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The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

Native nostalgia

By Jacob Dlamini

The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

By Suzy Hansen

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Patricia Bell-Scott

Love's Work

By Rose, Gillian

Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea

By David Hart-Dyke

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By Jon Meacham

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

By Daniel James Brown

St.Rose of Lima: Patroness of the Americas

By Mary Alphonsus

Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention

By Ben Wilson

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By Daniel J. Boorstin

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

Trampled Wife: The Scandalous Life of Mary Eleanor Bowes

By Derek Parker

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

By Gillian Lynne

Look Alive Out There: Essays

By Sloane Crosley

The Optician of Lampedusa

By Emma Jane Kirby

Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters

By Elie Wiesel

In Tasmania

By Nicholas Shakespeare

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By Elliot Ackerman

Descartes In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Wittgenstein In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Aristotle In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Nietzsche In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Hume In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Plato In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Locke In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

By Azar Nafisi