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Grace Darling: Band 07 Turquoise/Band 17 Diamond (Collins Big Cat Progress)

By Anita Ganeri, Bob Moulder

Living Out Loud

By Anna Quindlen

Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London

By Suggs

Little Gloria - Happy at Last: Biography of Gloria Vanderbilt

By Barbara Goldsmith

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

The Memoirs of Madame Roland: Witness to the French Revolution

By Marie-Jeanne Roland De La Platiere, Evelyn Shuckburgh

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By Patrick Coffey (Visiting Scholar, Office for the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley)

Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings

By Rosa Luxemburg, Helen C. Scott, Paul Le Blanc incorrect

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

By Heilbroner, Robert L.

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile

By Eugene Sheppard

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

John Lennon: The Life

By Norman, Philip

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy

By Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael P. Zuckert

The Legacy of Leo Strauss

By Tony Burns, James Connelly

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

The Medical Science of House, M.D.: The Facts Behind the Addictive Medical Drama

By Andrew Holtz

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By Macey, David

Women of the French Revolution

By Kelly, Linda