Biographies
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Biographies
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- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A truck full of money
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Ali : a life
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- 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
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Cesar Chavez : crusader for labor rights
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Clean sweep! : Frank Zamboni's ice machine
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diabetes unpacked : just science and sense, no sugar coating
- Diana, our mother. : her life and legacy
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dolores Huerta stands strong : the woman who demanded justice
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Edison
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- Grant
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- Hitler : a biography
- How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln : a story about the nation's first woman detective
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- Indestructible : One man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- J. J. Abrams : Director of Stars Wars: the Force Awakens
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Kate Middleton
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Katie Ledecky : Olympic swimmer
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
- Little weirds
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Malala's magic pencil
- Maria Sibylla Merian : artist, scientist, adventurer
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Michael Phelps : Olympic swimmer
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Miss Mary reporting : the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber
- Miss Todd and her wonderful flying machine
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Nixon's White House wars : the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Obama : the call of history
- On being human : a memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard
- Our year of war : two brothers, Vietnam, and a nation divided
- Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets
- Paul Simon : the life
- Petty : the biography
- Prairie boy : Frank Lloyd Wright turns the heartland into a home
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Purpose : A shift from driving it to embracing it /:cJoy Mason
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Reagan : the life
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising above, Inspiring women in sports
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Robin
- Robin
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- Sick : a memoir
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Simone Biles : Olympic gymnast
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Someday is now : Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-ins
- Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Steven Spielberg: : director and producer of the Jurassic Park series
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Striking distance : Bruce Lee & the dawn of martial arts in America
- Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
- The Baseball Whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped Big League dreams
- The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
- The Stranger In The Woods : The Extraordinary Story Of The Last True Hermit
- The William Hoy story : how a deaf baseball player changed the game
- The Wright brothers
- The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
- The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s
- The amazing book is not on fire : the world of Dan and Phil
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
- The cost of courage
- The disaster artist : my life inside The room, the greatest bad movie ever made
- The favourite : Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The great quake : how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
- The great successor : the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
- The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
- The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
- The invention of nature : Alexander Von Humboldt's new world
- The kid from Diamond Street : the extraordinary story of baseball legend Edith Houghton
- The lady from the black lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick
- The last pirate of New York : a ghost ship, a killer, and the birth of a gangster nation
- The life of Thomas More
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon
- The monk of Mokha
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The red bandanna
- The red bandanna : a life, a choice, a legacy
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The rival queens : Catherine De' Medici, her daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The true tale of a giantess : the story of Anna Swan
- The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world
- The wizard of lies.
- The zookeeper's wife
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Thurgood Marshall : civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice
- Ticktock Banneker's clock
- Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas
- Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington
- True story : murder, memoir, mea culpa
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest ; a true story of the Jim Crow south
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Trump revealed : an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power
- Unstoppable : how Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School defeated Army
- Untamed : the wild life of Jane Goodall
- Up jumped the Devil : the real life of Robert Johnson
- Usain Bolt : Olympic sprinter
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Venom doc : the edgiest, darkest, strangest natural history memoir ever
- Victoria : portrait of a queen
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers/
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- We were brothers
- What do you do with a voice like that? : the story of extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan
- Who is Aretha Franklin?
- Who is Bruce Springsteen?
- Who is Elton John?
- Who is J.K. Rowling?
- Who is Michael Jordan?
- Who is Pelé?
- Who is R.L. Stine?
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who was Alexander Hamilton?
- Who was Andrew Jackson?
- Who was Bob Marley?
- Who was Booker T. Washington?
- Who was Cesar Chavez?
- Who was Chuck Jones?
- Who was Fidel Castro?
- Who was Henry VIII?
- Who was Jane Austen?
- Who was Leif Erikson?
- Who was Lewis Carroll?
- Who was Lucille Ball?
- Who was Marie Antoinette?
- Who was Michael Jackson?
- Who was P.T. Barnum?
- Who was Pete Seeger?
- Who was Princess Diana?
- Who was Selena?
- Who was Stephen Hawking?
- Who was Woodrow Wilson?
- Wild and precious life
- Without precedent : John Marshall and his times
- Witness. : lessons from Elie Wiesel's classroom
- Women athletes who rule!
- Women who broke the rules : Dolley Madison
- Women who broke the rules : Sacajawea
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