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- 13 American women who changed the world
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- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Ali : a life
- 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 the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- 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
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born survivors. : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- 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
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bruce Lee : the authorized visual history
- Buddy Rich one of a kind : the making of the world's greatest drummer
- Cesar Chavez : crusader for labor rights
- Chance the Rapper : making music and giving back
- 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
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- César Chávez : fighting for migrant farmworkers
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- 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
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- 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
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Mae Jemison : brave rocketeer
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Edison
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair : inside the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the ghost children of his revenge
- 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
- Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes 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
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Lucas : the imagination behind Star Wars
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Grant
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- High school
- Hillary Clinton : groundbreaking politician
- Himalaya bound : one family's quest to save their animals-- and an ancient way of life
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- 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
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Kate Middleton
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Katie Ledecky : Olympic swimmer
- Kid activists : true tales of childhood from champions of change
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King of the tightrope : when the Great Blondin ruled Niagara
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- LBJ's 1968 : power, politics, and the presidency in America's year of upheaval
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Lady Romeo: : the radical and revolutionary life of Charlotte Cushman, America's first celebrity
- Lafayette and the American Revolution
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last train to Memphis : the rise of Elvis Presley
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Lewis Latimer : engineering wizard
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
- Lion in the White House : a life of Theodore Roosevelt
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little victories : autism through a father's eyes
- Little weirds
- Live your life : my story of loving and losing Nick Cordero
- Lizzie demands a seat : Elizabeth Jennings fights for streetcar rights
- 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
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography : herself alone
- Maria Sibylla Merian : artist, scientist, adventurer
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Me
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- 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
- Mountains beyond mountains
- My penguin year : life among the emperors
- Neil Armstrong : first man on the Moon
- Nixon's White House wars : the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
- Notes on grief
- 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
- Ona Judge outwits the Washingtons : an enslaved woman fights for freedom
- One step further : my story of math, the moon, and a life-long mission
- 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
- Pelosi
- 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
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
- Race to the bottom of the Earth : surviving Antarctica
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Reagan : the life
- Relentless : a memoir
- 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
- Ruby Bridges
- 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 caught the light : Williamina Stevens Fleming : astronomer
- Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
- Sick : a memoir
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Simone Biles : Olympic gymnast
- Simón Bolívar : fighting for Latin American liberation
- Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke
- Sojourner Truth : women's rights activist and abolitionist
- Solutions and other problems
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Somebody's daughter : a memoir
- Someday is now : Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-ins
- Soul fingers : the music & life of legendary bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn
- Spaceman : the true story of a young boy's journey to becoming an astronaut
- 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
- Surviving the white gaze : a memoir
- Susan. B. Anthony : social reformer and feminist
- 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 Bidens : inside the first family's fifty years of tragedy, scandal, and triumph
- The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
- The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
- The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
- The Queen : the life and times of Elizabeth II
- The Virginia dynasty : four presidents and the creation of the American nation
- 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 bad Popes
- The baseball 100
- The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir
- The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
- The boy who dreamed of infinity : a tale of the genius Ramanujan
- The boy who thought outside the box : the story of video game inventor Ralph Baer
- The cost of courage
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The disaster artist : my life inside The room, the greatest bad movie ever made
- The escape of Robert Smalls : a daring voyage out of slavery
- 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 who thought in pictures : the story of Dr. Temple Grandin
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The girls who stepped out of line : untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II
- 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 history of rock : for big fans and little punks
- The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
- The house of Kennedy
- The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
- The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of the Donner Party
- The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of the Donner Party
- The inevitability of tragedy : Henry Kissinger and his world
- 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 pass : Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and what matters in the end
- The last pirate of New York : a ghost ship, a killer, and the birth of a gangster nation
- The life and afterlife of Harry Houdini
- The life and afterlife of Harry Houdini
- 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 miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
- The monk of Mokha
- The outlier : the unfinished presidency of Jimmy Carter
- The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The quiet Americans : four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War--a tragedy in three acts
- 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 rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
- The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden
- 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 secret garden of George Washington Carver
- The secret life of Dorothy Soames : a memoir
- The splendid and the vile
- 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 three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
- The trials of Thomas Morton : an Anglican lawyer, his Puritan foes, and the battle for a New England
- The true tale of a giantess : the story of Anna Swan
- The undocumented Americans
- 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
- This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman
- 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
- To rescue the republic : Ulysses S. Grant, the fragile Union, and the crisis of 1876
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- 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
- Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
- U2
- 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
- Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty
- 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 Van Gogh : he saw the world in vibrant colors
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers/
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole
- We can : portraits of power
- We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans & comedy
- 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 Jackie Chan?
- Who is Michael Jordan?
- Who is Pelé?
- Who is R.L. Stine?
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- 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 Maria Tallchief?
- 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?
- Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
- Wild and precious life
- Willin' : the story of Little Feat
- Willy Victor and 25 Knot Hole
- 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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