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- "All-American monster" : the unauthorized biography of Timothy McVeigh
- "Boney" Fuller : soldier, strategist, and writer, 1878-1966
- "Boss" Tweed : the story of a grim generation
- "C" : the secret life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, spymaster to Winston Churchill
- "Damage them all you can" : Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
- "Dear" Aunt Harriet : the story of Harriet Patience Dame, Civil War nurse
- "How can you defend those people?" : the making of a criminal lawyer
- "I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
- "My heart became attached" : the strange journey of John Walker Lindh
- "Negro president" : Jefferson and the slave power
- "Shakespeare" by another name : the life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "There are things I want you to know" about Stieg Larsson and me
- "To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
- "When I wanted the sun to shine" : Kilburn and other Littleton, New Hampshire stereographers
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Pass it on' : the story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- (Re)born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 100 contemporary artists : 100 zeitgenössische Künstler = 100 artistes contemporains
- 100 illustrators
- 100 painters of tomorrow
- 100 sculptors of tomorrow
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 lashes : because I say what I think
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 1001 nights in Iraq : the shocking story of an American forced to fight for Saddam against the country he loves
- 12 years a slave
- 13 Hours : The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi/
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 14 cows for America
- 15 stars : Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : three generals who saved the American century
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 180° south : conquerors of the useless
- 1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the war they failed to see
- 1912 : the year the world discovered Antarctica
- 1924 : The Year That Made Hitler
- 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
- 20 feet from stardom
- 2000 years of disbelief : famous people with the courage to doubt
- 20th century Americans
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 Marathons : What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career/
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 365 todays : John M. Blaisdell, Sanbornton, N. H., 1868, His diary
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father/
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 48 peaks : hiking and healing in the White Mountains
- 50 American heroes every kid should meet
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 women artists you should know
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 700 Sundays
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 99 : Gretzky: his game, his story
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A 1940s Monadnock childhood
- A Beautiful mind
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Cambodian odyssey
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Cool and Lonely Courage : The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
- A Criminal and an Irishman : The Inside Story of the Boston Mob-IRA Connection/
- A French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Life in Light : Meditations on Impermanence/
- A Life in Parts
- A Life in Stitches : Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter
- 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 Long Way Home : A Memoir/
- A Lucky Life Interrupted
- A Lucky Life Interrupted : A Memoir of Hope
- A Lucky Life Interrupted : A Memoir of Hope/
- A Man of Good Hope
- A Mother's Reckoning : Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy/
- A Mother's Reckoning : living in the Aftermath of Tragedy/
- A New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A New York life : of friends and others
- A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman : A Memoir/
- A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers
- A Romanov fantasy : life at the court of Anna Anderson
- A Rum affair : true story of botanical fraud
- A Runner's High : My Life in Motion/
- A Season in the Sun : The Rise of Mickey Mantle/
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A Three Dog Life
- A Warsaw diary : 1978-1981
- A Wedding in Haiti
- A Wonderful life : 50 eulogies to lift the spirit
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A barn in New England : making a home on three acres
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A being so gentle : the frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of scientology
- A biographical dictionary : containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England
- A block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : [a memoir]
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : a memoir
- A book of secrets : illegitimate daughters, absent fathers
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A capitalist romance : Singer and the sewing machine
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A century of service, 1854-1954
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A change of heart : a memoir
- A chef's tale : a memoir of food, France, and America
- A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A company of heroes; : the American frontier, 1775-1783
- A complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him
- A comprehensive index of H.E. Noyes' 1899 history of Hampstead, N.H.
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A countdown at eighty
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- 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 cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A design for living
- A different drummer : my thirty years with Ronald Reagan
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal
- A different time, a different man : the story of John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for FDR and Truman's Secretary of the Navy
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor in the house ..
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dreamer of pictures : Neil Young, the man and his music
- A drinking life
- A drinking life : a memoir
- 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 GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A farewell to arms, legs & jockstraps : a sportswriter's memoir
- A fascination for fish : adventures of an underwater pioneer
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A few reminiscences of my Exeter life.
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fighting chance
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A fire in the mind : the life of Joseph Campbell
- A first class temperament
- A first rate tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the race to the South Pole
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A fly in the soup : memoirs
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fragile stone : the emotional life of Simon Peter
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A genius for confusion : Joseph R. McCarthy and the politics of deceit
- A genius for place : American landscapes of the country place era
- 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 girl named Zippy : [growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana]
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A guide to the history and old dwelling places of Northwood, New Hampshire
- A heart that works
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A hero and the holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
- A hero of our own : the story of Varian Fry
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of dog sledding in New England
- A history of watercolor
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of her own : Kay Sage, solitary surrealist
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A jockey's life : the biography of Lester Piggott
- A journal for Christa : Christa McAuliffe, teacher in space
- A journey into Michelangelo's Rome
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- 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 kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A kitchen in France : a year of cooking in my farmhouse
- 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 lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A lawyer's life
- A letter from Phoenix Farm
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life of Barbara Stanwyck, Volume 1, Steel-true 1907-1940
- A life of Picasso : the prodigy 1881-1906
- A life of Picasso, Vol. 3, Triumphant years, 1917-1932
- A life of Shakespeare
- A life of William Inge : the strains of triumph
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A life on the road
- A life well played : my stories
- A life with animals : Jane Goodall
- A lion called Christian
- A lion called Christian
- A little New Hampshire girl : the autobiography of Ruth Eastman Morrill
- A little bit wicked : life, love, and faith in stages
- A little fruitcake : a childhood in holidays
- A little me
- A little more about me
- A little revenge : Benjamin Franklin and his son
- A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A long way home : a memoir
- A long way home : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : [a memoir of hope]
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man apart : Bill Coperthwaite's radical experiment in living
- A man called Harris : the life of Richard Harris
- A man for others : Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the words of those who knew him
- A man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of good hope
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man without a country
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matter of character : inside the White House of George W. Bush
- A matter of dignity : changing the lives of the disabled
- A matter of heart : one woman's triumph over breast cancer and a heart transplant
- A measureless peril : America in the fight for the Atlantic, the longest battle of World War II
- A memoir
- A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million bucks by 30 : how to overcome a crap job, stingy parents, and a worthless degree to become a millionaire before (or after) turning thirty
- A million years with you : a memoir of life observed
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mix of years
- A monk swimming : a memoir
- A mother's ordeal : one woman's fight against China's one-child policy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A moveable feast
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation defined : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A native's return, 1945-1988
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A new dictionary of saints
- A new kind of country
- A paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant : with a portrait and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
- A photographer's life : a journey from Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to celebrated nature photographer
- A picture book of Amelia Earhart
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called Waco : a survivor's story
- A place for us : Eleni's children in America
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A portrait of Charles Lamb
- A pound of paper : confessions of a book addict
- A prescription for murder : the Victorian serial killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
- A promise to ourselves : a journey through fatherhood and divorce
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A question of age : the dorm and I
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A rebel in defense of tradition : the life and politics of Dwight Macdonald
- A remarkable mother
- A reporter's life
- A restless spirit : the story of Robert Frost
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ripple of hope : the life of Robert F. Kennedy
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A rose for her grave : and other true cases
- A round-heeled woman : my late-life adventures in sex and romance
- A rumor of war
- A runner's high : my life in motion
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A safe house
- A season for justice : the life and times of civil rights lawyer Morris Dees
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- A secret life : the Polish officer, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
- 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 series of catastrophes and miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short autobiography
- A simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit
- A simple path
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A sketch of the character and life-work of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., pastor of the First Congregational Church, Concord, N.H., 1825-1867.
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran