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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By Benjamin Franklin

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

By Dennis Skinner, Kevin Maguire

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Joseph J. Ellis

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

By Janet Gleeson

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

By Ruth Behar

From Newbury With Love: Letters of friendship across the Iron Curtain

By Anna Horsbrugh-Porter, Marina Aidova

Mabel's Story

By Mabel Will, George Mann

Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back

By Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State

By George P. Shultz

Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace

By Edward J. Perkins, Connie Cronley, George P. Shultz, David L. Boren

The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Aristide Factor

By Leslie Griffiths

Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, The Legend

By Malcolm Brown

"Westlife": In Our Own Words

By Eugene Masterson, Ronan Keating

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm

By F. David Peat

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel

By Stephen Budiansky

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

By Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University)

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

By David N. Schwartz

Ghetto Shanghai

By Rubin, E.

A Thorn in Their Side - Hilda Murrell Threatened Britain's Nuclear State. She Was Brutally Murdered. This is the True Story of her Shocking Death

By Robert Green

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

By Carlos Eire (Yale University)

In Place of Fear

By Aneurin Bevan

Edith Cavell: Faith Before the Firing Squad

By Catherine Butcher

Hillary Clinton - Her Way

By Jeff Gerth, Don Van Natta Jr

I Was Glad: The Memoirs of Christopher Campling, Dean Emiritus of Ripon Cathedral

By Christopher Russell Campling

Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities

By Elizabeth Edwards

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11

By Graff, Garrett M.

Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Gerald L. Posner

Bernini

By Howard Hibbard