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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "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
- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- 10 women who changed science and the world
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 100 years from Mississippi
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 101 African Americans who shaped South Carolina
- 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci : inventions, intrigue, and unfinished works
- 101 things you didn't know about Einstein : sex, science, and the secrets of the universe
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing, and manhood in Appalachia
- 14 cows for America
- 150 glimpses of the Beatles
- 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 faith : the rest of the Jackie Robinson story
- 42 is not just a number
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 42 today : Jackie Robinson and his legacy
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 contemporary artists you should know
- 50 contemporary photographers you should know
- 50 drag queens who changed the world : a celebration of the most influential drag artists of all time
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 715 : reflections on Hammerin' Hank & the home run that made history
- A BRIGHT AND BLINDING SUN : A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, LOVE, AND REDEMPTION
- A GIRL NAMED HELEN : THE TRUE STORY OF HELEN KELLER
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A backward glance
- A bad reaction : a memoir
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A biographical history of Blacks in America since 1528
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bowl full of peace : a true story
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave face : two cultures, two families, and the Iraqi girl who bound them together
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A daughter of the Samurai
- A dinosaur named Ruth : how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distorted revolution : how Eric's Trip changed music, Moncton, and me
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A freewheelin' time : a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- 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 girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A history of Islam in 21 women
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A knight without a castle : a story of resilence and hope
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life electric : the story of Nikola Tesla
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A long way from home
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A mighty purpose : how Jim Grant sold the world on saving its children
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Alexander Hamilton
- A piece of the power : four Black mayors
- A place to land : Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation
- A place to stand : the making of a poet
- A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- A prayer for Orion : a son's addiction and a mother's love
- A president like no other : Donald J. Trump and the restoring of America
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A schoolmaster's war : Harry Rée, British agent in the French resistance
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A short biography of Frida Kahlo
- A silenced voice : the life of journalist Kim Wall
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen--America's most damaging Russian spy
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A stranger among saints : Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth
- A surgeon in the village : an American doctor teaches brain surgery in Africa
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A talent for detail : the photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910
- A terrible thing to waste : Arthur Fletcher and the conundrum of the Black Republican
- A theory of everything (that matters) : a brief guide to Einstein, relativity & his surprising thoughts on God
- A thousand glass flowers : Marietta Barovier and the invention of the rosetta bead
- A thousand hills : Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament
- A voice named Aretha
- A walk across America
- A walk through Paris
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- 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
- A year in the woods
- A'ja Wilson
- A-Z great modern artists
- AC/DC : for those about to rock
- ADVENTURER : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GIACOMO CASANOVA
- ALBERT AND THE WHALE : ALBRECHT D€URER AND HOW ART IMAGINES OUR WORLD
- ANNA : THE BIOGRAPHY
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- Aaron Judge
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abolition's axe : Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black freedom struggle
- Abolitionism : a very short introduction
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- Above suspicion
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Accused : my story of injustice
- 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 Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. : the political biography of an American dilemma
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adrian Rollini : the life and music of a jazz rambler
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- Afeni Shakur : evolution of a revolutionary
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After Jackie : fifteen pioneers who helped change the face of baseball
- After Kathy Acker : a literary biography
- 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
- 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
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agony and eloquence : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a world of revolution
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Ain't too proud to beg : the troubled lives and enduring soul of the Temptations
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert A. Peña Jr. : Dean of Chicano politics
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : relativity rock star
- Albert Einstein : the greatest mind in physics
- Albert Einstein was a dope?
- Albert Luthuli
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the illustrated biography
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton : the story of a statesman
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : get to know the rising politician
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : political headliner
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- Alice Waters cooks up a food revolution
- Alice in Chains : the untold story
- Alicia Keys : singer-songwriter
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard -- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All creatures great and small : the warm and joyful memoirs of the world's most beloved animal doctor
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All of the women of the Bible
- All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the King's horses : the equestrian life of Elvis Presley
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the things we never knew
- All the way to the tigers : a memoir
- All too human : the love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy
- 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
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Along came Coco : a story about Coco Chanel
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- Amelia Earhart is on the moon?
- America daredevil : the extraordinary life of Richard Halliburton, the world's first celebrity travel writer
- America's "foreign legion" : immigrant soldiers in the Great War
- America's first freedom rider : Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the early fight for civil rights
- 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 Indian stories
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American disruptor : the scandalous life of Leland Stanford
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American hero : the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American pharaoh : Mayor Richard J. Daley : his battle for Chicago and the nation
- 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
- Among the living and the dead : tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American childhood
- An American covenant : a story of women, mysticism, and the making of modern America
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An academic life : a memoir
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An invisible thread
- An uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- An unquiet mind
- And I paint it : Henriette Wyeth's world
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- 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 your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson : the making of America
- 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
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Wyeth : autobiography
- Andrew Young, man with a mission
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna J. Cooper, a voice from the South
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Annie Easley
- Another gospel? : a lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity
- Another side of Bob Dylan : a personal history on the road and off the tracks
- Ansel Elgort
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth
- Anthony Davis
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Antonio Brown
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Aphra Behn : a secret life
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Appetite for America : Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West--one meal at a time
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces
- Aretha : the queen of soul : a life in photographs
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Arlington National Cemetery : trace the path of America's heritage
- Arlo Guthrie : the Warner/Reprise years
- Army life in a Black regiment
- Around America to win the vote : two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art in Cuba
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Arthur Elrod : desert modern design
- Arthur Vandenberg : the man in the middle of the American century
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Artists : their lives and works
- Ashes in the ocean : a son's story of living through & learning from his father's suicide
- Asian Americans who inspire us
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- At last recognition in America : a reference handbook of unknown Black inventors and their contributions to America
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- 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
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Atatürk
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Augel's young Mozart
- Augustine : a very short introduction
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Augustus : the life of Rome's first emperor
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Australia's sweetheart
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava Duvernay : movie director
- Avec toutes mes sympathies
- Avedon : something personal
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Awakened cosmos : the mind of classical Chinese poetry
- B. H. Roberts : a life in the public arena
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER : A NOISY, FEARLESS LIFE
- BTS : icons of K-pop : the unofficial biography
- Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron: : the home run kings.
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Baby girl: better known as Aaliyah
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Backstage pass
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balance : a story of faith, family, and life on the line
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Epoque Paris
- Banneker, the Afric-American astronomer : from the posthumous papers of Martha E. Tyson
- Barack Obama : a life of leadership
- Barack Obama : first African American president
- Barack Obama : his legacy of hope & change
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- 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
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barney : Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's maverick publisher and the battle against censorship
- 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
- Basketball now! : the stars and stories of the NBA
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- Bastard behind the lines : the extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese
- Batman and me
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry-- the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be bold! Be brave! : 11 Latinas who made U.S. history = ¡Sé audaz, sé valiente! : 11 Latinas que hicieron historia en Estados Unidos
- Be everything at once : tales of a cartoonist lady person
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Be strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatrix Farrand : private gardens, public landscapes
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming Abraham Lincoln : the coming of age of our greatest president
- Becoming Andy Warhol
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Lincoln
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming a poet : Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell
- Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- Beethoven : a life
- Beethoven : variations on a life
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Before they were artists : famous illustrators as kids