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- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- A Knock at Midnight : A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom/
- A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away : My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits?Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More/
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A Woman of No Importance : The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II/
- A bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- 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 knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A little me
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- 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 series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- 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 very punchable face
- 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
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental Saints : Finding God in All the Wrong People
- Accidental Saints : Finding God in All the Wrong People/
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After 9/11 : one girl's journey through darkness to a new beginning
- Against all odds
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- 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
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agnes Martin : Pioneer, Painter, Icon
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American Sherlock : Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI/
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- 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 daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- 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 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 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
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An impossible life : the inspiring true story of a woman's struggle from within
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- And in the End : The Last Days of The Beatles/
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- 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
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Brigman : the photographer of enchantment
- Anne Frank : out of the shadows
- Another life is possible : insights from 100 years of life together
- Anthem : Rush in the '70s
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art in turmoil : the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artistas : su vida y sus obras
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Author in Chief : The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Avedon : something personal
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Baker Mayfield : football superstar
- Barack and Joe : The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership/
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Berlioz
- Berthe Morisot
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between the world and me
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz / introduction by John Henry ; foreword by Pedro Martinez ; the Boston Globe
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies : The Real West
- Birth of a dancing star : from cradle Catholic to cyborg Christian
- Bitter medicine : a graphic memoir of mental illness
- Black boy
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A & M, and the history of Black college football
- Bobby Kennedy : The Making of a Liberal Icon
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to run
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Bowie's Bookshelf : The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life/
- Boys in the Trees : A Memoir/
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Break point : the secret diary of a pro tennis player
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking barriers
- Breaking the ice : the Black experience in professional hockey
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- British writers
- Brother & sister
- Brother & sister : a memoir
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- 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
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- 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
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : : Baseball's Greatest Character/
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Charles Drew : revolutionized medical science
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester Himes : a rage in Harlem, internationally acclaimed writer
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Christian Dior : designer of dreams
- Christopher Pratt : six decades
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90's dynasty
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
- 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
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Comics confidential : thirteen graphic novelists talk story, craft, and life outside the box
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Composers : their lives and works
- Conversations with Lincoln : little-known stories from those who met America's 16th president
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- 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
- Crisis of Character : A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cross of Snow : A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cy Young : the baseball life and career
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dancing in Blackness : a memoir
- Daniel Clement's Moosilauke journal 1879 : a transcription of a manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire
- Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
- 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
- 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
- De Gaulle
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets, and advice for living your best life
- Death in ten minutes : the forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy/
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and Power : The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and Power : The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : 7 days
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Different strokes : Serena, Venus, and the unfinished Black tennis revolution
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Dissenter on the Bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Don't go where I can't follow
- Don't panic : Douglas Adams & the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Vaughan : NASA's leading human computer
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams : first Black heart surgeon in America
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Ed Sheeran : writing out loud
- Eddie Redmayne : the biography
- Edge of the map : the mountain life of Christine Boskoff
- Edison
- Edison
- Edison
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- Eleanor
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Elvis is King!
- Elvis the legend : the authorized book from the Graceland® archives
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empty : a memoir
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything Beautiful in Its Time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
- Exhibition on screen : David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers : the most exciting voyages of discovery--from the African expeditions to the lunar landing
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Face it
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fannie Lou Hamer : voting rights activist
- 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
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear is a choice : tackling life's challenges with dignity, faith, and determination
- Fighting to survive World War II : terrifying true stories
- Figure skating champions
- 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 : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly high, John Glenn : the story of an American hero
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- 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 glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- For your consideration : Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
- 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 friends : promising lives cut short
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Pierce
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom