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Mark Twain

By Powers, Ron

Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

By Berry, Wendell

Ally

By Oren, Michael B.

Last Waltz In Vienna: The Destruction of a Family, 1842-1942

By Clare, George

Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

By Smith, Michael

Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself

By Donniel Hartman

Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language

By Hoffman, Eva

Fear No Evil

By Natan Sharansky

Warrior: An Autobiography

By Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff

The Labyrinth of Exile: Life of Theodor Herzl

By Pawel, Ernst

Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

By Raymond P. Scheindlin (Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary)

With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace

By Nikki Haley

The Paper Lantern

By Will Burns

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Chang Jung & Halliday Jon, Chang, Jung, Halliday, Jon

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Borowski, Tadeusz, Kott, Jan, Vedder, Barbara, Kandel, Michael

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

By Vikram Seth

The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work

By Belen Fernandez

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

By Simon Garfield

The Man Behind the Rosenbergs

By Ronald Radosh, Sergei Kostin, Alexander Feklisov

Within the Whirlwind

By Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg, P. Stevenson, M. Harari

Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life

By Robert Lacey

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

Anthony Blunt (HB)

By Miranda Carter

The Portable Emerson

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark van Doren

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

By John Higgs

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A new story about anxiety

By Sarah Wilson

The Clearing: A memoir of art, family and mental health

By Samantha Clark

Then They Came for Me: A Story of Injustice and Survival in Iran's Most Notorious Prison

By Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy