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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama

By Swarns, Rachel L

Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women

By Gross, Michael

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

By Johnson, MARILYN

Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

By Edwards, Gavin

Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Shetterly, Margot Lee

Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Nonfiction)

By William Anderson

On Women Turning Fifty: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries

By Rountree, Cathleen

Kilvert's diary, 1870-1879: An illustrated selection

By Kilvert, Francis; Plomer, William (editor)

Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

By Drakulic, Slavenka

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy by Flora Thompson

By Flora Thompson, Julian Shuckburgh

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (Forgotten Voices/the Great War)

By Arthur, Max

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now: My Difficult Student 80s

By Collins, Andrew

That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world

By Collins, Andrew

British as a Second Language

By Bennun, David

The Light In The Window

By Goulding, June, June Goulding

Punk Rock: An Oral History

By Robb, John

Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The inside story of football's golden era

By George Best

Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

By Arthur, Max

Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.

By Thomas, Mark

To Save a People

By Kershaw, Alex

The Lady's Maid: My Life in Service

By Harrison, Rosina

One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir

By Dickens, Monica

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Bobby Teale

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Teale, Bobby

The Book of Christmas: Everything We Once Knew and Loved about Christmastime

By Struthers, Jane

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Vintage classics)

By Wright, Richard