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The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington

By James, Lawrence

Sosipatra of Pergamum: Philosopher and Oracle

By Heidi Marx (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, The University of Manitoba)

Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

By Jonathan Betts (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast)

The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

By James Carnac, Alan Hicken

Bernini

By Howard Hibbard

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

By Gerald L. Posner

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

By Graff, Garrett M.

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

By Elizabeth Edwards

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

By Christopher Russell Campling

Hillary Clinton - Her Way

By Jeff Gerth, Don Van Natta Jr

Edith Cavell: Faith Before the Firing Squad

By Catherine Butcher

In Place of Fear

By Aneurin Bevan

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

By Carlos Eire (Yale University)

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

Ghetto Shanghai

By Rubin, E.

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

By David N. Schwartz

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

By Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University)

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

By Stephen Budiansky

Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm

By F. David Peat

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

"Westlife": In Our Own Words

By Eugene Masterson, Ronan Keating

Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, The Legend

By Malcolm Brown

Taking Liberties: Four Decades In The Struggle For Rights

By Neier, Aryeh

Hudson Taylor

By J. Hudson Taylor

Abraham Lincoln And the Road to Emancipation 1861-1865

By Klingman, WILLIAM

Unity Mitford: A Quest

By David Pryce-Jones

The Shah's Last Ride

By William Shawcross

Morgan: Biography of J.Pierpont Morgan

By Jean Strouse

Firebrand: Frank Owen Story

By Gron Williams