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- "Nice" Jewish girls
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 women artists children should know
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1876 : year of the gun : the year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and the two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) created the Wild West, and why it's still with us
- 25 women who dared to create
- 25 women who dared to go
- 25 women who ruled
- 4 wagons west : the story of Seattle
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America
- 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 burst of light : and other essays
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- 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 day at the beach
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García 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 fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A giant man from a tiny town : a story of Angus MacAskill
- 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 guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A journey with Christopher Columbus
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A journey with Hernán Cortés
- A journey with Juan Ponce de León
- A journey with Sieur de La Salle
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A living remedy : a memoir
- 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 million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A paper life
- A perfect fit : how Lena "Lane" Bryant changed the shape of fashion
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the country
- A place in the world
- 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 prayer for Orion : a son's addiction and a mother's love
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A rose named peace : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A royal ride : Catherine the Great's great invention
- 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 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 silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for China : how my father wrote Yellow River cantata
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for the cosmos : Blind Willie Johnson and Voyager's Golden record
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A step away from paradise : the true story of a Tibetan Lama's journey to a land of immortality
- A stolen life
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- 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 voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A voice named Aretha
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A wild idea
- 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 of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A year in the woods : excerpts from Walden
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abby Wambach
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : a life, Volume two
- Abraham Lincoln : our 16th president
- Abraham Lincoln : the 16th President
- Abuela in shadow, abuela in light
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- 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
- Action presidents, #1, George Washington!
- Action presidents, #2, Abraham Lincoln!
- Ada Blackjack : a true story of survival in the Arctic
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admiral Hyman Rickover : engineer of power
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the political crusades of Helen Keller
- Against all odds
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- 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
- Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a curious mind
- Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father of modern physics
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Alejandro Sanz : #Vive
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell answers the call
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander von Humboldt : explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Ali's Well That Ends Well : Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration
- Alia's mission : saving the books of Iraq : inspired by a true story
- Alias Anna : A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
- Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All bets are off : losers, liars, and recovery from gambling addiction
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All but my life
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- 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 frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the things we never knew
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Alpha
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca : explorer of the American Southwest
- Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing : Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who inspire us all
- Amazing : Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who inspire us all
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing grace : the life of John Newton and the surprising story behind his song
- Amazing women
- Amazing women of the Middle East : 25 stories from ancient times to present day
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : beyond the grave
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- America, border, culture, dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- American Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- 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 animals
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American daughter : a memoir
- American disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American moments, Lewis and Clark
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- 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 spy : wry reflections on my life in the CIA
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An odd cross to bear : a biography of Ruth Bell Graham
- An ordinary man : the surprising life and historic presidency of Gerald R. Ford
- An unlikely ballerina
- An unquiet mind
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Jackson : our 7th president
- 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
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Boleyn : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : get to know the girl beyond her diary
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Annette feels free : the true story of Annette Kellerman, world-class swimmer, fashion pioneer, and real-life mermaid
- Another gospel? : a lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity
- Ansel Adams : the spirit of wild places
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antarctic pioneer : the trailblazing life of Jackie Ronne
- Anthony Bourdain remembered
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antonio Brown
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Anything worth doing : a true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers
- Apparently there were complaints
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apple : skin to the core
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces
- Arctic solitaire : a boat, a bay, and the quest for the perfect bear
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Art of Freedom : the Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Arthur who wrote Sherlock
- Artists in residence : seventeen artists and their living spaces, from Giverny to Casa Azul
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
- At first light : a true World War II story of a hero, his bravery, and an amazing horse
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Attila the Hun : leader of the barbarian hordes
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Authentic : a memoir by the founder of Vans
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Autoportrait
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Awakened cosmos : the mind of classical Chinese poetry
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- Ayanna Howard
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Back to the Prairie
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- Banksy : the man behind the wall
- Barack Obama : first African American president
- Barack Obama : our 44th president
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnum : an American life
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be bold! Be brave! : 11 Latinas who made U.S. History = ¡Sé audaz, sé valiente! : 11 Latinas que hicieron historia en Estados Unidos
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Beast : John Bonham and the rise of Led Zeppelin
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Beatrix : the life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming free indeed : my story of disentangling faith from fear
- Beethoven : the relentless revolutionary
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Before they were stars
- Behind the bookcase : Miep Geis, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Britney : pieces of a modern icon
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Ben Hogan's secret fundamental : what he never told the world
- Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
- Benedict Arnold : hero or enemy spy?
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Banneker and us : eleven generations of an American family
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Benjamin Harrison : our 23rd president
- Bessie
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Bethany Hamilton
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty White's pearls of wisdom : life lessons from a beloved American treasure
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two worlds : the art and life of Amrita Sher-Gil
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West
- Bibi : my story
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton