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Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Kisses from Katie

By Davis Katie, Katie Davis

Tiger's Child: The story of a gifted, troubled child and the teacher who refused to give up on her

By Hayden, Torey

Ancient Wisdom I

By P. Zbar

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung

Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

By Albom, Mitch

Namma: A Tibetan Love Story

By Karko, Kate

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

By Jonathan D. Spence

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

By Junger, Sebastian

Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

By E.M. Standing, Standing, E. M.

Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World

By Alberto Manguel

The Groucho Letters: Letters to and from Groucho Marx

By Groucho Marx

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

By Mark Lilla, Ronald William Dworkin, MD, Robert Silvers

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

By John Mitchell

Moebius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-century Germany

By John Fauvel (formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, The Open University (deceased)), Raymond Flood (University Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics, Department for Continuing Education, University Lecturer in Computing and...

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

By Griffiths, Jay

Bertrand Russell: A Political Life

By Alan Ryan

Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World

By Andrew Hill

Voltaire: A Life

By Ian Davidson

Beyond Ugly

By Constance Briscoe

The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Josie's Journey

By Russell, Shaun

Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea

By David Hart-Dyke

Ugly

By Constance Briscoe

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By Jon Meacham

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By Daniel J. Boorstin