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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
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- (Extra)ordinary (women) : ten inspirational stories
- 100 Pablo Picassos
- 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
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- 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 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 place to stand : the making of a poet
- 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 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 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 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 called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- 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 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 ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- 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-Z great modern artists
- AC/DC : for those about to rock
- 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
- 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
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Accidentally like a martyr : the tortured art of Warren Zevon
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- 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
- 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
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- 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 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 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 : a life
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- 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 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 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
- 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
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Aly Raisman : athlete and activist
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- 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, 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 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
- 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 Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An academic life : a memoir
- An invisible thread
- An uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- An unquiet mind
- Anaïs : the erotic life of Anaïs Nin
- 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
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna & Samia : the true story of saving a black rhino
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Frank
- Annie Easley
- 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
- 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 Anaïs Nin
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arbitrary stupid goal
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- 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
- Art in Cuba
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Augel's young Mozart
- Augustine : a very short introduction
- 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 : a life in movies
- 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
- Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron: : the home run kings.
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Backstage pass
- 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 : 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
- Basketball now! : the stars and stories of the NBA
- Basketball superstar Lebron James
- Basketball superstar Stephen Curry
- 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 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
- Bead on an anthill : a Lakota childhood
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Beastie Boys book
- 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
- 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
- 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 again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own
- Begin the begin : R.E.M.'s early years
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Behind the scenes : formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and a friend to Mrs. Lincoln, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House
- 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
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Ben-Gurion : his later years in the political wilderness
- Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust
- Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Banneker : self-educated scientist
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- 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
- Bernini : his life and his Rome
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bessie Smith
- Beth Phoenix
- Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Betty Shabazz : a remarkable story of survival and faith before and after Malcolm X
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyoncڳe : Queen of the spotlight
- 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 Nye
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies : the Civil War
- Billie Eilish : the essential fan guide
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billy Lane : chop fiction, it's not a motorcycle baby, it's a Chopper!
- Biographic Bowie
- Biographic Marilyn
- Biographic Monet
- Biographic, The Beatles
- Birds : the art of ornithology
- Birth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Biz Mackey, a giant behind the plate : the story of the Negro league star and Hall of Fame catcher
- Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
- 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 Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne : the stories behind the songs
- 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 cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution
- Black firsts : 500 years of trailblazing achievements and ground-breaking events
- Black girl, from genesis to revelations
- Black ice
- Black inventors : from Africa to America : two million years of invention and innovation
- Black literature for high school students
- Black man on the Titanic : the story of Joseph Laroche
- Black music greats : 40 inspiring icons