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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
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- (Low)life : a memoir of jazz, fight-fixing, and the mob
- (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
- (Re)born in the USA : An Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 10 Most influential U.S. black leaders : MLK, Harriet Tubman, Katherine Johnson and more!
- 100 genios del balón
- 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- 100 immigrant women who changed the world
- 100 most infamous criminals
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 13 American artists children should know
- 13 hours : a firsthand account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women artists children should know
- 14 minutes : a running legend's life and death and life
- 15 minute histories
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history
- 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
- 19 minutes to live : helicopter combat in Vietnam
- 1916 : the Easter seven, Season 1
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1942 : Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour
- 20 feet from stardom
- 21 years : Richard Linklater
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the say hey kid
- 25 women who dared to create
- 25 women who dared to go
- 25 women who fought back
- 25 women who ruled
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 28 days : moments in black history that changed the world
- 3 mph : the adventures of one woman's walk around the world
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 4 wagons west : the story of Seattle
- 400 Miles to Freedom
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 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
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 66 square feet : a delicious life
- 6888th Battalion and military achievement
- 7003 days : 21 years in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
- 81 days below zero : the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 98 days of wind : the greatest fail of our life
- 99 : his game, his story
- 99 Gretzky : his game, his story
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Billion Years : My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
- A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Common Struggle
- A Compassionate Rage
- A Giant win : inside the New York Giants' historic upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
- A Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- A Paris year : my day-to-day adventures in the most romantic city in the world
- A Place in the World : Finding the Meaning of Home
- A Son of Africa
- A Truck Full of Money
- A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir
- A backward glance
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful work in progress
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- 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, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of scientology
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy and a jaguar
- 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 brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- 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 broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brush full of colour : the world of Ted Harrison
- A burning in my bones : the authorized biography of Eugene H. Peterson
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A change of affection : a gay man's incredible story of redemption
- A chef's life, Season five
- A chef's life, Season one
- A chef's life, Season three
- A chef's life, Season two
- A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A common struggle
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A dab of Dickens : selections from A dab of Dickens & A touch of Twain, literary lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England, Vol. 3, A whiff of Wilde, a pinch of Poe, and a frisson of Frost
- A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat
- A day at the beach
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- 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 dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dog named Boo : the underdog with a heart of gold
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J.B.S. Haldane
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- A dream within a dream : the life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A drinking life
- A dutiful boy : a memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A factotum in the book trade : a memoir
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A fighting chance
- A first time for everything
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A friend like Iggy
- A front row seat : an intimate look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the age of glamour
- 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 funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail
- A game for swallows : to die, to leave, to return
- 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 from Yamhill
- A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives
- A good country : my life in twelve towns and the ongoing battle for a white America
- A good life : newspapering and other adventures
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A good wife : escaping the life I never chose : a memoir
- A greater story : my rescue, your purpose, and our place in God's plan
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A heart blown open : the life and practice of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- 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 history of me
- A history of scars : a memoir
- A history of the Deschutes country in Oregon
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- 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 house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A hunger for high country : one woman's journey to the wild in Yellowstone country
- A is for asylum seeker : words for people on the move = A de asilo : palabras para personas en movimiento
- A journey in Ladakh
- A journey to the western islands of Scotland
- 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 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 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 lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- 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 electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of my own
- A life of service : the story of Senator Tammy Duckworth
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A life without limits : a world champion's journey
- A lifetime of small adventures : stories of adventure, misadventure and lessons learned along the way
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little bit wicked : (life, love, and faith in stages)
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- 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 long way home : a memoir
- A long way home : a memoir
- A lot like me : a father and son's journey to reconciliation : a memoir
- A love-stretched life : stories on wrangling hope, embracing the unexpected, and discovering the meaning of family
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- 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 matter of death and life
- A midwife's story
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind unraveled
- A month in Siena
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of the first all-black high school rowing team
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A naturalist in Alaska
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A paper life
- A park ranger's life : thirty-two years protecting our national parks
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A patriot's calling : my life as an F-16 fighter pilot
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- 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 picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the country
- A place in the world
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- 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 promise given : a true story of life, love... and bluebirds
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A queen to the rescue : the story of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A real American character : the life of Walter Brennan
- A really good day
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
- A redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- A reporter's life
- A resilient warrior
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A river of words
- A royal passion : the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
- 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 sea between us : the true story of a man who risked everything for family and freedom
- A secret gift : [how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression]
- A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
- 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 shape in the dark : living and dying with brown bears
- A shepherd's life
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A singular woman : [the untold story of Barack Obama's mother]
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- 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 song flung up to heaven
- 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 the river
- A song for the river
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A speck in the sea : a story of survival and rescue
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the paralympic games
- 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 among friends : kim philby and the great betrayal
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- 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 stolen life : a memoir
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- A tale of love and darkness
- A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A thousand trails home : living with caribou
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A tulip in winter : a story about folk artist Maud Lewis
- A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
- A very fine house : a mother's story of love, faith, and crystal meth
- A very punchable face
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A visible man : a memoir
- A voice for the Everglades : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- A voice named Aretha
- A volcano beneath the snow : john brown's war against slavery
- A vote for Susanna : the first woman mayor
- A walk across America
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A weekend with Rousseau
- A wild and precious life
- A wild idea
- A wild love for the world : Joanna Macy and the work of our time