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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

Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

Whisperings in the Blood

By Davidow, Shelley

Women

By Attallah, Naim

Generations of Memories: Voices of Jewish Women

By Jewish Women in London Group