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

By Edwards, Helen, Smith, Jenny Lee

Commandant Of Auschwitz (Age of Dictators 1920-1945)

By Rudolf Hoess

12 Years a Slave: A Memoir Of Kidnap, Slavery And Liberation (Hesperus Classics): A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Northup, Solomon

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848

By Ferguson, Niall

I Dreamed of Africa

By Gallmann, Kuki

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

By Michael Lewis

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir (W&N Essentials)

By Mitford, Jessica

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

By Don Brown

Who Was Rosa Parks?

By McDonough, Zeldis, Yona

Ethics (Penguin Classics)

By Spinoza, Benedict, Hampshire, Stuart, Curley, Edwin

The 48 Laws of Power

By Elffers, Joost, Greene, Robert

The Psychology Book

By Nigel Benson, Catherine Collin, Joannah Ginsburg, Voula Grand, Merrin Lazyan, Marcus Weeks, Sarah Tomley

Cider With Rosie

By Laurie Lee, Lee, Laurie

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

By Müller, Filip

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2 (Princess Series)

By Sasson, Jean

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By Anna Funder

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Last, Nella, Broad, Richard, Fleming, Suzie

A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania

By Paul Feeney

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba

Rosa Parks: My Story

By Haskins, Jim, Parks, Rosa

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Sid Lowe

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By Fran Lebowitz

Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki)

By Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

The Dark Side of Camelot

By Hersh, Seymour

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Classics)

By Perec, Georges

Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

By Myerson, Julie

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

By Neil Postman

Love is Blue: A Wartime Diary (Flamingo S.)

By Wyndham, Joan