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The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

By Judy Shepard

WHAT DOES CHINA THINK?

By Leonard

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

By Dan Barber

Daughter of the River

By Hong Ying

Lamplight on Cottage Loaves

By Joan Kent

Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press

By Harry Reid

How to Be an Antiracist

By Ibram X. Kendi

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of A Year

By Rory Stewart

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

Small Town Talk

By Barney Hoskyns

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

The Rothschilds A European Family

By Georg Heuberger

Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism

By Dr. Piers Brendon

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman

The Souls

By Jane Abdy, Charlotte Gere

Fundacio Joan Miro Guidebook

By Malet, Rosa Maria (edit).

Tutankhamun Egypt's Most Famous Pharoah (Pocket Essential)

By Bill Price

Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape

By Tim Darvill

The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

By Mary L Trump

The Great Outsiders: Harmsworth, Rothermere and the "Daily Mail"

By S.J. Taylor

Bloody Sunday: A Fifty-Year Fight for Justice

By Ian Hernon

On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath - By The People Who Were There

By Julieann Campbell

Akenfield

By Ronald Blythe

The Spirit-Wrestlers

By Philip Marsden

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey

Awkward to Awesome

By Mia Fizz

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku