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- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A different kind of normal
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- 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 you : my life with Whitney Houston
- 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 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
- Abby Sunderland : alone on the Indian ocean
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acne : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- 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 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
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- 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
- 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 the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the things we never knew
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost Hemingway : the adventures of Negley Farson, foreign correspondent
- Amazing grace : the life of John Newton and the surprising story behind his song
- Amelia Earhart
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- 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 Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American daughter : a memoir
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- 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 sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- 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 impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- 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
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artists : their lives and works
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Barack Obama
- Battle for the big top : P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Because he's Jeff Goldblum : the movies, memes, and meaning of Hollywood's most enigmatic actor
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benedict XVI : a life, Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between the mountain and the sky : a mother's story of love, loss, healing, and hope
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Bing Crosby : a pocketful of dreams : the early years, 1903-1940
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blessed are the bank robbers : the true adventures of an evangelical outlaw
- 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 brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bon Jovi : the story
- 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 survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- 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
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- 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)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buddy : how a rooster made me a family man
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bush
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Captain Tom Moore
- Carbon queen : the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
- Carli Lloyd : soccer star
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry on : a story of resilience, redemption, and an unlikely family
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Change the game : a graphic novel
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Cheap land Colorado : off-gridders at America's edge
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- Chris Hadfield and the International Space Station
- Claude Monet : he saw the world in a brilliant light
- Claudette Colvin
- Clock & compass : how John Byron Plato gave farmers a real address
- Clouds : a memoir
- 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
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confident women
- Copernicus' secret : how the scientific revolution began
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Crassus : the first tycoon
- Created equal : Clarence Thomas in his own words
- 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
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous ground
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie
- Dazzlin' Dolly: : the songwriting, hit-singing, guitar-picking Dolly Parton
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, brotherhood, and sacrifice
- Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the Gilded Age
- Diana Taurasi
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- 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
- Dolly! : the story of Dolly Parton and her big dream
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Downton Shabby : one American's ultimate DIY adventure restoring his family's English castle
- Dragon hoops
- Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edison
- Edison
- Educated for freedom : the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
- Egypt's golden couple : when Akhenaten and Nefertiti were gods on Earth
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : her path to kindness
- Eleanor Roosevelt : progressive reformer
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza : the story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elton John : rocket m*n
- Elvis is King!
- 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 pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Every life a story : Natalie Jacobson reporting
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- 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
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and her flying machine
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fighting to survive World War II : terrifying true stories
- Fighting words : the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Me : a Memoir
- Finding me
- Finding my dance
- Finding the Mother Tree
- Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First in his class : a biography of Bill Clinton
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying falling catching : an unlikely story of finding freedom
- Football's G.O.A.T. : Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and more
- 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 right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Forever young : a memoir
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Forgotten founders : Black patriots, women soldiers, and other thinkers and heroes who shaped early America
- Fortune's many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Fox & I : an uncommon friendship
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Freezing order : a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Full of beans : Henry Ford grows a car
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Galileo and the science deniers
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Gathering of sisters : a year with my old order Mennonite family
- Gender queer : a memoir
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of war : history's greatest military rivals
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good grief : on loving pets, here and hereafter
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Gossip men : J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation
- Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
- Grandad Mandela
- Grant
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Growing up Getty : the story of America's most unconventional dynasty
- Gun barons : the weapons that transformed America and the men who invented them
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- Gymnastics's G.O.A.T : Nadia Comaneci, Simone Biles, and more
- Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : the inspiring life story of the abolition advocate
- Harriet Tubman
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Hawking Hawking : the selling of a scientific celebrity
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
- Heartbreak : a personal and scientific journey
- Hedy Lamarr
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller : una nueva visión
- Hell's half-acre : the untold story of the Benders, a serial killer family on the American frontier
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men
- Helltown : the untold story of a serial killer on Cape Cod
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Herbert Marshall : a biography
- Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Hey, kiddo
- Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- History's 9 most insane rulers
- Hokusaí : he saw the world in a wave
- Hollywood godfather : my life in the movies and the mob
- Honor bound : an American story of dreams and service
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- House of dreams : the life of L.M. Montgomery
- How I saved the world
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- How to forget : a daughter's memoir
- How women won the vote : Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and their big idea
- I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am Sonia Sotomayor
- I am an American : the Wong Kim Ark story
- I guess I haven't learned that yet : discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll be seeing you : a memoir
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm still here : black dignity in a world made for whiteness