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- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 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 Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A bridge in Babylon : stories of a military chaplain in Iraq
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A history of me
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A rumor of war
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A sporting chance : how Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann saved lives with sports
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A train near Magdeburg : a teacher's journey into the Holocaust
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very punchable face
- A voice named Aretha
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Afropessimism
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime 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
- Alan Turing
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the young men
- All things bright and beautiful
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- 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 remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Amanda Gorman : inspiring hope with poetry
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American daughter : a memoir
- American daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American immigration : our history, our stories
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Arlington National Cemetery : trace the path of America's heritage
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Artists : their lives and works
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- Banksy : graffitied walls and wasn't sorry
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Basquiat : rage to riches
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Becoming
- Becoming C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the scenes
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being a ballerina : the power and perfection of a dancing life
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
- Billie
- Billie Jean King
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Biophilia, The diversity of life, Naturalist
- Birder on Berry Lane : three acres, twelve months, thousands of birds
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- Blips on a screen : how Ralph Baer invented TV video gaming and launched a worldwide obsession
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bonnie and Clyde : notorious outlaws of the Great Depression
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to run
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking the ice : the true story of the first woman to play in the National Hockey League
- Breaking the surface
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers in the beloved community : the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Bush
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid : notorious outlaws of the West
- Buzz Aldrin
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Cancer vixen : a true story
- Captain Tom Moore
- Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Celia planted a garden : the story of Celia Thaxter and her island garden
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Charles Darwin
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing ghosts : a memoir of a father, gone to war
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Children of the land
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Christopher Columbus and the Americas : separating fact from fiction
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coal miner's daughter
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name: Lise
- Code over country : the tragedy and corruption of Seal Team Six
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comics confidential : thirteen graphic novelists talk story, craft, and life outside the box
- Competing with idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait
- Confident women
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Conquering the Pacific : an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and the law
- Corazon Aquino
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- D-Day and beyond : the things our fathers saw : the untold stories of the World War II generation, volume V
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dancing through fields of color : the story of Helen Frankenthaler
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir
- Dark was the night
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- Deaf utopia : a memoir--and a love letter to a way of life
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Did ye hear mammy died? : a memoir
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Disassembly required : a memoir of midlife resurrection
- Discovery of art, Maxfield Parrish
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Edison
- Edison
- Eleanor
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- Eleanor in the Village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village
- 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 Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elvis is King!
- Emmy Noether : the most important mathematician you've never heard of
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empires of the sky : zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Empty : a memoir
- Empty : a memoir
- Epic solitude : a story of survival and a quest for meaning in the far north
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Shackleton
- Essentially Charli : the ultimate guide to keeping it real
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Evelyn the adventurous entomologist : the true story of a world-traveling bug hunter
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every good boy does fine : a love story, in music lessons
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
- Evonne Goolagong
- Explorers
- Exploring polar frontiers : a historical encyclopedia
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Fairest : a memoir
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Famous lawmen
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fat girls in black bodies : creating communities of our own
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fighting to survive World War II : terrifying true stories
- Filled with fire and light : portraits and legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic world
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- 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 freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding me
- Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw and my quest to follow
- Finding the Mother Tree
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- Finish strong : a father's code and a son's path
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship
- 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
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Forest fighter : the story of Chico Mendes
- Forever young : a memoir
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Fox & I : an uncommon friendship