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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Translated and edited by Douglas Scott Brookes
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For Glory and Bolívar
By Pamela S. Murray
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Harry Huntt Ransom
By Alan Gribben
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A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941-1945
Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Kimberly Katz
The Empress Theodora
By James Allen Evans
The Gordon File
By Bernard Gordon
Various Positions
By Ira B. Nadel
Woman with a Movie Camera
By Marina Goldovskaya
Amigas
By Marjorie Agosín and Emma Sepúlveda
Conversations with Isabel Allende, Revised Edition
Edited by John Rodden
Jarano
By Ramón Beteta
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Horton Foote
By Charles S. Watson
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
By Shari Benstock
Myself and Strangers
By John Graves
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
Daughter of Damascus
By Siham Tergeman
Doctor Mary in Arabia
By Mary Bruins Allison
The Last Jews in Baghdad
By Nissim Rejwan
Outsider in the Promised Land
By Nissim Rejwan
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Collected and edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Return to Childhood
By Leila Abouzeid
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
By Bobby Bridger
Warm Springs Millennium
By Michael Baughman and Charlotte Hadella
The Master Showmen of King Ranch
By Betty Bailey Colley and Jane Clements Monday, with Beto Maldonado
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On
By Jeannie Cheatham
Restavec
An Autobiography by Jean-Robert Cadet
Sugar's Life in the Hood
By Sugar Turner and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
By Ernie López and Rafael Pérez-Torres
Las Tejanas
By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
Texas Cemeteries
By Bill Harvey
Women of the Left Bank
By Shari Benstock
Alexander Watkins Terrell
By Lewis L. Gould
Dolph Briscoe
By Dolph Briscoe, with Don Carleton
Duchess of Palms
By Nadine Eckhardt
Kindler of Souls
By Rabbi Henry Cohen II
Las Tejanas
By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
Mavericks
By Gene Fowler
One Ranger
By H. Joaquin Jackson with David Marion Wilkinson
Ralph Yarborough, The People's Senator
By Patrick Cox
The Raven
By Marquis James
Ross Sterling, Texan
By Ross S. Sterling and Ed Kilman
A White House Diary
By Lady Bird Johnson
William Wayne Justice
By Frank Kemerer
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
Boxing Shadows
By W. K. Stratton, with Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron
The Bullet Meant for Me
By Jan Reid
Conversations with Isabel Allende, Revised Edition
Edited by John Rodden
Duchess of Palms
By Nadine Eckhardt
The Empress Theodora
By James Allan Evans
Las Tejanas
By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On
By Jeannie Cheatham
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
By Shari Benstock
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Sugar's Life in the Hood
By Sugar Turner and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Together, Alone
By Susan Wittig Albert
Walking Nature Home
By Susan J. Tweit
A White House Diary
By Lady Bird Johnson
Women of the Left Bank
By Shari Benstock
Woman with a Movie Camera
By Marina Goldovskaya