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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By Wes Moore

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

Searching for Hassan: Journey to the Heavy

By Terence Ward

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom

By Yen Mah, Adeline

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion: 10

By Pepys, Samuel

Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

By Oliver Soden

Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business

By Eric Vuillard, Ann Jefferson

Uproot

By Jace Clayton

Lost For Words

By Deric Longden

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

By Zhisui Li

The Life Of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Everyman Classic Library)

By Boswell, James

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

By Bonnie Angelo

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

By Masha Gessen

Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

By Sarah Gibson

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

By Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

Black Elk Speaks

By John G. Neihardt

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Gervelie's Journey

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young, June Allan

Greed, Seeds and Slavery

By Ross, Stewart, Roberts, David

Life After You

By Lucie Brownlee

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

By Simon Garfield

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

DK Life Stories Helen Keller

By Libby Romero, Charlotte Ager

Rosa Parks

By Rob Shone, Nick Spender

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence