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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
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- A Woman of No Importance : The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II/
- 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 kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- 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 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 voice named Aretha
- 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
- 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
- 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
- After the Miracle : The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets/
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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 Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- 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
- And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood
- 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 Frank : out of the shadows
- 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
- Avedon : something personal
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- 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
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming
- 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 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, 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
- 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
- British writers
- Brother & sister
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- 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
- 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 : 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
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- 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
- 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
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- 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
- Dancing in Blackness : a memoir
- 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
- 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
- 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 you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Dream big, little one
- 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
- Edison
- Edison
- Edna Lewis : at the table with an American original
- 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 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
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Figure skating champions
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a 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
- 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
- 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 D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Pierce
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From the flight deck : plane talk and sky science
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Funny man
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Galileo and the denialists
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- George Michael : freedom, the ultimate tribute 1963-2016
- George Sand
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Going over home : a search for rural justice in an unsettled land
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good husbandry : a memoir : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Goya : visions of flesh and blood : from the National Gallery, London
- Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Grant
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Guns n' Roses : the life and times of a rock 'n' roll band
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Haben : the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
- Handel in London : a genius and his craft
- Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Harry : life, loss and love
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Heart and soul : the story of Florence Nightingale
- Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Helen Thayer's Arctic adventure : a woman and a dog walk to the North Pole
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901 : the theatre of life
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays
- Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares
- Heroes under pressure
- Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Himalaya Bound : One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals--And an Ancient Way of Life
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler : a biography
- Hockey now! : the biggest stars of the NHL
- Hockey town : life before the pros
- Holding the line : inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- How Bernie won : inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
- How to Forget : A Daughter?s Memoir/
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- How to think like a Roman emperor : the stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Husband Hunters, The : American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy/
- Hustling Hitler : The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the F?hrer/
- I am Jane Goodall
- I am Jim Henson
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not your slave : a memoir
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll show you
- I, me, mine
- Ian McKellen : the biography
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine