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The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

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

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

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

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

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

By Eva Petulengro

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

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

By Melissa Fleming

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

By Halima Bashir

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

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.

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By Edward Chisholm

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films

By Steve McQueen, Dr Leroy Logan, MBE

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

By Stephen Oates

Priest in Prison: Four Years of Life in Japanese-occupied Singapore, 1941-45

By John Hayter