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Famine Diary: Journey to a New World

By Gerald Keegan, James J. Mangan

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes

By Barbara Bode

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller

By Moran, Caitlin

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Angela's Ashes

By frank McCourt

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Mao Zedong

By Anne Faulkner

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

The History Of: African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

By Adi, Hakim

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

By Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

The Poet at the Piano: Portraits of Writers, Filmmakers and Performers at Work

By Michiko Kakutani

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

By Don Brown

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

History Makers: Asian People Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments

By Bérubé, M., Ruth, J.

Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth

By A. Hunt, A. Whitelock

Feminist Futures?: Theatre, Performance, Theory

By G. Harris, E. Aston

The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

By Bolkovac, Kathryn

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

By Jonathan M. Katz

Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

By Cornell George Hopley Woolrich, Mark T. Bassett