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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 'A happy holiday' : English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930
- 'Dear Mr. G-' : the biography of Clark Gable
- 100 most infamous criminals
- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 amazing Barack Obama facts
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams & "The red wheelbarrow"
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of life & death
- 97,196 words : essays
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Giant win : inside the New York Giants' historic upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
- A Grip on the mane of life : an authorized biography of Earl V. Shaffer, 1918-2002
- A Little House sampler
- A Little house reader : a collection of writings
- A Song for Everyone : The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- 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 block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book of remarkable criminals
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- 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 brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- A brother's journey : surviving a childhood of abuse
- 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 coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A conversation with Tan Sri Leo Moggie
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
- A different kind of normal
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good girl ... seldom
- A higher calling : pursuing love, faith, and Mount Everest for a greater purpose
- A history of me
- A history of my brief body
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A is for Audra : Broadway's leading ladies from a to z
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- 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 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 layman's life of Jesus
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life in focus : the photography of Graham Nash
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life of Matthew Arnold
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A mind that found itself : an autobiography
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A personal record
- A place called home : a memoir
- A place in the world
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A pocketful of happiness
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of the snowy day
- A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman : a memoir
- A prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- 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 revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river could be a tree : a memoir
- 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 sacred oath : memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times
- A sailor's story
- A saint a day : 365 true stories of faith and heroism
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A sentimental education
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A storm of horses : the story of artist Rosa Bonheur
- A surfer in the White House : and other salty yarns
- A tangled web : Mata Hari: dancer, courtesan, spy
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- 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 trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A troublesome man : about the life of Dr. Ptolemy Reid, Prime Minister of Guyana 1980-1984
- A truck full of money
- A visible man : a memoir
- A visible man : a memoir
- A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- 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 WWII
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A woman's battles and transformations
- A.A. Milne : the man behind Winnie-the-Pooh
- ABBA forever : the winner takes it all
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- Abe Lincoln's hat
- Abe's youth : shaping the future president
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- Above suspicion
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Absalom Jones : America's first Black priest
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accident of fate : a personal account, 1938-1945
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Acne : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Admiral Jellicoe
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Adventures & letters of Richard Harding Davis
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- 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
- 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 : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Against the wind : an Ironwoman's race for her family's survival
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agatha Christie : writer of mystery
- Agatha Christie, Inside the mind of Agatha Christie & Agatha Christie's England
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- 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 Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent most wanted : the never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II
- Aggie
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Unser Jr. : a checkered past
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alabama v. King
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Albert Camus : a life
- Albert Einstein : the man behind the math
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton : the fighting founding father!
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander Pope : a life
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alexandra David et la lignée des Neel
- 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
- 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
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All creatures great and small : [the warm and joyful memoirs of the worlds most beloved animal doctor]
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All star : how Larry Doby smashed the color barrier in baseball
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- 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 she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- 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 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 : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- 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 the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- 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
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost romance : a 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
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Alphamaniacs : builders of 26 wonders of the word
- Althea
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Altitude not attitude
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazing Fantastic Incredible: : a marvelous memoir
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing inventors : inspirational stories
- Amazing national leaders : inspirational stories
- Amazing people of Australia : inspirational stories, Volume 1
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : first woman over the Atlantic
- Amelia Earhart : pioneer of the sky!
- America : a redemption story
- America made me a black man : a memoir
- America made me a black man : a memoir
- America's femme fatale : the story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- America's founding fathers
- 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 Girl entrepreneur : Pleasant Rowland
- American Pharoah
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- 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 rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the Tibetans
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amoralman : a true story and other lies
- Amy Tan : unintended memoir
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- An Edinburgh Eleven : Pencil Portraits from College Life
- An admiral's yarn
- An extraordinary teacher : a Bible story about Priscilla
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An odd cross to bear : a biography of Ruth Bell Graham
- An unplanned life : a memoir
- And I paint it : Henriette Wyeth's world
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- 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 now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- 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 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
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angel on the yardarm : the beginnings of fleet radar defense and the kamikaze threat
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anna : the biography
- Anna : the biography
- Anna : the biography
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Frank : Holocaust Diarist
- Anne Frank's holocaust
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : a gift for life
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Davis
- Anton Chekhov : a life
- Apostle Paul
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Areli is a dreamer : a true story
- Aristotle and scientific thought
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Miller : American witness
- Arthur Rimbaud
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- As it turns out : thinking about Edie and Andy
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Auden
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Author : a true story
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
- Autobiography of Goethe : truth and poetry relating to my life
- Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- Autobiography of a yogi
- Autoportrait
- Avedon : something personal
- Average expectations : lessons in lowering the bar
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Awesome Asian Americans : 20 stars who made America amazing
- BTS : everything you need to know about the kings of K-pop
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Back to the Prairie
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad gays : a homosexual history
- Bad motherfucker : the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood
- Baking as biography : a life story in recipes
- Bandoola : the great elephant rescue
- Bannon : always the rebel
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barkley : a biography
- Barkley : a biography
- Barnum : an American life
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Bases loaded : the inside story of the steroid era in baseball by the central figure in the Mitchell Report
- Basher five-two : the true story of F-16 fighter pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
- Basketball GOATs : the greatest athletes of all time
- Basketball's greatest players
- Basketball's greatest players
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- 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 brave, be brave, be brave
- 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
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Beckham : đơì tôi : tư ̣truyẹn̂
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming FDR : the personal crisis that made a president
- Becoming Helen Keller
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming a hairstylist
- Becoming kin : an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future
- Becoming story : a journey among seasons, places, trees, and ancestors
- Becoming the G.O.A.T : the Tom Brady story
- Beethoven, as revealed in his own words : the man and the artist
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind Nazi lines : my father's heroic quest to save 149 World War II POWs
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Being the Queen
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Belushi
- Ben Hogan's secret fundamental : what he never told the world
- Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bernard Shaw : the ascent of the superman
- Bernie Madoff : in his own words
- Bet my soul on rock n roll : diary of a Black punk icon
- Bethany Hamilton
- Bethany Hamilton : unstoppable
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville