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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

Fathers, Sons and Football

By Colin Shindler

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Getting On, Falling Off: From adoption and finding life and love in the Far East to fighting a losing battle with Parkinson's Disease

By Michael Broadbent

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

By Colm Toibin

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

By Alex Renton

The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By Phil Vasili

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

By Laura Atkins, Stan Yogi, Yutaka Houlette

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours (History (US))

By Ann Bausum, National Geographic Kids

The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

By Judith St. George

After Gandhi

By ANNE SIBLEY O'BRIEN

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World

By Herman, Arthur

Beyond A Boundary

By James, Cyril Lionel Robert

World War II: The People's Story

By Reader's Digest

William Burges

By Matthew Williams

The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

By Alex Kershaw

In the Belly of the Beast

By Jack Henry Abbott

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus

By Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott

Eat the Buddha: Life, Death, and Resistance in a Tibetan Town

By Barbara Demick (Y)

Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist

By Lois Holzman, Fred Newman

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle

By Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland

Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands

By Lamb, Christina

Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents

By Marlene Kadar, Helen M. Buss

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By Wes Moore

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

Searching for Hassan: Journey to the Heavy

By Terence Ward

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom

By Yen Mah, Adeline

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion: 10

By Pepys, Samuel

Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

By Oliver Soden