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The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging

By Maas, Sharon

Women, Art & Society 3rd Ed. Woa (World of Art)

By Chadwick

The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)

By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Stephen Alcorn

Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth

By Parks, Rosa

Nelson Mandela (Pull Ahead Biographies S.): A Life of Persistence Pull-Ahead Biographies (Pull Ahead Books -- Biographies)

By Boothroyd, Jennifer

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill

By Djerassi, Carl

Freud: A Life for Our Time

By Gay, Peter

Lionheart Gal: Lives of Women in Jamaica

By Sistren Theatre Collective, Sistren, Smith, Honor Ford

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Skloot, Rebecca

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 (Little House Nonfiction)

By Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life of Determination Pull Ahead Biographies (Pull Ahead Books Biographies)

By Darby, Jean

The Industrial Revolution

By Hepplewhite, Peter

The View from the Corner Shop: Diary of a Wartime Shop Assistant: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

By Kathleen Hey, Robert Malcomson, Patricia Malcolmson

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Livingstone, Natalie

Memories of a Gamekeeper's Son

By Turner, Edward

Scientists (Women in Profile)

By Hacker, Carlotta

Maidens' Trip (Working Waterways)

By Smith, Emma

On Brick Lane

By Lichtenstein, Rachel

Tell It to the World: An Indigenous Memoir

By Grant, Stan

Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir

By West, Professor Cornel

Behind The Beautiful Forevers - Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity

Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo

By Lisa J Shannon

God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi

By Safran, John

House at Sugar Beach, the

By Coper, Helene

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

By Everett, Daniel L

Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

By Zaretsky, Robert

Phoenix: Policing the Shadows

By Holland, Jack, Phoenix, Susan

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Ung, Loung