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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

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

By Parini, Jay

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

By Bas, Damian Le

The Way to Rainy Mountain

By Momaday, N Scott

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

By Gopnik, Adam

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

By Leo Zeilig

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

By Alondra Nelson

Kaffir Boy in America

By Mathabane, Mark

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

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

By Ingrid Seward

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

Random House 103865 Born to Run Lot de 1

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

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Andrews

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