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In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

By Susan Orlean

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

Persepolis

By Satrapi, Marjane

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Maddox, Brenda

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

Summer: Vintage Minis

By Laurie Lee

The Elizabethans

By A.N. Wilson

Hoolifan: 30 Years of Hurt

By Martin Knight, Martin King (Author)

London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Chinese Cinderella (Puffin Modern Classics)

By Yen Mah, Adeline, Jones, Matt

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green

The Undercover Mathematician: Band 11+/Lime Plus (Collins Big Cat)

By Rachael Davis, Alice Negri, Collins Big Cat

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

By Mark Driscoll

Helen Keller

By Harriet Castor, Nick Ward, Fam people

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

By Catherine Hewitt

For Queen and Country

By Nigel Ely

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

By Lizzie Johnson

The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State

By Samer

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By Jason De Leon