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Jackie Robinson: Ballentine Books Edition: A Biography

By Rampersad, Arnold

Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin

By Sweetingham, Lisa

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Dean, Michelle

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story

By Cowan, Justine

Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

By Charles Allen, Charles Allen, Allen, Charles

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

By Hattersley, Roy

This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood

By Kang, Hyok

The Ongoing Moment

By Dyer, Geoff

Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham

By Mary S. Lovell

Touch The Earth: A Self- Portrait of Indian Existence

By McLuhan, T.C., McLuhan, T C, McLuhan, T.C.

Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two

By Smith-Bendell, Maggie

When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone

By Gould, Philip

The Riviera Set

By Mary S. Lovell

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By Beah, Ishmal

Locked in the Cabinet

By Reich, Robert B.

Personal History: Katharine Graham

By Graham, Katharine

French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew (Vintage Departures)

By Mayle, Peter

The Greatest Generation (Random House Large Print)

By Brokaw, Tom

The Last Place on Earth (Exploration): Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated

By Huntford, Roland

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

By Soyinka, Wole

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

By Paterniti, Michael

Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

By Foster, Patricia

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

By Brooks, Geraldine

Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now

By Wong, Jan

London: The Biography

By Ackroyd, Peter

Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life

By Henri J M Nouwen

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By Grann, David

Teen Angst? Naaah . . .: A Quasi-Autobiography

By Vizzini, Ned

Harvey Wang's New York

By Wang, Harvey, Hamill, Pete