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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Dear Mr. G-' : the biography of Clark Gable
- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 101 amazing Barack Obama facts
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of life & death
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- 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 light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A river could be a tree : a memoir
- A tangled web : Mata Hari: dancer, courtesan, spy
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- 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
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Above suspicion
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything
- 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
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- 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
- Alone on the wall
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- 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 spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An admiral's yarn
- An extraordinary teacher : a Bible story about Priscilla
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- 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
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Apostle Paul
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Ariana Grande
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Avedon : something personal
- BTS : everything you need to know about the kings of K-pop
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barnum : an American life
- Basquiat
- Be brave, be brave, be brave
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming a hairstylist
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before she was Harriet
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Benjamin Banneker
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bethany Hamilton
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Bright dreams : the brilliant ideas of Nikola Tesla
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buzzing with questions : the Inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Chasing light : Michelle Obama through the lens of a White House photographer
- Chief Seattle and the town that took his name : the change of worlds for the native people and settlers on Puget Sound
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90s dynasty
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- Clara Barton's Civil War : between bullet and hospital
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum
- Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constable
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dad's maybe book
- Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America
- Dangerous ground
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- David Bowie : a life
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana : Her True Story - In Her Own Words
- Diana : in her own words
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built
- Disney
- Dispatches from Pluto : lost and found in the Mississippi Delta
- 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 on Dolly : interview and encounters
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Donald J. Trump : a president like no other
- Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Down But Not Out : the Incredible Story of Second World War Airman Maurice 'Moggy' Mayne
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Drawing on walls : a story of Keith Haring
- Dry
- Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling
- Dust bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Echo in Ramadi : the firsthand story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's deadliest city
- Edison
- Edison
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Elisabeth Elliot : do the next thing
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : space entrepreneur
- Elvis in Vegas : how the king reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Elvis in Vegas : how the king reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Elvis the legend : the authorized book from the Graceland® archives
- Elway : a relentless life
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Enkindling love : the spiritual journey of St. Francis according to Bonaventure
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Excavation : A Memoir
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fanny Crosby : the blind girl's song
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson
- Fight of the century : Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Gobi : the true story of one little dog's big journey
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding her voice : women in country music, 1800-2000
- Finding my father : his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw--and my quest to follow
- Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Florence Nightingale : the angel of the Crimea, a story for young people
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For spacious skies : Katharine Lee Bates and the inspiration for "America the beautiful"
- Forgotten Women : the writers
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free, Melania : The Unauthorized Biography
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo: : Temporis
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Full count : the education of a pitcher
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- George Washington : his legacy of faith, character, and courage
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Giorgio de Chirico, 1888-1978 : the modern myth
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- Go slow : the life of Julie London
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- Gods at play : an eyewitness account of great moments in American sports
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Going over home : a search for rural justice in an unsettled land
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 200 tales of extraordinary women, Books 1-2
- Grant
- Grant
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer, America's deadliest serial murderer
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877 : the last of the Romantics
- Handel in London : a genius and his craft
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hank & Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist and conductor of the underground railroad
- Heavier than heaven : a biography of Kurt Cobain
- Hedy & her amazing invention
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Helen Oxenbury : a life in illustration
- Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry VIII and the men who made him
- Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares
- Here's the catch : a memoir of the miracle Mets and more
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- Heroic women of the art world : risking it all for art
- Herstory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- Hi, I'm Norman : the story of American illustrator Norman Rockwell
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- High school
- Hildegard of Bingen : scientist, composer, healer, & saint
- Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hitler's pawn : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homer and the holiday miracle : a true story
- Homespun : Amish and Mennonite women in their own words
- House of Versace : the untold story of genius, murder, and survival
- How Bernie won : inside the revolution to take back our country and where we go from here
- How Ike led : the principles behind Eisenhower's biggest decisions
- How does it feel to be unwanted? : stories of resistance and resilience from Mexicans living in the United States
- How the West was won : the gunfighters
- I am Benjamin Franklin
- I am C-3PO : the inside story
- I am George Washington
- I am Jessica : one little girl, four tragic murders, her life reclaimed
- I am Leonardo da Vinci
- I am Sacagawea
- I am Sacagawea
- I am a promise
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am not a label
- I'm writing you from Tehran : a granddaughter's search for her family's past and their country's future
- IM : a memoir
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- Idols of K-pop : your must have guide to who's who
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In like Flynn
- In like Flynn
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction
- Inside Trump's White House : the real story of his presidency
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible heroes of World War II : extraordinary wartime stories of ordinary people
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jay-Z : made in America
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jell-O girls : a family history
- Jell-O girls : a family history
- Jim Thome : lefty launcher
- Jimmy Page : the definitive biography
- Joan Rivers confidential : the unseen scrapbooks, joke cards, personal files, and photos of a very funny woman who kept everything
- John Adams under fire : the founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
- John F. Kennedy the brave
- John Marshall : the man who made the Supreme Court
- John McCain : an American hero
- Jonas Hanway's scurrilous, scandalous, shockingly sensational umbrella
- Joni : the lyrical life of Joni Mitchell
- Joni Eareckson Tada : swimming against the tide
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Jumbo : the unauthorised biography of a Victorian sensation
- Kamala Harris : rooted in justice
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- Kids who are saving the planet
- Killing Crazy Horse : the merciless Indian wars in America
- Kindness and wonder : why Mr. Rogers matters now more than ever
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- King of the tightrope : when the Great Blondin ruled Niagara
- Kiyo Sato : from a WWII Japanese internment camp to a life of service
- Knitting the fog
- Kushner, Inc. : greed, ambition, corruption : the extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
- Kushner, Inc. : greed, ambition, corruption : the extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
- La niña inquebrantable : una historia desgarradora de supervivencia de una hermana desde las calles de Long Island a las granjas de Idaho
- Ladies who punch : the explosive inside story of "The view"
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- LeBron, Inc. : the making of a billion-dollar athlete
- LeBron, Inc. : the making of a billion-dollar athlete
- Leave it to Abigail! : the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams
- Lebron James : the inside story of how Lebron James became King James of the court
- Legends of pro wrestling : 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let's play two : the legend of Mr. Cub, the life of Ernie Banks
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lightning sky : a U.S. fighter pilot captured during WWII and his father's quest to find him
- Like a girl
- Like brothers
- Limitless : 24 remarkable American women o