Biographies
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Biographies
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- "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
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 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
- 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 bad reaction : a memoir
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- 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 everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- 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 radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- 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 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 surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- 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 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
- Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe Lincoln : his wit and wisdom from A to Z
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- 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
- 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
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Ali : a life
- Alice Walker : a woman for our times
- 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-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
- Almost gone : twenty-five days and one chance to save our daughter
- 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 Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- 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 uncomplicated life : a father's memoir of his exceptional daughter
- 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 McCutchen
- 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
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Audrey at home : memories of my mother's kitchen with recipes, photographs, and personal stories
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ava : a life in movies
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- 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
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barney : Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's maverick publisher and the battle against censorship
- 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
- Beastie Boys book