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- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 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 book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- 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 dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A fine romance : a memoir
- 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 is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A mind like mine : 21 famous people and their mental health
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- 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 place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day
- 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 song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- 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 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
- Abraham
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- 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
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- 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
- 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
- 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 in : an autobiography
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All rise : the story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
- 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-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
- 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 philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- 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
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- 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
- 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
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different
- Arlington National Cemetery : trace the path of America's heritage
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Artists : their lives and works
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- 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
- Bad vibes only : (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- 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
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bibi : my story
- Billie Jean King
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Blast off! : how Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space
- 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
- 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
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- 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 hearted : the women of the American West 1836-1880
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breaking the surface
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- 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 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
- 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
- Captain Tom Moore
- Captain of her soul : the life of Marion Davies
- 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
- 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 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
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claude Monet : he saw the world in a brilliant light
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra tells all!
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- 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 : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Code name: Lise
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Courage in her cleats : the story of soccer star Abby Wambach
- Courage like Kate : the true story of a girl lighthouse keeper
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Darwin's love of life : a singular case of biophilia
- 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
- 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
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice
- Diana Taurasi
- 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
- 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
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Height
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dragon hoops
- Dream big, little one
- Dressing up the stars : the story of movie costume designer Edith Head
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dwayne Johnson
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Edison
- Edison
- Eleanor
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : her path to kindness
- 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
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- 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
- 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
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Shackleton
- 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
- 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
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- 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
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless heart : an illustrated biography of Surya Bonaly : the legacy of an Olympic figure skater
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Fighting for yes!: : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- 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 : a Memoir
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Forgotten founders : Black patriots, women soldiers, and other thinkers and heroes who shaped early America
- 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
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- Frida Kahlo
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- 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
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Galileo : conqueror of the stars
- Game : an autobiography
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Game, set, sisters! : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Garbo
- Gender queer : a memoir
- George Lucas : a life
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- George Sand
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Geronimo
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Girls solve everything : stories of women entrepreneurs building a better world
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gizmos, gadgets, and guitars : the story of Leo Fender
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Going there
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good grief : on loving pets, here and hereafter