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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

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

By Melissa Fleming

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

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

By Eva Petulengro

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

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

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

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

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Mandela

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

Paul Robeson

By Martin Bauml Duberman

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Smarvellous: More Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Shifting Classes in Twentieth Century Britain: From Village Street to Downing Street

By Martin Minogue

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer