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- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 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 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 bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A cowboy detective : a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A genius for confusion : Joseph R. McCarthy and the politics of deceit
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little me
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A very punchable face
- A very punchable face
- A voice named Aretha
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- 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 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
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Admiral Yi Sun-sin : a brief overview of his life and achievements
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African-American history makers collection : readers that grow with you
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds
- 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 hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- 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
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small : the warm and joyful memoirs of the world's most beloved animal doctor
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the young men
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- America's femme fatale : the story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- 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 murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- 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 rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- 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 workman : the life and art of John Kane
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- 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 now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Brigman : the photographer of enchantment
- Anne Frank : out of the shadows
- Anni & Josef Albers : equal and unequal
- Another Appalachia : coming up queer and Indian in a mountain place
- Another life is possible : insights from 100 years of life together
- Anthem : Rush in the '70s
- Any given Tuesday : a political love story
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir/
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Art in Cuba
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Artistas : su vida y sus obras
- Artists in residence : seventeen artists and their living spaces, from Giverny to Casa Azul
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beast : John Bonham and the rise of Led Zeppelin
- Beautiful Things : A Memoir/
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Behind the lens : my life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Believe it : [how to go from underestimated to unstoppable]
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Between two kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz / introduction by John Henry ; foreword by Pedro Martinez ; the Boston Globe
- Bill Cunningham was there : spring flings + summer soirées
- Billie
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Eilish
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Birds, beasts and bedlam : turning my farm into an ark for lost species
- Birth of a dancing star : from cradle Catholic to cyborg Christian
- Bitter medicine : a graphic memoir of mental illness
- Black Internet effect
- Black folk could fly : selected writings
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black women will save the world : an anthem
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and Treasure : Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier/
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- 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
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Bobby Kennedy : The Making of a Liberal Icon
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- 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
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breathe : a life in flow
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Bright
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brother & sister
- Brothers in arms : a true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bully market : my story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs
- Burning butch : a memoir
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Care free black girls : a celebration of black women in popular culture
- Carpenters : the musical legacy
- 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
- Catching the light
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Charles Drew : revolutionized medical science
- Charles M. Schulz : the art and life of the Peanuts creator in 100 objects
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game/
- Chester Himes : a rage in Harlem, internationally acclaimed writer
- Children of the land
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Christian Dior : designer of dreams
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Comeback season : my unlikely story of friendship with the greatest living Negro League baseball players
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir/
- Comforts of the abyss : the art of persona writing
- 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
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Conflicted scars : an average player's journey to the NHL
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- 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
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir/
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cy Young : the baseball life and career
- Damn lucky
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir
- Dare to make history : chasing a dream and fighting for equity
- 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
- Daughters of the flower fragrant garden : two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- David Bowie : a life
- David Driskell : icons of nature and history
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- 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
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice
- Diane Arbus : Portrait of a Photographer
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- Diary of a misfit : a memoir and a mystery
- Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-français, 1608-1760, Historical sketches, tome III, A-Z, English version
- Did ye hear mammy died? : a memoir
- Different strokes : Serena, Venus, and the unfinished Black tennis revolution
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirty gold : the rise and fall of an international smuggling ring
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the twenty-first century
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics/
- Don't go where I can't follow
- Donald Trump
- Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
- 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
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dream big, little one
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Ed Sheeran : writing out loud
- Edge of the map : the mountain life of Christine Boskoff
- Edison
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Edward Hopper : the story of his life
- El Anatsui : art and life
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most infamous drug lord
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elvis the legend : the authorized book from the Graceland® archives
- Empathy economics : Janet Yellen's remarkable rise to power and her drive to spread prosperity to all
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empty : a memoir
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Essentially Charli : the ultimate guide to keeping it real
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every life a story : Natalie Jacobson reporting
- Everybody thought we were crazy : Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
- Exhibition on screen : David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
- Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Eyes of compassion : learning from Thich Nhat Hanh
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Face it
- Fall : the mysterious life and death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's most notorious media baron
- Family of origin, family of choice : stories of queer Christians
- 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
- Faster : how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best
- Fat girls in black bodies : creating communities of our own
- Fat girls in black bodies : creating communities of our own
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind