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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

Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business

By Eric Vuillard, Ann Jefferson

Uproot

By Jace Clayton

Lost For Words

By Deric Longden

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

By Zhisui Li

The Life Of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Everyman Classic Library)

By Boswell, James

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

By Bonnie Angelo

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

By Masha Gessen

Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

By Sarah Gibson

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

By Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

Black Elk Speaks

By John G. Neihardt

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Gervelie's Journey

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young, June Allan