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- "Don't ask what I shot" : how Eisenhower's love of golf helped shape 1950s America
- #NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
- 'Tis : [a memoir]
- 'Tis : a memoir
- 'Tis herself : a memoir
- (Re)Born in the USA : an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home
- 10 inventors who changed the world
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 100% official Justin Bieber : first step 2 forever, my story
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 women who changed history
- 14 cows for America
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 180° south. : conquerors of the useless
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 41 : a portrait of my father
- 438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
- 50 contemporary women artists : [groundbreaking contemporary art from 1960 to now]
- 50 women artists you should know
- 501 great artists
- 501 great writers
- 66 square feet : a delicious life
- 70 not out : the biography of Sir Michael Caine
- 700 Sundays
- 99 : stories of the game
- 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 New England love story : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A Woman named Jackie
- A barn in New England : making a home on three acres
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A big important art book (now with women) : profiles of unstoppable female artists--and projects to help you become one
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A boy and a jaguar
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A boy named Shel : the life & times of Shel Silverstein
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A cancer in the family : take control of your genetic inheritance
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea
- A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A child's Christmas in Wales : and five poems
- A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- A deaf child listened : Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in American education
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A fanatic heart. : Bob Geldof on W.B. Yeats
- A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- A fighting chance
- A fire in her bones : the story of Mary Lyon
- A first time for everything : a true story
- A full cup : Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A funny thing happened on the way to the future : twists and turns and lessons learned
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana
- A handmade wilderness
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A hole in the world : an American boyhood
- A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
- A house in the sky : a memoir
- A jockey's life : the biography of Lester Piggott
- A journey : my political life
- A journey in Ladakh
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A labyrinth of kingdoms : 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- A lady, first : my life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- A living remedy : a memoir
- A long way from home : growing up in the American heartland
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A long way home : a memoir
- A lotus grows in the mud
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness
- A man of good hope
- A man without a country
- A matter of character : inside the White House of George W. Bush
- A memorial of the American patriots who fell at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
- A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A million little pieces
- A monk swimming
- A mother's ordeal : one woman's fight against China's one-child policy
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A mother's story
- A moveable feast
- A moveable feast
- A mystery of mysteries : the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A paper life
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A passion for life : the biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A picture book of George Washington
- A picture book of John and Abigail Adams
- A picture book of Lewis and Clark
- A picture book of Sacagawea
- A pirate looks at fifty
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A race around the world : the true story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A riot of our own : night and day with the Clash : weird shit coming down--
- A royal duty
- A season in hell : a memoir
- A serious character : the life of Ezra Pound
- A simple path
- 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 song flung up to heaven
- A song for the river
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A stolen life : a memoir
- A story lately told : coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind
- A ticket to the circus : a memoir
- A train in winter : [a story of resistance, friendship, and survival]
- A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
- A truck full of money
- A view from a broad
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A walk on the beach : tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
- A warrior's heart : the true story of life before and beyond The Fighter
- A widow's walk
- A wizard from the start : the incredible boyhood & amazing inventions of Thomas Edison
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- A year in space ; : and, Beyond a year in space
- A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
- AKA Doc Pomus
- Aaron and Alexander : [the most famous duel in American history]
- Abe Lincoln remembers
- Abe's honest words : the life of Abraham Lincoln
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams : [a life]
- Abigail Adams : courageous patriot and First Lady
- Abolitionism : the movement to end slavery
- Abortion : stories women tell
- About Alice
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : great American President
- Abraham Lincoln : the boy who loved books
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Acceptance : a legendary guidance counselor helps seven kids find the right colleges--and find themselves
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Action Jackson
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Adolf Hitler : dictator of Nazi Germany
- Adopted by an owl : the true story of Jackson, the owl
- Aerosmith : the fall and rise of rock's greatest band
- African American historic burial grounds and gravesites of New England
- After long silence : a memoir
- After visiting friends : a son's story
- Against all odds : my life of hardship, fast breaks, and second chances
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Ain't in it for my health
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Morgan
- Alex Rodriguez : Albert Pujols
- Alex, the life of a child
- Alexander Calder
- Alexander Graham Bell : inventor and visionary
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : founding father and statesman
- Alexander Hamilton : framer of the Constitution
- Alexander Hamilton : soldier and statesman
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Hamilton, American
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Alexandra : the last tsarina
- Alfred and Emily
- Ali : a life
- Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington power broker
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- Alive. : the story of the Andes survivors
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- 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 boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All creatures great and small
- All down darkness wide : a memoir
- All his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All my knotted-up life : a memoir
- All rivers run to the sea : memoir
- All souls : a family story from Southie
- All that moves us : life lessons from a pediatric neurosurgeon
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- All the money in the world.
- All the things you are : the life of Tony Bennett
- All the young men. : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- All things bright and beautiful
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- All-star! : Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence
- Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
- Alone : orphaned on the ocean
- Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force
- Always inventing : a photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell
- Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
- Always wear joy : my mother bold and beautiful
- Amazing Grace : autobiography of a survivor
- Amelia : the legend of the lost aviator
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : female pioneer in flight
- Amelia Earhart : legendary aviator
- Amelia Earhart : the turbulent life of an American icon
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America's champion swimmer : Gertrude Ederle
- America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation
- America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work
- American Caesar
- American Caesar : [Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964]
- American Heritage illustrated history of the presidents
- American Jews and America's game : voices of a growing legacy in baseball
- American Lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
- 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 idealist : the story of Sargent Shriver
- American prince : a memoir
- American princess : a novel of first daughter Alice Roosevelt
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood
- American scoundrel : the life of the notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
- American slave, American hero : York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American socialist. : the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs
- American son : a portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
- American veterans on war : personal stories from World War II to Afghanistan
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Among the porcupines : a memoir
- Amy
- An American childhood
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An uncommon revolutionary : a story about Thomas Paine
- An unquiet mind
- Anastasia : the riddle of Anna Anderson
- Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Carnegie : captain of industry
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Johnson
- Angela Davis : an autobiography
- Angela's ashes
- Angela's ashes
- Angelhead : my brother's descent into madness
- Angels on Earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Anger Is an energy : my life uncensored
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Anne Frank : her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
- Anne Frank : the young writer who told the world her story
- Anne Frank and children of the Holocaust
- Anne Hutchinson
- Anne Hutchinson
- Anne Hutchinson : Puritan protester
- Annie Oakley
- Annie Oakley
- Ansel Adams : divine performance
- Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anything but ordinary Addie : the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic
- Anything goes : the autobiography
- Anything goes! : what I've learned from pundits, politicians, and presidents
- Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child
- Arctic dance : the Mardy Murie story
- Are you somebody : the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman
- Aristotle : philosopher, teacher, and scientist
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around Sarah's table : ten Hasidic women share their stories of life, faith, and tradition
- Art Carney : a biography
- Arthur Rackham : a life with illustration
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Ask me again tomorrow : a life in progress
- Ask me again tomorrow : a life in progress
- Assassination vacation
- At her majesty's request : an African princess in Victorian England
- At home in the world : a memoir
- At the Existentialist Café. : [freedom, being, and apricot cocktails]
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- At the plate with-- Ken Griffey, Jr.
- At the still point : a memoir
- Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
- Attila the Hun
- Audition : a memoir
- Audrey Hepburn : a biography
- Audubon : a biography
- Autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth
- Autobiography of Mark Twain : complete and authoritative edition, v. 2
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, v. 1
- Autobiography of a face
- Ava Gardner : the secret conversations
- Ava's man
- Ayn Rand and the world she made
- B.B. King : from Indianola to icon : a personal odyssey with the "king of the blues"
- B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
- Babe Ruth
- Babe Ruth
- Babe Ruth
- Back from the dead
- Bad sister
- Baden-Powell : founder of the Boy Scouts
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Bald, fat & crazy : how I beat cancer while pregnant with one daughter and adopting another
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
- Barack Obama : son of promise, child of hope
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barbara Pierce Bush, 1925-
- Bare-faced messiah : the true story of L. Ron Hubbard
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum's bones
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Basketball belles : how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
- Basketball junkie : a memoir
- Bastards : a memoir
- Battle hymn of the tiger mother
- Battleground Pacific : a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5
- Be my baby : the autobiography of Ronnie Spector
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Becoming Ben Franklin : how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty
- Becoming Boston strong : one woman's race to run and conquer the world's greatest marathon
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Beethoven, his life and times
- Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves
- Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being red
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Believer : my forty years in politics
- Belle.
- Ben Jonson : a life
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Benedict Arnold : from patriot to traitor
- Benedict Arnold : hero and traitor
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Banneker : American scientific pioneer
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : an American life
- Benjamin Franklin : inventor, writer, and patriot
- Benjamin Franklin : scientist and statesman
- Benjamin Franklin : scientist, inventor, printer, and statesman
- Benjamin Franklin and the discovery of electricity : separating fact from fiction
- Benjamin Harrison : twenty-third president of the United States
- Bess W. Truman
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Best shot in the West : the adventures of Nat Love