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- "21" : the story of Roberto Clemente : a graphic novel
- "A Giant For Justice" : Inspirational Biography of William H. "Bill" Simons III : A Tribute To Twenty-Five Years Of Presidential Service To The Washington Teachers' Union
- "Bad news" : the turbulent life of Marvin Barnes, pro basketball's original renegade
- "But he doesn't know the territory"
- "I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- "Literchoor Is My Beat" : a Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
- "Negro president"
- "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams
- "Strong Medicine speaks" : a Native American elder has her say : an oral history
- "Those who labor for my happiness" : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- "We are who we say we are" : a Black family's search for home across the Atlantic world
- "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
- 'Membering
- 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky : Jimi Hendrix : voodoo child
- 10 líderes que cambiaron el mundo
- 100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia
- 100 men
- 100 most popular African American authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world
- 100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- 1001 people who made America
- 101 changemakers : rebels and radicals who changed US history
- 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci : inventions, intrigue, and unfinished works
- 1012 Natchez : a memoir of grace, hardship, and love
- 109 forgotten American heroes : plus nine or so villains
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave : [the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup]
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 soldiers : a personal history of Americans at war
- 14 cows for America
- 14 vacas para América
- 150 biografías de mexicanos ilustres
- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 200 cadillacs
- 20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 21, bringing down the house : the inside story of six M.I.T. students who took Vegas for millions
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 27 : a history of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
- 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
- 28 days : moments in black history that changed the world
- 300 sandwiches : a multilayered love story ... with recipes
- 301 East Capitol : tales from the heart of the Hill
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 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
- 491 days : prisoner number 1323/69
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- 50 Cent
- 50 modern artists you should know
- 50 paintings you should know
- 50 women artists you should know
- 5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
- 501 great artists
- 66 square feet : a delicious life
- 7 años secuestrado por las FARC
- 7-10 Split : My Journey as America's Whitest Black Kid
- 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
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 9/11 memorial visions : innovative concepts from the 2003 World Trade Center Site memorial competition
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
- 97,196 words : essays
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Caldecott celebration : seven artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- A Gullah guide to Charleston : walking through Black history
- A Jew among Romans : the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- A Joyous Revolt : Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist
- 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 Kim Jong-il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- A Langston Hughes encyclopedia
- A Life : the story of Lady Bird Johnson
- A New Orleans voudou priestess : the legend and reality of Marie Laveau
- A Paris all your own : bestselling women writers on the City of Light
- A Parkinson's primer : an indispensable guide to Parkinson's disease for patients and their families
- A Poet's voice : poetry from Naomi Long Madgett from Octavia and other poems
- A Southern woman's story
- A Thousand Forests in One Acorn : An Anthology of Spanish Language Fiction
- A Tokyo romance : a memoir
- A Venetian affair
- A baby panda is born
- A backward glance
- A bad reaction : a memoir
- A bad woman feeling good : blues and the women who sing them
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful game : the world's greatest players and how soccer changed their lives
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bed of red flowers : in search of my Afghanistan
- 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 bicycle built for two billion : a memoir
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- A boatload of wild Irishmen
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A body, undone : living on after great pain
- A bold fresh piece of humanity
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy lieutenant : memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley, 30th United States Colored Troops officer
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brave heart : the Lizzie Velasquez story
- A brief history of time
- A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz
- A broken hallelujah : rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A capitalist in North Korea : my seven years in the hermit kingdom
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A century of wisdom : [lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Somer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor]
- A certain loneliness : a memoir
- A chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chef's life, Season five
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales : and five poems
- A choice of weapons
- A colored man round the world
- A colored woman in a white world
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia
- A cool and lonely courage : the untold story of sister spies in Occupied France
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A covert affair : Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A curious man : the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child
- A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dog called hope : the Special Forces wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
- A dog named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A dream of flight : Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship inventions and race around the Eiffel Tower
- A dream too big : the story of an improbable journey from Compton to Oxford
- A drifting life
- A far cry from Plymouth Rock : a personal narrative
- A farm dies once a year : a memoir
- A father first : how my life became bigger than basketball
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fiery peace in a cold war : [Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon]
- A fighting chance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A flame of pure fire : Jack Dempsey and the roaring '20s
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South
- A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
- A free Black girl before the Civil War : the diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854
- A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- A game of character : a family journey from Chicago's southside to the Ivy League and beyond
- 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 Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A girl's got to breathe : the life of Teresa Wright
- A good day to die
- A good man : rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest at the shooters' banquet : my grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family, a search for the truth
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A guide to Thomas Jefferson's Virginia
- A guide to recognizing your saints : [a memoir]
- A handful of happiness : how a prickly creature softened a prickly heart
- A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete since 1946
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present
- A history of American Indian achievement
- A history of Dupont Circle : center of high society in the capital
- A history of James Island slave descendants & plantation owners : the bloodline
- A history of Jewish American achievement
- A history of black achievement in America
- A history of women's achievement in America
- A home for Mr. Emerson
- A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A horn for Louis
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A house in St John's Wood : in search of my parents
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction - a memoir
- A human being died that night : a South African story of forgiveness
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A hungry heart : a memoir
- A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women
- A journey : [my political life]
- A journey through the life of William Wilberforce
- A journey with Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A king's story : the memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor K.G.
- A labor of love : an autobiography
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
- A land twice promised : an Israeli woman's quest for peace
- A lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A lie of reinvention : correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
- A life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood
- A life in parts
- A life in parts
- A life in red : a story of forbidden love, the Great Depression, and the communist fight for a Black nation in the deep South
- A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts
- A life made by hand : the story of Ruth Asawa
- A life of discovery : Michael Faraday, giant of the scientific revolution
- A life of my own
- A life without limits : a world champion's journey
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A lion called Christian
- A little bit wicked : life, love, and faith in stages
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
- A long retreat : in search of a religious life
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away.... : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits; Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A long way from St. Louie : travel memoirs
- A long way from home
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home
- A look over my shoulder : a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
- A lot like me : a father and son's journey to reconciliation : a memoir
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A lynching in the heartland : race and memory in America
- A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A man called Plenty Horses : Senika-Wakan-Ota : the last warrior of the Great Plains War
- A man called destruction : the life and music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to backdoor man
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man from another land : how finding my roots changed my life
- A man without a country
- A man without a country
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A memoir of Jane Austen
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million little pieces
- A million little pieces
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A month in Siena
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast : the restored edition
- A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia
- A multicultured life : from the Little Red School house to halls of academe and corporate board rooms
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation rising : untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America's hidden history
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A natural woman : a memoir
- A necessary spectacle : Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the tennis match that leveled the game
- A new America : how music reshaped the culture and future of a nation--and redefined my life
- 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 passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A passionate pilgrim : a biography of Bishop James A. Pike
- A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A personal odyssey
- A picture book of Cesar Chavez
- A picture book of Daniel Boone
- A picture book of Dolley and James Madison
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Harry Houdini
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Sam Houston
- A picture book of Samuel Adams
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- A piece of cake : [a memoir]
- A piece of cake : a memoir
- A piece of my soul : quilts by black Arkansans
- A pilot's journey : memoirs of a Tuskegee airman, Curtis Christopher Robinson
- A place called Waco : a survivor's story
- 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 prairie girl's faith : the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A president from Hawaii
- A princess found
- A private history of awe
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A purpose ridden
- A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir
- A question of freedom : a memoir of survival, learning, and coming of age in prison
- A rage for glory : the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A reason to believe : lessons from an improbable life
- A redlight woman : who knows how to sing the blues : my life in white institutions
- A refugee from his race : Albion W. Tourgée and his fight against white supremacy
- A remarkable mother
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
- A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell
- A road called down on both sides : growing up in Ethiopia and America
- A royal experiment : Love and duty, madness and betrayal : the private lives of King George III and Queen Charlotte
- A rumor of war
- A sailor's story
- A saint on death row : the story of Dominique Green
- A sea otter to the rescue
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- 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 serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A short biography of Frida Kahlo
- A short history of celebrity
- A sick life : TLC 'n me : stories from on and off the stage
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother
- A skating life
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- A small place
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song flung up to heaven
- A song for Cambodia
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for the river
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A song to my city : Washington, DC
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spotlight for Harry
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy at the heart of the Third Reich : the extraordinary story of Fritz Kolbe, America's most important spy in World War II
- 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 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 spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A step toward Brown v. Board of Education : Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and her fight to end segregation
- A stew or a story : an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A story of God and all of us : a novel based on the epic TV miniseries The Bible
- A story of god and all of us : based on the hit tv miniseries "The Bible"
- A stranger at my table
- A stranger in my bed
- A stranger in my bed : 8 steps to taking your life back from the contagious effects of your veteran's post-traumatic stress disorder
- A stranger in my own country : the 1944 prison diary
- A street cat named Bob
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A student's guide to the deaf experience : stories from the deaf and hard of hearing community
- A sucky love story : overcoming unhappily ever after
- 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 for intrigue : the multiple lives of François Mitterrand
- A terrible splendor : three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played
- A terrible thing to waste : Arthur Fletcher and the conundrum of the Black Republican
- A thousand days of wonder : a scientist's chronicle of his daughter's developing mind
- A thousand hills to heaven : love, hope, and a restaurant in Rwanda
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- 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 for burning
- A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America
- A time of terror : a survivor's story
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A time to betray : the astonishing double life of a CIA agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- A time to stir : Columbia '68
- A to Z great modern artists
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A treasury of the great children's book illustrators
- A truck full of money
- A true likeness : the black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A very fine house : a mother's story of love, faith, and crystal meth