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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "Blood and guts" : the true story of General George S. Patton, USA
- "Remember the ladies" : outstanding women of the American Revolution
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- 100 athletes who shaped sports history
- 100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia
- 100 most important women of the 20th century
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 13 American artists children should know
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 artists children should know
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women who changed history
- 14 cows for America
- 180° south. : conquerors of the useless
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 21, bringing down the house movie tie-in : the inside story of six M.I.T. students who took Vegas for millions
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 47 below.
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 6 below. : miracle on the mountain
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A Civil War drummer boy : the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
- A Devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other : the story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon
- A French affair
- A Giant win : inside the New York Giants' historic upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Kim Jong-il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A New England girlhood : outlined from memory
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Very Expensive Poison : The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
- A backward glance
- A bad woman feeling good : blues and the women who sing them
- A bag of marbles
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A braid of lives : Native American childhood
- A brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A cheetah named Angel
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent
- A covered wagon girl : the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- 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 dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- A devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A dutiful boy : a memoir of secrets, lies and family love
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A father's story
- A father-- a son : once upon a time in Hollywood
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance/
- A fine romance
- A fire in her bones : the story of Mary Lyon
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A fortunate life
- A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A ghost in the throat
- A gift for admiration : further memoirs
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Helen Keller
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A good country : my life in twelve towns and the ongoing battle for a white America
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- A handful of happiness : how a prickly creature softened a prickly heart
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hell of mercy : a meditation on depression and the dark night of the soul
- A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A hero for our time : an intimate story of the Kennedy years
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A historical guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A horn for Louis
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house unlocked
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A journey to Waco : autobiography of a Branch Davidian
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A letter from Paris : a true story of hidden art, lost romance, and family reclaimed
- A library for Juana : the world of Sor Juana Inés
- A life ascending.
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of Emily Bronthe
- A life of Jung
- A life of Picasso, v. 3: Triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A life of Picasso, vol. 1, 1881-1906
- A life of contrasts : the autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley. --
- A life well played : my stories
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A lion called Christian
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- 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 man without a country
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the civil rights revolution
- A memorial of the American patriots who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
- A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million fragile bones : a memoir
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's tale
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A noblewoman
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A passionate sisterhood : women of the Wordsworth circle
- A pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union : Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation
- A picture book of Abraham Lincoln
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of Anne Frank
- A picture book of Benjamin Franklin
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of Dwight David Eisenhower
- A picture book of Florence Nightingale
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Helen Keller
- A picture book of Jackie Robinson
- A picture book of John F. Kennedy
- A picture book of John Hancock
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Paul Revere
- A picture book of Robert E. Lee
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Sacagawea
- A picture book of Sam Houston
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A picture book of Thomas Alva Edison
- A picture book of Thomas Jefferson
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- A pioneer woman's memoir : based on the journal of Arabella Clemens Fulton
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called home : a memoir
- 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 portrait of Jesus
- A pound of paper : confessions of a book addict
- A private history of awe
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A question of choice
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A reason to believe : lessons from an improbable life
- A remarkable mother
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A rhino comes to America
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A riot of our own : night and day with the Clash : weird shit coming down--
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A rope and a prayer : [a kidnapping from two sides]
- A royal romance. : William & Kate : an unauthorized tribute
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A secret gift : [how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression]
- A secret gift : how an act of kindness revealed hidden lives of the Great Depression
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- A selection of papers : personal, political, and professional
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sense of where you are : a profile of Bill Bradley at Princeton
- A simple path
- A skating life
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A sporting chance : how Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann saved lives with sports
- A spotlight for Harry
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A step from death : a memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A stranger in her native land : Alice Fletcher and the American Indians
- A stranger in my own house : the story of W.E.B. Du Bois
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob.
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring
- A tarantula in my purse : and 172 other wild pets
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A three dog life
- A tiger's heart : the story of a modern Chinese woman
- A time to dance, no time to weep
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A troubled guest : life and death stories
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A twist of Lemmon : a tribute to my father
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very punchable face
- A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- A very young rider
- A view from abroad : the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
- A visible man : a memoir
- A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- A voice named Aretha
- A volcano beneath the snow : John Brown's war against slavery
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A way of living
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A wedding in Haiti : the story of a friendship
- A weekend with Renoir
- A whaling captain's daughter : the diary of Laura Jernegan, 1868-1871
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A wolf at the table : a memoir of my father
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- A world of her own : 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers
- A world of knowing : a story about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman
- A year in space ; : and, Beyond a year in space
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
- A year with the queen
- A young dancer's apprenticeship : on tour with the Moscow City Ballet
- A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy
- A-Rod : the many lives of Alex Rodriguez
- A. Lincoln : a biography
- A. Philip Randolph and the African American labor movement
- ABBA : the scrapbook
- ADHD & me : what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table
- Aaron Burr, vol. 1, Years from Princeton
- Aaron Burr, vol. 2, Conspiracy and years
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron Copland : the life and work of an uncommon man
- Aaron and Alexander : [the most famous duel in American history]
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln goes to Washington, 1837-1865
- Abe Lincoln remembers
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : First Lady and patriot
- Abigail Adams : [a life]
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- Abigail Adams, "Dear partner."
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham : the first historical biography
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a life, Vol. 1
- Abraham Lincoln : a life, Vol. 2
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accidental czar : the life and lies of Vladimir Putin
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Across a dark and wild sea
- Action Jackson
- Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adele : a celebration of an icon and her music
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler : dictator of Nazi Germany
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- Adventures in the air
- Afghan dreams : young voices of Afghanistan
- African American faces of the Civil War : an album
- African Americans who were first
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African-American poets
- After Weegee : essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers
- After a while you just get used to it : a tale of family clutter
- After long silence
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the war : the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped
- After the war was over
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Against the wind
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agatha Christie., Inside the mind of Agatha Christie & Agatha Christie's England
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- 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
- Agnes de Mille
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Akira to Zoltán : twenty-six men who changed the world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capp : a life to the contrary
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Shepard : higher and faster
- Alan Turing
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
- Albert Winslow Dodge : a man of many trees
- Aldous Huxley : a biography
- Aldous Huxley : brave new world
- Alex Haley
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Rodriguez
- Alexander Fleming
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell : an inventive life
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a life
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton, American
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander II : the last great tsar
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography