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- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- A Little House sampler
- A Little house reader : a collection of writings
- A Song for Everyone : The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brilliant streak : the making of Mark Twain
- 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 doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A drinking life : a memoir
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A life of Matthew Arnold
- A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century
- A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- 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 radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A truck full of money
- A wild idea
- A.A. Milne : the man behind Winnie-the-Pooh
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A - Z
- About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- 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
- Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism
- Against the wind : an Ironwoman's race for her family's survival
- Agatha Christie : writer of mystery
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- 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
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Albert Camus : a life
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Alexander Pope : a life
- Alexandra David et la lignée des Neel
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief 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
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All creatures great and small
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience
- 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 money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- 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 women
- 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 sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- An American childhood
- 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
- Anne Frank : Holocaust Diarist
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh : a gift for life
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Davis
- Anton Chekhov : a life
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Aristotle and scientific thought
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Miller : American witness
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Auden
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Author : a true story
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Aviation : cool women who fly
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
- Barkley : a biography
- Barkley : a biography
- Bases loaded : the inside story of the steroid era in baseball by the central figure in the Mitchell Report
- Basketball's greatest players
- Basketball's greatest players
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- 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
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Ben Hogan's secret fundamental : what he never told the world
- Bernard Shaw : the ascent of the superman
- 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
- Bibi : my story
- Big Rich, Hoosier poet : biography of Emory Aaron Richardson
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex
- Bill Gates
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The real West
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies, The real West
- Bill Peet : an autobiography
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy Graham : Evangelist to the world
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blake
- Blake Shelton : happy anywhere
- Blessed are the bank robbers : the true adventures of an evangelical outlaw
- Blessed with bipolar : 36 God-given gifts of manic-depression
- Blood and fire : the unbelievable real-life story of wrestling's Original Sheik
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880
- Bruce Springsteen : an illustrated biography
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny tales : behind closed doors at the Playboy Mansion
- Bush
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- C.S. Lewis : a biography
- C.S. Lewis : a biography
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Can you imagine?
- Can't forgive
- Capt'n Bob's adventures in child psychology
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cervantes
- Cesar Chavez : Latino American civil rights activist
- Chance the Rapper : independent innovator
- Charles M. Schulz : the art and life of the Peanuts creator in 100 objects
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Brontë, a passionate life
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chely Wright: : wish me away
- Chien-shiung Wu : nuclear physicist
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Children of the stone : the power of music in a hard land
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the Civil Rights Movement
- Christina Rossetti : a writer's life
- Chuck Taylor : sneaker sensation
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Cleopatra : a life
- Clifford Odets
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Conquering the Pacific : an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery
- Control freak : my epic adventure making video games
- Crabcakes
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Curve & flow : the elegant vision of L.A. architect Paul R. Williams
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Damned to fame : the life of Samuel Beckett
- Dangerous water : a biography of the boy who became Mark Twain
- Daphne du Maurier : the secret life of the renowned storyteller
- Davy Crockett
- Days of knight : how the general changed my life
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dez Bryant
- Dharma Lion : a critical biography of Allen Ginsberg
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
- Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Divine invasions : a life of Philip K. Dick
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dolley Madison
- Don Rickles : the merchant of venom : a biography
- Donald Trump : 45th US President
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Dorothy L. Sayers : a careless rage for life
- Dostoevsky : the stir of liberation, 1860-1865
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel : a biography
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Drake : hip-hop superstar
- Dreams of exile : Robert Louis Stevenson, a biography
- Drumming at the edge of magic : a journey into the spirit of percussion
- Dust tracks on a road
- Dying of politeness
- E. M. Forster : a life
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Eat your mind : the radical life and work of Kathy Acker
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, Volume three, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Electronic dance music DJs
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an Icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ellen DeGeneres : groundbreaking entertainer
- Elon Musk : entrepreneur and innovator
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emerson : the mind on fire
- Emily Brontë, the artist as a free woman
- Emily Dickinson
- Empathy economics : Janet Yellen's remarkable rise to power and her drive to spread prosperity to all
- Empire of deception
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Engineering : cool women who design
- Ernst Kantorowicz : a life
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two World War II correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Ezra Pound : the solitary volcano
- Family power : the true story of how "the first family of taekwondo" made Olympic history
- Famous people in history
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fates worse than death : an autobiographical collage of the 1980s
- Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
- Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
- Faustian bargains : Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca, a life
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Filthy rich : a powerful billionaire, the sex scandal that undid him, and all the justice that money can buy : the shocking true story of Jeffrey Epstein
- Finale : late interviews with Stephen Sondheim
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- Flaubert : a biography
- Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
- Fly girl : a memoir
- Folk music : a Bob Dylan biography in seven songs
- Fool for love : a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forensics : cool women who investigate
- Forensics : cool women who investigate
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Four years in the mountains of Kurdistan, 1915-1919 : an Armenian boy's memoir of survival
- Frank & Ava : in love and war
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Frankie liked to sing
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : king of Prussia
- Free to dream : the making of a poet : Langston Hughes
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From the journals of M.F.K. Fisher
- Fruit punch : a memoir
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Future : rap rising star
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Galileo : a life
- Gemini : an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a Black poet
- Gene Stratton-Porter, novelist and naturalist
- Gene Tierney : star of Hollywood's home front
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Eliot, voice of a century : a biography
- George Lucas : filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George Michael : a life
- George Orwell : the political pen
- George Washington : the wonder of the age
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Give me everything you have
- Glenn Miller declassified
- Goebbels : a biography
- Going into the city : portrait of a critic as a young man
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Good mourning
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 inspiring young changemakers
- Gorge : my journey up Kilimanjaro at 300 pounds
- Gorge : my journey up Kilimanjaro at 300 pounds
- Grace Hopper : computer scientist
- Greatest female athletes of all time
- Growing up
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- H. G. Wells : first citizen of the future
- H.G. Wells : aspects of a life
- H.G. Wells : desperately mortal : a biography
- Harper Lee : Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers
- Harvest of yesterdays
- Harvey Milk : His Lives and Death
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Held at a distance : my rediscovery of Ethiopia
- Helen Keller : educator, activist & author
- Hemingway : the 1930s
- Hemingway's brain
- Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Here's the deal : a memoir
- Heretic : a memoir
- Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Heroes for my daughter
- Heroes for my son
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hillary Clinton : Groundbreaking Politician
- Hillary Clinton : historic politician
- Hillary Clinton : remarkable American politician
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : do all the good you can
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His masterly pen : a biography of Jefferson the writer
- His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice
- History's people : personalities and the past
- Hitler
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hold me tight and tango me home
- Hold the line : the insurrection and one cop's battle for America's soul
- Holy hot mess : finding God in the details of this weird and wonderful life
- Holy hot mess : finding God in the details of this weird and wonderful life
- Home before dark
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How I saved the world
- How Jesus became God : the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- I am Lucille Ball
- I color myself different
- I exaggerate : my brushes with fame : portraits & stories
- I hate everyone, except you
- I know I am rude, but I like it : the royals and the rest of us as seen by Prince Philip
- I love a man in uniform : a memoir of love, war, and other battles
- I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon
- I'm Glad My Mom Died
- I'm not crazy : the true story of Frances Deitrick's flight from a psychiatric snake pit to freedom
- Identity unknown : rediscovering seven American women artists
- If you want a friend in Washington : wacky, wild & wonderful presidential pets
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In search of Mary Seacole : the making of a black cultural icon and humanitarian
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
- In the footsteps of Audubon
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Indigenous firsts : a history of Native American achievements and events
- Indivisible : Daniel Webster and the birth of American nationalism
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and Me
- Intimate portrait : Mary Magdalen
- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Invincible Louisa : the story of the author of Little women
- Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city
- Invisible writer : a biography of Joyce Carol Oates
- Ira's Shakespeare dream
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Iron Maiden : the ultimate unauthorized history of the beast
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- Isaac : the alchemist, secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Isak Dinesen : the life of a storyteller
- It came from Ohio! : my life as a writer
- It starts with trouble : William Goyen and the life of writing
- It was all a dream : Biggie and the world that made him
- J. Cole : chart-topping rapper
- J.J. Abrams : director of Star Wars: the Force Awakens
- Jack Kemp : the bleeding-heart conservative who changed America
- Jack Kerouac's American journey : the real-life odyssey of On the road
- Jack London : a life
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- James Fenimore Cooper : the later years
- James Harden
- James Joyce
- James Joyce : a portrait of the artist
- James Monroe
- James Patterson by James Patterson
- Jane Austen : a life
- Jane Austen : a life
- Jane Austen : the woman : some biographical insights
- Jane Austen, obstinate heart : a biography
- Jeff Gordon : his dream, drive & destiny
- Jennifer Saunders : the biography
- Jesus : based on the King James version of the Holy Bible
- Jesus : his life
- Jesus : his life in verses from the King James Holy Bible
- Jesus in India
- Jesus land : a memoir
- Jill : a biography of the First Lady
- Jimi
- Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter : power and human rights, 1975-2020
- Joan of Arc : a history
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : discovering pulsars
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John Aubrey : my own life
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- John Ruskin
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck : a biography
- John Wall
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Judy Blume
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football Icon
- Kahlil Gibran, his life and world
- Kanye West : music industry influencer
- Karl Marx : greatness and illusion
- Karl Marx : his life and enviro