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Ingenious Women

By Jaffe, Deborah

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender

By Krieger, Nick

Life on the Mississippi (Penguin Classics)

By Twain, Mark, Cox, James

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

By Rubin, Gretchen

On Hitler's Mountain

By Hunt

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History

By Pankhurst, Kate

The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

By Peter Hook

King Of The Gypsies

By Bartey Gorman, Peter Walsh

Disraeli: A Brief Life

By Paul Smith

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter,Joey & the last great showbix party: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party

By Levy, Shawn, Shawn Levy

The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

By Cherry Lewis

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By Ken Emerson

If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics)

By Levi, Primo

My Kenya Days

By Thesiger, Wilfred

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

Tea, Love and War: Searching for English roots in Assam

By David Mitchell

From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man’s Middle Eastern Odyssey

By Friedman, Thomas

Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

By Linda Tucker, Andrew Harvey

A Picture Book of Helen Keller

By David A. Adler, John Wallner, Alexandra Wallner

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

By David Gergen

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation

By Tom Brokaw

Good Times, Bad Times

By Harold Evans

An Unlikely Hero: Vere Rothermere and How the "Daily Mail" Was Saved

By S.J. Taylor

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

By Jonathan Bate

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Natalie Livingstone

David Lloyd George and the British Labour Movement: Peace and War

By Professor Chris Wrigley (Nottingham University UK)

The Bolivian Diary: The Authorised Edition

By Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates