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- ...And master of none: : a memoir and collected stories
- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 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 Carnival of Snackery : Diaries (2003-2020)
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A different kind of normal
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- 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 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 lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- 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 everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- 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 whole world : letters from James Merrill
- 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
- Act like you got some sense : : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Admiral Yi Sun-sin : a brief overview of his life and achievements
- 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
- African-American history makers collection : readers that grow with you
- After 9/11 : one girl's journey through darkness to a new beginning
- 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
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy/
- 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 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
- Agnes Martin : Pioneer, Painter, Icon
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- 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
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- 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 beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- 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 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 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
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- America's femme fatale : the story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- 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 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 baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- 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 ramble : a walk of memory and renewal
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- 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
- Amoako Boafo
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art in Cuba
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Artistas : su vida y sus obras
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Avedon : something personal
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Bad gays : a homosexual history
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Bad vibes only : (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Baker Mayfield : football superstar
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Barkley : a biography
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Beast : John Bonham and the rise of Led Zeppelin
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful Country : a memoir/
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- 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
- 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
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Bibi : my story
- 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
- Billie Eilish
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- 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 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
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- 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
- Bourdain : The Definitive Oral Biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the Trees : A Memoir/
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- 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
- Brave hearted : the women of the American West 1836-1880
- 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 barriers
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and Wives : Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan/
- Brothers in arms : a true World War II story of Wojtek the bear and the soldiers who loved him
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- 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
- 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
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Carpenters : the musical legacy
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrying my father's torch : from Holocaust trauma to transformation
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- 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
- Change the game : a graphic novel
- Charles M. Schulz : the art and life of the Peanuts creator in 100 objects
- 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
- Chihuly and architecture
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Christian Dior : designer of dreams
- 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
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Claude Monet : the triumph of impressionism
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Code gray : death, life, and uncertainty in the ER
- 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
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
- Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy?and the sister she betrayed
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women
- 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
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- 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
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- 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
- Dare to make history : chasing a dream and fighting for equity
- 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
- Deaf utopia : a memoir--and a love letter to a way of 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
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry : the most heartbreaking story of our time
- Diane Arbus : Portrait of a Photographer
- Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer
- 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
- Dinner for one : how cooking in Paris saved me : a memoir
- Dinner with the president : food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Dissenter on the Bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- 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
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Don't panic : Douglas Adams & the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald Trump