BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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- The great debate, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left, Yuval Levin
- Blood aces, the wild ride of Benny Binion, the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker, Doug J. Swanson
- Searching for Stonewall Jackson, a quest for legacy in a divided America, Ben Cleary
- The World Remade, America in World War I, G.J. Meyer
- The lost Gutenberg, the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books, Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library, Edward Wilson-Lee
- Sting-ray afternoons, a memoir, Steve Rushin
- Our man in Charleston, Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South, Christopher Dickey
- The Queen, her life, Andrew Morton
- The Jew who defeated Hitler, Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and how we won the war, Peter Moreira
- Reagan, the life, H.W. Brands
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Big bosses, a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America, Althea McDowell Altemus ; edited and annotated by Robin F. Bachin
- I invented the modern age, the rise of Henry Ford, Richard Snow
- Mengele, unmasking the "Angel of Death", David G. Marwell
- The written world, the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization, Martin Puchner
- Kennedy and King, the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, Steven Levingston
- Forty autumns, a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall, Nina Willner
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter, a biography of Princess Louise, Lucinda Hawksley
- The captain and "the cannibal", an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage, James Fairhead
- Soundings, the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor, Hali Felt
- Frederick Douglass, prophet of freedom, David W. Blight
- Queens of the crusades, 1154-1291, Alison Weir
- My battle against Hitler, faith, truth, and defiance in the shadow of the Third Reich, Dietrich von Hildebrand ; translated and edited by John Henry Crosby with John F. Crosby
- Be free or die, the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero, Cate Lineberry
- No surrender, a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today, Chris Edmonds and Douglas Century
- Alexander the Great, his life and his mysterious death, Anthony Everitt
- Alexander Hamilton, the graphic history of an American founding father, Jonathan Hennessey; Art by Justin Greenwood; Colors by Brad Simpson; Inking/Background Assists by Matt Harding; Lettering by Patrick Brosseau
- Their promised land, my grandparents in love and war, Ian Buruma
- Leaders, myth and reality, Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone
- The wars of the Roosevelts, the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family, William J. Mann
- The ghosts of Eden Park, the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz- age America, Karen Abbott
- The mirage factory, illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles, Gary Krist
- Villains, scoundrels, and rogues, incredible true tales of mischief and mayhem, Paul Martin
- Richard III, England's most controversial king, by Chris Skidmore
- The song and the silence, a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright, Yvette Johnson
- The goddess pose, the audacious life of Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West, Michelle Goldberg
- A crime in the family, Sacha Batthyány ; translated by Anthea Bell
- Jane and Dorothy, a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth, Marian Veevers
- GI brides, the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love, Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
- A bookshop in Berlin, the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis, Françoise Frenkel ; with a preface by Patrick Modiano ; [translation by Stephanie Smee]