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The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement

By Jeri Laber

Final Days

By Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Alice Walker

Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity

By Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic

Simone De Beauvoir

By D Bair

Galina: a Russian Story

By Galina Vishnevskaya

Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family

By Jacques Peretti

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

By Cato Pedder

Emily Bronte

By Lyn Pykett

Maya Angelou

By Prof. Harold Bloom

Conversations with Maya Angelou

By Jeffrey M. Elliot

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

By John Mullan

TO END ALL WARS: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

By GORDON ERNEST

Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

By Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott

Civil Rights Stories: Women's Rights and Suffrage

By Kay Barnham, Toby Newsome

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

By Bill Clinton

Queen Victoria: A Woman on the Throne

By Dorothy Thompson

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

By Coyne S Sanders, Tom Gilbert

The Invisible Woman

By Claire Tomalin

Recipe for Life: The Autobiography

By Mary Berry

Matron at Last

By Evelyn Prentis

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan

The Heat of the Moment: A Firefighter's Stories of Life and Death Decisions

By Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha

By Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

Sabina Spielrein:: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, Revised Edition

By Coline Covington (is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University; and Faculty, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.), Barbara Wharton

Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin

By Edna Healey

Bolshevik Women

By Barbara Evans Clements (University of Akron, Ohio)

Diana Cooper: The Biography of Lady Diana Cooper

By Philip Ziegler

A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to her Son

By Homeira Qaderi