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Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm, X

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version

By Coogan, Michael D, Brettler, Professor of Biblical Studies Marc Z, Newsom, Carol, Perkins, Professor of Theology Pheme

Desert Queen

By Wallach, Janet

Chaucer: Brief Lives

By Ackroyd, Peter

Vietnam: A History

By Karnow, Stanley.

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

Sound Revolutions: A Biography of Fred Gaisberg, Founding Father of Commercial Sound Recording

By Moore, Jerrold Northrop

A Kick Against The Pricks: The Autobiography

By Norris, David

Hidden Secrets; a complete history of espionage and the technology used to support it

By Owen, David, illus

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Penguin Classic Biography S.)

By Bainton, Roland H

A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains (Virago classic non-fiction)

By Bird, Isabella L.

Paul: The Mind of the Apostle

By Wilson, A.N.

Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

By Stengel, Richard

Lewis and Clark: Opening the American West (In the Footsteps of Explorers)

By Ellen Rodger

Caligula (Penguin Little Black Classics)

By Suetonius

Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

By Cohen, Michael

My Search: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey - Bruderhof Stories (Bruderhof History)

By Ben-Eliezer, Josef

Les cendres d'Angela

By Vidoeski, B, McCourt, Frank

Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany (Spellmount Classics)

By Scarfe, Norman

Ruth First: Voices of Liberation

By Don Pinnock

Chief Whip: The Role, History and Black Arts of Parliamentary Whipping

By Renton, Tim

A House in the Sunflowers: An English Family's Search for Their Dream House in France

By Silvestre, Ruth, Grater, Michael

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Keynes, Richard

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden

Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life

By Ridley, Mark

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

By Sussman, Peter Y.

Will the Chicken be with Grandma?

By Weber, James F.

Murder on the Home Front: a gripping murder mystery set during the Blitz - now on Netflix!

By Molly Lefebure

Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand

By Lawday, David

Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus

By Gordon, Lyndall