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Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist - Now a major motion picture

By Cook, Bruce

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography

By Damon Hill

The Quest for Queen Mary

By Pope-Hennessy, James, Vickers, Hugo

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

The Road Back to Paris

By Leibling, A.J.

The Holy Goof: Biography of Neal Cassady

By Plummer, WILLIAM

HUSBAND OF A FANATIC : A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

By Amitava Kumar

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

By Bhutto, Fatima

Turn Left at the Black Cow: One Family's Journey from Beverly Hills to Ireland

By McKenzie, Richard

Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

By Ayers, Bill, Dohrn, Bernardine, Jones, Jeff

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics)

By Reck, Friedrich, Evans, Richard, Rubens, Paul

Governance and Leadership - Debating the African Condition: Mazrui and His Critics, Volume Two: 2

By Mazrui, Alamin, Mutunga, Willy

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich

By Eric Metaxas

American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics Of Russell W. Volckmann: The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became “Father” of Special Forces

By Guardia, Mike

Teenage Resistance Fighter: With the Maquisards in Occupied France

By Verneret, Hubert, Depardon, Patrick

Between Five Eyes: Fifty Years Inside the Intelligence Community

By Wells, Anthony R

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

By Mayer, Jane, Abramson, Jill

Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

By Widdecombe, Ann

The Silver Spitfire: The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words

By Wg Cdr Tom Neil

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

Testament of Youth

By Brittain, Vera

A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien: A Comprehensive Guide to the Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Brief Histories)

By Nigel Cawthorne

Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

By Coogan, Andy