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Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African

By Steven Gish (Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA)

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography

By Andy McSmith

Great Contemporaries

By Winston Churchill

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock

The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family

By Peter Firstbrook

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Finding Me: A Memoir

By Viola Davis

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

The Village

By Alice Taylor

The Village

By Alice Taylor

Martin Heidegger: A political life

By Hugo Ott, Allan Blunden

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

By James Holland

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1

By Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela., 12pp b/w Photographs.

The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space

By Lucy Jago

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

By Paula Uruburu

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James Haley

Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

By Barbara Hosking

Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend

By Fiaz Rafiq, Rasheda Ali

Peter the Great

By Robert K. Massie

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 8: Never Despair, 1945-65

By Martin Gilbert

TheWorld of Yesterday by Zweig, Stefan ( Author ) ON May-01-2010, Paperback

By Zweig, Stefan

Meet Paul (Triangle Special S.)

By Coggan, Donald, Hope, David

Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design

By Adam Bowett

Marion: A Modern-day Miracle

By John Scally

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship

By Colin Duriez