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Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love

By Macy, Beth

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (Pelican S.)

By Carmichael, S., Hamilton, C.V.

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War 1941–1945

By Marks, Leo

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

By Mount, Ferdinand

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Moore, Wendy

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler

By Keeler, Christine

Stardom: Industry of Desire

By Gledhill, Christine

Once in a House on Fire

By Ashworth, Andrea, Andrea Ashworth

David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

By Hattersley, Roy

Anselm of Canterbury: A Monastic Scholar

By Benedicta, Sister

Anselm of Canterbury: A Monastic Scholar

By Benedicta, Sister

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Todd, Professor Selina

Introduction to Documentary

By Nichols, Bill

The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy

By Laye, Camara, Jones, Ernest, Kirkup, James

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West

By Bhutto, Benazir

Anna's Book

By Fynn

Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Women In History)

By Herrin, Judith

The Bookseller of Kabul

By Seierstad, Asne

Tuscan Heritage

By Jebb, Marjorie

The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

By Husain, Ed

Princess: True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

By Sasson, Jean, Jean P. Sasson

The Two Popes: Official Tie-in to Major New Film Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins

By McCarten, Anthony

More Than Just a Coincidence (My Story)

By Julie Wassmer

Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon's Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind

By Abdallah Daar

Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love

By Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin

Metrostop Paris

By Dallas, Gregor

Her Ladyship's Girl: A Maid's Life in London

By Anwyn Moyle

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

To the Edge of the Sea: Schooldays of a Crofter's Child

By Hall, Christina

A Hundred Years in the Highlands

By Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie