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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.

Thomas Paine: His Life, His Time and the Birth of Modern Nations

By Nelson, Craig

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

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

By Power, Samantha

A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

By Koren, Yehuda

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

By Byrne, Paula

The Knife Man. The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery

By Moore, Wendy