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Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

By Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

George Lucas: A Biography

By John Baxter

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Literature on Hadith in European Languages: A Bibliography

By Ahmad Von Denffer

Boudicca And The Ancient Britons

By Watson, Lucilla

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

By P. J. O'Rourke

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

By Junger, Sebastian

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

By E.M. Standing, Standing, E. M.

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

By Mark Lilla, Ronald William Dworkin, MD, Robert Silvers

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

By John Mitchell

Jerilderie Letter

By The Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Strong Female Character

By Hanna Flint

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography

By Ellen Gibson Wilson

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

I'll Be There For You: The ultimate book for Friends fans everywhere

By Kelsey Miller

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

By Griffiths, Jay