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Self-Made Hero

Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years

by Dickson J. Preston

The Mind of Frederick Douglass

by Waldo E. Martin Jr.


Saigon Mon Amour

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray


The Progress of Klaus Barbie

The Nazi Legacy: Klaus Barbie and the International Fascist Connection

by Magnus Linklater and Isabel Hilton and Neal Ascherson

Klaus Barbie

by Ladislas de Hoyos, translated by Nicholas Courtin

The Children of Izieu

edited by Serge Klarsfeld


Big Little Books

Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature

by Humphrey Carpenter


The Passions of Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society

edited by Roger Boesche, translated by James Toupin and Roger Boesche


A Not-So-Simple Heart

A Servant's Tale

by Paula Fox


From Killer to Thinker

Greek Religion

by Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan


Southern Discomfort

Captain Maximus

by Barry Hannah

Lives of the Saints

by Nancy Lemann


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