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Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses

By Moore, Lucy

In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery

By Peck, M. Scott

Harriet Tubman and Black History Month (Let's Celebrate Series)

By Carter, Polly

The House of Morgan

By Chernow, Ron, Ron Chernow

After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: 5 (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

By Geertz, Clifford

Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky

By Safran, Gabriella

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives

By Davis, Natalie Zemon

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil : A Savannah Story

By Berendt, John

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By Williams, Terry Tempest

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Vintage International)

By Capote, Truman

Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate

By Man Walking, Dead, Prejean Csj, Sister Helen, Sarandon, Susan, Robbins, Tim, Tutu, Desmond

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, J., Ms Janet

My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

By Verghese, A., Abraham

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

By Ehrlich, Gretel

On Looking into the Abyss: Ultimately Thoughts on Culture and Society: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

By Himmelfarb, Gertrude

The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China

By Carr, Caleb

Letters from London (Vintage International)

By Barnes, Julian

Mixed European Dumpbin/Shrinkwrap Only

By John Berendt

On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)

By Simeti, Mary Taylor, Desser, Robin

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home

By White, Bailey

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

By Bumiller, Elisabeth

In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery

By Peck, M. Scott

Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Inside Story of the Man Who Made Modern China

By Li, Zhisui

Venice: Pure City

By Ackroyd, Peter

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea

By Thomas Wright

The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts

By de Waal, Edmund

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Tindall, Gillian

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives

By Knight, Lynn