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Genghis Khan

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

By Jeffrey E. Garten

Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

By Caitlin Davies

Becoming Muhammad Ali

By James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

Reflections from the Scorched Earth: A witness from some of the world's toughest war zones

By Ed Walker

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization: Robert E.Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities

By Barbara Ballis Lal

Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics

By Jermaine Scott a.k.a. Wretch 32

My Forbidden Face

By Latifa

Because of You, John Lewis

By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Keith Henry Brown

Growing into War

By Michael Gill

An Evil Cradling

By Keenan, Brian, Brian Keenan

Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

By Linda Grant

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

He also Spoke as a Jew: The Life of the Reverend James Parkes

By Haim Chertok

In Her Sister's Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwill

By Diana Dubois

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-belonger

By Richard Pipes

Will In The World

By Greenblatt, Stephen

Chutzpah

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege

By Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides

Jew in America

By Arthur Hertzberg

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

By Peter Gay

Churchill and the Jews

By Martin Gilbert

Just Like It Was:

Rabbinate in Stormy Days: The Life & Teachings of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, The First Chief Rabbi of Israel

By Shaul Mayzlish

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By Berendt, John

Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin

By Nelman, Susan

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust, 1939-45

By Henry Orenstein, Claude Lanzmann

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul