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- "I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 1000 lashes : because I say what I think
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the war they failed to see
- 1924 : The Year That Made Hitler
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1942 : Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour
- 20 feet from stardom
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 33 men : inside the miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 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
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 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 women artists you should know
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 99 : Gretzky: his game, his story
- 99 : stories of the game
- A 1940s Monadnock childhood
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Celebration of New Hampshire's first 100 women lawyers
- A Lucky Life Interrupted
- A Nazi childhood
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A baby panda is born
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bold fresh piece of humanity : [a memoir]
- A boy I once knew : what a teacher learned from her student
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West
- 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 castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- A chainless soul : a life of Emily Bronte
- 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 child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
- A child's Christmas in Wales : and five poems
- A chimp in the family
- 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 cottage in Portugal
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A curious life for a lady : the story of Isabella Bird, a remarkable Victorian traveller
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- 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 distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A fatal passion : the story of Victoria Melita, the uncrowned last Empress of Russia
- A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A football life : : Bill Belichick
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A frozen woman
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl called Genghis Khan : how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl named Zippy : [growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana]
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good life wasted, or, Twenty years as a fishing guide
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A heart for Europe : the lives of Emperor Charles and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary
- A heart that works
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- 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 higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A hole in the world : an American boyhood
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A is for awesome : 23 iconic women who changed the world
- A journal for Christa : Christa McAuliffe, teacher in space
- 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 lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in our times : memoirs
- A life in parts
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life of Shakespeare
- A life on the road
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A life with animals : Jane Goodall
- A lion called Christian
- A little fruitcake : a childhood in holidays
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A long strange trip : the inside history of the Grateful Dead
- 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 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 lucky life interrupted : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A mad, mad, mad, mad world : a life in Hollywood
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- 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 of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- 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 mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mix of years
- A monk swimming : a memoir
- A most remarkable fella : Frank Loesser and the guys and dolls in his life : a portrait by his daughter
- 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 mountain of crumbs
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- 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's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- 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 personal odyssey
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place called Waco : a survivor's story
- 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 portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A rage to live : a biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
- A restless spirit : the story of Robert Frost
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A runner's high : my life in motion
- 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 safe house
- A secret gift
- A sense of the world : how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
- 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 simple path
- A single square picture : a Korean adoptee's search for her roots
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A son of the forest and other writings
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song for the river
- A song for the river
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A speck in the sea : a story of survival and rescue
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy for all seasons : my life in the CIA
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A strong west wind : a memoir
- A studio of her own : women artists in Boston, 1870-1940
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedic's wild ride to the edge and back
- A three dog life
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : [a story of resistance, friendship and survival]
- A truck full of money
- A truck full of money
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A very English scandal : sex, lies, and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A very fine house : a mother's story of love, faith, and crystal meth
- A very private woman : the life and unsolved murder of presidential mistress Mary Meyer
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A wolf at the table : [a memoir of my father]
- A wolf called Romeo
- A wolf called Romeo
- A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull
- A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman makes a plan : advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman of the century : fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life, dited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore ; assisted by a corps of able contributors
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A year in the world : journey of a passionate traveller
- ABBA forever : the winner takes it all
- ADHD & me : what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table
- Abby Sunderland : alone on the Indian ocean
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe-vs-Adolf : the true story of Holocaust survivor Abe Peck
- Abigail Adams : [a life]
- Abigail Adams, an American woman
- About Alice
- Above the line : my Wild Oats adventure
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acne : a memoir
- Across the minefields
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action presidents, #1, George Washington!
- Action presidents, #2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Action presidents, #3, Theodore Roosevelt!
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Addicted to adventure : between rocks and cold places
- Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Affectionately, Wallace : the life and work of W.W. Gilchrist
- African American faces of the Civil War : an album
- African American writers
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- 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 all odds : my story
- Against medical advice
- Against medical advice : a true story
- Against wind and tide : letters and journals, 1947-1986
- Agatha Christie : a biography
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie, an autobiography
- Age and guile beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut : twenty-five years of P.J. O'Rourke
- Age is just a number : achieve your dreams at any stage in your life
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- 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
- Ailey
- Ake : the years of childhood
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : the persistent illusion of transience
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : American hero
- Alexander Hamilton : a life
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Ali in Wonderland : and other tall tales
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alias Shakespeare : solving the greatest literary mystery of all time
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alicia : my story
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All I can give
- All You Can Ever Know : A Memoir
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All but my life
- All but my life
- All creatures great and small
- All happy families : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All my knotted-up life : a memoir
- All over but the shoutin'
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience
- 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 that you leave behind : a memoir
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- 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 money in the world
- All the strange hours : the excavation of a life
- All the things we never knew
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way to America : the story of a big Italian family and a little shovel
- All the young men
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All we know : three lives
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Ally : my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost interesting : the memoir
- Almost there : the onward journey of a Dublin woman
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazing grace : the life of John Newton and the surprising story behind his song
- Amazing grace : the story of America's most beloved song
- Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : a biography
- Amelia Earhart : the thrill of it
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- America's champion swimmer : Gertrude Ederle
- America, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- American Fix : Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis--and How to End It
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Heritage illustrated history of the presidents
- 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 Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir
- American daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American dynasty : aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush
- American heroes on the homefront : the hearts of heroes
- American immigration : our history, our stories
- American lady : the life of Susan Mary Alsop
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House