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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

A Katherine Mansfield Chronology

By R. Norburn

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

A Life On Pittwater

By Susan Duncan

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell

By Jonathan King

Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows

By Jean Sasson

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

Gypsy Bride: One girl's true story of falling in love with a gypsy boy

By Sam Skye Lee

Ronnie

By Ronnie Drew

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Myself When I am Real

By Gene Santoro

Hellfire And Herring: A childhood remembered

By Mr Christopher Rush

March: Book One

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Beyond Uhura

By Michelle Nichols

Composition in Black and White

By Kathryn M. Talalay

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

My Place: Autobiography

By Morgan, Sally

My Family, A Symphony: A Memoir of Global Adoption

By Aaron Eske

Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

By Clayborne Carson

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

Black Popular Culture: A Project by Michelle Wallace

By Gina Dent

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

By Edwin Frank

The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

By Christopher McDougall