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Belonging

By Sameem Ali

My Father's Son

By Frank O'Connor

Xangela S Ashes Hb

By frank McCourt

'Tis (Signed)

By McCourt, Frank

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

A Katherine Mansfield Chronology

By R. Norburn

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Halle Berry

By Daniel O'Brien

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

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

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Voltaire in Love

By Nancy Mitford

Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

By Kate Grenville

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

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

By Edward Chisholm

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

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

By Edemariam, Aida

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

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

Price of My Soul

By Bernadette Devlin

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs