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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "We met in Paris" : Grace Frick and her life with Marguerite Yourcenar
- "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
- 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci : inventions, intrigue, and unfinished works
- 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
- 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
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 715 : reflections on Hammerin' Hank & the home run that made history
- 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 boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experience, people, and events that shaped our country
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- 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 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 house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- 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 plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS
- 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 prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A rumor of war
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A secret life : the Polish colonel, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short biography of Frida Kahlo
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A terrible thing to waste : Arthur Fletcher and the conundrum of the Black Republican
- 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 very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- 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 ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- A year in the woods
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Abolitionism : a very short introduction
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adventures of a female medical detective : in pursuit of smallpox and AIDS
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After Kathy Acker : a literary biography
- 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
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert A. Peña Jr. : Dean of Chicano politics
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Luthuli
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : from orphan to founding father
- Alexander Hamilton : the illustrated biography
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton's revolution : his vital role as Washington's Chief of Staff
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- 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 the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- All the things we never knew
- All too human : the love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- 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 Indian stories
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- 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 heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American hero : the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang
- Among the living and the dead : tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An invisible thread
- An uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- 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
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Ansel Elgort
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Arlington National Cemetery : trace the path of America's heritage
- Arlo Guthrie : the Warner/Reprise years
- Around America to win the vote : two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- 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
- As I see it : the autobiography of J. Paul Getty
- Ashes in the ocean : a son's story of living through & learning from his father's suicide
- Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- At the stranger's gate : arrivals in New York
- At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Augel's young Mozart
- Augustus : the life of Rome's first emperor
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- BEFORE TRANS : THREE GENDER STORIES FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
- 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
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barney : Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's maverick publisher and the battle against censorship
- Basketball now! : the stars and stories of the NBA
- 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 like the fox : Machiavelli in his world
- Be strong and of good courage : how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi
- 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 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 myself : a psychiatrist's memoir
- 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 you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Begin the begin : R.E.M.'s early years
- 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
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bernie Sanders : in his own words : 250 quotes from America's political revolutionary
- Bessie Smith
- Beth Phoenix
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Biggie : Voletta Wallace remembers her son
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies : the Civil War
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy Lane : chop fiction, it's not a motorcycle baby, it's a Chopper!
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- 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 ice
- Black inventors : from Africa to America : two million years of invention and innovation
- Black officer in a Buffalo Soldier regiment : the military career of Charles Young
- Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bluegrass in Baltimore : the hard drivin' sound and its legacy
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bonnie and Clyde : the making of a legend
- Born criminal : Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical suffragist
- Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to draw comics : the story of Charles Schulz and the creation of Peanuts
- Born to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- Born to win : the authorized biography of Althea Gibson
- Boss of Black Brooklyn : the life and times of Bertram L. Baker
- Bound to the fire : how Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine
- Bowie : the illustrated story
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Braxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Buddha
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Burn the place : a memoir
- Bush
- Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Can't be satisfied : the life and times of Muddy Waters
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Careless whispers : the life & career of George Michael
- Carli Lloyd
- Carlos Santana : sound of the heart, song of the world
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C. : the father of Black history
- Cartier sails the St. Lawrence
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Catfish dream : Ed Scott's fight for his family farm and racial justice in the Mississippi Delta
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Champlain's dream
- Chanel's Riviera : glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
- Charles Darwin's around-the-world adventure
- Charles Drew : doctor who got the world pumped up to donate blood
- Charles Richard Drew : the man and the myth
- Charles Schulz
- Charlie Chaplin's own story
- Charlie Mike : a true story of heroes who brought their mission home
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Chengjisihan
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chibi : a true story from Japan
- Chief engineer : Washington Roebling : the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Choosing courage : inspiring stories of what it means to be a hero
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill : visionary, statesman, historian
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clara Barton : I want to help!
- Clarence Thomas and the lost constitution
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clement Attlee : the man who made modern Britain
- Clemson tough : guts and glory under Dabo Swinney
- Cleopatra
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Complete Michael Jackson : the Man, the Music, the Moves, the Magic
- Counting on Katherine
- Courageous women of the Vietnam War : medics, journalists, survivors, and more
- Crane : sex, celebrity, and my father's unsolved murder
- Cravings : how I conquered food
- Crazy Horse and Custer : the parallel lives of two American warriors
- Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crispus Attucks : a hero of the American Revolution
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cycle of lies : the fall of Lance Armstrong
- Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
- D. L. Moody : a life : innovator, evangelist, world-changer
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Dancing in Blackness : a memoir
- Dangerous Jane
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Danica Patrick
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Darling, I'm going to Charlie : a memoir
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Daughters of the samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- Dayglo : the Poly Styrene story
- De Gaulle
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- Diana : 7 days
- Diana : in her own words
- Did it! : from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Digit@l girls : fashion's new tribe : risk takers, rule breakers, and disrupters
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and work
- Dolores Huerta : a hero to migrant workers
- Dolores Huerta : advocate for women and workers
- Donald J. Trump : a president like no other
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down below
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dr. Benjamin Rush : the founding father who healed a wounded nation
- Dr. Seuss
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism : a practical guide for parents
- Dream big, little one
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
- Dreams from my father
- Duke Ellington
- Dust Bowl Girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Dust bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Dust tracks on a road
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edgar Degas
- Edward Condon's cooperative vision : science, industry, and innovation in modern America
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's masterwork : 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
- El Greco
- El monje de Moka
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3, The war years and after, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady