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Born Lippy: How to Do Female

By Brand, Jo

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

Out of the Woods

By Turner, Luke

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

By Brown, Tina

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

By Brown, Tina

Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World

By Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

By Rubik, Erno

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

By Rocca, Mo

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

By Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and a Lecturer at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Chelsea Clinton

The Village in Revolt: The Story of the Longest Strike in History

By Jeffery, Shaun

The Murders at White House Farm: Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation.

By Lee, Carol Ann

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Long Life, Honey in the Heart: A Story of Initiation and Eloquence from the Shores of a Mayan Lake

By Prechtel, Martin

The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

By Prechtel, Martin

Polar Explorers for Kids: Historic Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 Activities

By Snowden, Maxine

Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails

By O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer

HUSBAND OF A FANATIC : A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

By Amitava Kumar

The Life, Times, And Treacherous Death Of Jesse James

By Frank Triplett

Amelia: A Life of the Aviation Legend

By Goldstein, Donald M., Dillon, Katherine V.

Cesar Chavez (On My Own Biographies (Hardcover))

By Wadsworth, Ginger

Building Them Up, Tearing Them Down: Tales of Modern Architecture: Reflections on the Age of Architecture

By Paul Goldberger

Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

By Ayers, Bill, Dohrn, Bernardine, Jones, Jeff

Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie (1967-1978) (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

By Baudrillard, Jean, Lotringer, Sylvère

Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

By Eribon, Didier, Chauncey, George, Lucey, Michael, Lotringer, Sylvère

Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles

By Lahr, John

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate

By Williams, Marjorie

The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims

By Spencer, Robert