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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary

By Frank, Anne

On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

By Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin

T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914

By H. Gordon Skilling

Censored 1998: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories

By Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Danny Schechter, Tom Tomorrow

Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By Harold Werner, Mark Werner, Martin Gilbert

Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire

By Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

By Tim Parks

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

By Jonathan Bate

After the War was Over

By Michael Foreman

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

The St Patrick's Treasury: Celebrating the Myths, Legends and Traditions of Ireland's Patron Saint

By John Killen

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Sid Lowe

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

According to The Rolling Stones

By Jagger, Mick, Richards, Keith, Watts, Charlie, Wood, Ronnie

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Are You There God? It's Me, Ellen

By Ellen Coyne

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By Florence de Changy

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Rosa Parks: My Story

By Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

By Vicki Howard

The Lost Diary of Queen Victoria’s Undermaid (Lost Diaries S.)

By Parsons, Alex

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

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung