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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

By Wil Haygood

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Paul Robeson

By Martin Bauml Duberman

Mandela

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

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

King of the World (hb): Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the American Hero

By Remnick, David

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

S'wonderful: A Symphony of Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled

By Homan Potterton

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

By Deirdre Bair

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By Sarah M Broom

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

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

By Lauren Elkin

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

By Richard Beard

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper