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- Sabet, Mahvash

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- Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir
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- Bonhomme, Edna

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- The Courage to Welcome: Between principles and pragmatism in international affairs
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- Grandi, Filippo

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- Hungry Eyes: A Memoir of Appetite, Ambition and the Odd Bag of Wotsits for Dinner
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- O'Porter, Dawn

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- Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
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- Lebold, Christophe

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- Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef
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- Cheff, Slutty

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- Rope
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- Riordan, Maurice

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- These Wild English: A family, a class, a country on fire
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- Wilding, Nicola

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- Qtopia: A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation
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- Bennett, Juda

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- The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp: How to Survive a Fire and A Chaotic Upbringing (Without Losing Your Sense of Humour)
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- Evans, Krystal

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- Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza
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- Kanafani, Hassan

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- Mothertongue
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- Morgan, Alex

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- On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival
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- Walker, Charlie

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- Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
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- Cassidy, John

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- Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose
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- Sharman, Zena

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- Far Above the World: the Time and Space of David Bowie
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