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- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A curious man : the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- 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 good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man called Horse : John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A rumor of war
- 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 sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A truck full of money
- Abraham Lincoln
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Age of Cage : four decades of Hollywood through one singular career
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Airborne : the combat story of Ed Shames of Easy Company
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Ovechkin
- Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alicia Alonso dances on
- All about Steve Wozniak
- 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 in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- All things bright and beautiful
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Aly Raisman
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An unlikely ballerina
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Annie Easley
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Aretha Franklin
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Autobiografía
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barack Obama
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Battle of brothers : William & Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Harrison
- Bethany Hamilton
- Bethany Hamilton : shark attack survivor
- Bette & Joan : the divine feud
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black like me
- Black like me
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blake Shelton : country singer & TV personality
- Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to run
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
- Calvin Coolidge
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester Arthur
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Coco and the little black dress
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Con ganas de vivir
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crossing the River Kabul : an Afghan family odyssey
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes : 100 mujeres migrantes que cambiaron al mundo
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- Dadland
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- 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
- David Bowie : a life
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diamonds and deadlines : a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
- Double cross : the explosive inside story of the mobster who controlled America
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Easy street : a story of redemption from myself
- Edison
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- El fuego de Josiah
- El secreto de Selena : la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- En el país que amamos : mi familia dividida
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Entre el mundo y yo
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eruption : conversations with Eddie Van Halen
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eva and Eve : a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- Famous immigrant athletes
- Famous immigrant scientists
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Finding a way home : Mildred and Richard Loving and the fight for marriage equality
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First impressions : off-screen conversations with a Bachelor on race, family, and forgiveness
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- Flamin' hot : la increíble historia real de un hobre que ascendió de conserje a ejecutivo
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Eastman
- George H.W. Bush
- George Lucas : cineasta y creador de Star Wars
- George Lucas : filmmaker & creator of Star Wars
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- George W. Bush
- George Washington
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Gerald Ford
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grace Hopper
- Grace of Monaco
- Grant
- Grant
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Grover Cleveland
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
- Growing up on the gridiron : football, friendship, and the tragic life of Owen Thomas
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gun barons : the weapons that transformed America and the men who invented them
- Hannibal
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry S. Truman
- Hatemonger : Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the white nationalist agenda
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Helen Keller
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her own two feet : a Rwandan girl's brave fight to walk
- Herbert Hoover
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden women : the African-American mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the space race
- Hillary Clinton : destacada política norteamericana
- Hillary Clinton : remarkable American politician
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hokusaí : he saw the world in a wave
- Hold on to your music : the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Hot Wheels developer : Elliot Handler
- How Emily saved the bridge : the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- How I saved the world
- How we can win : race, history and changing the money game that's rigged
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Rosa Parks
- I guess I haven't learned that yet : discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In my family : En mi familia
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Invisible heroes of World War II : extraordinary wartime stories of ordinary people
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J. J. Watt
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James A. Garfield
- James Buchanan
- James K. Polk
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Goodall : activista y experta en chimpancés
- Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jesse Owens
- Jimmy Carter
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Biden
- Joe Gould's teeth
- Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
- John Adams
- John Adams under fire : the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
- John F. Kennedy
- John Quincy Adams
- John Tyler
- Jose Altuve
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Just being Jackie