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Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled

By Homan Potterton

S'wonderful: A Symphony of Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood

By Richard Wright, Geoffrey Summerfield

Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain

By Omaar, Rageh

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

By Firoozeh Dumas

Under a Broad Sky

By Ronald Blythe

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

The Exiled Collector

By Anne Sebba

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by

By Deborah Devonshire

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

The Collected Autobiographies Of Maya Angelou

By Maya Angelou

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

By Ramita Navai

Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Robin Law, Paul E. Lovejoy

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

By Chinua Achebe

Desert Dawn

By Waris Dirie

The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

By Lan Yan, Sam Taylor

The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid

By Bill Bryson, Bryson, Bill

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By Countess Of Carnarvon

Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting

By Sir John Tusa

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By Wes Moore

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Bob Steele on the Radio: The Life of Connecticut's Beloved Broadcaster

By Paul Hensler