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The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs

By Quinn, Tom, Plummer, Rose

Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance

By Peltier, Leonard

On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal

By Bisson, Terry, Chuck D

The Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown

By Newman, Richard

North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

By Andrews, William L.

Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White

By Hodges, G.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

By Escott, Paul D.

The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food

By Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely

By Woodward, C. Vann, Mcfeely, William S.

Hillbilly Elegy: The International Bestselling Memoir Coming Soon as a Netflix Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close

By Vance, J. D.

Saved for a Purpose: A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values

By James A. Joseph

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture)

By Brown, Lois

They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By Quinn, Tom

My American Journey

By Colin Powell

The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World He Made: Machiavelli and the World that He Made

By Philip Bobbitt

The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy's Journey of Escape to A New Life in Britain

By Gulwali Passarlay, Nadene Ghouri

The Boy in the Cupboard

By Dunphy, Shane

The Secret Life of France

By Wadham, Lucy

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee

By Gulwali Passarlay

How to Be Black

By Thurston, Baratunde

Buffalo Bill and His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography

By Joseph G. Rosa, Robin May

Ailey Spirit, Journey of an American

By Ailey Theatre

Bob Geldof: The Pop Star Who Raised 70 Million Pounds for Famine Relief in Ethiopia (People Who Have Helped the World S.)

By Gray, Charlotte

Soul Survivors (Black Classics)

By Marcia Williams

Edward Said: Criticism and Society: An Intellectual Biography

By Hussein, Abdirahman A.

Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley

By Farley, Christopher

The Ungrateful Refugee

By Nayeri, Dina

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

By Prose, Francine

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank