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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

By Christopher Harding

Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

Until Tuesday

By Luis Carlos Montalvan, Bret Witter

Lifting the Latch

By Sheila Stewart

The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

By Corey Mead

The Co-Op's Got Bananas

By Hunter Davies

A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: Why (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong

By Jay Rayner

At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

By Maria Hubert

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate

These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales

By B. L. Coombes, Bill Jones, Chris Williams

God's People in God's Land

By Christopher J. H. Wright

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

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

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

By Elizabeth Blackwell, Amy Sue Bix

The Eyes Have it: A Personal View

By Christopher Liu

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The Search for Cleopatra

By Michael Foss

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Thirty Years in a Turtleneck Sweater

Max Weber

By Frank Parkin

Black Scientists & Inventors: Bk. 1

By Ava Henry, Michael Williams, Jeorge Asare-Djan, Carol Cumberbatch, Zikomo Wamakuta

Men of War: The Changing Face of Heroism in the 19th Century Navy

By David Crane

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Sailor in the Wardrobe

By Hugo Hamilton

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

By Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp