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A Good-looking Corpse: The World of Drum - Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa

By Nicol, Mike

Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief

By Thom, James Alexander, Dark Rain

Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture: No. 6 (Critical Conditions)

By Eagleton, Terry

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

Can Any Mother Help Me?

By Jenna Bailey, Bailey, Jenna

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Hirsch, Jerrold

Ubuntu: My Life in Other People

By Hazel Carey

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Meades, Jonathan

Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century

By Anderson, Linda

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

By Thimmesh, Catherine, Sweet, Melissa

Winston Churchill (British History Makers)

By Ashworth, Leon

Australian Sociology: Fragility, Survival, Rivalry (Sociology Transformed)

By Harley, K., Wickham, G.

Cleopatra's Palace

By Foreman, Laura

Great Movie Lines: They're Everybody's Favorite Film Quotes. How Many Can You Identify?

By Thomajan, Dale

Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Rius

The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson

By Pasternak, Anna

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Hyde, Maggie, McGuinness, Michael, Pugh, Oliver

Leaders Of World War I (The World Wars)

By Ross, Stewart

Give the Anarchist a Cigarette

By Farren, Mick

Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

By Mount, Ferdinand

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

By Skinner, Dennis, Maguire, Kevin

Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

By Chandler, David P

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By Ebert, Lily, Forman, Dov

Roald Dahl and His Chocolate Factory (Horribly Famous)

By Donkin, Andrew, Goddard, Clive

Pack (Stage E) (Discovery World S.)

An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria's Favourite

By Dean Myers, Walter

How To Be a Woman

By Moran, Caitlin