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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

By Anne Sebba

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black

By Harry Edward

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

By Paul Thomas Murphy

Fear of the Collar: The True Story of the Boy They Couldn't Break

By Patrick Touher

Keeping My Sister's Secrets

By Beezy Marsh

Treason: Famous English Treason Trials

By Alan Wharam

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

By Jardine, Lisa

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

By Mark Lee Gardner

The Women on the Island: A Novel

By Anh Thái Hồ

Unleashed

By Boris Johnson

Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Hersey, John

Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience

By Ziauddin Sardar

The Life and Times Of Frederick Douglass

By Frederick Douglass

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

By Frankl, Viktor E

Modern Women: 52 Pioneers

By Kira Cochrane

Stasiland

By Anna Funder

Black Earth: A journey through Russia after the fall

By Meier, Andrew

God's Politician: William Wilberforce's Struggle

By Lean, Garth

Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

By Amanda Mitchison

The Diary of Anne Frank (Abridged for young readers) (Blackie Abridged Non Fiction)

By Frank, Anne, Pressler, Mirjam

People of Peace: Meet 40 amazing activists: 1 (40 Inspiring Icons)

By Mirza, Sandrine, Le Duo

Leadville

By Platt

102 Minutes

By Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, Dwyer, Jim, Flynn, Kevin

Etty: A Diary 1941-43

By Etty Hillesum

No Easy Walk to Freedom (Heinemann African Writers Series)

By Mandela, Nelson