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Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By Amy Tan

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

By Ben Ratliff

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Andrews

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

By Gwen Wilson

Revolutionary Suicide

By Huey P. Newton

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

'Tis

By frank McCourt

Dior by Dior: The autobiography of Christian Dior

By Christian Dior, Antonia Fraser

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

By Ingrid Seward

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

By Emma Beddington

Autobiographies: v. 2

By Sean O'Casey

Blood, Sweat and Treason

By Henry Olonga

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

By christopher-mcdougall, McDougall, Christopher

Red Dust Road

By Kay, Jackie

Alex Haley's Queen

By Haley, Alex, Stevens, David

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

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

By Achebe, Chinua

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

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

By Tharp, Lars

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

By Moody, Anne

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

By El-Taher, Riad

God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations

By McDonald, Chine

A Personal Odyssey

By Sowell, Thomas

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

By Philippe Costamagna, Frank Wynne

Beckett In Dublin

By Wilmer, Steve, Lawlor, Tom

Miles Davis (Life & Times)

By Brian Morton