achebe, Chinua

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

Alex Haley's Queen

By Haley, Alex, Stevens, David

Red Dust Road

By Kay, Jackie

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By christopher-mcdougall, McDougall, Christopher

Blood, Sweat and Treason

By Henry Olonga

Autobiographies: v. 2

By Sean O'Casey

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

By Emma Beddington

My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage

By Ingrid Seward

Dior by Dior: The autobiography of Christian Dior

By Christian Dior, Antonia Fraser

'Tis

By frank McCourt

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

Revolutionary Suicide

By Huey P. Newton

I Belong to No One: Abused, afraid and alone. A young girl forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for her survival.

By Gwen Wilson

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Andrews

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

By Ben Ratliff

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By Amy Tan

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough