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

By James McBride

The Exiled Collector

By Anne Sebba

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

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

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Under a Broad Sky

By Ronald Blythe

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

By Firoozeh Dumas

Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain

By Omaar, Rageh

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

By Edemariam, Aida

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

Price of My Soul

By Bernadette Devlin

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Soul on Ice

By Eldridge Cleaver

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

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.

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

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

By Halima Bashir

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

By Melissa Fleming

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

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

Paul Robeson

By Martin Bauml Duberman

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

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

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)