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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 Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- 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 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 fine romance : a memoir
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- 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 killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- 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 man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- 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 sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- 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 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
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Acceptance : a memoir
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Afropessimism
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie
- 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 most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All in : an autobiography
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- 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 young men
- All things bright and beautiful
- 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
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- 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 Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American caliph : the true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC
- 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 sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- 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
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Artists : their lives and works
- Astrid Lindgren
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- 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
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming C. S. Lewis : a biography of young Jack Lewis (1898-1918)
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Behind the scenes
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- 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
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between two kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- 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
- Biophilia, The diversity of life, Naturalist
- Birder on Berry Lane : three acres, twelve months, thousands of birds
- Black ballerinas : my journey to our legacy
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- 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
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Boundless
- 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 history : a White House memoir
- Breaking the ice : the true story of the first woman to play in the National Hockey League
- Breaking the mold : changing the face of climate science
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- 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 in the beloved community : the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Bugsy Siegel : the dark side of the American dream
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bush
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Captain Tom Moore
- Captain of her soul : the life of Marion Davies
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Catching the light
- Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
- Charles Darwin
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Children of the land
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Christopher Columbus and the Americas : separating fact from fiction
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cloaked in courage : uncovering Deborah Sampson, patriot soldier
- Coal miner's daughter
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name: Lise
- Code over country : the tragedy and corruption of Seal Team Six
- Cokie : a life well lived
- 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
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- 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
- 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
- Damn lucky
- 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 love of life : a singular case of biophilia
- Daughters of the flower fragrant garden : two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- David Bowie : a life
- Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice
- Did ye hear mammy died? : a memoir
- Dinner with the president : food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- 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
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disassembly required : a memoir of midlife resurrection
- Discovery of art, Maxfield Parrish
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Dorothy Height
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dwayne Johnson
- Edison
- Edison
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : her path to kindness
- 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 : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Emmy Noether : the most important mathematician you've never heard of
- 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 Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- 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
- 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 left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Fairest : a memoir
- 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
- Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
- Fearless heart : an illustrated biography of Surya Bonaly : the legacy of an Olympic figure skater
- Fearlessly different : an autistic actor's journey to Broadway's biggest stage
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fieldwork
- Fieldwork
- 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 Freedom : a cook's story remaking a life from scratch
- Finding me
- Finding me
- Finding my dance
- 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
- Fly Girl: : a memoir
- 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
- 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
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fox & I : an uncommon friendship
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Free : a child and a country at the end of history
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- French Like Moi : a Midwesterner in Paris
- Frida Kahlo
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From a small seed : the story of Eliza Hamilton
- From an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- From here to there : inventions that changed the way the world moves
- Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals
- Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals
- Funny, you don't look autistic : a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum
- Funny, you don't look autistic : a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Galileo : conqueror of the stars
- Game : an autobiography
- Game changers : Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Game, set, sisters! : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Garbo
- Gender queer : a memoir
- George Eastman
- George Lucas : a life
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Girlhood
- Gizmos, gadgets, and guitars : the story of Leo Fender
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good for a girl : a woman running in a man's world
- Good for a girl : a woman running in a man's world
- Good morning, destroyer of men's souls : a memoir of women, addiction, and love
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Grant
- Grant
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Growing pangs
- Growing up Biden : a memoir
- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty
- Guru Nanak : first of the Sikhs
- Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
- HRH : so many thoughts on royal style
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Happy at any cost : the revolutionary vision and fatal quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
- Harriet Tubman
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Helen Keller : una nueva visión
- Helltown : the untold story of a serial killer on Cape Cod
- Hemingway
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901 : the theatre of life
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry Kissinger and American power : a political biography
- Her name was Mary Katharine : the only woman whose name is on the Declaration of Independence
- Here's the deal : a memoir
- Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- 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
- History & heroes of New Hampshire aviation
- Hitler : downfall, 1939-1945
- Holding her own : the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes