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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

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

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Andrews

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

By Ben Ratliff

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By Amy Tan

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

Smarvellous: More Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

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

By Martin Minogue

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Another Life Is Possible: Insights from 100 Years of Life Together

By Rowan Williams, Danny Burrows, Clare Stober

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Prophecy and Passion: Essays In Honour of Athol Gill

By David Neville

Betrayed: Escape from Iraq

By Latifa Ali, Richard Shears

Behaving Badly: The Life of Richard Harris

By Cliff Goodwin

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By Wes Moore

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

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

By Ramita Navai

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

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

By James McBride

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)