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- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A ghost in the throat
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of George Washington
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place of exodus : home, memory, and Texas
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All creatures great and small
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An American princess. : the many lives of Allene Tew/
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Arctic solitaire : a boat, a bay, and the quest for the perfect bear
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barkley : a biography
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Because Claudette
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Bet on Black : the good news about being Black in America today
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billy Graham : the man I knew
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black like me
- Black women will save the world : an anthem
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood, fire & gold : the story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Boardwalk babies
- Bob Dylan
- Bob and Ray, keener than most persons : the backstage story of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boca Juniors
- Bold & brave : ten heroes who won women the right to vote
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Boswell's enlightenment
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bruno Sammartino.
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By the grace of the game : the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and an unprecedented American dream
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cassius X : the transformation of Muhammad Ali
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Champions of women's soccer
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choices : to the Hills and back again
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Chunky goes to camp
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clara Lemlich
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Close up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code gray : death, life, and uncertainty in the ER
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Control freak : my epic adventures making video games
- Coretta Scott King
- Count the wings : the life and art of Charley Harper
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Curve & flow : the elegant vision of L.A. architect Paul R. Williams
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark hearts : the world's most famous horror writers
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Attenborough
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Drinking games : a memoir
- Dry run: : a memoir/
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Einstein : his space and times
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most Infamous drug lord
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Electable : why America hasn't put a woman in the White House... yet
- Eliot after The waste land
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair : inside the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the ghost children of his revenge
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything I never dreamed
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight : Patsy Takemoto Mink and the fight for Title IX
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Fare thee well : the final chapter of the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Film makers : 15 groundbreaking women directors
- Finale : late interviews with Stephen Sondheim
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Roger : an improbably theatrical love story
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Five floors up : the heroic family story of four generations in the FDNY
- Flamengo
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- Football superstar Tom Brady
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Fostered : a memoir : one woman's powerful story of finding faith and family through foster care
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francesco Tirelli's ice cream shop
- Francis I : the maker of modern France
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Garbo
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- George V : never a dull moment
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Grace Hopper : computer scientist
- Grant
- Grant
- Greta Thunberg
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Hanged! : Mary Surratt & the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
- Hannibal : Rome's greatest enemy
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Hard to handle : the life and death of the Black Crowes : a memoir
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Helen Oxenbury : a life in illustration
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Heroic women of the art world : risking it all for art
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- His masterly pen : a biography of Jefferson the writer
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hitler and Stalin : the tyrants and the Second World War
- Hokusaí : he saw the world in a wave
- Holding the line : inside the nation's preeminent US Attorney's Office and its battle with the Trump Justice Department
- Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence / Ken Auletta
- Hometown victory : a coach's story of football, fate, and coming home
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hope is an arrow : the story of Lebanese American poet Kahlil Gibran
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How Dante can save your life : the life-changing wisdom of history's greatest poem
- How Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- How I saved the world
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Debra Lee : a memoir
- I am Frida Kahlo
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Muhammad Ali
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Oprah Winfrey
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am Sacagawea
- I am Walt Disney
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
- I could not do otherwise : the remarkable life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
- I exaggerate : my brushes with fame : portraits & stories
- I marched with Patton : a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest general
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I was Hitler's baker
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House