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Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Robin Law, Paul E. Lovejoy

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

By Ramita Navai

The Collected Autobiographies Of Maya Angelou

By Maya Angelou

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by

By Deborah Devonshire

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

The Exiled Collector

By Anne Sebba

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Under a Broad Sky

By Ronald Blythe

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

By Firoozeh Dumas

Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain

By Omaar, Rageh

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

By Wil Haygood

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Paul Robeson

By Martin Bauml Duberman

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

By U. Kockel, M. Nic Craith, Kenneth A. Loparo

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming