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- "But he doesn't know the territory"
- "Get that nigger off the field!" : a sparkling, informal history of the Black man in baseball
- "Literchoor Is My Beat" : a Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
- "Willing To Sacrifice" : Carter G. Woodson, The Father Of Black History, And The Carter G. Woodson Home : Woodson Home National Historic Site Historic Resource Study
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 100 men
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci : inventions, intrigue, and unfinished works
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave : [the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup]
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 28 Líderes de negocios que cambiaron al mundo : gurús empresariales que rompieron las reglas del juego y revolucionaron la forma de hacer negocios
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 28 days : moments in black history that changed the world
- 42 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 women artists you should know
- 715 : reflections on Hammerin' Hank & the home run that made history
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Black explorer at the North Pole; : an autobiographical report by the Negro who conquered the top of the world with Admiral Robert E. Peary.
- 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 Southern woman's story
- A backward glance
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beginner's guide to Paradise : 9 steps to giving up everything so you too can move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, diaper a baby monkey, build a bungalow, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!
- A bio-bibliography of Countée P. Cullen, 1903-1946
- A biography of Major James Edward Walker, 1874-1918
- A biography of Wallace Mason Yater, M.D.
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- A boatload of wild Irishmen
- A boy lieutenant : memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley, 30th United States Colored Troops officer
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brief history of time
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A chef's life, Season five
- A choice of weapons
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A defiant life : Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- A far cry from Plymouth Rock : a personal narrative
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl's got to breathe : the life of Teresa Wright
- A good day to die
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete since 1946
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present
- A history of James Island slave descendants & plantation owners : the bloodline
- A history of Jewish American achievement
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A hungry heart : a memoir
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A kind of grace : the autobiography of the world's greatest female athlete
- A knot in the thread : the life and work of Jacques Roumain
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A land twice promised : an Israeli woman's quest for peace
- A life in parts
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A lion called Christian
- A long way from St. Louie : travel memoirs
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man called Peter : the story of Peter Marshall
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A million little pieces
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A new chapter in the early life of Washington in connection with the narrative history of the Potomac Company
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A normal life : a memoir
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A personal odyssey
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A political companion to Frederick Douglass
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A refugee from his race : Albion W. Tourgée and his fight against white supremacy
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A royal experiment : Love and duty, madness and betrayal : the private lives of King George III and Queen Charlotte
- A rumor of war
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A short biography of Frida Kahlo
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A song for the river
- A song to my city : Washington, DC
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A step toward Brown v. Board of Education : Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and her fight to end segregation
- A student's guide to the deaf experience : stories from the deaf and hard of hearing community
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A survivor's journey : from victim to advocate
- A tale of love and darkness
- A taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A time of terror
- A time of terror : a survivor's story
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A touch of innocence
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- A view from above
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A year in space ; : and, Beyond a year in space
- A year in the woods
- A year of living virtuously : weekends off
- A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
- A. Philip Randolph : messenger for the masses
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron Copland : fanfare for America
- Aaron Douglas : art, race, and the Harlem Renaissance
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abba Eban : a biography
- Abducting a general : the Kreipe Operation in Crete
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abolitionism : a very short introduction
- About my father's business : the life of Elder Michaux
- Above ground level : dubfire
- Absolute woman : it's all about feminine power
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act one : an autobiography
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adolph Hitler's great escape : occult weapons of war
- African American Connecticut explored
- African American World War II casualties and decorations in the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine : a comprehensive record
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American doctors of World War I : the lives of 104 volunteers
- African American entrepreneurs
- African American historic burial grounds and gravesites of New England
- African American inventors
- African American inventors
- African American military heroes
- African American student's guide to college success
- African American women in Congress : forming and transforming history
- African Americans who were first : illustrated with photographs
- African Muslims in antebellum America : transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles
- African-American medical pioneers
- African-Americans and the quest for civil rights, 1900-1990
- After the Holocaust the bells still ring
- After/image : Los Angeles outside the frame : essays and photographs
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Ain't too proud to beg : the troubled lives and enduring soul of the Temptations
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Franken Giant of the Senate
- Alain Locke and philosophy : a quest for cultural pluralism
- Alan Turing : the enigma
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Luthuli
- Alberto Giacometti : myth, magic, and the man
- Alexander Crummell : pioneer in nineteenth-century Pan-African thought
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Hitchcock : the man who knew too much
- Alfred and Emily
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique, una vida de novela
- Ali
- Ali in action : the man, the moves, the mouth
- Alice Neel, uptown
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- Alice Waters and her delicious revolution
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my trials, Lord : selections from women's slave narratives
- All of the women of the Bible
- All the things we never knew
- All the way to an independent Namibia
- All too human : the love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy
- All you can ever know
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Altamont : the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day
- Althea
- Alvin Ailey : a life in dance
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always movin' on : the life of Langston Hughes
- Always running : la vida loca, gang days in L.A.
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
- Amazing women
- Ambiguous lives : free women of color in rural Georgia, 1789-1879
- America daredevil : the extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- America, border, culture, dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American entrepreneur : how 400 years of risk-takers, innovators, and business visionaries built the U.S.A.
- American experience : deceit and indifference, America and the Holocaust
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American governor : Chris Christie's bridge to redemption
- American hunger
- American masters, Season 12, episode 6, Alexander Calder
- American original : the life and constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
- American presidents, Disc 1
- American presidents, Disc 3
- American rhapsody : writers, musicians, millionaires, movie stars, and one great building
- American wine : a coming-of-age story
- Among those present : a reporter's view of twenty-five years in Washington
- Amy
- Amy Winehouse : Inside & outside
- Amy Winehouse : the untold story
- Américo Vespucio
- An American crusade : the life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American story
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An autobiographical sketch by John Marshall : written at the request of Joseph Story and now printed for the first time from the original manuscript preserved at the William L. Clements Library, together with a letter from Chief Justice Marshall to Justice Story relating thereto
- An autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth
- An evening with Kevin Smith
- And no birds sing
- And not afraid to dare : the stories of ten African-American women
- And the band plays on : the life story of Larry Dodson of the Bar-Kays
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- And there I stood with my piccolo
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- 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
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life
- Angels in my hair : a memoir
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anna Frank : la joven escritora que le conto al mundo su historia
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
- Ansel Adams, an autobiography
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Anything for Amelia : a true story of the challenges endured by two gay men who had the desire to adopt a child
- Apple, tree : writers on their parents
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Aquellos tiempos con Gabo
- Architects of civil rights
- Arlington National Cemetery : trace the path of America's heritage
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art 21 : art in the twenty-first century, Season 8
- Art and affection : a life of Virginia Woolf
- Art, education, & African-American culture : Albert Barnes and the science of philanthropy
- Art21 : art in the twenty-first century, Season nine
- Arthur M. Sackler
- Arthur Vandenberg : the man in the middle of the American century
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Ashes in the ocean : a son's story of living through & learning from his father's suicide
- Ask a pro : deep thoughts and unreliable advice from America's foremost cycling sage
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Assata : an autobiography
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
- Astronaut Mae Jemison
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- At her majesty's request : an African princess in Victorian England
- At home in the world : stories and essential teachings from a monk's life
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- At the stranger's gate : arrivals in New York
- Audubon
- Auston Matthews
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
- Autobiography of a Yogi
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avid reader : a life
- BAD : the autobiography of James Carr
- Babe Ruth
- Baby bumps : from party girl to proud mama, and all the messy milestones along the way
- Back from the dead
- Bad girls of fashion : style rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
- Bajo las palmas reales : una infancia cubana
- Balance : a story of faith, family, and life on the line
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ball four : the final pitch
- Ballplayer
- Baltimore civil rights leader Victorine Q. Adams : the power of the ballot
- Bao jun hai shi ming zhu : hei bai Sui Yangdi
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : groundbreaking president
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbra : the way she is
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum's own story : the autobiography of P.T. Barnum
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball's best : all-time greats
- Baseball's great experiment : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- Basketball's greatest stars
- Basquiat : rage to riches
- Bat Mitzvah girl : memories of a Jamaican child
- Battle for the marble palace : Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the forging of the modern Supreme Court
- BaʼAbuna P̣awlosenā bap̣āp̣āsāt mekneyāt baBét Kerestiyān lāy yanadadaw ʼesāt!
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be the change : a grandfather Gandhi story
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Beating against the barriers : biographical essays in nineteenth-century Afro-American history
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Potter
- Beatrix Potter & the unfortunate tale of a borrowed guinea pig
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beauty and the breast : a tale of breast cancer, love, and friendship
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Bebop and nothingness : jazz and pop at the end of the century
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist / Edward M. Hallowell
- Becoming
- Becoming Julia de Burgos : the making of a Puerto Rican icon
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming Warren Buffett
- Becoming a citizen activist : stories, strategies, & advice for changing our world
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Bedsit disco queen : how I grew up and tried to be a pop star
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before I go
- Before Jackie Robinson : the transcendent role of Black sporting pioneers
- Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves
- Before his time : the untold story of Harry T. Moore, America's first civil rights martyr
- Before pictures
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before they left us
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Behind the smile : a story of Carol Moseley Braun's historic senate campaign
- Being Berlusconi : the rise and fall from cosa nostra to bunga bunga
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Bela Bartók
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Bell : Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude
- Bella figura : the art of living, loving, and eating the Italian way
- Belles on their toes
- Belles on their toes
- Beloved sisters and loving friends : letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
- Ben Franklin for beginners
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American : an autobiography
- Benny Andrews, the visible man
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie
- Bessie Coleman : daring stunt pilot
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Betty & Coretta
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between Washington and Du Bois : the racial politics of James Edward Shepard
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond home plate : Jackie Robinson on life after baseball
- Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bible characters : visual encyclopedia
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies, The patriots
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy the kid : new evidence
- Birds, beasts, and relatives
- Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster
- Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
- Black Catholic men of God
- Black Eagle : General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black and red : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American response to the Cold War, 1944-1963
- Black apostles at home and abroad : Afro-Americans and the Christian mission from the Revolution to Reconstruction
- Black aviator : the story of William J. Powell : a new edition of William J. Powell's Black wings
- Black courage, 1775-1783 : documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution
- Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge
- Black defenders of the Persian Gulf War : Desert Shield-Desert Storm : a reference and pictorial history
- Black domers : African-American students at Notre Dame in their own words
- Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me
- Black frontiersman : the memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point
- Black gay genius : answering Joseph Beam's call
- Black genius and the American experience
- Black hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers
- Black history : a retrospective
- Black in Selma : the uncommon life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
- Black inventors
- Black inventors of America
- Black leaders : Texans for their times
- Black leaders on leadership : conversations with Julian Bond
- Black l