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- 13 American women who changed the world
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 women artists you should know
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- 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 child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A crime in the family
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- 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 series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace and computer algorithms
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- 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 money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An unlikely ballerina
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Angela Merkel : Chancellor of Germany
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Autumn
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Between the world and me
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Belichick vs. the NFL : the case for the NFL's greatest coach
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black like me
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- 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
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy: : a raging spirit/
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- 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 vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Brilliant deduction : the story of real-life great detectives
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Champions of women's soccer
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charlie takes his shot : how Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- 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
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco and the little black dress
- 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
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Conversation piece
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- 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
- Crispus Attucks and African American Patriots of the American Revolution
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
- Cézanne : his life and works in 500 images : an illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his finest paintings
- Dadland
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous Jane
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- De Gaulle
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana, our mother. : her life and legacy
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolley Madison
- Dolores Huerta stands strong : the woman who demanded justice
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump : 45th US president
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Echo in Ramadi : the firsthand story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's deadliest city
- Edison
- Edith Wilson
- Edvard Munch : an inner life
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's greatest mistake : the life of a flawed genius
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony : a friendship that changed the world
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth Warren : the life, times, and rise of Warren, aka the Boss
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emmanuel Macron : President of France
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- 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
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- 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 a way home : Mildred and Richard Loving and the fight for marriage equality
- 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
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Five lives in music : women performers, composers, and impresarios from the baroque to the present
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- 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
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- 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
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Eastman
- George Ferris' grand idea : the Ferris wheel
- George Washington : the wonder of the age
- Gertrude B. Elion and pharmacology
- Ghetto Klown : a graphic novel
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Goddess of love incarnate : the life of stripteuse Lili St. Cyr
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- 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
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Goya : a portrait of the artist
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grandad Mandela
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- 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 epic adventure : 25 daring women who inspire a life less ordinary
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Himalaya bound : one family's quest to save their animals-- and an ancient way of life
- 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
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hitler : a biography
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- How Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- How I saved the world
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am not a label
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Impressionism : the movement that transformed Western art
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of a better world : a human rights odyssey
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Indestructible : One man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Indian sun : the life and music of Ravi Shankar
- Indra Nooyi : CEO of PepsiCo
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Intimate warfare : the true story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward boxing trilogy
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
- Jackie Robinson : an integrated life