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

By Stuart Isacoff

In Tasmania

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters

By Elie Wiesel

The Optician of Lampedusa

By Emma Jane Kirby

Look Alive Out There: Essays

By Sloane Crosley

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

By Gillian Lynne

Trampled Wife: The Scandalous Life of Mary Eleanor Bowes

By Derek Parker

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By Daniel J. Boorstin

Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention

By Ben Wilson

St.Rose of Lima: Patroness of the Americas

By Mary Alphonsus

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

By Daniel James Brown

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

By Jon Meacham

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

By David Hart-Dyke

Love's Work

By Rose, Gillian

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Patricia Bell-Scott

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

By Suzy Hansen

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

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Native nostalgia

By Jacob Dlamini

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

By Griffiths, Jay

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

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

I'll Be There For You: The ultimate book for Friends fans everywhere

By Kelsey Miller

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung

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

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick