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- "Bad news" : the turbulent life of Marvin Barnes, pro basketball's original renegade
- "Red Tom" Hickey : the uncrowned king of Texas socialism
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "We met in Paris" : Grace Frick and her life with Marguerite Yourcenar
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- 10,000 miles with my dead father's ashes : or mi padre es muerto en la bolsa
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing, and manhood in Appalachia
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 27 : the legend & mythology of the 27 club
- 34 years in hell : my time inside America's toughest prisons
- 48 peaks : hiking and healing in the White Mountains
- 5 giraffes
- 50 contemporary photographers you should know
- 98% funky stuff : my life in music
- A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Lublin survivor : life is like a dream
- A Torah giant : the intellectual legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
- A Vietcong memoir
- A better place : a memoir of peace in the face of tragedy
- A body in the O : performances and stories
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A child of the century
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A distorted revolution : how Eric's Trip changed music, Moncton, and me
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long trip home
- A doubter's guide to Jesus : an introduction to the man from Nazareth for believers and skeptics
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A fine team man : Jackie Robinson and the lives he touched
- A fly in a pail of milk : the Herb Carnegie story
- A forger's tale : confessions of the Bolton forger
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- 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 good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life beyond boundaries
- A life well played : my stories
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mayor for all the people : Kenneth Gibson's Newark
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A passionate journey : a memoir
- A patriot's calling : my life as an F-16 fighter pilot
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina
- A short history of the Wars of the Roses
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy in the house of loud : New York songs and stories
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thousand hills : Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it
- A true child of Papua New Guinea : memoir of a life in two worlds
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A very punchable face
- A vision for my father : the life & work of the Palestinian-American artist & designer Rajie Cook
- A voice named Aretha
- A walk through Paris
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age
- A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger
- AC/DC : for those about to rock
- Aaron Judge
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham Lincoln
- Access all areas : stories from a hard rock life
- Activist : portraits of courage
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adios, motherfucker : a gentleman's progress through rock and roll
- Admiral Albert Hastings Markham : a Victorian tale of triumph, tragedy and exploration
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- Adventures in Zambian politics : a story in black and white
- African American women educators : a critical examination of their pedagogies, educational ideas, and activism from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
- Afropessimism
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the eclipse
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Aftermath : when it felt like life was over
- Agony and eloquence : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a world of revolution
- Agricola ; : and Germany
- Akiane : her life, her art, her poetry
- Al-GhazÄlÄ«'s Path to Sufism and his Deliverance from error : an annotated translation of al-Munqidh min al-dalal
- Alan Brinkley : a life in history
- Albert A. PeƱa Jr. : Dean of Chicano politics
- Albert Einstein : relativity rock star
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Alex Morgan : soccer champion
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the story of a statesman
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander the Great
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : political headliner
- Alice Cooper, golf monster : a rock 'n' roller's life and 12 steps to becoming a golf addict
- Alice in Chains : the untold story
- All I ever wanted : a rock 'n' roll memoir
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the King's horses : the equestrian life of Elvis Presley
- All the oceans : designing by the seat of my pants : a memoir
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone in the trenches : my life as a gay man in the NFL
- Along came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amazing women of the Civil War
- America's "foreign legion" : immigrant soldiers in the Great War
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's trailblazing middle linebacker : the story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
- American Indian stories
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American animals : a true crime memoir
- American disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American dreams : portraits and stories of a country
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American priest : the ambitious life and conflicted legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank
- American writers, Supplement XXIX
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American princess : the many lives of Allene Tew
- An American town and the Vietnam War : stories of service from Stamford, Connecticut
- An Army doctor's American Revolution journal, 1775-1783
- An academic life : a memoir
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
- An unladylike profession : American women war correspondents in World War I
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- Ancient places : people and landscape in the emerging Northwest
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol
- Angela Gheorghiu : a life for art
- Anger is my middle name : a memoir
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Annie Easley
- Another day of life
- Another life : on memory, language, love, and the passage of time
- Another side of Bob Dylan : a personal history on the road and off the tracks
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antonio Brown
- Aphra Behn : a secret life
- Apology to the young addict : a memoir
- Appetite for America : Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West--one meal at a time
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with AnaĆÆs Nin
- Approaching eye level
- Aretha : the queen of soul : a life in photographs
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Arlo Guthrie : the Warner/Reprise years
- Arthur Elrod : desert modern design
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Assassinations, threats, and the American presidency : from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
- Assume nothing : a memoir of intimate violence
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- At hell's gate : a soldier's journey from war to peace
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audacity and tradition : Shamar Rinoche : portrait of a master of our time
- Augusta Savage : sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Austin to ATX : the hippies, pickers, slackers, and geeks who transformed the capital of Texas
- Australia's sweetheart
- Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand : the renowned Missouri bushwhacker
- Autobiography of a Yogi
- Ava Duvernay : movie director
- Avedon : something personal
- Awakened cosmos : the mind of classical Chinese poetry
- Baby, don't hurt me : stories and scars from Saturday night live
- Back to Birmingham : Richard Arrington, Jr., and his times
- Backbone : an inspirational manual for coping with chronic pain
- Backstage pass
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Ballad of the Green Beret : the life and wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and pop stardom to murder and an unsolved, violent death
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Epoque Paris
- Barack Obama : a life of leadership
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barnum : an American life
- Baseball's first Indian : the story of Penobscot legend Louis Sockalexis
- Basketball now! : the stars and stories of the NBA
- Basketball superstar Kevin Durant
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Be bold : finding your fierce
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beautiful scars
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because the light will not forgive me : essays from a poet
- Beckoning frontiers : the memoir of a Wyoming entrepreneur
- Becoming Abraham Lincoln : the coming of age of our greatest president
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Coach Jake : a story of overcoming the odds, on the soccer field and beyond
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Lincoln
- Becoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss
- Before Chappaquiddick : the untold story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy brothers
- Behind the laughter : a comedian's tale of tragedy and hope
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Rapoport : capitalist with a conscience
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff : the expanded story of a haunting collaboration, with a complete filmography of their films together
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Ben-Gurion : his later years in the political wilderness
- Bending toward the sun : a mother and daughter memoir
- Benedict Arnold's Army : the 1775 American invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Betsey : a memoir
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- BeyoncŚ³e : Queen of the spotlight
- Beyond vision : going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self
- Big Red
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Biographic Bowie
- Biographic Marilyn
- Biographic Monet
- Biographic, The Beatles
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire
- Black and pro-life in America : the incarceration and exoneration of Walter B. Hoye II
- Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution
- Black dog of fate : a memoir
- Black woman in green : Gloria Brown and the unmarked trail to forest service leadership
- Blackpink : K-pop's no.1 girl group
- Blessed are the consumers : climate change and the practice of restraint
- Blessed are the refugees : beatitudes of immigrant children
- Blind curves : a woman, a motorcycle, and a journey to reinvent herself
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A & M, and the history of Black college football
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Bobby : my story in pictures
- Body full of stars : female rage and my passage into motherhood
- Bono : the amazing story of a rescue cat who inspired a community
- Booker T. Washington : civil rights leader and education advocate
- Borderline shine : a memoir
- Borges and me : an encounter
- 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 coach : the story of Bill Squires the legendary coach of the greatest generation of American distance runners
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born-again blakfella
- Both sides of the line : my coach, the Boston mob enforcer, my mentor, the murderer : the true story of Clyde Dempsey and the 1974 Don Bosco Bears
- Bow first, ask questions later : ordination, love, and monastic Zen in Japan
- Brainstorm : a memoir of love, devotion, and a cerebral aneurysm
- Brand Luther : 1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation
- Brand by hand : blisters, calluses, and clients : a life in design
- Brave enough
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Brian Jones : the making of the Rolling Stones
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Bring the noise : the JĆ¼rgen Klopp story
- Britain by the book : a curious tour of our literary landscape
- Broken whole : a memoir
- Brother & sister
- Brother dog : southern tales & Hollywood adventures
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War
- Bruce Springsteen : from Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA
- Brutus : the noble conspirator
- Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
- Bryce Harper
- Buffalo Bill's life story : an autobiography
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building the modern world : Albert Kahn in Detroit
- Bullwhip days : the slaves remember : an oral history
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Burke & Wills : the triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers
- Burro genius : a memoir
- Bush pig district cop : service with the British South Africa Police in the Rhodesian Conflict 1965-77
- Busy, busy world
- Butler basketball legends
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Caligula : the mad Emperor of Rome
- Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey
- Cancer crossings : a brother, his doctors, and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia
- Captain Shakespear : desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud
- Captive of the labyrinth : Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the rifle fortune
- Careless whispers : the life & career of George Michael
- Carl Pruscha, singular personality : architect, bohemian, activist
- Carla Hayden : Librarian of Congress
- Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds : Princess Leia & Unsinkable Tammy in Hell
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry on, warrior : the power of embracing your messy, beautiful life
- Carson McCullers : stories, plays & other writings
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit
- Catullus' bedspread : the life of Rome's most erotic poet
- Caught in the revolution : witness to the fall of Imperial Russia
- Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Charlemagne
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Dickens : a very short introduction
- Charles James : portrait of an unreasonable man : fame, fashion, art
- Charles Walters : the director who made Hollywood dance
- Charlie Chaplin's own story
- Charlotte Brontƫ : a fiery heart
- Chasing Ghosts : a Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
- Chasing the last laugh : how Mark Twain escaped debt and disgrace with a round-the-world comedy tour
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chemistry for kids : homemade science experiments and activities inspired by awesome chemists, past and present
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chicago flashback : the people and events that shaped a city's history
- Chickenhawk
- Chief Seattle and the town that took his name : the change of worlds for the native people and settlers on Puget Sound
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Chloe Kim : gold-medal snowboarder
- Chris Paul
- Chronicles : volume one
- Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill warrior : how a military life guided Winston's finest hours
- Citizen Outlaw : one man's journey from gangleader to peacekeeper
- Citizen reporters / : S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
- City gate, open up
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Clarence Thomas : conservative Supreme Court justice
- Claudette Colvin : civil rights activist
- Clogs and shawls : Mormons, moorlands, and the search for Zion
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Co-conspirator for justice : the revolutionary life of Dr. Alan Berkman
- Coach : the life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
- Cockroaches
- Coco
- Code name Madeleine : a Sufi spy in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Colin Kaepernick : from free agent to change agent
- Collected nonfiction : selections from the autobiography, letters, essays, and speeches, Volume 1
- Collected writings : Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters
- Colonels in blue : Missouri and the western states and territories : a Civil War biographical dictionary
- Comfort woman : a Filipina's story of prostitution and slavery under the Japanese military
- Coming full circle : from Jim Crow to journalism
- Coming of age : my journey to the eighties : a memoir
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Communist daze : the many misadventures of a Soviet doctor
- Confederate General Stephen Elliott : Beaufort Legend, Charleston Hero
- Confessions
- Confessions : a new translation
- Confessions of a Wall Street insider : a cautionary tale of rats, feds, and banksters
- Confessions of a philosopher : a personal journey through Western philosophy from Plato to Popper
- Confessions of a prairie bitch : how I survived Nellie Oleson and learned to love being hated
- Congratulations, who are you again? : a memoir
- Conjectures of a guilty bystander
- Conversations with Lincoln : little-known stories from those who met America's 16th president
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Conversations with Tom Petty
- Conversations with classic film stars : interviews from Hollywood's golden era
- Coretta, my life, my love, my legacy
- Countee Cullen : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Counting sheep : reflections and observations of a Swedish shepherd
- Cowboy song : the authorized biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott
- Craig & Fred : a marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Creole trombone : Kid Ory and the early years of jazz
- Crescendo : the story of a musical genius who forever changed a Southern town
- Criminals : my family's life on both sides of the law
- Crooked bamboo : a memoir from inside the Diem regime
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crossing the River Kabul : an Afghan family odyssey
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Dalai Lama : a leader in exile
- Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist
- Dancing hands : how Teresa CarreƱo played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dangerous friendship : Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy brothers
- Dangerous mystic : Meister Eckhart's path to the God within
- Darcus Howe : a political biography
- Daring to live : how the power of sisterhood and taking risks can jump-start your joy
- Darkness visible : a memoir of madness
- Darwin's rival : Alfred Russel Wallace and the search for evolution
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- Days of lead : defying death during Israel's War of Independence
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear America : the story of an undocumented citizen
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death blossoms : reflections from a prisoner of conscience
- Death in ten minutes : the forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- Death march escape : the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Defying limits : lessons from the edge of the universe
- Defying the enemy within
- Delicious mirth : the life and times of James McCarroll
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Descent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir
- Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family
- Destiny's consul : America's ten greatest presidents
- Diamonds and scoundrels : my life in the jewelry business
- Diana : her true story in her own words
- Diana, Princess of Wales